Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

city, more than 1000 unlicensed, 5000 bv your permission, open day and night, rendering elections corrupt and youl members of Christian churches some. times induced to pay for the heathens abroad, but never for those you have among you"
 As a remedy for the evil, he advocates high license.
 He says: "The men who pay high Ii cense will probably be of higher char acter than the rough scuff who cannot afford to pay so much. They will b' self-constituted policemen also, to sec that the grog shops do not take away their profits"
 Judge Davis says: "My % years ex perience as. judge taught me that of al the causes of sin and misery, of sorrow and woe, of pauperism and wretched ness, intoxicating liquor stands fortf the unapproachable chief" "If you take up list of the licensed liquor dealers, you will be startled at the per centage that have graduated at states prison. A large percentage have brought then characters down from Sing Sing-ready made-for they are tried men," Dr Howard Crosby saws five liquol dealers waited on him with five reasons why the high license bill should not be passed, thus:-
 lit isn't the whiskey that pro duces the crime. Its the temperament of the men. Second, We never sell to drunkards, but they never thought that thev were making drunkards Third. It Io T stroy so much capstal in trade. Fifth. Ten thousand liquor dealers mean one hundred thousand voters. Only the oth- CT day I cleared out rumseller because he was selling to a drunkard, and the next day his brother was selling in the same place.
 Thus we get an inkling of the speeches. agree with these gentlemen in their denunciation of iquor selling. I do not however believe in high license or low license, or any license at all. would have no compromises or compile itv with evil. I would not suffer wick odness for n price. If it is right to li- cense liquor selling, 1t is right to license gambling, lotteries and the social evil. It Is as reasonable to say of any wicked ness, ''It can't be stopped, therefore we might as well make some money out ot 1t We will stop it what we can.
 High license hns not had trial vet. and if tried do not believe it would suppress intemperance. It would make liquor selling as if respectable; furnish more attractive places to decoy the voung; and draw to itself the upper as well as the lower classes of society. It ,rr1,k o1o I1,A AIo f,.o quenters of them would go to those that were open. The liquor sellers would be stimulated to push their traffic, to re- cover the greater sum they had paid for license.
 Besides do not believe an extreme license is constitutional. If business is lawful it ought not to be taxed or fin ed, to ruin or drive men out of it. It is not lawful, hence I would suppress it by positive legislation.
 Said Judge Davis: Gods and man s law prohibit murder, yet scarcely a week passes but some murder horrible and horrifying is committed Shall we abolish the prohibition of murder in the plea that prohib1tian doesn't prohibit ? We prohihit burglary and larceny, yet every day those crimes are committed, not only by men who pick your pocket, but by men who have taken solemn paths to obey the law and yet steal and plunder the taxes in the public treas ury. Shall we therefore abolish our prohibition of larceny? No !! we will maintain the law as far as possible and struggle to raise the public standard so that all living agencies of hell shall be n1OcaI ohcpl,1talx- orI Nra ,uil1 # so far as human skill can."
 3.-Let us go now to a temperance meeting in Michigan. This is what one of the speakers says and it expresses precisely what I feel:-
 "When I think what this traffic is and what 1t does, how it blasts and blights and withers and destroys all it touches, how it kills affection, breaks hearts, ruins homes, destroys youth, blights hope and shuts the door of heaven.-T wonder that we tolerate it at all in Chris tian land. am sometimes amazed that we do not rise in the outraged might o1 indignant manhood and holy woman hood and sweep every vestige of it out of existence"
 Ave pass on to Kansas and this is what they tell us there-
 ''The prohibition amendment has been in the constitution for nearly two years The number of saloons has been reduced from 700 to BOO Nine hun dred and seventy-two cases under the law have resulted i'll the conviction of more than 700 rumsellers, in the inn posing of fines amounting to more than $95. GOO, and in sending of 81 of those convicted to jail Rumsellers are run ming out of Kansas like rats from ship on fire. Forty-one populous counties out of the 81 in the state, report no sa- looms and 51 report growing sentiment in favor of prohibition"
 We observe that Iowa also has consti- tutional prohibition, and that there is a powerful sentiment for the same meas ure in Ohio. Indeed prohibition is coming to be Q national question.
 Said Judge Davis at the New York meeting referredt O: If have hope desire to see realized, it is that shall live to see the day when no man under the sanction of law, shall put drop of intoxicating liquor to his neighbours lips. That hour Is coming, 1 hope to see it. I read in the newspapers that the prophet of the Soudan sends before him the simple message, II nm coming, be ready" I hear in the air and on every hand the same message to the temperance people of this country. I heard it last fall in Ohio, when 320, 900 people of that prudent child of the west marched to the ballot box and voted for prohibition in the constitution. l heard it in Kansas and Iowa, as 1t is now be- ing heard in Maine and despite all pre- diction and argument and criticism, l slv it is coming with speedy steps every where, for it is borne on the hearts and best morality of 50, GOO, 900 of people. |"
 The March number of the Century Magazine contains three letters on the temperance question It is evident from all signs that the temperance question IS receiving a consideration such as if