The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-14
A Few More Words on the Temper
nnce Question.
WurrrIyc Arr;l ID 1874.


WHEELING, April II, 1874.
Editors OF the Register.
The temperance question being the
all absorbing topic agitatiug the pub
lie mind. it is to be hoped that the
excitement will not pass away without
some practical reform in the use OF
strong drink.
Your correspondent is one who is
deeply impressed with the evils arising
from the use OF alcohol as i beverage,
and in view of the alarming extent Of
this evil, would urge through the coll
umns OF your paper the necessity oil
every Christian man giving it serious
consideration.
The whisky traffic is certainly a
hard interest to combat, producing as
it does great national, State aud mus
nicipsl revenuee. The traffic, like the
institution oil slavery, cannot, perhaps,
be efectualiy abolished without 6
dreadful war. However it is more
susceptible Of Legislation, and can be
restricted with entire safety to the body
polite.
Our law makers are supposed TO leg
islate in the interest OF Christian peo-
pie, who should insist on bringing this
dreadful scourge withia range OF Chris.
tan principles. The liquor law of the
State, as it now reads, would suffice il
it was rigidly enforced, but unfortunate
" it is dead letter. | think it is the
duty OF our City Fathers to not grant
any more licenses until O vote of the
people is had on the question.
The enemies OF temperance aver that
there will he more drunkenness when
the saloons are closed than there was
beore. And Why? Because the friends
OF temperance heretofore when they
accomplished triumph at the polls, de-
serted the cause. hope our friends in
this case will take warning, and let our
City Council be composed OF
men who are in earnest, and deter
mined to rid our community OF these
detestab'e vendors of whiskey. Under
the license law drunkenness cannot be
regarded in any other light than as a
minor offence, but take a@ay the righr
so SELL and you can with consise bcy
place inebriatlon where it rightfully be
longs, amongst the worst OF crimes, and
the Illicit vender public male actor.
This reform can be accomplished il
we so desire it, Notwithstanding the
operations OF the beer guzzlers and
their friends.
would here ask any respectable
gentleman OF what advantage are those
Infamous dead tails" known as saloons
to you? Are they not on the whole for
the accommodation OF the bully, and
the yilest members OF the community
1t is true you see, occasionally, re
spectacle individual tarrying few mo-
ments in one, but it is safe to cay that
no man of any social standing will al
low himself to be seen often in those
inlquitous resorts.
Why should we hesitate to repeal the
license law, since it is dictated by every
principle OF Christianity Why should
we tolerate or protect by law an evil SO
close allied with the devil-nay, his
most potent weapon in prosecuting mis-
war against heaven, and forcing man to
erernal dampatiou ? Should "Licepse"
or mo License" be submitted to vote
OF the people, it would be we'll to con-
slider well the responsibility each vote
carries with it. l consider man who
is influenced by the mercenary motive
OF ipjuring the revenue of the city, and
votes to continue the license law, is in
the same boat with Judas Iscariot, who
sold our blessed Redeemer for q few
pieces OF silver. TEMPERANCE.