Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-07
HIGH LICENSE
Declared Worse Than a Failure by
TaImase.
THE MONOPOLY OF kBoMlNATloN
Which Throws the Most Seductive Surround
ings About the 0runkard and
Clothes Vice With Influence
and Honor.
Special 10 the ReQister.

ed in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to day on
the subject: High License, the Monopoly
of Abomination." His text was taken
from Matthew xxvii-6: ut is not lawful
for to put them into the treasury because
it is the price of blood" Following is the
full report Of the sermon
For fifteen dollars Judas I:csriot had sold
Christ. Under thrust Of conscience or re-
gret that he had not made more lucrs.
tive thing out of it, Judas pitches the rat
tling shekels on the pavement Of the lem
pie. What shall be done with the con-
science money? Some propose 1t be put
into the treasury. Others say it has always
been against the law to use for religious or
governmental purposes blood money or
revenues gotten in the sale Of human life.
So they decided to use the money to pur
chase graves for paupels. Picking out
rough piece of ground where the broken
and refuse ware Of a pottery had been cast,
they set that apart as the first potter field.
ut is not lawful to put them into the treas
ury because it is the price OF blood"
We are at point in
Reformatory Movements In This Coun.
try
where in one shape or another il is pro-
posed to control or arrest the liquor busi-
less by making its merchants pay high
price, say five hundred or thousand dol
lars fer license. This, it is said, will ex.
tiIpete the tens of thousands OF low
dlupkeIies and make il possible only here
srd there for O rum. selling establishment
10 exist, The five hundred or a thousand
dCllsrs Paid into the Government Treas
ury will help support the poor houses into
whish widows and orphans are turned Dy
The iDebIietiCn OF husbands and tatheTs.
Dent you see? This high tax will also
nc!p the expenses Of prisoDs into which
hp men are thrown for crimes committed
vi lie drunk. Don't you see? That will
4lso support the courts of Oyer and Term
'rer, whose Judges, and attorneys, and con.
stables, and iuries, and court houses and
police stations find their chief employment
in the trial, condemnation and punish.
ntnl Of those who offend the law while in
th" state of iusobriety. Can't you see?
How any man Or woma IN the United
States, in favor of the great temperance
reformation, can be so ha!ucinated as not
to see that this movement is the surrender
Of the whole reformation for which good
people have been struggling for the last
fifty years, is to me an amszement that
eclipses everything. My subject is High
license, the monopoly of abomination.",
Do YOU not realize as by mathematical
demonstration that the whole result OF
this movement, by which low establish
ments are to be shut up aud splendid estao-
lishments are to be supported, 10 going 10
make rum selling and run drinking re-
spectacle. Nine-tcrths OF thess drun kerles,
in Brooklyn and New York, are so disgust
ing that men having regard for their repu.
tation would not be seen entering one, and
the clerk OF a store would lose his place il
seen coming ont of one. Bat now shut up
these small establishments, and down on
your great tEoroughfares you have build
I'd Your splendid palaces OF ineoration,
masterpieces Of painting on the wall, cut
e. ss on silver platter, upholstery like a
rlkish harem, uniformed servants to help
you out OF the carriage and uniformed SER
Waits to help you in, and uniformed SER
wants to take your hat and cane, ,snd parlors
with lounges on which you can recline
when YOU are taken mys,erousIy Ill after
too much Champapne or cognac or O:ard.
All the phantssmagoria and beWitcnment
OF art thrown around this Her0d OF msssa-
rIp. this Moloch OF consumed worshippers,
this iuggernaut of crushed millions!
Dapte's seven circles OF Inferno lifted into
gypat architecture, crowned by great arches
SD finished with great mosaic.
Iaiquiiy GIorifed!
The curse of the ages enthroned in sump'
tucsitiet! All, it is not the rookeries OF
alcoholism that do the worst work. They
are only the last stopping places on the
road TO death. Where did that bloated,
tip0 yatnb IN AT
.,sgge!ed out OF some hole down by IN"
Nsyy Ysrd ge. his habit started?
at glittering restaurant, at the
oar room OF some frstclass hotel
where il was fashionable to 90. DO you
Saut 10 stop the mean liquor establish
mcnts which are only the rash all over the
UC0y polite, and gather all the poison, pus
ard matterstion of the body pollIlc into
few great carbunces that mean death. /
So let us have the rash retaer thar the
rartunClSs.
| This high license muv' meui is, whether
Intended or n 4, q stab at the best fami-
| .,s of America ISls war on the draw
| re rooms of merchants. 1t is an assault
~, tie brightest nurseries and the dearest
| home clrcles. II would pay with honor
| and pillar with splendor and guard with
| u rnopOlisiic advantage business Whlch
! n., made the ground sound hollow ut every
| 81, p beneath England aud Scotland and
lr, end ard America with cstacomDS oI
| slaughtered drunksrds. Tell II, ye phllan.
| lrCuilts to all whom We meet IN your
| rcy,ds OF US. fulness. Tell ii, ye men o.
| H. newspaper press, by pen aud type,
| I'D telegram. Tell il that this day, in tht
| p.,seuce OF Almighty God, my maker and
rN Judge, stamp on this high license
| nGEtmtLt IS the monopoly OF sbomina'
uoH
I have to say it is snti.American, anti
common sense. snt.demonstrated fac;s'
spti-christlan. 1t was written by our
evolutionary fathers first BY pen and
rbtp by sword, fret in black ink and then
| in red that ell men are equal in the sight
of the law. Impartiality is the word Wrt
,ep On the Declaration OF lndepend9nce,
| Cor stituticn Of the United States and over
he doors OF State and National ciPi'ois.
| low then dare you give TO the msn VINO
an raise $500 or 81 coo the privilege o,
Ling sweetepei dynamite while you
| Gfpy TO bis peighbor the privilege because
DC cannot raise more than $50 or can rs,se
| nothire? Have the small dealers IN the
| festive LIQUID 10 right? plead for lr2'lce
| ~ the Il ms of thousands OF men wno h.e
| engaged in small and prudent aud econ
onilcsl way in selling extract OF iog"o "a
| sr6 strycGnine. !ssy it is une1nil 'ad
| Cniust 10 sllow the man who hss mHG"J
| 81 6Ush TO N.dls great roaring colu iS!a-
| tion Of temptation to go ahead wniie
| ycu depy those other poor fellows OF tue
;rsfic the privilege Of even lighting luci'
fer match. demand equal rights for rum
sellers. This high license plan is the pro
eerty justification in the most offensive
| shape. Why don't you carry out me ioes
| spd shut up ell the bakeries except tnos.
which can pay 1900 licsBse' Why, not
| shut up ell the butcher shops except those
ahich can psy an e1travsgaut taxi why
rot close all the dry go?ds stores except
| II ose tbst can pay Dig sun for the pr.Sl'
lee.r Well y"n ssy, that is very differ
| mt How is IL different? Well you say,
he business OF selling bread or meat or
f! c:o,bir dces no damage, while the selling
~ vbisksy 6oes q grest deal OF harm
| There. Won have surrendrrH3 the question
| n IL does great damage, then NJ sa'aunt Of
marcy paid can give s msn the night ~
| rsrrv on the business The $500 or ii. .OOD
| re a bribp N TIE government To let f'T
| 6o that which the verv attitude OF govern
| u.nt declares O 1ickeduess.
The Liquor Lava
| o. alan Il IL With common sense, Some