The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-04-07
THE LICENSE QUESTION.
SIXTH DISTRICT, Cecil county,
3rd mo. 81. ISL.

3rd mo. 81, 1877.
DEAR WmG:-The following assertions,
plainly spoken and unvarnshed, are offered
for denial by any one in this district:
That whisky is directly and indirectly the
cause OF more misery, sorrow, poverty, tax
alton, ruin, ignorance, litigation, sacrilege
aud crime than any and ali other causes
combined,
That license for the sale of the same is a
certificate OF authority under the law to
take bread from the hungry, clothes from
the ragged, to rob poor families of orr land,
to breed crime and misery, and make happy
homes desolate, and to do a Thousand other
things that are adverse to morality, decency
and religion.
That to pass license law for the sale of
this kind of poison Is a stigma upon any
set of legislators, and a reflection upon their
education, their common sense. and their
good breeding, and questions all of them.
That any one who drinks, and any one who
peddles the cursed thing, is always ashamed
of their occupation,
That oil holes, from the basement grog-
gerry down to the gilt-edged saloon for the
latter being the worst, is the lowest are
dens of lnfamy in the interest of the Devil,
and only aute-rOomS of He'll to ruin your
sons and mine, your brothers and mine.
That to each and every citizen who signs
an application for license is attached IA share
OF the responsibility for all the ruin, misery
and damnation achieved principals being
responsible for the acts of their agents and
the blood Of their fellow man is recorded
against them as signers of applications for
manufactures of victims for eternal perdi-
ton.
That If no freeholder IN the Sixth dis
trict Will sign these documents of disaster
to US ALL then we Will have no wiper " to
poison us IN our midst.
That any one who has the good of his
country at heart, ana the good OF ms Eel
10" inan DIT STAKE VIII reailZe ne mas duty
III this WORK 10 perform, ana as the harvest
IS ripe lie snould oe III the harvest llein ana
shohld see ms heighpor and MS neighbors
heiShDor, ana LAX TO MN OF the import
ahce vi putting oowh TINS eVil, "hlch II IS
IN our power 10 90; when Is ten Tunes
worse IMAM nau Dog Darn burner
ny h"ay IoooeI' OF cut throat III our
midst, Tor the work OF an these 1t does
s"l'tiy ana steaciiy; ana tell them now as
graceful 1t is to put Their name to such
paper as license app'ica!loh; tel them
lhat 'he very oesI ana most intelligent ana
fesPectaoie porilon' VINO signed one year
ago WIN S'Sn IN "pP"sitioh inns year; tel
Ioe'h IL Is ior Soou VI every one 'hey Shouiu
refuse, anu most prominent among nose, IL
Is best Tor the grog peddler himself. Tor II
he Will not OF his own free Will and accord
quit the damnahle business take the bust
ness from him' and then some chance ex-
lists for making him good and respectable
cltlZen-ot making his family OF use and
Importance III the community, and in the
end they will all be better off, aud be wiser,
happier, better, and richer people.
Lastly, in the center of our district we
have village, and in that village two
places of {" licensed sin" and only one
church. We learn that only three names