Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-07

the business of theft Let Us put an end
TO these small scoundrels who have genius
enough only to steal house mats or postage
stamps or chocolate drops and confiue the
business to those who, having paid Sl0000
for genteel robbery can abscond with $50 900
from Newark bank, or by Watering the
stock OF railroad company steal $500 900
at one clip. would put very high license
on 1t, say $40 OCO, for they could soon make
II up. We are fearfully opposed to sneak
thieves and wharf rats and tupenny
scoundrels, but all hail to million-dollar
rascsls. So also let rs by high license put
down blaspbemy, for your present laws
against 1t are not successful. Let rs shut
| up the great masses Of the foul-mouthed
and by q high license Of $1,000 let few
| men do all the swearing in the community.
Let us select, say a hundred Of the most
impuisive men of our cities, men Of the
| highest tempers and hottest tongues and
the most spiteful against God and decency,
and add to the number the Speaker OF the
New Jersey Legislature, whose addresses
| weTeto interlarded with oaths few days
ago that the printers, who never swear
themselves, had to put blanks into every
in. Let these especially delegated men,
for a high license OF $4,000 per year, be
allowed to do all the profanity aud have
| full sweep, while We put down and sweep
| out Of the community all those WHO swear
| on q small scale aud all those who have
never got beyrnd by George" my stars"
or Darn it."
Licens ing Hurderers.
So also let murder be licensed. The pres
ent.law does not avail. Murders on Long
Island; murders in Illinois; murders in
| Penpsy lvanis; murders all over the coun.
try. The vast ms jority OF the perpetrators
escape. The defense proves an alibi or
Gays that the deed was oone under emo.
| tional insanity. The court room is crowded
with sympathizsrs and when acquitted he
| is followed down the street BY crowd
| WI o mediate sending him to Congress;
| The only way you will have TO put an end
| to murder in this country is by high
| lics nse to few men TO manage the whole
| business. This common heru OF assassins
| who do their work with Car hooks and dull
knives and Paris green must be put down
| and let o few experts who can do the thing
without psin, and by chloroform or flash
OF bull deg revolver, gently putting the
victim out OF his earthly misfori Ines, let
them have all the business. OF course Ir"
! that license ought 10 be as high as ~, ,OUO,
| because the perquisites OF god watches and
money safes aod plethoric pocket books
would soon pay the high license aad leave
| q handsome sum for net profit.
You see at q glance, all irony aside, that
II lGm selling Is right We al ought TO have
The privilege OF enjoying Il; and " 1t be
wrong $5, ,000, 900 paid do"n in hard cash
as a yearly license ougat not to purchase
immunity. p II com non sense that one
business should have the right to despoil
all other businesses " il pay a special tax !
A great Northern manufacturing company
recently established themselves in Georgia.
When asked why t2cy located there, thsir
answer was Because this township voted
10 have no liquor sold. That honest man u.
fscturer discovered what we all know, that
the rum selling business hurts all other
business. II the millions OF dollars that go
every year for rum were expended In
( bealthful directions, there would come
boom of commercial, agricultural and
manufacturing prosperity $50 per cent
| greater than this country ever say. Toe
money that goes for drink and has no re.
suit except ill-health snd pauperlsm and
CRIME would go for clothihg, for books, tbr
homesteads, for horses and carriages, br
FERNS, for lite insurance, for the tea
Thousand comforts and aiornmen9 and
luxuries OF life. You who get dollar a
day for wages would get four dollars; you
who get a salary of one thousand dollars o
wear would get TAO thousand dollars; you
VINO receive ten thousand dollars q year
would get twenty thousand dollars.
| rhs rum seller this moment has
his clutch o. the throat OF
every man in Ana fics. lou have TO pay
for his damnna,e work by your honest
sw eat and by the deprivation OF your house
holds of many advantages. When will the
working classes rise up sRsinst this IN
cubus and decree 10 keep at home the
dwelling pothouse politicians Of Albany
ard Harrisburg Legislatures, who vote
down prohibition and vote up high license
Uish the Lord IN His mercy would give
| or rulers in these Atlantic States one
hour II the swarlhy and magnificent cour'
| Pge OF the Iowa Legislature, which had the
moral force TO pass an out aud out prohibi.
toIy law, and whose Governor hsd tne
,rsce 70 sign 1t Lead on, o Western States,
in the glorious work OF our cOuntry's eDan-
c'pation Among the last to come will be
At beloved State OF New York, but come
lie will. After a few more Thousands OF
our best homes snail have been destroyed
~ this rum trsffic, and few more hun
II,Gs OF thousands OF our best intcllects
nd hserts she'll have been sscrifced, snd
Ur disLiiIsri,s bsvP FIR lev more years
| r!ulted the heavens vito ihsir uprHitng
| Lnch the tide Ill turn and al good men
u a women vii together rise end LAYING
| lo!i upon almighty rsrR Il. hafl ioFD
| ninlhe uerjirun irpu which u smoked
m this swelling snd pu'r"iy'ps cGEa, Of
aGtiohs.
High License Failure I'm the Past.
People in this region talk vs. though high
icense bad never been tried. 1t hes been
.ri,d again and .sgain snd has always been
a fiat failure. II was tried in Missouri IN.
Ter what is called the Downing law. A
prominent paper CT 81. Louis says: I'VE
nave now in this city some fifteen hundred
high license saloons, and IL there Is one
nan Cf st. Louis who is able 10 see the good
,eful's Of high license which Its friend,
| nIomised us we want TO interview him. IL
L.re is eny good in high license, II II re-
Al, Crs the evils OF drink 10 minimum, we
-, ready 10 publish IL. We know that
| many good. honest tenn Derauce men favored
| lie Casssre Of the Downing law. VIII
| Icy Inini out 10 US any good 1t has accom-
| rl,htd or is likely ever to accomplish. or
cot ftss thgt they have been dissppointe ~
II wss tried inESebrsska under Whist
Sas called the slocum law At \
tlUCO license. A promin ent citiz re
| ot.es.ed 10 give bis opinion in regard o IL
ssys: "You ask, 'Hss high license dimin
|, bed drupkenuessT Not In the sig 1t.st
1fgree. Drunkenness 10 steadily on the
Increase. Tbis vice, as ah other vices
wbich Government fosters grows contin.
usiy. high license, az far As diminishing
drunkenness 10 concerned does nothing oil
tie lind. Mark this well. I would re
p,at in lhuudsr tones II I could, IL doe,
nothing of The kind. Gambling conse'
qutnt npon high lic.nse, has fesrfally In
creased. The saloon keeper must n.ye in
GisHy casss q gambling annex 10 orhef 70
NIKE bis business pay q profit unds, the
bjgb license ryslem. This vice 10 making
rspid progress through the Stats
AID much Of the. increase Is di.
rely usoesbIe 10 bieh license" Iowa
,,i,d Il at q 1900 license. Ole
OF the ally papers Of Des Moines ssy,.:
Gp,s Moines has tired o 100 license only
10 find that IL hss increased the number o!
lie saloons spd the daily excess OF druak'
enpsts" IL Other places hieh license h.'
been tried sgsjn and sgsin and always With
ths ZANE remit, and yet there are IN ,ss
Who would have the farce enacted here:
The wasbineton Sentinel, one Of the chiei
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