The Dillon tribune., 1885-03-07
Beyond Their License.

Three saloon keepers in Chicago we're
found guilty Of selling liquor to minors,
and the following is the address Of the
Judge who sentenced them:
"By the law you may sell to men and
women If they want it. You have given
bond, and you are licensed to sell to them.
No one has right to modest you in any
way, no matter what families are destroy.
ed or rendered miserable; no matter what
wives are treated with violence, what chill.
.lren starve or cry over the degradation Of
a parent, your business is legalized, and no
ono may interfere with you In it. No mat.
ter what mother may agonize over the loss
Of a son, or sister blush for the shame Of
brother, you have the right to disregard
them all, and pursue your legal calling.
You are licensed. You may fit up for
Your lawful trade; you may use all your
arts to induce visitors; you may skillfully
expose to view your choisest wines and
captivating beverages; you may then in.
duce thirst by all contrivances, producinga
raging appetite for strong drinks, and then
you may supply to the full, because it is
lawful. You have paid for it. You have
license. You may allow boys. almost
children, to frequent your saloons. You
may hold the cup to their lips, but you
must not let them drink. That is unlaw.
fui. But while you have special privileges
for the money you pay, this poor privilege
is denied you. Here the parents have a
right to say: Leave my son to me until
the law gives you the right to destroy.
DO not anticipate that terrible moment
when can assert for him no further right
of protection. 1t will be soon enough for
the, for his mother, for his sister, for his
friends and the community to sec him take
his road to death. Give him to us in his
childhood ut least. Let us have few years
Of his youth, in which we may enjoy his
innocence, to repay in some small degree
the love We have lavished upon him.
"This is something you, who now stand
prisoners at this bar, have not paid for, for
this is not embraced in YOUR license. Flo,
this offense the court sentences you to ten
days imprisonment in the county Jail, anG
that you pay fine OF SIS and costs, and
that you stand committed until the fine
and costs OF this prosecution are paid"
Many smoker throws away the stump
Of d cigar because he does not like the
flavor of it. He does not know why the
flavor is unpleasant to him, but it is caused
by nicotine-the active principle of tobac.
co and violent poison. This accumulates
in ti.c base OF the cigar. with every draft
of the smoke, and the man, noticing the
unpleasant flavor, throws the stump away
This reservoir OF nicotine finds its way into
the cigarette. and the person who smokes
it gets in a condensed form the poison that
so often works mischief ON the brain Of the
habitual smoker.
Rev. Phillips Brooks. in Il temperance
address made lately in Boston, said
"Never shall my hand or voice be raised
against so.called temperance fanatics. II
ever cause justified tanaticisn,, the tenn.
perance cause does. To me there is moth.
ing more disgusting or more disheartenins
TO the cause Of humanity than the selfish
ease-loving, luxurious man, indulginy in
dissipation, and dcnouncing the temper
ance fanatics"