Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-16

Thanks to the LOru! That tnelr numOer
is small and that their reigns have here
tofore been coupled with brevity. Cha
grin is the cause of their everlasting at
tempts to procure legislation for us un
willing SINNERS. Failure is generally
the result and good clubbing the end
A point is raised that in the State Of
Maine the crimes are comparatively oil
fewer occurrence than in New York
There is no metropolis on the face
of the former state, and it is known "a
every body that with the existence oil
very large cities there is also connected
a greater number OF criminal happen
ings than in rural districts. New York
is a liberal State, but not SO much as
Wisconsin, that can be justly ranked as
the most liberal one in the Union. How
will the statistics OF crime committed in
Wisconsin accord with Maine? How
will our State stand a comparison with
Maine? Massachusetts, had the laws in
vogue for some time, what was the out
Gomez The drunkards' craving foI
LIQUOR was not subsidized; they knew
how to crafty it, and pauperism, drunk
eness, etc, were apparently more taken
notice of by our people, hence the sub.
sequent legislation OF issuing license Of
making the liquor traffic again lawful.
The temperance courtiers, who were
harrassing the Ohio legislators, did not
make their schemes law. The Demo
cratic members did the killing, and
will be the recipients of their just re-
ward Mt the next election. The advo
Gates, lecturers and ink-slingers in this
city defending the bill, use OF late very
mild arguments to allure the members
into the belief that their assumptions are
not pTesumptuOus. Let us detail their
demands. They demand that our hills,
now in iiourishing condition by the
means of vineyards, lay bare; that our
farmers crops OF barley be unsaleable;
that every emigrant shun this State
that other States gladly attempt TO lead
away the flood of emigration to their own
States, protecting the personal liberties
of each new conner and having generally
a more congenial legislation. The cry
of ianaticism and old fogyism will be
u sed against us as very effective means
TO retard our prosperity. Wheeling alone
paws the farmers of this State more than
S6O. 900; il PAYS to the city of Wheeling
i'm tue neighborhood Of S35, 600 as license,
not including taxation OF personal or
real property. The traffic OF this city
paws the like amount to the United
States, besides giving great many peo-
pie profitable employment. How much
DO our ministers, churches and others
closely connected with every hystericsl
movement contribute to replenish our
empty treasuries1
Let the nineteen thousand children,
women and nom de p!,mSs, who pay no
taxes, some Of whom do not enjoy even
the privilege OF living, pay to the pres
ent Legislature thirty thousand dollars
10 deirav the actual expenses OF an eX'
detrimental election OF such tenor. Do
they suppose, that We also shall furnish
the ducats to crafty their whims? II
has been the street talk that the Repub'
liCans we're using the scheme upon the
Legislators 30 the Democratic party
would be wiped out OF existence in this
State. This may be true, however, the
members, We suppose, ae too intelli'
gent as not to fully consider the result
OF thsir actions. Such sn
affair, IL identified with the
general election, would certainly have a
detrimental effect. 1t appears very pc
culisr, that even tipping is considered
an abOn,inable otIense. Our ministers
make il such, and by so doing overthrow
their master, Christ. On very many
occasions did He drink wine; turned
water into wine aud dispensed 1t to be
drank among his followers, 1t seems AZ
il lie in His wisdom did not consider
the water in a natural state az beneficial
10 the inner man as wine. Waterse
not to have been used frequently by the
f,unders Of christendom; it is only men
TONED a few times as having been asked
for ard refused in place where some o.
our Intermediates are surely TO 90.
For a minister 10 set himself above
His Master 10 teach part OF the Scrip
,ure, and Condeming the other part al
not being a wise provision, 1t seems
very inconsistent and certainly rldlcu'
lOus.
The proper way Of ar,esting drunken
ness. should be rs fellows: Impose
upon every man who appears upon the
public streets ia total drunken cOndl'
ton fine of nifty dollars.
The mode to prevent murder should
be an imposition OF one hundred dol
lara fine upon every person carrying
weapons of any kind. Enforce such
laws rigidly, and it will do more good
than your whole prohibition amend
ments. Nowadays people 20 TO church
with a pepper. box in their hip pocket
and a flask OF bug-juice concealed some.
where else. 4 temperance lecturer Of
great tongue sgility stated short time
since that il the Germans and Swiss
wanted to raise barley or grow grapes
in this State, their presence was not de-
sirable. Does this not disclose the cats
paw OF the temperance movement, that
the same is nothing hut kuow-nothing.
ism, inimical TO the blue stocking doc
trine? JUSTICE.