Connecticut western news., 1878-02-28

long: it chils the blood. Rumselling will destroy every good aspiration every good law ; everything fair and true. Thefe Is not good thought in all the ages with which rum selling is not ut war. It would destroy every educational interest, every moral principle, abrogate, or render null and void, every civil and criminal law, and hurry us into @ condition where "rum ,Oould rale on earth as Satan rules in heU." l cannot tell you all the horrors of this traffic. l cannot write the fearful details of thls blood stained business. Licensed or unlicensed, the result is the same. Fath- CT and mother have wished their noble boys and their pure girls had gone to the grave before they were deceived and destroyed by this prolific mother of all evil, rum-se1- ing.
 8. Another count in the indictment. is that many are made criminals by the traf- fic. It fires the brain, dethrones reason, lights the torch of the incendisry, and nerves the arm Of the assassin, and such is the extent of it's influence and the amount of it's crime, that to supply its demands, punish criminals and support paupers. takes from the productive industry of the coun- try annually, the enormous sum of twelve hundred millions of dollars. The witnesses sustain this count by ample proof drawn from facts and figures embodied in the census reports.
 The 4th and last count in the indictment, is that the traffic Is itself an assassin and a robber. What is robbery? Taking from another by fraud or violence, his property, without giving an equivalent. It is 90 we'll Known as to need no proof, that deadly poisons are sold under name of gin, whis = key, rum, wine etc. Medical testimony proves that gill of ardent spirits taken three times a day will shorten an ordinary mans life ten years in sixty. But when it is manufactured from some of the deadliest drugs known to chemistry the mortality is correspondingly increased. Is not the traf- fic an assassin? Aud as to the crime of robbery, is poison, taken into the system under false name, an equivalent for hard eurned money, or for home and happi- ness. or for health, charater or lifeg No, most emphatically, no!
 There lies before me now, circular from which l copy few items in proof of my position: New process for making whlskey from molasses on common stove, at cost of thirty cents per gallon. This process, in the hands of anyone engaged il the liquor trade; or anyone who wishes ( money making business, quickly, Withou labor. will prove exceedingly valuable, ant also instruct them in the ART, MYSTE- RES of the Whlskey Ring. Full snc complete instructions sent by mail on re- ceipt of $5." The italics and capitals art copied from the circular. Here follows { price list of oils of which liquor is made:
 French brandy oil. sufficient to make 4( gallons, $5.; cherry brandy-4O gallons, $5 Bourbon. Rye, Monongahela whIskey-eaci 40 gallons, $5. Irish and Scotch whiskey each 40 gallons, $5 Jamaica and Sants Cruz rum, same as above.
 We submit the case without argument Only this will we say Society has already fixed the penalty of crime. A slight oi- fence she punishes with imprisonment tol limited time deeper guilt she repay with Imprisonment for life; murder, sh' repays with death. It is the code of tho civilized world. It will stand the test ot the judgement day. If, then, justly in- cur the penalty of death because commit ted one murder, what shall be the sentence of that traffic which coolly, deliberately, and mercilessly digs the graves of one hun dred thousand annually? l anticipate the sentence: Rum-seling, stand up! Two words tell your story. You have been found Gully! Your sentence is Death ! and may God have mercy on anyone who would prevent the execution of this pen slty!
 Pottsdam, N. Y. Jan, 1878.