The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-08

largest audience that can be crowded into the
largest hall in the city, am at your service.
My name can easily be obtained for that pur-
pose. If you think the whiskey business will
bear ventilation, and its advocate go unscath-
ed, must here say that you are drawer man
than take you for, and you must be brave,
else how could you use such sneering Lam
guage towards lady because she has taken
charge of the temperance column in news
paper9 Why my dear sir, have you forgot
ten that your mother was lady, and that
your wife, If you have one, Is lady, and
what are your sisters and female relatives
Are they not ladies'? You dare not say No.
| Perhaps your arithmetical education has
been neglected. And no great wonder, either,
because the advocates Of whiskey drinking
are not remarkable for being advocates for
education, but quite the contrary. Your arith-
metic is bad, because you say in effect, that
this mischief is all owing to the " mandate OF
flee quite ordinary individuals who happen to
be bare majority of the city Council" Does
Gusto know that the city Council consists of
nine members, and that there are at least six
out Of that number s. who have the cheek &C., -
and six is more than I" = bare majority VI
men-and take away these ski suppose Gus
to would say that the wisdom and brains of
the city Council would remain
What do you mean by oppressions Do you
mean to say that the tax payers are oppressed
by having to pay to keep from starvation the
families of those who, when they have money,
spend it for rum? And when the season
comes, when work is not to be had, there is
no bread in the house. II you mean this,
then you are right for oncc. And that this is
. fact, is amply proved by examining the poor
department. can not give the exact amount
of the poor bill Tor the past month. but it is
not less than $500, and this will give between
$4,000 and $1,000 per year, and this amount
has to be paid out of the tax payers pockets
principally for support Of the rum business !;
and what is the character of those who re-
ceive this money? l undertake to say that
nine-tenths Of the applicants for relief from
the funds Of the city, are compelled to do SO
on account of the rum traffic, more or less re-
motley. 1t is indeed tyranny that this COM
munity should have to bear all the expenses
and shame, inflicted upon us because three or
four "rsspectable" men want license to sell
whiskey. undertake to say that Gusto is
one of "them fellows" who says that there
is more drunkenness without license than
there was before license was refused. II this
is the case, why should Gusto find any fault
Why should the farmers stay away from the
place and carry their products to more con-
genial market? It can not be for want of
whiskey. But business does not stagnate for
this. Farmers do not stay away for this.
Such reasoning Is the merest balderiash.
An enterprising merchant has recently settled
here aud is doing splendid business. Before
he chose this location he told me that he had
travelled through all tho Eastern part of Penn
sylvania and the state of Delaware, and visit
ed all the larger class Of towns and the city of
Hightstown, aud fonnd no place so promising
as this temperance, anti-license city Of LAM
bertville, and his Judgment is indicated to
his entire satisfaction. If Lambertville and
Wilmington and Bridgeton and vineland and
some other like towns were the only places
where the hard times were felt, then there
would be some reason for the Wholesale asser-
ton that want Of license was the cause of
stagnation Of business in this place. But the
facts Of the case do not plcve this but rather
the reverse. Come on with your hard knocks.
hereby challenge Gusto to a public debate
in public hall, On the benefit to be derived
from legalzing the sale of whiskey, &C."
My name can be had from the Editor Of THE
RECORD II it is wanted for that purpose.
Win Gusto" furnish his and obligs
OrsuG.