The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-10-21
&C." and the Ohio Liquor Laws.

would transfer the matter to the Arena
OF private discussions, as the matter
stands do not care to lie: some of his
ideas pass without notice.
lie says he made no reference to Ohio
in particular. This is mistake. 1t was
because he referred especially to Ohio
and showed such total ignorance o: the
situation here, that did reply to his
lett AS to his remark that he wrote
only for those capable of understanding
the christian side of an argument, all
| have to say is, that it seems the Phar,
isees are not all dead yet. AS to my
that is merely the kettle
calling the pot black
AS to the ''Inde pendents' of Penna
we are not discussing them, although
regard the Blaine-Mitchell bolt there
the meanest thing in modern politics.
But if a gang of angry place hunters
over to the Bourbons, they have both the
power and right to do SO. Some OF them
will get sick of it yet.
AS to my capacity to understand The
This is a mistake. | have
learned it thoroughly in the past year
Il nd half. Plant G. in some saloon
cursed Oh town, where the liquor trade
has no restriction night or day, Sunday
or any other day, and unless he is sold
body and soul t. the drink curse. he
would welcome any restrictive m easures.
/ belicle IN prohibitiOn as tie end and ain.
Of all temperance leglsL0tion, but until
that can be reached am in favor of any
restrictive measures that will check the
evil. \ high tax will close four fifths of
the saloons in the State and compel the
others to observe at least outward de.
cency.
lie says lie has never heard of the men
to Sunday closing who lay any
claim to being men. No, he has lived all
his life in Maryland most likely. If he
would read the CINCINNATI dailies he
would know better. The Sunday law is
simply dead letter in half the State, and
what is more its enforcement is the ques-
ton upon which parties are arrayed here,
with every promise that the friends OF
free beer and no Sunday will win. Some
of them too, claim to be quite men; for
instance Geo. H. Pendleton, Fred Has
Murat Halstead, John Mclean
and a host of others, Y ell known both to
State and national politics.
He says The Republicans favor a tax
that the liquor dealers are fully ready to
pay" Well people had best not talk
about things they know nothing about
with the Democrats, the liquor dealers
and "Prohibitionists' in solid league,
to beat the Republican party as means
of escaping Il high tax amt Sunday clos
ing. This sounds strangely. Poll
tics make strange bedfellows sometimes.
but never stranger than when it plants
the Democratic beer ruled Ohio Bour-
bonS and the extreH'e Prohibitionists on
the same platform, of opposition to any
restriction whatever of the liquor trade.
That they are there, is one of the clear
est facts in current Ohio politics. What
is more it is almost Gel tain that John G.
Thompson is furnishing the money on
which the Prohibition canvass is being
run, while he draws his revenue from the
Ohio Liquor Dealers Association. The
liquor dealers know very we'll that Pro-
hibltlon just now is out of reach, while
they dread with mortal horrcr tax law.
and the loss Of the best day of the week
in the business. We got over these
points in Maryland years ago, they are a
living issue here yet.
| am Prohibitionist and shall in the
future as in the past work and vote for
in that line, but why, when we
get that, we should refuse to take
what we may be able to yet is beyond
my prehension. 1t is no question of
principle, that is fully conceded, the on
y question is what can We get, and as
long as We can't enforce the Sunday
closing, it is foolishness to get mad be-
cause we can't get all at once. In Mary
land We closed the grog shops on Sunday
first, why not in Ohio9 If there is any-
thing in G.'s logic We should simply
eave the whole Internal trade alone to
10 its worst until We can secure total
Prohibition. That may look very nice
from the Cecil standpoint, here in Ohio
in the very crisis of the struggle, it wont
10 so we'll
But to favor license is a bid for the
foreign vote. A case of moro absolute
ignorance would be hard to find, with
,he whole German vote Of the State in
opeu revolt against the Republican party
because it dared to pass a tax and Sun
lay closing law, this sounds like Il iyell-
ng idioey.
lie says he has been life long Repub-
lean and is not ashamed of the part he
las taken i'll securing Local Option in
Maryland. No more am l, and as an
)hian, | hope to do something to plant
Ohio Oh the platform that Maryland has
already reached, but we in Maryland
a " Pr ha1 ~ Of IL
ny themselves " rrohibitionists" to fight
1t every step. Men, whose sole aim
seems 10 be to oppose all practicable re-
.tretlve measures at every step.
We're Sunday closing and high tax
as a tiuality should be ready to
light it to the bitter end, as a step in the
light direction l welcome it. can up
!erstand why Marylanders can't under
'tand this question, this very issue there
Vas settled before many of us mon who
ire still on the better side OF middle
life were born. Then in Maryland we
never had a constitution, the very bull
Tark of tho liquor interest. Under the
)hla constitution neither Local o ton
10Y license is possible. 1t seems to have
'een especially designed to make the
rade forever secure from m0lestation.
W hen Ohio entorces the liquor laws now
II its code, when its saloons are closed
IN Sunday, when in short. the drink
rattle is made to obey the laws we now
lave, We can begin to work for Prohibit
ion. 1t is idle to worry about the whole
Is long as the part is totally out of reach.
have studied the question here with all
he care | can and these are my deliber-
tie conclusions.
How Ohio will vote tomorrow I have
lot the slightest idea, but Republican
'ictory all over tho State will be welcom-
ID as the tr:nmph Of law and order as
,he FIRST step OH the long road to PRO,
libition,' \ Democratic victory meaus
simply little longer lease of life t., the
beer Saturnalia. My duty in tho mat
er is clear. Were G. in the sasse posi-
ion have an idea he would vote as |
shall.
| do not mean to carry this discussion
my further. | have done what | can to
make the situation here clear to the read
as Of the Wig, if G. is not still satisfied
am williag, if he will favor me With his
Address, to give him any high. on the sub
leot that | can. | think he and I can come
nearer an agreement privately than pub
icly. J. 4. CALHoUS.
WeNston. o., October q. 1882.
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