The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-19

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national enactment, and you drive 1t
into the Atlantic on one side and into
the Pacific on the other. Let there be
no room for 1t between the Canadas and
the Gulf and from sea to sea for the feet
of the red dragon. rF-....
That the individual States have all
constitutional right to prohibit the man
ufacture and sale of alcohol was estab-
lished by the opinion Of Judge Mclean,
of the United States Supreme Court,
Judge Woodbys Judge GrieT, Judge Dam
iels, Justice CatrOn, Chief Justice Shaw
Of Massachusetts,, Chief Justice Harring-
of Nebraska, and after Daniel Webster
and Rufus Choate had argued the case
before the Supreme Court of the United
States, the highest tribunal In the land,
Justice Taney, supported by all the
judges OF the Court, rendered this decis-
ion " see nothing in the Federal Con-
stttutiOn or laws of Congress TO prohibit
q State Legislature from prohibiting the
traffic altogether" The right of State
to extirpate this evil Is settled, but we
want the bOldnes5 and the persistence
and the aggregate force of all the good
people Of the United States to demand
an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. That amendment
passed the weaker States would be helped
by the stronger States, the cities by the
country districts, and you and l would
live to see the day when 1t would be as
unusual to see man destroyed by
drunkenness as case of suicide by TAX
ing Paris-green. Do you tell me that
the Government of the United States
can not afford such prohibition be-
cause of the large revenue the
liquor traffic pays the Government
answer that where 1t pays the Govern
ment one dollar 1t steals ten in the pro-
perty destroyed, the criminal trial 1t
makes necessary, the penitentiaries and
the asylums and alms-hOuses that are
necessary to support its victims. The
Government makes as much out Of this
revenue as you would as q merchant
make If you sold a knife to man for
one dollar, and, after having paid you
the money, he thrust its blade through
the heart of your child; or If selling q
box OF matches he handed you the
money, and then with the first match
struck he set fire to your dwelling.
There are 100000 drunkards in the
United States to-day; 10000 of the peO-
pie annually die drunkards, 10O, 900 men
and women annually sent to prison
through this iniquity; 100000 children
thrown on the charity. of the world. by
alcoholism Judge Allison says that
in this country Is committed under the
influence of strong drink. In Canada,
out of 1889 commitments to jail, 21,-
236 committed their crime under the in
duence of strong drink. DR.. Harris, in
spectOr of the prisons in New York State
says that 80 per cent. of all the crime is
the result of intempeTance. There are
10000 maniaes and idiots in this coun-
try now as result of intemperance.
England pays 100000 yearly for alcO-
hOlic insane paupers. Mrs. COmstOck,
the Quaker missionary, says that out of
115,0O0 prisoners, 10000 were incar-
cerated by their intemperance. 1t is
estimated that ninety-nine One-hun-
dredths of the children not going to
school in this country are the children
of drunkards. The cost of and ruin by
rum in this country is 81 $1,200.O0O,OO0 an
nually. All, we hear great deal about
crooked whisky, by which reference is
made to liquors that escape paying reve-
crooked, from the fact that it makes a
mans path crooked, his business crook
ed, his fortune crooked, his health
crooked, his disposition crooked, his
destiny crooked, crooked whisky, crook
ed gin, crooked wine, crOol ell cOgnac,
crooked schnapps, crooked int0Xicants
Of all sorts. Talking and speech making
may restore here and there one. but pro-
hibitiOn, national prohibition, will stop
the entire curse. In Edwards county,
H., it was decided twenty-seven years
ago that they would have no rum in the
county, and in twenty-five years only
one person was sent to the penitentiary,
and he committed crime while drunk
from rum got in another county. The
most Of the time the Jail has been empty.
There are only two or three paupers in
all the county. The tax is 80 per cent.
lower than the neighbOring counties,
though their tax-rOll show more prop
erty than any other county in the State
of equal size. The Court in that county
sits three days in the year. rr~
Good citizens Of the United States,
dOnOt know how you feel about it, but /
am tired Of paying taxes to fix up the
work OF these Internal dram-shOpS that
are making criminals and paupers by
the tens of thousands. Out with them.
Out with them from the cityl Out with
them from the Stated Out with them
from the natiOnl But you say such
law Of extirpatiOn could not be execut-
ed If 1t were passed. Try It'll 1t has been
executed in different parts of Maine, in
Massachusetts, in Rhode Island, in
Maryland, in Colorado, in Iowa and in
Kansas. Give us such law Of entire
prohibition in these Eastern States, and
If the authorities do not execute 1t we
will do as the FOrty-niners did in Cali
fornia when they formed Vigilance
Committee, who made quick work with
offenders; Give us such law in Brook
lyn. and IL the authorities do not exc
cute 1t will some Sunday, standing in
this pulpit, gather q battalion Of strong
men, and we will 90 out, and In the
name Of our homes. and In the name of
the Lord God Almighty shut up every
grog-shop In Brooklyn. But It will
never be thoroughly accomplished until
the nation awRkes from its indifference
to its magnificent opportunity. But Of
whom would such party be made up?
First Of all, Of hundreds and thousands
Of dTunkards, who, helpless in the pres
ence of temptation, would like those
places of Rllurenlent forever removed
from their eyes. These men Of appetite
for strong drink cannot run the gauntlet
of so many inebriate restaurants, so
many wine cellars, 80 many bar-rOoms.
These 1nfOrtunates cannot, from morn
ing to night, get out Of the sight of
these places. They are in every street
of every city, before them, behind them,
on either side of them, an all-encireling
fire of demOniac bombardment. For
Gods sake give these overwhelmed men
a chance to escape, and let it be posi-