The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-07


dent of the committee.
The President then introduced the Hon.
William Daniel, Esq, of Baltimore, who
said he had been engaged in this fight for
the last seven years: indeed he had been
engaged in temperance work since 1858,
when he represented Somerset county i'll
the Legislature. He Proceeded to divide
the evils of intemperance into two heads
first, as it affects individuals; second, rs it
affects society: and said he proposed to
speak principally of the legal remedy.
The Temperance work began i'll 1886, and
was continued in 1910 by the Washingtonian
movement which was followed by the secret
temperance societies. These were somewhat
paralyzed by the war. Then God put His
hand upon poor, shrinking, faltering woman
and told her she must 90 to the front, and
she went and sang and prayed many grog
shops out of existence in the West. This
was the greatest movement of them all.
But these remedies failed to work a cure of
the evil. Moral suasion was well enough
for the druukard, but legal SuaSion alone
could reach inc TllStlItI. lHiS Wis tHc
opinion of Father Matthew, the great apos-
| tie of temperance, after twenty years eNpe-
| rience.
| The speaker then argued at some length
the propriety of the passage of prohibitory
laws, and said you can never make com
munity believe that what is legally right is
morally wrong, and that the morality of 4
| people can never rise above the morality of
their laws, and quoted from the Declaration
| of Independence and the 14th amendment
to the Constitution, and argued that mas
much as the sale of ardent spirits was cal
culated to destroy the life, liberty, and hap
| pness of Il large class in the community,
| and was therefore subversive of the spirit of
these safeguards of our liberties, it should
be prohibited
He then spoke of the large number that
are directly and indirectly killed annually
by the use of liquor, and instanced the case
of the Hon. VIM. Talbot, of Indiana who
once was q Methodist preacher, afterwards
an Episcopal minister, then a member OF
| Congress, but who now fills a drunkard 5
grave, and repeated the narrowing story in
such Il pathetic manner that the eyes OF
MANY of his audience We're filled with tears.
For every wrong there must be 4 remedy,
is Il legal maXam that nobody can deny.
When private property is taken for public
use, it must be paid for; by the same right
when liquor sellers destroy life and prop.
erty, they should be made to pay for it.
The State has no right to license the sale OF
liquor.
The sneaker then discussed the subject OF
sumptuary laws at considerable length, and
cited the decision of the Supreme Court o.
the Unitel States in the case of the liquor
dealers of Massachusetts,, showing that the
ripht to prohibit the sale of liquor was one
that belonged to the States. Liquor dealer.
, saw that Local Option is n failure; but tn,
Maine law WAS not n failure. 1t was Ell
acted by Il Democratic Legislature and on
of six counties in Maine, where the Jail
were crowded when the law was passed, il
six months after, In five Of them the Jail
f were empty. This law is so popular that i
has not been intertercd with 10y either pc
litical party. Taxes have been reduced
e wherever prohibition prevails. 1t has givel
/, such universal satisfaction wherever it hi
, been tried in this State, that in no case
e save that of Worcester, has it been repealed
$ :. Teackle Wallace eN-Gov. Thomas, .judg
: Magruder, and many other eminent Mary
: landers who We're once opposed to it from
\ principles, seeing its good effects, were nov
: its warmeSt advocates.
y The speaker closed his lengthy and el'
G quent address, during which he Was FIRE
a queutly stopped by the hearty applause {
1 his audience. by urging them to look bt
n yond the bounds of this county and uphol
i the hands of those in Kansas, who are try
n ing to prohibit the manufacture and sale {
If liquor forever by Il clause in the constitr
s ton of that State. He eXhorted them t
Q work and pray, and pray and work. leaS