Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-01-14


Mo rad RsfOr.a--re All I.ovSrs orGsoa Order.
| 70 be Editor OF he COMMERCIAL, I'll, /.
| /. would, through you, especially address my-
self to those who hSSe sons and daughters, and
not to those only, but to all lovers Of their race
and to all lovers OF good order. Indeed, the
whole community are Interested In the subject
am about to bring to the in notice-fathers who
| have sons, sons who have brother, brothers VITO
| have SISTERS and wives and. daughters, perhaps
mole than all pthera are interested IN esnp-
i II Il said that Temperance is hsokneyed sul,-
ject, and well may it be said. 1t has boon preach
ed written, and sung, for over forty yeNA 70
Il myl knowledge. Temperance societies have
risen snd,decdned, and the veterans thAt,organ-
lied them have died IN the harness aud gone 70
their reward. Other organisations have Followed
/ and we are still preaching and praying for the
| millennium when drunkenness shall, ceasas BIT
\ druhkard making goes on. The old organizations
/ we1b followed by the Sonn of Temperance. who
| have rescued thousands from q drunkard's life
| and drunkarfs death. Then we have the Good
/ Tehplars, who have also reclaimed thousands
Of ihebriAtes, and have Interested in the career
| OF humanity other Thousands who did not par
tcularly need snch influence, but united in the
cause for the benefit Of others. giving their pre-
| cious time and money that other mems sons
might be saved from the blightng influence Of
Misunderstanding cup. "7
And yet. with all this influence. labor, ard
treasure. the rum mills can manufacture drunk
| ar0h IAHtor InAfl We can reClAln Lloul4 . so
| our Courts and Juries The Grand Jury at the
HAST session in New Castle county, says that crime
ia fearfuly on the increase, and That they attril
ute it solely to the licensed and unlicensed sale
or Intoxicating liquor. Crime seems rampant,
and criminals 60 unpublished. No mans lie is
sAfe. q The most peAcabls citizen il liable 10 be
/ assaulted by some yagabond erazed with stryclI-
nine whiskey. But few days ago, Au, officer in
the discharge Of his duties IN the streets Of
Phihdelphia, was assaulted by vagAbond, who
/ procured pistol and shot him down though
/ he we're dog. Immediately the man thst sold
him the whiskey testlfies that he was az that
| time drunk, and half dozen others Of the same
| ilk testify that when drunk he acts queer, aud
forsooth, is Insane" And il he or his friends
lhaye wealth and influence, some legal gentleman
Improve to the jury that he was insane. and tho
Jury convinced, will turn him ont, to get queer
again and kill some other good citizen. And 80
Il we have one continued succession OF crime, which
may about all be traced to it's origin in drinking
And must this internal traffic forever continue
hInst this be the inheritance OF unborn genera
TONS who must, under such intluence, of ne
cesSty degenerate, and go on the baok-track Of
| DarWiniem, until they become pigmies, or apes,
, Tor balloons, or worse than that Some brui es
in mems clothing, OF the present day. are more
fitted to associate with hyenas than respectable
Aoee The criminal calendar OF every city in
!, the Union will furnish samples of the 'inssne
brutea, almost every day in the week. -
I Nowif man who il sane when sober becomes
insane when drunk, the responsibility rests
4 A.
irresponsible the person who sold him the liquor
} should be placed in the dock aud triedi for MAX
ing him. insane. ':Bnt,n says he, Il have 4
license for doing lust that thing. Those who
gave mo the licence knew the result that wonl(
follow, when they legalized my business, anC
: it would be queer law that would give mar
authority for doing certain thing and then
Q punish him for doing il. Iplaad innocence and
( 80 plead the whole fraternity"
D Now what right, (moFally, at leaHt,) has ont
set Of mon to license smother SGT Of men Il
k make your son, my son, and the sons Of all othe
D men drunkRrds maintain that such system
e is wrong, and being wrong we ask that it b.
. rglned
Q tits said that there is point when forbear
Ance eeaBes to be a virtue, and this then Is tim
d In the history OF mon and nations when revolti
l. tions are justified. Now, We do not propose
: revolution at arms, but we want this whole bust
ness revolutionized in . legal way we wan
| crinierepressed, murders less frequent, life an
: property better secured. To do this, the liguo
traffic, if not entirely prohibited must be greatly
D | reduced I-t. yg...#.. a.. ..5r e..
. The Moral Reform Association at their inset.
e ing In July last passed resolution the substanc
' Of which wssL1hat We petition the next Legis
g latufe for the passage of q law which would
O require every person applying for license to sci
II Intoxicating liquors to have attached to his peti
tom amajoTity OF the legal voters residing in tn
F. town, ward, or district where such petitione
l. wished to sell liquor, and that the name of tn
e petitioner and 1.-THE names OF those signing tn
o petition should be published sixty days befor
n the sitting OF the Court from which the licens
n is to be granted, when all the requirementso
z the law had been met. This would allow tn
+ majority to rule, and although we might wish
ID more radical law we would be satisfied to Civ
it a fair trial, with suitable machinery for ii
execution. ~
a. The present seems to be propitious time t.
70 ask for such law. The Legislature is CON
IN posed Of men from both political parties. Ii
a us have petitions out aud numerously signed
ia and laid before the Legislature and ask thu
le there be committee appointed, composed {
= members Of both political parties, TO draft hi
k embodying the above, or some more stringeI
H. feature, AMI then we hope that enough woul
IN vote for it to makeit law, with penalties a
90 taehed for its violation, and machinery for il
Why should not our leading men Of all partie
n give their influence to the passage OF such a
n, actI II they have no SONS daughters to be il
~ jured by intemperance, other men have, and
no is the duty of every good citizen to do all thu
to he can for the good OF all classes Of the commit
n. nifty, and there is nothing in my opinion, the
O. can do, that would more promote the happinei
Of thousands, than by the suppression OF Inten
perance, either by law or otherwise
or am glad in my heart that one Of our U. /
az Senators 80 clearly condemned the use Of liqut
me- by banishing 1t from his board at his reception
M 1t gave no Offences to any. He should, and
10 hope will, As emphatioaly condemn its legalize
m sale by using his influence with the Legislature
Nv for the passage OF some good and whoesom
~ law. He should do this, for be owes his seat
" the U. s. Senate to his temperance principle
" was at heart one of the men, if not the maj
ie who started him on the political ladder by nom
10 mating him as q Representative of the temperant
na men, in the Legislature. He was elected az sue
ef and could not have been elected, as Democra
10, on any other issue. hope he will remembI
or this. 4, d. O.
be- SPRINa MILLS. Kent Co., Dec. 1872