Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-03-04
lOMMUNICATED.
Editor of the Times


In recent issue of your paper, over the sig
nature of Especial election" correspondent I
has much to say in regard to Local Option, and
from bis signature | presume he desires spe-
cial election on this subject granted by the next
Legislature; that each and every man will have
his swn peculiar views, and is At liberty TO eI-
press them, no one will deny, but with all de-
ference OF respect to your correspondent, does
IL not seem to you and your many readers that
the people have spoken out twice through the
ballot box in terms not TO be misunderstood
Therefore why agitate the subject further, un-
less the local optionists make up among them
selves dtund, to pay the expenses of this desir-
ed special election, ifso the people generally,
think, would have no objection to speaking TO
them again on this subject. | do not proclaim
temperance to public audiences, never made =
speech or wrote \ line on the inject in my life,
out think can say what many local option
lists cannot-that | never drank one pint Of
whisksy in thirty-6ve years, have always been
temperate and sober and have voted twice for
license and will do 80 again, whenever an cleo
ton occars on this subject. dc not believe
10 depriving the State OF 80 large a revenue,
because some people choose to obUse the privi-
lege, neither do believe by closing the stores
which sell the same, VIII We nave less whiskey
drank. as long A. We have a railroad through
the centre Of the county and the Potomac and
PAtu1ent contiguous to the eastern, south and
western portions OF our county, and license
granted in Baltimore and Warrington from
which, ~ way of cars and boats, dsmijohus
jugs, 10 Say nothing OF barrels and kegs marked
s'atgdr etc, will be brought by loads from the
different stations and vharves and secluded
paths be frsquented At aight by numbers Of our
people, With empty TASKS TO be filled. But
s1me local sptionists will say. that the sheriff
ssd coastabn!ary force will fad cut and break
up these little arrangements, by arresiing these
parties selling without license. Pray tell me
WhA, per cent. Of these offenders 10 it reason able
TO suppose the whole force would arrest Aad
suppose they did arrest . few, they would nee
esssrily Be tried before the Court. in volVing
the county with the expense of uishing some
body, who had sold another person one pisl
OF wAiskey for fifty cents, because some people
in the county are unwilling to see the store
keeper sell IL for twenty ave cents a pint and
pay the State OF Maryland a revenue besides.
No citize0 in this county admires temperance,
or total abstinence more than do none can
have q greater ahhorrsnce for intoIica,ion; bu,
As said before local option laws in Charles
county 10 make people sober, with our proI
unity to Baltimore aud Washington. is simply
absurd, less v hiskev might be drunk ats stores
but double tht sssst,ty in secluded parks and
fence corners which | can never vote TO sane
ton. Ill have becu correctly informed, Prince
Georges has long since become Iisgustel With
the se-ctlled blessing, and many OF ,hes~
who 30 auIiou.l, advocated the passage Of
such . Law, are now mos, !!ing TO see 1t re-
pealed, because ~hisksy is being sold 10 the
light A. veil as the dark, aad the State de-
prived Of this revenue,
was much g'.nsed to read in your las, i.-
sue from . correspondent The result OF his 'lsi'
10 Prince Georges, supposed he visited the
Eastern portion OF the county, q. nv Informs
ton has bern from the nidi aud Western
portions of the cuasg. and in SAD coa,rsst
With his report. .ni unless The Cai,.i States
Govssamsat .oa.G p.ss . prohib,r DRY az TO
Intoxicating liquors icing .oit ia 81 The States
! csr;atply hs,s no aith Ia local option lac.
in = oosptr, ~heG II eau ~ readily obtained
IN tveHy-foar ho9rs by boat or rsg.
snos iasi la;eaPersaes 10 ~ r'Ig--A great
evil-but csnnui s~s the remedy hy he pas
age OF local option law; .tins II oct OF n.
hs nds Of responsible de~e b. p't he,u -,
and pl.cs ia the h.sis Of ,rTss.oaN h!s parties
. ho would sci IN the DARK aai h-s arr,stsd
4 at all, would have - rrnsia IA l4tI h.rtn.
Moth ng to IA. as~s thereby an -Irense TO The
county. tUsrK