The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-01
SECOND AMENDMENT ONLY

SECOND AMENDMENT ONLY
I'VE give a worthy citizen a hearing on
the second amendmenG, without endOrS-
ing or being respOnsible.-ED. DEM
The evils of selling intOxicants as a
beverage are daily witnessed in our
midst and throughout the State. A SIN
gular case came to our knowledge some
time ago. An intelligent man who Is
quite active in one of the dominant pO-
litical parties, WAS sitting in saloon,
and while there a poor iaboring man
came in and asked for a glass of ale,
which he paid for, and, before our in
fOrmant left, the Door man got second
glass of ale ana paid for t; our tnt0rm-
ant then went into the mex door, which
is meat market. je had not been there
but a short time until the saue poor
labOring man came in and asked for
lard, and bought for all the money he
had left, which was five cents worth.
The wife and children Of the poor labor
ing man are worthy aud tOlling to keep
from actual want, while the husband
and father spends twO-thirds more to
satisfy a vitiated appetite than he Is able
| to take home to his dependent family in
| the actual supplies of life. The circum-
stance made such an impression on our
informant that, although he had preVi-
Ously thought that he would not vote
| on the amendment question, he Is now
determined to do all he can for the
second amendment only. Similar and
much more striking evils from the
| liquor traffic take place in great numbers
| daiIy-did we but see them We have
shown from time to time, by facts and
statistics, the great and growing evils
of the liquor traffic; and we insist that
| there is no necessity for a single liquor
saloon in Ohio, and If any man can
show the good to society from such an
| Institution. we want the argument pro-
duced. No abuse, personalities, slurs or
| jokes are arguments.
What is 1t that intOxicatesP Let Baron
Liebig, the wOTld-renOwned chemist,
| say These are his words: ANY juicy
| or Watery substance moderately sweet,
put in a warm place, soon ferment5 or
| begins to DECAY. The immediate pro-
duct of this is alcohol the intoxicating
principle. There is not a drop of alcO-
hOlic liquor In healthy and unchanged
nature. God has not made alcohol in
any other sense than He has created car
riOn or rotten eggs. 1t is the product of
| sugary substances DECOMPOSED. DECAY
ING. And whether called brandy, rum,
| whisky, being distilled and of fiery
potency; or wine, ale, cider, being fer
mented only and weak, the fermented
element is the same thing, alcohol. Fer
mentatiOn is nothing else but the putre-
| faction of substance containing no
nitrogen. Alcohol cannot be evolved
from the sugar of vegetable matter un
til VinOus fermentation set in, which is
| its accommodation or DEATH" The italics
are Mr.. Liebig's own, and from this high
source of Information we are informed
that all intOxicants are produced from
decayed matter" We have long since had
prOhibit0ry laws against Offering tainted
meats, and as hundred fold more evil
is daily resulting from offering liquors
made of decOmpOsed material, than could
ever result from Offering tainted meat,
we feei it is simply protection when we
ask for tie prohibition OF the liquor
| traffic, and therefore every voter should
vote for the second amendment.
Intemperance is an admitted evil, So
cially, morally, politically and religi-
Ously. The liquor traffic is a wholly
nOnprOductive branch of trade. 1t adds
nothing to the wealth of the nation; Its
only effect Is to waste the resources of
the people. Prohibition is the remedy
| the brewers and saloon keepers fear. If
prohibition does not prohibit, as the op-
pOsers of the amendment say, why are
| they all opposed to it so rabidlyf Why
| do they raise money to defeat that which
will not lessen their trade and make
their business more haZardOusp We do
not propose to legislate the appetite out
of men, but we do propose to prohibit
the business that creates and fosters
those that are bad.
Prohibition Is a success in Maine.
| Gov. Davis in his Inauguration said:
"The principle of prohibition has so
long been the settled policy of the state,
and has been found so useful and effect
| i've in suppTessing the liquor traffic,
| that no party or class of meU now dares
| to assail it." And Hon. j. 6. Blaine says:
'There is no people in the Anglo Saxon
world, among whom so small amount of
| Intoxicating liquor is consumed, as
among the csc, 900 inhabitants of Maine"
Hon. A. ii. COlquitt, recent Governor of
| Georgia, in late address said: ITEM
perance Is making excellent progress
| all over the country. Two-thlrds of the
| counties Of Georgia have secured actual
prohibition. The people have grown
| into a realization of the evils of intem-
perance from their own observation, and
| all over the United States public senti-
ment is constantly forming against the
| liquor traffic; and the people will ulti-
mately deliver the country from the liq-
| uOT curse"
In Danville, KY, the people have tried
| the practical working of prohibition,
| and are so we'll satisfied, that at a re-
| cent election they agreed to continue 1t
| by a vote of 541 to Al. So the good work
| goes on.
The western Christian Advocate says: {:
"The keynote of the temperance cam
paign In Ohio should be: Cooperative,
parsevering, thorough, nOn-ecelesiss-
tical, nOn-paTtisan effort for cOnstitu-
tionaI prohibition" This Is the true
basis to work upon. Let all good men
in Ohio unite on the second amendment,
leaving religious and political questions
to be settled by every mans conscience.
The hosts of friends for freedom from
the liquor traffic are marching on, and