The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-01
oVR WASHINGTON LETTER.
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WAsHExaroy. Nor. 10Th. 1880.

" AsHISGTOS, NOy. ZJth, IoSO.
As this is the season of the year
for the rumsellers to have their IL
censes renewed in this place consid-
erable anxiety Is evidently develop
ing among the divers" that they
won't have such an easy time get
ting permits to poison their constit-
uents under color of authority. The
pastors of all the churches in Wash
ington irrespective of creed or re-
ligion, and goodly number OF tenn
perancc workers are doing the best
to compel the district commission
crs TO enforce tie laws in granting
licenses with view of breaking up
growing evil in the community.
To that end they have called on the
President in regard to the matter and
have obtained his sympathy and
that OF Mrs. Hayes. The moral ei
feet has been good and the Demo
cratic commissioners are now will
ling TO listen to reason when they
see that their official heads are in
danger and their bread and butter
may be stopped,
The law in regard to granting
liquor licenses is plain and severe
if executed rightfully. To get
license, the written consent must be
obtained from a majority OF the
citizens residing in the square where
the liquor Is TO be sold. besides
majority of the people living on the
opposite side of the street, must agree
to It's issue. These written consents
are some times hard to get. OF
course down town where business is
business, the gin mill owners sign
each others petitions and comply
with the law .thout much trouble,
but in othe' locations the people
occasionally rise up and SIT down
on a rancho Then they get too loud
and hoisterous. This is the situa-
ton inst now. The Christian peo-
! pie want TO ait down on sume per-
son and they have picked on Ed.
Abner, who runs the big lager beer
garden and concert saloon opposite
the Post Office Department on f"
street. He has offended the good
people by his Sunday evening con-
certs,
Abner got the required signers TO
/ his application for license in his
own square without much trouble
as they are pretty near all saloon
keepers and have a common interest
at stake, but how to get over the OPP
position developed on the other side
ofthc street is what causes the fuss.
The new Postmaster General, Hnr-
ace Maynard filed a protest against
the granting of Abner's license, he
being the head of the department
that occupies the whole block OPP
posite. How il will wind up de
pends on a decision of the Attorney
General TO whom the matter has
been referred, rs il is a new question
and will bear examination. May
nard must be working for place
on Neal Dow's temperance ticket in
1884.
In the square Just above, Carl
Schurz, Secretary of the Interior
signed a saloon keepers petition for
license without hesitation and there
by gave the consent of the square
opposite to the issue of some other
tdutchman's license, as he is the
boss of the square opposite and all
that is in it. Yesterday to stir up
another stink the License Board re-
turned as Informal the application
OF Mr.. FELTON,, proprietor of Welck-
er's Hotel. Opposite his establish
ment is the house of the German
legation and Baron Kurd Won
Schlozer, the minister who had APP
proved the granting of license.
The board, however, decided that
the signature Of the Emperor of
Germany must be secured to the
application. A royal name to a
liquor license will be a great curios-
ity.
A strong argumentative lecture
against the barbarism and userpa-
ton of liquor legislation, replete
with startling facts was made last
night at Lincoln Hall by Rev. w.
II. Boole, of New York. The audi
ence was large and fully in sympa-
thy with the speaker and frequently
applauded him. His first point was
that the duty of the Government is
to protect moral interests, and the
innocent loyal citizen who lives
under IT, Murder and theft are inn
moral, and therefore are Illegal.
There must he a universal apprecia-
tion of this principle. Alcohol is "a
poison. 1t IL principle Of death
and decay. 1t is not found in liV-
ing and growing natures. 4 physi-
clan has said that it is the devil
in solution. 1t has little use in
medicine except as a solvent. There
Is something it dissolvcs which is
not in tie dispensatory-habit. 1t
is noxious in quality. II has in il
those clements which efiliate with
and destroy the brain fibres and
nerves, and what DISCREPANCIES the
brain disorganizes society. If the
pure alcohol is thus terrible in its
affects, as lttested by physicians, the
stuff sold by dealers is more terri
bic. With graphic language he
disputed the curse of this strong
drink, the sale of which is legalized
by the Government. 1t makes eighty
out of one hundred criminals, IS Of
100 lunatics, 10 of every 1000 pau
pcrs, and eight of every ten murder
ers. He denounced the General
and State Governments as under
takers, joined in digging graves for
the 100000 persons whom LIQUOR
kills every year because the Gov
ernment throws its iron shield of
protection, not over the home but
over the black hell-hole of rumsel-
lers. Yet, instead of stamping out
the curse, or prohibiting it, the Gov
ernment uses its mighty power to
make it respectable, and even nour-
ishes it. A legislature has no right
to license traffic that causes more
mortality than yellow fever and
black death together. There is no
/ constitutional novpr which aIlov.s