Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-12-25
IN Ertrnordinaru Sentence

The following extract Is taken from a
sentence recently pronounced by Judge
Reading Of Chicago, upon the liquor deal
ers who had violated the law by selling It
to minors. 1t will repay careful perusal
by the law you may sell to men and
women if they will buy. You have given
your bond and paid your license to sell to
them. and no man has q right to modest you
in your legal business. No matter what
the consequence may be; no matter what
poverty and restitution are produced by
your selling according TO law, you have
paid your money for this privilege, and you
are licensed to pursue your calling. No
matter what families are distracted and
rendered miserable; no matter what wives
are treated with violence; what children
starye or mourn over the degradation Of q
parent, your business is legalized, and 10
one may interfere with you IN it. No mat
ter what mother may agOnlZe over the loss
Of a son. or a sister bush at the shame Of 4
brother, you have a right TO disregard them
all and pursue your legal calling-you are
licensed You may fit up your Lawful place
OF business in the most enticing and capt.
waiting form. You may furnish /; with the
mos, costly and elegant equipments for
your own lawful profit you may fill it
with the allurements Of amusement; you
may use all the arts to induce visitors !;
you may skillfully arrange aud expose to
view your choi est wines and most capt.
waiting beverages; you may then induce
thirst by all contriyances 10 produce a
raging appetite for drink, and then you
NAV supply that appetite to the full be-
cause it is lawful; you have paid for 1t
you have a license Yon may allow
boys, almost children, TO frequent your
saloon; they may witness the apparent
satisfaction with which their seniors quaf
the sparkling glass; you may be school
Ing and training them for the period Of
u, when they too can participate, for
this j. lawful. You may hold the cup to
their lips, but you must not let them drink
that j. unlawful For while you have
all those privileges 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 until
the law gives you the privilege to destroy
him. Do not anticipate that terrible mo-
ment when | can assert for him no further
rights of protection. That will be soon
enough for me, for his mother, for his
sister, for his friends and for his commu-
nifty to see him take his road to death
Give him to Us in his childhood at least
Let us have a few hours OF his youth. in
which We can enjoy his innocence, to re-
pay Us in a small degree for the care and
love we have lavished upon him." This
is something which you who now stand
prisoners at the bar have not paid for /;
this is not embraced in your license. For
this offence, the court sentences YOU to
ten days Imprisonment in the county Jail,
and that you pay fine Of So and costs;
and that you stand committed until the
fine and costs of this prosecution are
paid"
We never heard from any source such
an arrsigDment of the license law as this.
Hamilton Spectator.
A French author says: when lost
my wife, every family III the town offered
me another; but when | lost my horse no
one offered TO make him good"