Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-03-30
Ecw 70 TALE 20 WHISKY SELLERS.

Hon n. Nj. Hubbard, District Judge
OF the Eighth Judicial District of Iowa,
IN passing sentence upon some liquor
dealers for violation Of the prohibitory
laws of that State, said
while there are greater crimes
Known to the laws, whieh are pun>
ishable with q greater severity. there
are none which involve more of those
qualities known as despieabie measures
and anlacity than the selling of intoxi.
eating liquors.
"lhere is something in the taking Of
human life by violence so instantaneous
shat It shocks and terrifes the minds of
all and yet We look upon the man who
takes human life quite as surely, but by
a slow lingering process-if not with
out condemnation at least with horror.
You who stand before the court for
sentence are in every moral sense,
murderers, and you are within the
spirit, if not the letter, guilty of man
slaughter, for the law says that whoever
accelerates the death of human beng
unlawsully is guilty of the crime. Your
bloated victims on the witness stand,
whe undoubtedly committed perjury to
screen you from She law, not only
abundantly testify that you are induc>
ing men to commit still greater crimes
than your own.
':You are living in idleness and
eating the bread Of orphans, watered
with widows, tears. You are stealthily
killing your victims and II numbering the
peace and industry of the community,
and thereby converting happy, indus
tricus homes into misery, thrift tless
poverty and rags. You arc sewing the
seeds Of ignorance, idleness and want
ar ong the generations to come.
Anxious wives and mothers watch
and pray in tears nightly With desolate
hearts for the coming home of victims,
whom you are Turing with the wiles of
the devil into midnight debauellery.
sYou are persistently law~bre akers
and shamefully boast tina. III defiance of
the community you will continue in
your wicked and criminal occupation.
at has therefore become the i'm.
peratlvs duty Of this Court to let fall
upon you SO heavily the arm or the law
that you shall either be driven from
your nefarious traffic OF ruined in your
fortunes OF wicked prosperity. You
have become stencil in the nostrils of
the community, and all good men are
praying that you shall be speedily re-
formed OF summarily destroyed. By
the Providence of God and the favor of
His court, the prayers shall be speedily
answered by signal and exact Justice
for your crimes. This Court will feel
a proud satisfaction in taking from you
by law your ill gotten gains, and giving
it to the common school fund of this
county, where let us hope it will assist
i'll educating the rising youth to shun
your vices and wicked practices.
And finally let me entrest Won if
you are not lost to every sentiment of
humanity, to desist from your criminal
vagabond traffic and betake Yourselves
to some honest calling for livelihood
and you may yet become virtuous.
useful citizens, and entitled to the re.
spect OF Christian community; while
If you persist in this way, your own
ram is certain, and you deserve the
execration of mankind
s'You may think that the sentence of
the Court is harsh and unjuslly severe
but the Court assures you that com
pared with your crime and the desc.
Iatlons you havo already brought upon
she community, it is mild i'll the ex.
treme.