The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-22
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REILLY TO GUsTo. NO. III.

suppose that Gusto is quite satisfied with
by wiping out all our argument by calling us
" clustering, bantering, long-winded," &c,
thus disposing of us in a wholesale sort of n
way But permit mo to say to him that cpl
thets are not arguments neither in this case
will they answer the place Of them. He
charges Otsug with throwing dust. But in
his reply no not only throws dust, but dirt /;
let him look at it Without drop in his eye"
and think he win pronounce it so, himself.
Now about ventilation" He charges us
with incorporating him about ventilation.
This is the first time in which be has even
limited at any fallacy, unfarness and sub
terfuges - will he please mention some p
Until there ara some specific charges made,
we will have to plead the general issue. Is
it unfair to speak Of the evils of supplying by
retail that which brings SO much sorrow and
woe in its train? That which demoralizes
every one who touches it ? That which annuls
all the efforts of tho Christian Churches to
bring under their influence those who are GO
ing astray7 That which is sapping the foun-
dation OF our government That which
brings pestilcnce, crime. poverty and distress
That which turns the kind parent and hus
band into worse than savage beast ? That
which freezes up the fountain of loye-and
makes dreary waste of lifc's dearest heri-
tage? And we might go on and fill volume
upon volume upon volume, and then not have
told the one-haf. Come, Mr.. Gusto, are
these the things you would have us yentilate !?
II you would not have us ventilate these
things, please give us something you would
like to have ventilated, for we feel in yenti-
lating mood.
But now comes Gusto's gem, and it is SO
good, permit me to quote it, Speaking OF the
other side, he says, it speaks for itself--and
commends itself to the freedom, the liberty,
the tastes, tho enjoyments, and the wants of
the people. 1t is not necessary to yentilate
the remedy for thirst TO a thirsty man or the
remedy for hunger to hungry man." Now
is not that beauty? Why, when read it
smiled out-loud, thought saw the glimpse
of the /" ears through the lions skim" Push
on the argument. IT. the remedy of thirsty
man is drink, and hungry man, is food, and
remedy for poverty is money, and perhaps
Gustos pocket-book is as easily got at as any
ones The FOOLS remedy for his misfortune
is moro brain. Perhaps Gusto can furnish
that, too. The remedy knows no restraint
And SO you might so on ad sa.ffnttuns. That
which any one lacks, let him take it wherever
he can find it permit no scruples about the
~. I,xf l1a
sure he thinks he needs it. He may say to
himself, l shall take care of myself at all
events, the good of others, the right of others,
can in no wise enter into the calculation. is
not this the logical sequence of our opponents
position on the "other side ?" Perhaps If
Gusto's wife and mother had been more of
the g strong minded persuasion and COM
PEELED him to look closer into the objects OF
social life, it would have been better for him
and those who come within his immediate in
f1uence
And he does not want to waste powder on
an audience of women and children-in the
way Of a public debate. Well, then, pro-
pose that one Of the conditions shall be that
no woman OF child shall be admitted feel
very much Inundated in making such
proposition, but am SO anxious to meet my
doughty knight of the whiskey bottle, that
will do most anything, not wrong in itself, to
accomplish that object. Come, Gusto, let us
have the public debate any how, know you
can talk. You may be a professional talker,
for aught / know.
Our object is not to restrain You in what
does not enter into the question. In all ages
there have been laws imposing restrictions up
on the sale of Intoxicating drinks, and there
fore it is no new thing. The question now
upon which you wish to get "votes," is
whether or not we shall furnish the vendors
of Intoxicating drinks with monopoly and
place around them the protecting shield of the