Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-12

! IOWns anu villages III auJOlnlnS cOun-
ties. Fine, the first Friday of every
month.
From Our Union.
The following from the Wine and
Spirit Gazette comes in very Qpr0D0s to
temperance "boom" in Ohio, "our enc
mics themselves being judges" Surely
the present movement for Local Option
must be fraught with danger to the
"craft" to provoke such groans, Extract
from the presidents address at the semi
annual convention of the Ohio Liquor
Dealers Protection Association, held
previous to the lst of January couven-
tiOn:
81 have authentic information from
trustworthy sources that the fiat tenn
perance people OfOhiO are already felici-
tating themselves upon a successful eff
fort to revive and enforce, With new
VigOr and greater stringency, the odiOus
local option law. They anticIpate and
predict that the complexion of the next
legislature will be favorable to their de-
signs. Now there never wGs, and per-
haps never will be, more OdiOus, pro-
scriptiye, ,and tyrannical species oflegis-
lation than Local OPTION 1t is sim
ply absolute prohibition draped in the
garment Of pretended Liberty. Let us
contemplate, for instance, locality or
village composed Of, say, 199 voters or
heads of families; local option means
that 100 dominate and tyranize over the
other SO and prescribe for them sump-
tuary regulations, modes and habits of
social life, and even restrict their pro-
cess of thought and opinion. Why,
gentlemen, the recognition of this prin-
CIple in our social ethics means the abb
sOlute subVersion of the natural liberty
of man. 1t cannot be maintained upon
any basis except the corrupt annihila-
tion of Democratic and Republican
ideas. l have thus in my feeble way
elaborated on this question in order that
the people may know that our Opposi-
ton to the principle embodied in Local
Option does not spring from selfish mo-
tiYes. 1t is true we are sOlicitOus about
our business interests and our property.
Why should we not? When the grang-
ers menaced the railroad interests, what
did the stockholders do? Why, they
organized, and in behalf of their pro-
prietary interests waged a bitter and
relentless fight. Are we not justified
in doing the same? But aside from that
view and consideration of the matter,
our duty aSfree men and citizens of a
Republican government impeis us to
denounce, persistently oppose and Bit
terly fight, by all honorable means, the
iniquitOus principle underlying Local
Option; and | again reiterate, now is
the time to fight. do not wish to dis
turb any mans political opinions, butt
do say that our interests imperatively de-
mand the election of friends and not en-
emieS to the Legislature. Let our friends
be upheld and our enemies be politically
crushed, no matter under what banner
age find them."
Among the petitions presented in the
United States Senate on the 9th of De-
cember, was the petition of the late gem
9ral assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, unanimously adopted and Off
3ially signed by Henry II. Jessup D. D.
rs moderator, and Edwin F. Hatfield
D, D., as stated clerk; representing over
5000 churches and over half a million of
asking for commission
If enquiry concerning the alcoholic
liquor traffic. The petition was pre-
ented by the Hon. William A. Wheeler,
Vice-President of the United States,
md President of the Senate, and was
eferred to the committee on finance.
sOOd Health Makes Earth a Heaven
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