Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-21
Communication.


A vigorous campaign is now being
carried on in Juniata, by the very
temperance people to influence the
action of the Court in the coming
session, to rule against the granting
Of license TO sell liquor. The license
law is not rule of Court, it is an
act of Legislature. How can an act
of Legislature be set aside by rule
of Courti The law provides how a
license may be obtained The Court
shall grant license where the require
ments of the law have been fulfilled.
Under the law the Court may refuse
license where there is no necessity
for license, but what constitutes the
mo necessity" in the view of the
lawl Does the "no necessity con-
sist in the fact that some men will
get drunk and disbehave themselves
in public. The law provides penal
ties for such debaucheries. Does the
mo necessity" consist in the fact that
a man will spend his money for drink
when he should use it for other pur-
poses? When you draw a line of
that kind, where is the forger to be
placed? Where is the man who con-
tracts debts and does not pay them
to be placed? Where do you put
the bank cashier who wrecks bank
and skips to Canada ? They are
like the drunkard and the liquor
debauchee and the seller who
violates the liquor law, they are mo
necessity" but because there are for
gers must business be stopped, be-
cause there are men who will cheat
and not pay their debts, mast the
credit system be abolished, because
there are bank wreckers who despoil
depositors are there to be no banks.
because the widow is robbed and the
inheritance of the orphan is diverted
into the pockets of covetous men Is
no man to be trusted! The men who
have signed the license petitions have
been held up in speech by the pub
lie speakers OF the very Temperance
people as if they belonged to an or
der of human beings that it is curl
osity to look upon. They are not
curiosities in human form. They
look ike other people and have sim
ply done what the law authorizes
them to do if they favor liquor IL
cense. A man commits a great wrong
to himself when he drinks to intoxi-
cation, ''but as every tub must stand
on its own BOTTOM, SO every man
must answer for his own wrongs, and
when he gets into the next world the
matter will be entirely between his
own soul and his God. If you drink
to debauchery you cannot escape the
penalty, if you sell a villainous com
pound you cannot escape the penal
ty, and if you violate the human law
you subject yourself to heavy penal
ties should they be enforced against
you. The best teachers that the
world knows labored against debauch-
cry, but they never taught that it is
crime to taste wine or beer. The
Master, Christ, himself at the mar
riage feast converted water into wine,
D'Aubigne, says, on the evening of
the day that Martin Luther passed
the ordeal of the Diet at Worms, the
sreat reformer was seeking repose at
his hotel with Spaiatin and other
friends, giving thanks to God, when
a servant entered bearing a vase fill
ed with Eimbeck beer. MY master.
said he, as he offered it to Luther,
desires you to refresh yourself with
this beverage. What Prince is it,
said Luther, who has me in such
gracious remembrance 1t was the
aged Duke Eric of Brunswick. The
Reformer was moved. Hereupon
Luther, being thirsty, poured out
some of the Dukes beer, and after
having drunk he said: '.As in this
day Duke Eric has remembered NE,
may our Lord Jesus Christ remem-
Der him in the hour of his last strug-
gle" The teaching of all of the past
is against debauchery and violation
of law.