Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-13

shall we, like the cautious engineer on
the railroad, when he is running at
good speed and sees danger on the
track ahead, whistle down the breaks,
and stops the train?
Again our genial Teutonie visitor
groaned, and is, perhaps, honest in his
of the bad feeling, enmity
and disturbance in social circles that
the opponents of the liquor traffic are
originating by their efforts to prevent
the legal traffic in intoxicants. His
sympathetic bosom heaved with tender
emotions as he contemplated the great
indignity that the State would infiict
upon our American citizens of German
birth, by Withholding from them their
dearly priced beer mug. But our
strange visitor, while shedding tears
1--WE mean mentality over the great
wrongs he claimed would be done to
one class of our citizens by the re-
strietOns upon the liquor traffic, de-
manded by the friends of temperance,
never thought of the paupers, the muir
ders, the widows, the orphans, the
thousands of crimes and misde-
meanors, and the total wreck and ruin
of thousands OF our young men, and
debasement of social society, that are
the undeniable results of this very traf-
fic, that the people of our State are
asked to legalize, and as far as statu-
tory amendments can, make the bust
ness of selling these intoXicants res
best interests of the people of Ohio,
regardless Of license or no license, re-
quire the establishment and maintain
ance of houses for the sale of intoxi-
eating drinks? Does the good of So
ciety socially, morally, or politically,
require the establishment and main
tainance of tippling houses and places
of public resort where into xication is
prevalent? We think that no sane
man will say that such places are nee
essary or proper in any community.
Yet, the very persons who advocate
the adoption of the license side of this
important question, cannot point US to
single licensed house (where licenses
are granted) that is not a tippling
house, and where men do not get liq-
uor and become intoxicated. We know
that was the case il this State when Ii
cense was granted, and we know it was
the case in other States where we have
lived.
Grant license, and you will again
see elegant bars in every hotel and sa
loon, finely furnished with costly glass
furniture, fitted up in the most inviting
and alluring style, thus inviting and
beguiling every one genially disposed
to walk up and partake. ''You pay
your money and you get your liquor,
is the motto of bar keepers and liquor
dealers. They are not careing mucf
what becomes of you, or that poo
suffering wife and children, in mis-
cradle home, starving and naked, Sc
they get your money; they have nc
other object in carrying on their ira d.
but to get money.
For our own part, We have been {
constant advocate of temperance prin
ciples for thirty five years, and as prin
cipIe, never believed it to be right t,
license or make legal a traffic tina
never resulted in any good, OF bene
fit to the human race, but evil continu
ally We are unable to see. after Ions
observation and good deal of expert
ence, too, that we would be iustifabl
in going back now on principle tina
we have cherished for lifetime w
shall vote for the adoption of the Ney
Constitution and for the separate al
ticle, No LICENSE.