Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
Elr The Snlurnn Time
,,..,se Law and It's Enforcement.

,.oonse Law and Its Enforcement.
~" york of executing the law enacted
Ine In..oI the vice of intemperance is
TO Su.J unaJ doubly hard when citizens allow
rsna'Ivos to be misled by the statements
mems. toi..a who are Immediately or mediately
Of 'nU'n 'notod With the traffic. 1t should be
conIeS;ss Tos;ness of all who make any claim to
tue Oo;tizenship to inform themselves as to
goou Vnontained in the law and their rela-
iaCI' ~ ;ts faithful enforcement, and they
ton cd e. that its obligations are as binding
wiz tbam as those laws against theft,
upOn 'on or murder; and the man who can
a.or ...ot lightly this law, made to prevent men
Hs- es-' Becoming fit subjects to violate all
HJ u,%.r law, becomes at once q balm to socie-
o'u nd dangerous in his example and pre-
a" We 90 to such men with a petition
ceP:. for local option, and they say, "you
s'A'ns GOOD law, execute it," and the
nav ant YOU touch the rumseller for its
lO niUintion they show the 'cloven foot, and
'O'a,,t a"rnest in their work assisting to avert
Ms ". enlistment they admit is deserving.
1rt W.T. would be thought of the citizen who
VIA VIA assist in open daytime a man sus.
Soo,sl SOT of abducting your darling child, in
P.:,;rc off the witness who was supposed
spT" hs me only one that would fasten upon
" the crime, or who would object
n''I . nortners like Graham and Hun.
". We. sboud quarrel, and Hunter hang
ts..nso Graham S7ueaied And who does
". know that rumselling is abduction
= its yeriest sense, and nine-tenths
e the murders result, either directly
y. Indirectly, from this business, to say
Uo,bins of other crimes that follow in its
maLp In the case which was investigated
Yesterday under the influence OF the Moral
Reform Association, all sorts of schemes
we're resorted to with the view to paralize
the arm Of the law. \ list was SAID to be
scan containing the names of perhap,
twenty Young men and youths, purportine
n he made by the law.abiding men. Those
Young men were waited upon by the allie:
If wbiskey and advised to leave town, ol
they would be drawn up to testify. Between
home and fear we ask, were any thus mott
6ed from whom this violator of law haC
nothing to fear? But they were spared
Though some of their names were often pre-
spnted by different members of the Asso
cation) hoping thereby to save them from
shame bv a personal exposure and thei
families from pain; and then it was dec
ded in the council as the rumSeller com
planned that he was to be confronted will
unreliable witnesses, as there was so man,
who could be relied on that they woul,
select few of the best, and the list was
We understand, made up from one in tn
handwriting Of lady or ladies more tha
four months past, who had perhaps smelle
their breaths on the evening of the Lord
day. and who were anxious to have thi
Mnue to death stopped. But it has bee
asked who is this Moral Reform Association
It was organized Immediately after til
passage Of the present license law, an
started with sixty charter members, tn
names of which were published in tn
TINES and can be referred to. Beside
these there are now more than three hui
dred. We are not surprised when all til
facts shall be collected that there shoul
be some alarm, and that Dover should /
lesOrted to for legal man to conduct ii
preliminary examination which resulted
the maintenance of the law by the violate
giving bail, which carries the case or cas-
10 the court. MORAL REFoRMRR.
SMYRNA, Jan. %, 1879