The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-25
SECOND AMENDMENr ONLY

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ing or being respOnsible.-ED. DEM.
The good people of Fredericksburg,
wayne county, Ohio, have Just reason to
rejoice at their victory over the liquor
traffic, and sober people throughout the
state will congratulate them. On Mon
day evening, Aug. 9Th, the Council, at
its regular meeting, adopted, by a unan-
lmOus vote, an ordinance prohibiting
ale, beer or porter houses, and places OF
habitual resort for Hppling and intem-
perance. The same ordinance had been
introduced in the Council on Monday
evening, July 2d, but failed to get ma
jOrity vote. Some of the members of
the Council, however, who voted against
the ordinance, said that il majority of
the people would petition for its passage
they would vote for it. Upon this the
temperance people went to work, and
appealing to the better motives of the
people, made thorough canvass of the
town. The result was the procuring an
overwhelming majority Of the voters to
the petition, and the work being wholly
on its merits and not political, when the
petition was presented to the Council,
they passed the ordinance unanimously.
SO let the good people of Ohio at the
next election, come up irrespective
of party, and vote for the second amend
ment only, and thereby give notice to
every saloon and other place where liu-
uOr Is sold as beverage, that they must
get out of this destructive business and
engage in sOme honorable and legiti-
mate business. Let the second amend
ment be adopted by rOusing majority,
and many politicians in both parties
| Will be like some of the fredericksburg
council, Notwithstanding that their for
mer votes and record have been in favor
of the saloon, they will then come out
square and say the will of the people
must be Obeyed, and laws will be given
US required to carry out the provisions
of said second amendment. Among the
many reasons that should induce all in
telllgent voters to vote for the second
| amendment, and thereby ass st in WiD-
ing out the great sin of Offering iiduOr
AS beverage to our sons, fathers and
brothers, the following may be stated:
1st. The fashionable saloon entices
our boys.
I'd. No person wants a saloon next
door to them. If the saloon is permit
ted to exist, somebody must have it as
neighbOr.
81. lntemperance depriVes men off
their reason for the time being.
4th. IntempeTance destroys men of
the greatest minds and strength.
9th. Saloons foster and encourage eY-
cry species of immortality and vice.
9th. Saloons bar the progress of civil
lzatiOn, virtue and religion.
9TH. They destroy the happiness of
tens of thousands of families.
Sth. They reduce many VirtuOus wives
and children to poverty.
9th. They cause many thousands of
| murders.
10th. They prevent all reformation of
character.
11th. They render useless the strong
est resolutions of the weak and tempted.
18th. They get from the people of Ohio
| over S5O,0O0,OO0 annually, for which no
value Is received.
18th. Intemperance causes the major
| ity of cases of insanity.
Ia. lntemperance not only destroys
the body, but condemns the soul TO
| drunkard's doom.
10. Intemperance burdens sober peO-
| pie with millions Ofexpense for the sup
port of it's paupers.
16. Intemperance costs sober people
immense sums in charity.
| II. Intemperance burdens the State
| with immense taxes.
18. Saloons cause immense expendi-
lures to prevent crime growing out of
| their business.
10. Because moderate drinkers need
the temptation of the saloon removed.
90 Drunkards ask that the temptation
of the saloon be removed.
2l. Sober people want the nuisance re.
moved.
o. Tax payers want the burden re-
| moved.
%. The sale of liquor as beverage
exposes our families to destruction.
"a. Prohibition would save thousands
in Ohio now on the road to ruin.
25. The saloon exposes women and
| children to insult and beatings from
| drunken husbands.
26. Saloons haTbOr the idle and vicious
at the expense of the Industrious and
ViftuOuS.
27. The sale of liquor as a beverage
subjects the sober to great oppression.
28. lntemperance takes the sober
mans earnings to support the drunk
ard.
30. Tipping and intemperance sub
iects numberless wives to untold suffer
ings and wants.
80. Saloons are the contributors to
Sabbath desecratiOn and riOting.
81. Saloons injure the value of prop
erty in any locality.
81. The Odor aud noise of the saloons
are dreaded by all sober people.
33. Our free institutions are based up
| on the principle of ''the greatest good
| to the greatest number" Therefore with
the above facts, saloons have no right to
exist.
81. Offering intoxicating liquor as a
| beverage degrades humanity, and is
against common sense.
30. Putting the bottle to our neigh
boris lip is contrary to the Bible.
80. As free men we have right to rid
ourselves of the dram shops.
Our government guarantees to every
| citizen the protection of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. But all
these are in danger with the open saloon.
We want this danger to our liberties
and happiness removed. Not simply by
law which gathers large revenues and
closes up saloon here and there, but by
the strong bulwark of Constitutional
PTOhtbitiOn-the only effectual remedy
| for this crime of crimes. We appeal to
Republicans, Democrats, Green hackers,
PrOhibitiOnists and patriots everywhere
to vote for the second amendment only
ana thus help on the good work. For
offices of State and county vote for such
party as you think best. COMPILEH.
| We All Believe
That IL ig a long lane that has no turn-