Nevada County picayune., 1886-07-14
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Conducted by Rev. T. W. Hays.
A Crank's Answer to q Fools 05-
 jecti"ns.
BY THE HON. LOU BEAUcnAMr.

The opponents of prohibition have a stock set of objections which they fire at us day after day ill the order indicated. To these objections l append my stock an swers:
 "Higd license ,rll close hoy hc saloons.
 What of it' High license does not take the appetite for drink out half the drinkers in the communi- ty. Consequently, with the old number of drinkers, the closing of half the saloons only means double business for the half able to pay the high license. The saloon keep CTS unable to pay the high license hire out to those who can pay it, and thus take care of their old customers in the new places. Wherein is the gain to the tem- perance cause9
 High license will close the low dogseries."
 The old drunkard we have little hopes of; we are after the rising generation. The young men learn to drink in tle fine saloons owned ny men able to pay any license. These places give them their early teaching. and then promote .thcm to the secondary department-the low groggcrics- have their ed ucation in the drinking college "fnishcd.H From the low dogger- ies they graduate into the gutter and the grave. And there must always be both the low and the high saloons so long as the whi |. ky seller is a ''political quantity" as he is to-day in every city in the land. If he can't pay tue high li- ceuse with the profits of his trade, he can get 1t paid by "political 'hnehce." Help us to shut up the primary department in the school of vice-the high htoned saloon and we can soon stamp out the doggerics.
 "rhe lcensemoncy gives rev enue to the town"
 Yes! And the liccnsed traffic in drink gives d revenue to the iailer, the hangman, and the ceme- tery association. It gives money enough to pay for learsc, and a coffin, and we, the parents, furnish the corpscs. Ten cents worth of licensed whisky makes a man commit a murder. The town gets two cents in reyenna, perhaps buries the victim, pays $2,0OO 10 try tho m lrdcrer, and then gives the sheriff S2O0 for hanging him. Profit to tie town-I aven't time to figure it out.
 High license puts the sale of liquor into the hands of more re spectablc men,
 What has the responsibility of the seller got to do with the want of responsibility in that which he sells! If a minister of the gospel gives your boy drink, and it pro duces drunkenness, congestion of the brain, and death, you will not bewail his loss, will you! No; you will merely thank God that your boy died at the hands ofa most re- spectable member of society. But fear, my man, you can't get your boys mother to look upon his loss in that light. An angel from Heaven might sell drink, but it would still be that invisible spir of wiuc," which Shakespeare, hay ing no better name, concluded to cal! devil and nothing which is doyilish can have any respectable lty about 1t.
 High license lowers my taxes"
 Yes, but at the spisot; you still lose at the bung-hole. The saloon keeper pays Sl0O per year to sell drink, takes Si0,O00 out of the peo- ple'S pockets and causes $i i,00O worth of legal expense in trying the criminals made by his drink. ! But if the crimes cost less than the license fees amounts to, these lat 1 ter, while lowering your taxes, would lowor your boys as well, lower your neighbors, lower the 1 moral and spiritual condition of your community, and lower you yourself; for man who is willing to go into partnership with whis ky seller to get few cents knocked off his taxes, gets a little . lower than the saloon keeper, for from the latter we look for noth- ing better.
 But Pm a Christian and tenn, perance man, sir; you surely would nof mahe me a mariner with the