The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-24

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prosecuted, and the prosecution failed be-
cause there was no proof The witnesses
said they drank sea foam, not beer. Did it
foam like beerl 1t did. Could you dis
cover any difference between it and beerf
No. What, then, in your judgment was III
1t was sea foam. What is sea foami |
don't know. Thus it goes, and it is no.
toriously the fact that since the attempted
enforcement of the prohibitory law in Kan
sas the consumption of liquor in that state
has increased, and with it there has been a
painful and demoralizing increase of ntoX
ication. 1t is the history of the world, es
pecially the history Of free people, that an
unpopular law can not he enforced, and
that people of even temperate tastes resent
everything like sumptuary legislation. The
Maine liquor law is fraud and failure
The Kansas law is proving likewise Chi.
cago Times.
of bill recently introduced by Con.
gresham Thomas, the Bloomington Bulle.
tin says: Representative Thomas, of the
Cairo district, has introduced bill into
congress making the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln a national holiday, on the ground
that Lincoln stands conspcuously before
the world rs the grandest character of the
nineteenth century as Washington was of
the eighteenth, and that congress having
made Washington's birthday a legal holiday,
alike honor should be done the memory of
Lincoln. This is all very we'll. We have
no disposition to quarrel with Mr. Thomas
motives, but it is high time that line
should be drawn in the national holiday
business. If one is not, where will the
thing stopi Emory Storrs declares that
Lincoln was stalwart and that no half
breeds were tolerated in his time. If his
birthday is made national holiday, who
will dare to object when some half breed
gets up in the house or the senate and pro-
poses to make Gartield's natal day
twenty four hours of flies, drums, brass
bands, lemonade, beer and buntingl
And there's Grant--the old man will
die some day, and, to show their Impair
TALLY and their gratitude, the people
will be compelled to celebrate the day
of his birth. After him comes
long list of warriors, patriots
and statesmen, whose admirers may claim
that heaven sent national blessings to the
country on the day on which they first saw
the light and that the anniversaries of these
days ought accordingly to be made national
play-days. The list will be largely swelled
when it will finally be necessary for some
matter.of fact legislator to introduce a bill
into congress fixing certain days of the year
as legal business days. Otherwise, there
will be nothing but high days and holidays
throughout the year, ana the business of
the people will be the daily recurring cele.
bration of the birthdays Of national heroes.
Mr. d. r. Linegar expresses it as his
opinion that the big bully who slips up be-
hind small newspaper reporter knocks
him down, and then stamps upon him, does
just right as it is the only way to keep
even with a newspaper man. This opinion
from a learned legal gentleman, we are
glad to say, is not shared by the respectable
part Of the community. Mr.. Lnegar was
led into this expression Of opinion by the
act Of Pat Lally, "the bully of the towns
who yesterday noon walked up behind
Thiclecke, of The BULLETIN, struck him
in the BACK OF THE NECK, knocking him on
his face, and then stamping and kicking
the man,-already insensiblc, almost
if not quite past hope of recovery.
that he did not commit the murder he de.
desired to do is no fault of his, and that he
will be punished for what he has done
with his numerous friends of the rough ele-
mcnt, and his few friends among the legal
fraternity, no one for a moment believes,
when they remember that he was not even
arrested for almost numbering his wife in
the same way a few months ago, report of
which in THE BULLETIN was the cause Of
this last cowardy act That the "roughS'
of the city are becoming dangerous to
peaceable citizens must be admitted
but they and their apologists are going too
far and are raising up a power
That will sweep them at last from
the face Of the earth. That power is the
court of Judge Lynch. Lynch law was
freely talked of in connection with Lally
yesterday among the leading and influential
men of the city, whose blood is at fever
heat, and it would require but one more
such act to give him dance at the end Of
aropc and furnish a salutary lesson to gen.
tlemen Of his kind.