The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-16

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BY permitting, tolcratingsnd iorgiving these
crimes, they would be legalized and their vic
tins and terrible consequences increase rather
than diminish. Such ever will be the effects
of taxing crime,
Cities that license saloons should he com.
PEELED TO pay the fines imposed upon its con.
victcd incbriatcs; to support their families
and pay their rent and doctors bills from the
license fund They would soon cease to grant
licenses if they footed their natural bills. \
hill of this nature was before the last legisa.
turc, but that immortal body @ thought less
Of their own sons and daughters and their con.
stituentS, less OF the noble women who suffer
untold misery from the rum cause, than they
did of a lot of sheep.
Men cultivate the taste for liquors after first
having been treated: the habit Of using ,tiniu.
lanS is soon confirmed; demand for intoXi-
cants is created thereby, and the distilcrieS
brcwericS, wholesalers, saloons and drug stores
supply that demand.
The habit Of incompetence causes saloons
while saloons feed the appetite,
The theory that prohibition cannot be en-
forced, assumes that license laws can. Does
this theory agree with the facts? One purpose
of a license law is TO limit the numbcrot places
where liquor is sold.
In Chicago 5000 saloons sell liquor, while
only > 800 are licensed
St Louis hands liquors over $500 counters,
and LOO are unlawful
| Philadelphia reports 1000 and New York
| City 10000 unlicensed saloons
The same hOluS true in the smaller cities
and towns, although, perhaps, IN Il less degree
Would there be more saloons without IL
cense law? The law don't limit the number
There Is just as much of this business as can
| live. Any one gets a license who asks for il, i
furnishes the bond and pays, and he closes out
his business, not under the rigid enforcement
of the law, but when it ceases to pay.
| Another object of the license law is to pre-
serve the Sabbath from its communicating in
| tluenceS. In most cities clauses are inserted
in the Licenses giving the Mayor or Board of
| Trustees power 10 cancel the license in case
the Sabbath clause is violated. Are saloons
kept closed on Sunday? In hardly city of
! Illinois, granting license, are saloons closed
on that day. Some arc shut up as their keep
crs may fear exposure, but most of them find
some excuse for letting their most intimate
friends in at the back door, just to give them al
friendly "treat'--t0r Il dtO,e.
Again, license laws are calculated tOprevent
the sale of liquors to minors, to persons iutoXl-
catc'l, to those IN the habit of getting intoXi.
Gated, ~ prevent cardplay!ng, gamhGng, c,c.I
l. the law enforced noi4of these partru ar,
Are customers turned away because OF their
minority? Are liquors refused to those beatty
drunk, so long as they come down with the
cash Are habitual dfunkards excluded from
the barroom so long as they have cent in
their pockets on credit to their names?
l. gambling discouraged, only when inter
tered with by the policemen? No, no; none
of these. These objects are not affected by H.
consing saloons
Everyone knows that intoxicating liquor
kills, destroys manhood, overtuTns society
scatters families, beggars' friends commits
murder, arson, riot, stlrs contentious, teuds,
quarrels, browns reason, blackens character,
commits oh crimes and damns the soul.
| Every one also knows that saloons are H.
censed to dispense the poisoned drugs, that
they will cause all these helish outrages, and
for no other actual purpose whatever. Licenses
are granted that dealers may teach the young
how to drink and treat: that the minor will be
| lured into their hells; that drunken men may
be made yet drunken; that habltual tpplers
! may be robbed; that gambling may be en-
cOuraged; mat hOrsetnieves may be trained Il
that murdcrers may be fitted for their work
that ldleness may be supported; money vast
ed, families beggared, poor houses filled, ,jails
crowded, penitentiarles overrun. That appe
tite may be formed, fed, famed.
| If saloons did not sell on Sunday. nor to
minors, habitual drunkards, intoxicated per
sons; if they did not permit lying gambling,
cheating, stealing, how could they exist:
1t is absurd to say you will give saloon keep
ers leave to sell, but they must not sell on Sun
day, must not permit the several classes named
to drink, and not permit gambling. Temper
ate men, abstainers, true, worthy, respectable
men should never go there. No money is
made of these classes by the dealers in "forked
lghtnlng;" and hence. by the nature of things,
they are compelled to sell to the very classes
tha,y .rDf DrhI1Ian ,ic tlo,,, Il;
est, and many of their regular customers ditto
To all boys and young men | would say,
that your only safety is to keep out of the sa-
looms. Shun them as you would a murderer.
Their keepers care nothing for your manhood
and less tor your souls. They want your mon
ey; and should you spend 1t all with them and
die paupers, they would clutch ii penny until
the goddess Of liberty upon 1t would shed
tears of blood, before they would give it TO
help dig your graves.
When the negro, Alexander had spent all
his money for liquors at a saloon in De kalb
he was ruthlcssly kicked INTO the street. In
this maudin condition lie killed his wife, for
which he must suffer the penalty on the gal
lows next September at Sycamore. Whisky
did the job. Those who furnished the liquor
are not guIltless. Those who voted license
and thus placed the tempting saloon In his
path are not free. Those who pretended tenn
perance and lodged or feared voting right
we've dishonest. Those who keep liquors at
their homes, on their side-boards there, only
made the murder possible by making drunk
enness common The dangers are great. We
must practice purity before our children, or
they may drink to murder us.
| have not overstated thing. You will be
ieve it when tell you. The saloons act only
human nature. Let one of you wrong or iD-
lure your friend, and ever afterward you will
hate that friend. Just SO with the saloon keep
ers. They may be good-hearted; they may
not intend to wrong you at first After they
have stripped you of your funds, ruined your
credit dethroned your reason, then 1t is they
will hate and curse you.