The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-18
REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA THURSDAY OCTOBER is77
An Extraordinary Sentence By Q
Judge.

The following extract is taken from
. sentence recently pronounced BY
Judge Reading. Of Chicago, upon the
liquor dealers who had violated the law
By selling it to minors. Il will repay
= careful perusal:
"By the law you may eel! to men and
women, if they will buy. You have
given your bond and paid your lieeuts
to sell OF them, and no one has righ,
to Golest you in -FOUR legal busisss.
No matssr what ths consequences may
be, 40 matter what poverty and desti-
tuition are produced By your selling 40.
cording to law, yoa have paid your mon.
ey for this privilege and you are licens.
ed to pursus your calling. No matter
what families Ars distracted and render.
cd miserable; no matter what wives are
trsoeGa with violence; what children
stafsel OF mourn over the degradation
Of parent, your business is legalised
and no one may interfere with you or
it. No matter what mother may agor.
Ire over the loss Of . con. q sistsr
blush at the shame Of . brother, .you
have a right to disregard them ali aud
pursue your legal calling--you are Ii.
censed. You may ft up your lawful
place Of business in the most euticiug
and captivating form; you may furnish
it with the most costly and elegant eq.
uipments for your own lawful trade;
you may Gil it With the allurements Of
amusement; you may use all arts to in.
duce visitors; you may skillfulIy ar.
range and expose to view your choicest
wines and captivating beverages; you
may then in nduce thirst by all contri-
vances to produce = raging appetite for
drink, and then you may supply th-t
appetite to the fall, because it is lawful;
you have paid for ir-you have = IL
cense. You may allow boys, almost
children, to frequent your saloon, they
may witness the apparent satisfaction
with which their seniors quaff the spark.
ling glass, you may be schooling and
training them for the period oftwenty.
one, when they too, can participate, for
all this is lawful. You may hold the
cup to their lips, but you must not let
them drink-that is unlawful. For,
while you have all thase privile res for
the money you pay, this poor privilege
of selling to children is denied you.
Here parents have the right to say,
Leave my son to me till the Law gives
you right to destroy him. Do not an.
ticipate that terrible moment when
can assert for him no further rights of
profession. That will be soon enough
for me, for his sister, for his mother,
for his friends. and the community. to
see him take the road to death. Give
him to US 10 his childhood at least. Let
us have few hours of youth 10 which |
We can enjoy his innocence. to repay US
iu some small degree for the care aud
love we have lavished upon him.
"Tbis is something which you who
now stand prisoners at the bar have not
paid for; this is not embraced on your
license. For this offence the court sen
fences you to ten days Imprisonment
in the county Jail, aud that you pay q |
line Of $75 and costs; and that you stand
until the fine and costs Of
this prosecution are paid"
We have not heard from any sour:e
such an arraignment of the license lew
IS this.-TPresbyterian Journal.