The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-25
A Correspondent Who Takes
Issue With the Saloon
Keepers,
And Shows That Those of St.
Louis are Committing
q Rlunder
When They Keep Their Places of
Business Open on the
Sabbath Day.
WARRENsBUEG, Mo-, Sept. 2:

in favor of high license and the enforce
meni of the Sunday law, these reflections
are submitted TO the readers of the BAZoO
The writer makes no distinction between
beer and other intoxicating liquors. Tn,
statute of Missouri defines Intoxicating
liquor To mean "iermented, vinOus and
spirituous liquors, or any composition o
| which iermen;cd, vinOus or spiriIuoG.
liquors is - part" and io this definition VT
adhere, taking the law in this rs in other
eases, To mean what il saws. Fol-
the purposes OF this discussion il
is no matter whether drunkenness
Is caused bv fifteen or twenty
glasses III heer, or FIVE or six drinks OF
whisky. Certain il is that
THE BRAIN IS MADE TO REEL,
and health is destroyed, IS cfiectualiy by
one as the ether. Tie statistics OF Grim,
and the health reports show conciusivel,
| tat ke, r is as deiericus in iis effects Us
whisky, when used III sufficient quantity
There may have been time when beer
NAV have been correctly called a iermenteC
liquor but in this day, when, as We ar.
credibly informed, lager beer il made o.,
one day and dealt out over the counter ,he
next, all idea oI It's fermentation is dissi
pated.
When the s.. Louis Saloon Keepers as
ISOLATION asserts, q they 90 In their rscen,
address 10 the pubic, thst ''lhe people COM
prising the association are universally r C
| Osnized IS Industrious, energetic, frugal
and aw-ahidins citizens, and have addei
10 the material wealth and prosperity o,
this country by their industry and frugality
Is much in proportion 10 their ability a.
any other class of citizens in our midst
and that in their business they Nave as
many honest, upright, conscientious. hon
orable, public-spiriied citizens as are to be
found, in proportion to the number engaged
| in it, outside of it, they
MAKE A RoLD ASSUMPTIONS,
which lar SURPRISES the bounds
III humility and common modesty, ana
perhaps o'erieaps the confines OF truth. 1t
would he great deal for any class If the
community to say Of themselves, much les
a set OF men engaged in so nefarious an c.
cupation As selling Intoxicating liquors.
which business has heretofore been subject
to the require nenis OF a license, and has in
lis consequences entaiied upon US So much
sorrow, crime and distress. These are the
beer sellers OF our metropolitan city, who
are now dispensing their favorite beverage
in open violation Of TIE written law. There
never has been, in this country, except in
times of open and avUwed rebellion, set
of men claiming any decency who have
thus publicly deied law which is SO uni
versaily respected by all PEOPLE OF known
good citizenship. Horse thieves, highway
robbers and burglars have doubtless band
ed together ~ destroy the peace anG
possess themselves of the property of the
community but never has the spectacle
been presented, in time OF peace, OF elias,
publicly setting themselves up rs above and
out OF the reach of law that is so FULLY
appreciated by law-abiding citizens. These
beer sellers are
COMMITTING A GREAT BLUNDER,
and II We are not vastly mistaken In our
Judgment, will ere long regret their con
duct. They are Germans who came to thi,
country 10 enjoy our liberty and our pos
perily; but no sooner are they installed
in The full right ii citizenship, perhaps be-
fore, than they say 10 Us virtually that our
laws are very good as far as they
suit them. but in this Sunday question We
are mistaken; that our notions about it,
observance are too rigid; and forthwith
",
III absolute Treason 10 the government, md
cefy AN ancient, long established Law, tell
ing us that We are Puritanical and that
they Will reform cur system. Out upon
such disregard of the law, conceived i'm
seIf-intereSt and brought forth in iniqUi
ious disregard aid disrsspect for public
opinion, which with L. has not only always
commanded decent respect" but has been
supreme In lis control OF public ut;erances
aud policy.
They tell us they are "honest and up
right" We will examine this proposition.
No man obtains mcnry honestly from an
Uther without giving him valuable con-
sidera,ion therefor. Now
WHAT ARE THESE BEER SELLERS DOING,
daily hourly, and nightly? They are ex
tracing mon ey from their customers with
on; giving them just equivalent; not only
not giving them value received, but are
dealing ont to them liquid that does
them an injury. and all connected with
them, entaiiing disease and inevitable early
death upon them and their posterity. II is
no excuse for the conduct of the beer-seller
10 say that his customers come 10 him, and
freely give their money in exchange for
il SO say that advantage is taken OF their
disordered taste for strong drink, and the
statute forbids the sale Ito any babitusl
drunkard." and where commences the hab-
it of drinking is not clearly defined. Such
an excuse might, with equal: force. be offer
ed BY the druggist who sells poison in vio-
lation of the law TO the suicide; or by the
keeper of bawdy house, whose inmates
take money from the lecherous and debs sed
who come to them 10 crafty their vile pas
sions.
1t is clearly stated that these men are
universally recognized as lava abiding cit
liens. Such an assumption is bold and
transparent hypocricy. Who recognizes
them as such, when they are now in direct
and defiant violation of a well-knowp and
easily understood law, which has
BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR OVER FORTY
YEARS?
Il Al