Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-03-28
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ED. APPEAL As the APPEAL
appears to be publishing impartial
ly both sioes Of the liquor question
I hope you will find . space fol
this Communication:
| 1t was expected that the men
who keep saloons would growl and
howl about this Anti-treat Law, be
cause it makes their trade a little
dull, but Why should anybody else
oppose it? Why should any man
or woman in their right minds say
lit is taking away individual liber-
| ty." As l see it, there is no inter
ference in anybody's rights, for any
body whe wants a drink, can go
and get it, and they do not then
interfere with anybody else, in so
drinking and SO paying for their
own liquor. Think that those who
growl about this bill, are the liquor
dealers, and the old bammers, who
never get drink Of liquor, unless
somebody gives it to them so
when you hear anybody opposing
this Anti-treat bill, you may be
sure they are one Of these two
| classes
| | do not think it possible for any
one else, to really think or feel OPP
posed to the law, and if you could
see right into these liquor dealers
hearts, you would know then that
they to think that this new law
ought to be carried out, for who
knows better than they what a rid
iculous custom this treating is, and
how much harm it leads to.
In other countries people, con-
slider it an insult if you offer to
pay for their liquor, thus implying
that they are not able to pay for it
themselves, but when they want a
drink they go and take it and pay
for it. In tho Eastern States it is
not the custom to treat as much as
it is in the Western States and Ter
ritsries.
1t is a foolish custom and ought
to 20 cut of fashion, and if the
liquor dealers suffer, in their peck
cts, they will know little about
how bad it is to have money go
away from them, into other chan
nels.
Don't the drinking mems wives
know something of that. when so
much of their money goes to the
saloon men, instead of being spent
for the good of their own children
and in educating them properly.
Turn about is fair play, and nobody
but the saloon men themselves
ought to care, whether they make
quite as much money as usual in
the liquor traffic or not. A good
many of these men are good enter
prising citizens and ought to be
about a better business. If the
money that has been spent by
fathers of families in treating a lot
Of saloon bummers, was only spent
in making their own homes attract
i've and in educating their children
in good honest trades and profess
sions, then there would not be so
many saloon-keepers nov to be
worrying about their bread and but
ter. That is just where the shoe
pinches, and should we care any
more for their business than they
have always shown towards others?
What do they care how many
homes they are the means Of ruin
ing, even though they make their
own living and beautify their own
homes out of the money that the
selling Of liquor brings. Selling |
something that brings no good 20
the buyer is not an honest trade,
even if it does bring IN a good rev.
enue to the State.
Let all the law abiding citizens
help to enforce this new Anti !
treat law, by having all offenders
punished.
IF the officers of the law DO not |
make any arrests it is because they
are towards and are afraid Of some
body. Who are they afraid of +?
These poor loon-keepers and
whisky bummers, whe are SO scared
themselves
cone OF THE LAW ABIDERs.