Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
The Adair Liquor Law--ShaH 1t
be Repealed?

Dc lGCDcStAON.
A bill has been introduced in the
House of Representatives of our
State Legislature by Representative
Mark, to repeal the Adair Liquor Law
It remains to be seen whether this
Legislature will have the hardihood to
reDenl \ law that has the sanction Of
Mt least three fourths of all the people
Of the State. Who is it that asks the
repeal of this law? The question can ca
be answered by saying, nobody
Int the liauor sellers and those who
wish TO rent their property Tor the par
nose of selling Intoxicating drinks
The men who drink the liquor do not,
in theik sober m9ments, desire the re-
neal Of this law. No truly good man
or woman asks the Legislature to re
,,eal it or to amend it, 50 that it will he
ineGiciest for the objects for *hich it
was originally designed and passed.
Before any man asks the Legislature
TO repeal that law, let Fim 60 into the
moor. miserable hoyel Of that untortu-
nate inebriate, who he sees entering
the drinking saloons daily, and make
himself acouainted with the condition
Of the destitution and the misery of
that poor mother and her suffering,
staryinc children, made SO by the Gu
piJity and heartlessness Of the man
or men who sell the husband and
father that which destroys his reason
and makes him disgrace TO his race,
his wife and his children beggars
and paupers We advise those men
in our county, if there are any, who
wish to have tue Adair Liquor Law
repealed, to go Into the houses of such
families as We have described, and
then to consider carefully the condition
of these poor sufferers, made SO by
the sale of Intoxicating drinks, and
then ask themselves whether it is jus
tice to these sufferers to take from
them the only legal means they have
to recover back some of the money
taken from them by a process, in its
results, worse than theft-the means
necessary to keep them from starva-
tion, or becoming Inmates of oul
County Infrmary. We appeal to the
common sense and tIe humanity o.
The people, and the men and womer
who read this appeal, to say whether
it would be right to repeal this law
Again we ask you who it is that wants
the Legislature to repeal it Does thu
good of society, the happiness an,
comfort of the masses, require it9 o.
is it otherwise? We hope the voice
mbeif the people of our county will go NJ
g Sife capital in thunder tones agains
deposition that has its origin in thu
est and most degraded dens will
ch our land and nation is cursed
mere is no middle grouBA ON thi
'ayQuestion You are for the repeal o
arc against it. If you are against it
be true to your conscience, and speal
ont boldly. II you are honestly il
favor of It's repeal, speak out boldly
as your silence can be regarded i'll n
other sense than that you are favorint
a policy that you are ashamed Q
afraid to avow. You may depend M
on it that large sums of money will b
employed hy the liquor interests in tb
cities to procure the repeal of this law
The liquor men are organized, an
their money is pledged to effect thi
object But we trust there is virtu
enough among the people and the Les
islature, to save the State from hein
sold out to the whisky &ntepests. W
pray God and the people to save til
State from such disgrace.
On Monday last vote was take