The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-03-20

unsuspecting victims arc cnticed INTO
the esmbIing bells of our city and rob.
6ed. We shall expose the perpetrators Of
~ outrage.
Iet ms tell the truth about our city,
end If it needs purifying, let US purify
il. Good citizens, VIC call upon you to
rallv and free our community from the
evil with which it has SO long been
bound.
Ne call special attention 10 the follow
-inrscction Of the dramshop act q wit:
SEc. 6 Every person who s:iaii, d.
rsctly or indirectly, knowing sci, barter
,or give away any intoxicating liquors 10
anv person who is in the habit OF being.
intoxicated, after notice shall have ben
given him by the wife, child, parent,
brother or sister of such person, or by
any civil officer charged with the care or
custody Of the poor of the township,
5. citvo or ward where he resides, that such
person 10 in the habit of being intoxica-
ted, or to any person in q state of intox-
ication, or to any minor without the con-
esnt Of his parent or guardian, shall be
dsened guilty of misdcmeanor, and,
MON conviction thereof, shall DO pun
ished b. fine not less than five dol
hrs nor moro than one hundred dOllors,
or by imprisonment not less than ten
nor more than sixty days, or BY both
ene aud imprisonment.
II man IS in the habit Of being intoxi-
Gated, his wife should at once notify the
uaioon keepers not to sell to him any
istoxicating liquors. If he has no wife
(asd it would be blessing to the com
munity If he has noD thcr let the town.
ship trustee notify the saloon keepers
not to sell to him. This is wise pro-
vision Of tho law, for any man that is in
the habit of being intoxicated, may be-
como . county charge, but when you
notify the saloon keepers, you must also
notify the drug stores and the wholesale
LIQUOR establishments. This law pro-
hibits the sale of intoxicating liquors to
persons in tho state Of intoxicatlon, or
to minors without the consent OF their
parents or guardians, and we are lothe
70 believe that there is in this commune
: " any parents or guardian so lost to all
PARENTAL duty, as to give consent to such
practice. Let the law be strictly en-
forced and it will stop one half of the
drunkenness.
Tho temperance question continues to
excite the people in Illinois. The pres
isient Of the Liberty League is at the
Capita, of the State working with might
and-moncy, to secure modification OF
he Temperance law, but so far with lit
tle hopes of success. 1t would really
soem q if the Legislature Of the Sucker
State had determined to legislate as it
pleased on this. A bill has passed 10
: second reading, which for the first Of
lbuse fines any State official $40 for in.
texication, $50 for the second offensc
and. . forfeit of his Office for the third
! onsuse. A little moro Legislation in the
Wy Of publishing those who get drunk,
viii work in the right direction. When
druskenness shall be classed among
crimes, and punishable as such, it will
rot b quite so Acknowledgements
zsj5sse.
Now that Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
shase passed stringent temperance laws,
suhich seriously threaten to interfere
with the bibulOus customs Of certain Of
zabeif eitiscns, Kentucky extends to them
: - invitation to cross the Ohio and seek
%xulnee under the egis Of her laws, which
1oekor encourages than otherwise, the
ambitions Of her famous Bourbon. II
!. 80 wsl digested plan she has hit upon
- restore her former Democratic major
~. Bat even Bourbon may fail as an
f1duesment TO emigratc thitherward.-
Emogvnce Tribune.
When you scc man leaning on the
~ Of whisky shop, don't trust him
: Poverty will soon take licS on him and
eke ID will foreclose it in the lou
1eaEtef chancery.
oypsan Greek Farmers Cub.
GYPsuM VALLEY, March Bird, 1873.
~. hssideat and friends of our club
Have read that every ones disposition
= s1ited to certain calling, this l be-
1fove TO be true and it Is from this little
.point in every ones character and dis
naition, that 90 many great mistake.