Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-11

opportunity was embraced. The village
of fMcConnellsville elected a temperance
Council, which, under this permit from
the Legislature, passed an ordinance driv-
ing tippling shops from their village. AS
other places advanced they also passed
this now famous EFMcConnellsville Ordi-
nance" 1t was working as leaven in a
lump, the natural and true way to tighten
anything. After a time the whole State
of Ohio, without any violent commotion,
might have crowded out the tippIing shop
nuisance. This was the state of the things
when the crusade burst upon us. This
movement awakened the people so sud-
denly and created temperance sentiment
so fast, that their work of driving out sa-
looms would soon have been made perma-
nent by the passing of this ordinance in
all our villages.
! Indeed, these two kinds of work seemed
especially intended to go together. Wo-
men worked to create a feeling against
the tippling shops, men to clinch the work
by law. But, alas the whiskey interest
was also awakened by this movement.
Saloon keepers opened their eyes, looked
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thing must be done, it was life or death
struggle.
They simply got the Legislature to
drop one word out of the municipal code,
the word prohibit; then instead of read
ing thus, Corporations may regulate and
prohibit tippling Shops" it was, ''Cor-
porations may regulate, " etc. Immedi-
ately there sprang up in almost every
place new growth of defiant tippling
shops, and sometimes they appeared in
villages which never before had been
troubled with them. The cry then was
| tFSee what the crusade has done, things
are worse than before, y and many timid
unthinking people were discouraged.
Must we then never attempt to make the
world better for fear wicked men will fol-
time make it worse? Shall we lie still
and perish in burning house for feaI
that opening the door to get out will fan
the flames?
] They took away the W ord prohibit, and
temperance people were so stunned by
the rushing tide of intemperance tha
they forgot that the word regulate wal
left. We might petition our councils t.
regulate the traffic by ordering saloons
closed early on Saturday evenings thai
our boys may not prepare for Sunday get
ting drunk, that laboring men may moi
have an opportunity to spend their weeks
wages. There is a town in the central
part of the State which compels, by law,
all saloons to remain closed from 6;o'clock
in the evening till-s O'Clock in the morn
ing, till laborin g men have gone to theil
work.
We have shown that the criminal laws
only annoy the enemy; that the municipa
law has been SO MANNED as to be almos
worthless let us see what is done for US il
| THE CIVIL LAW,
Wherein the business of liquor selling
is considered an offense against the indi
vidual, and the damages found are sup.
posed in manner to represent the loss
sustained. OF this class we have only one
the well-known Adair law, which allow
ed any one injured in person, property ol
means of support by the intoxication of
person, to bring suit against the persoT
furnishing the intoxfcant and the owner
of the building in which it was sold.
This was the law feared by the Saloon
keeper. 1t kept him in constant uncer
tainty. He might be made to pay $1,000
$4,000 or $4,000 to a wife for the injur.
done to a husband or son. Counting on
ly the ruined life, and not the broker
heart, the wasted affections, the lost soul
the transmitted taint of blood to children
it seems all too small, but enough to max
the saloon keepers finch; for there ha
been constant effort to have it repealed
or rather, to have it rendered inefficient
Three years ago this law was so change
that injured persons could not bring sui
unless they had previously given notict
to saloon keepers, or registered notie'
with the township clerk forbidding an!
one to let the man have intoxicating Ii
quOrs. This notice must be given at leas
ten days before the sale. This require
ment was, no doubt, intended to defea
the law, thinking that woman would b.
afraid or ashamed to register her hus
bands name, but women accepted tn
situation, and in many places the league
had quantity of blank notices printed il
this form: