The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-09

OF the State OF Ohio, requiring taxation to be
upon property. according TO its money value, for
ton of any OF the functions of property. The
taxation OF the sale of liquor is just as cOnstitu-
ton OF the sale of a farm or a railroad. The sn
pTeme Court OF the United States has twice de-
cided that the taxation OF the sale of property is
| taxation of the property itself Brown VS.
81 s., 30
Ii is familiar Law, as every lawyer knows, that
under the law of Wills the gift of the income arts
ing from property is gift OF the property itself.
| For these reasons IL has always seemed clear TO
| my mind that this taxation of the sale of liquor
from the liquor itself, the power to levy. which
| was not supposed to exist In Ohio for more than
thirty years after the adoption of the present Con-
| stitution can not be sustained without an amend
The real question at issue is that of prohibition
or license. The character of the Scott law as a Ii
visible if il were proposed to tax every house of
| ill-fame or gambling house 300 or any other arbi-
| trary sum and thst the Scott law as a temperance
measure was Intellectual was shown by its results.
lt did not diminish the amount of drinking in the
1854, and by permitting the sale of liquor to be
drunk on the premises i had the effect as Allen
every manlwho was willing to pay 500 far the priv,
/ ilege to manufacture drunkards." The good
point of the Scott law if it have at ALL is its
notes morality except FOR revenue only" Con-
/ sdering the real question IN Ohio, then, as being
ing between prohibition and license-whether
| that license be in the form of Scott law per-
mitted by an amendment of the Constitution, the
Democratic principle is plainly stated in the plat
| We are opposed to sumptuary legislation and in
favor of licensing the traffic in intoxicating liq
| uOrs. We believe in self-cOntrol and that the
/ true remedy against the temptations of liquor
drinking Is to make happy homes; and that per-
| sonal liberty should not be destroyed by law eX-
| cept where its exercise is always wrong. No man
| seeks to license houses of illfame gambling
/ houses simply because the wrong in such cases is
in the and not in the abuse: but the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors is the legitimate subject of
| license, because the use is beneficial and only the
| abuse injurious and destructive That which
| Christ and st. Paul encouraged and Mahommed
| discouraged; that which the great Popes and the
/ great refOrmers-the Leos and Gregories, Luther
] and Calvin, INDUCED in that which Shakespeare
| and Goethe and Cervantes used, and Burns de-
4 tended in song the wine of Ohio which Longfel-
| low has celebrated in immortal verse, wine which
has been in common use by the most sober of
| tons and has furnished daily drink to the most
| civilized of people, which keeps Kaiser Wilhelm
| and many other aneients in health
and life, is not always an evil even beverage.
| But IL Is liable to abuse and therefore propose
to regulate it by license, to give 1t the sanction
| and protection of law, subject to conditions re-
curing the vendors engaged IN TINS traiilc TO be-
| have themselves, TO keep decent houses and To
| keep them in proper neighbOrhO0dS. and we pro-
pose to charge the traffic fee for the privilege of
| carrying on the same graded in proportion to the
amount of business done as Il compensation for
the burdens and injuries of its abuse. The Sixty
| sixth General Assembly would have submitted 10
the popular vote license system but for the APP
plicatiOn of the great Republican principle that
| Whatever kepuDllcan proposes l. right, but
| when suggested by Democrat is necessarily
| wrong. which prevented three Republican mem
| bers OF the Lower House from voting fo= the
| amendment when enough Democrats were pres
ent To give ii the necessary three-iihS votes, be-
cause the Democratic party would get the glory.
Cleveland, and Peet, of Cincinnati, voted for the
| license amendment, when not enough Democrats
ad1ocates OF license then But When eyerD nem
Ocret was in his seat, and the full tale of sixty
votes was recorded in the affirmative. sixtythree
eans being present REUSED to 'I Vote. The
| Republican caucus dictated this evil course and
| they followed in blind slavery to the party be-
| Fellow citizens of Butler County If the Demo
| cratic party succeed at this election and secure
| the necessary three-ffths majority i'm the Ohio
| Legislature n Constitutional amendment permit
ting the license of this trafic-thc most salutary
and wiseSt scheme ever devised for its regulation
| will be submitted TO the popular vote in 1851.
| II the Republican party succeed in securing Re
| publican Legislature, which Mr.. sherman has
| told us viii give us wise temperance laws aud
| Republican judges are elected who viii cOnstrue
the Constitution of the State not in accordance
| sherman calls the side of temperance and good
ORDER" the result Will no doubt be reached either
| TO reverse the decision OF the Supreme Court
| taxes OF 1883 and 1891, to pass another law of
| which the Scott law is a sample. and submit
another prohibition amendment for which the
action OF the sixtyi6fth General Assembly gives
between Scylla and CharybdiS, the Republican
party hope to secure the emOlumentS OF office
Within the state OF Ohio thankfnl for little now
Judged by its results so far as aScertained, Pro-
hibition seems to be failure. In Maine, where
| of the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue show
that the number OF persons paying special taxes
as retail and wholesale dealers in spirits and in
ISL, was si6 year ending April 90 ISL was los;
| year ending April so, 1883, was LIS; year ending
April 30. 1854 was l0g5 In Iowa in 1881, 4,791; in
lsS2, 4,5$i; in 1855, 5,4S7: in 1881, 1852 And in
Kansas, the state of 1t. john where, III anywhere,
| virtue ought TO be enforced by law, in ISL ,22I
in 1882 1,5l6: in 1SS3 99S: in 1884. 207l. PrOhi
| OF deserving the manufacturiue establisbments
| be compelled 10 emigTate to Kentucky or Indiana
The grain, rye and wheat out OF which whisky
| States. The hoops slaves, glassware and other
necessities OF the traffic. may be furnished in
other lands but traileking will continue in Ohio
| as long as the citizens of Ohio crave drink and
| that they will crave drink as long as human ma
ture continues under its present condition Is alb
| solutey certain.
But say our distinguished adversaries license
has been twice defeated. Yes by small MAORI
| ties. In 1851 by a majority OF S.952. In 1874 by
majority OF 7,2S6. ON this theory. however, what
becomes OF the eternal principles of taxation
and regulation The scheme OF the regulation
| and tsTation of the liouOr traffic. was sbn itted
| TO the people under that name in 1888. and re-
| CeiVed less than 100000 votes out of Il total vote OF
721 600 votes Since 1883 taxation and regulation
| has been dubbed 1.-The eternal principle on the
same theory suppose that il is said hope springs
eternal in the human breast because the small
| vote given for il in 1883 indicates au ct ,rnal
clamor for its adoption without success. The
| license. and the party who is not for or against
prohibition is the party OF the Laodiceans OF
| whom 81. John wrote:
And unto the angel Of the Church Of the Iao-
| diceans write: These things saith the Amen. the
faithful and true witness, the beginning oi the
| creation OF God.
| know thy works. that thou art neither cold
| nor hot: would thou vert cold or hot. 80 then
because thoU art luke warm and neither cold nor
| hot, viii spcw thee ont my mouth.
| Felow-citizens OF Butler County, one further
thought and shall retire. The last General As
sembly submitted for adoption by the people a
| constitutional amendment which, If ii prevail,
Will result in holding future annual State cleo
| tiOnS in November. The Democratic state Con-
vention adopted resolution in favor of this pro-
| ject According to the present Constitution every
vote which is silent upon this subject or which is
both in the negative and the affirmative, is count
| ell as negative vote This renders il extremely
difficult to adopt any amendment 10 the Constitu-
| ton of Ohio The Importance OF the amendment
is seen and recognized by all. Ohio was the cor
| ruptiOn ground of the last Presidential election.
To save the state from repetition OF such disas
tiers the intelligent attention OF every voter To the
form OF his ticket is necessary 10 carry this amend
| ment. Do not forget To record your vote in the
affirmative that ohio may cease to be pivotal
. | State and our suffrage may De relieved from the
; | pressure which all felt 50 severely in 1854