Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-01-25
For We Register.
LIQUOR LAW.

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The report of the Grand Jury Of
Baltimore shows that of the 10,l22
prisoners received during the past year,
the large proportion Of S,173 were com
mitted for drunkenness
Statistics of undoubted authority
prove that 81 to 4-5 of the inmates of
almshouses, work-hOuses, .jails, peniten-
tiaries, lunatic aSylums, and Of those
who suffer capital punishment, are
brought to that condition by drunken
ness. This whole country-North,
South, East and Vests now agita-
ting the question-what is the proven
tive What is the remedy The wis
est solution of this interesting inquiry is
the Illinois Law regulating the sale of
Intoxicating drinks. 1t requires the
man who obtains license to give
bond Of $4,000 endorsed by free holders;
makes him, the surities and the proper
ty owner responsible pecunarily for the
damage done by the liquor sold or Civ
en- away. The sufferer Gin person, pro
perry, Or means Of support can recover
real and exemplary damages for the loss
sustaincd-the amount to be fixed by a
Jury. The sum recovered belongs to
the sufferer; if married woman, the
money is not liable for her husbands
debts.
This law works well in the Western
States, where it is in force 1t is efFec-
tual, because it is executed. The per
sons injured have it executed to prevent
liquor being sold to theirrelativeS, friends
or employees, ard this accomplished at
least their partial reform. The other
motive to have it executed is to recover
what they have lost-that is, the loss
sustained or damage done by the liquor
sold or given away, Men sell liquor to
make money-for this reason and no
other When they find they are liable
to be sued, they will at least be very
careful to whom they sell. The man
who when intoxicated becomes unman-
ageable or desperate cannot buy 1t, be-
cause the seller is afraid of the conse-
quence for which he is pecunlarily re-
sponsible. Many cases of daily occur
renee would then be unheard Of. The
much lamented incident published i'll
your last issue would not have trans
PRED Think for a moment Of the
trouble resulting-mental suffering, at
tiicted family, &c.,-all caused by whis-
key.
Has the seller no responsibility The
Illinois Law says yes, and provides the
way to make him responsible, and to
ascertain the extent Of that responsible
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We do not wish to write harsh things
of vendors of ardent spirits We do
not say they have no consciences, and
no souls-that for them there is no hea
ven and no hell. We believe the re-
verse, therefore, we affectionately, but
truthfully address YOU. Did it ever oc-
cur to you, that you are engaged III a
business, which you must abandon. if
YOU wish to become christian, and be
happy after death. The Bible says pos
itively that no drunkard shall enter the
kingdom of heaven" If the drunkard
is lost, is damned eternally, what will
become of the drunkard maker
When You are calm-alone-during
the night-when you first awake in the
morning, or when sick-what are your
reflections when YOU think of the evil
that must inevitably result from the Ii
quor you sell Men made drunk, dis
graced and their friends grieyed. Mo
thels, fathers, sisters, brothers, bowed
down with anguish which cannot be
communicated. The necessary fruits OF
drunkenness are idIeness, poverty. wick
edness, insanity, crime and eternal dam
nation
Just think that the liquor you sell, will
bring some or all Of these evils on those
who drink it. Besides these consldera-
tons which are sufficient to influence all
the fact is indisputable that the mon
ey made by your traffic is curse. The
vender himself sometimes becomes
drunkard-sometimes his wite-tre-
quently his SON. In some way 1t is gen
orally curse in this world-always IN
the world to come.
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