The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-06

Judgment dictated. After considerable talk,
pro and con, Mr.. Noyes appealed from the
decision of tho chair which was reversed.
Only three of the board voted ON the ques-
ton of sustaining the chair, one vote being
cast in the affirmative and two in the mega
tive. Mr.. Noyes then proceeded to read the
following extract from the Courier of April
2lst;
Trustee Noyes moved that the bonds of
the liquor dealers be fixed at the sum of
5000 for the ensuing year-the minimum
allowed by law"
IAN earnest discussion followed this motion
Trustee Hilton moving as an amendment
that the bonds be fixed at $4,000, the
amount as at present, and spoke at consid-
cradle length in support of his amendment.
The speaker insisted that the temperance
question was the question of the hour agi-
tating the people of the county and the
whole country. II was the question that
was bound to forge to the front in the near
future The sum of $4,000 was not OPP
pressive, and il was the spirit and purpose
of the law TO throw around the traffic all the
safeguards possible, the better TO protect
the unfortunate wives and children of those
addicted TO drink. The speaker mentioned
the case of Mahoney, in Decatur, who lately
and also the South Haven case, where old
man Sharon was thrown out of a saloon
and had his arm broken, had the county
has been obliged 10 support MIN ever since.
He believed that placing the bonds at $1,000
was q step Backward step that would
subject the board TO the merited censure of
order loving citizens"
Trustee Noyes said he was in favor of OBJ
tanning all the revenue possible. that he was
in favor of four little bells rather than one
big one where liquor was sold, and that if
the bonds were fixed at "a 800 some of the
dealers would not be able to give them and
we should have only two saloons instead of
four; that as far as persons being maltreated
in saloons while intoxicated was concerned
he knew of many drunkards that he would
be glad to know were killed in such places,
and for the reason that their deaths would
be benefit to any community"
MIR. Noyes then said that he had applied
to the editor of the Courier to ascertain
whence he got his information and was told
that it came from Head Quarters" He
protested that he never used the language
imputed to him. that he never said The knew
of many drunkards that he would be glad to
know were killed." etc. Such remark
would be brutal one and he would be
brute to make it. If the proceedings of
the board were to be reported, for Heavens
sake let them be correct and not mutilated.
He did not believe it was proper to have
matters made all smooth for one side and
all rutfianism on the other. What he did
say in the discussion concerning the liquor
bond question was that he knew of drunk
ards whose death, should they be killed in
drunken spree, would prove q blessing to
community and to their wives and families.
but he did not say that he would be glad
of their death, or that he wished they might
be killed nor anything of the kind. He was
willing to stand by the language he had used
but protested against having barbarous sem
timents attributed TO him that he did not
entertain and had not expressed. For one
he would like to know who constituted
Head Quarters" of the board. No one
seemed to be able to give the desired infor-
nation and Trustee Hilton suggested that
perhaps it would be good plan to have a
committee appointed to ascertain. Trustee
Noyes replied that Mr.. Hilton had better bel
made chairman of such committee. Mr..
Hilton said he did not understand that any
of the remarks made by Mr.. Moves were in
tended to apply to him, and Mr.. Noyes said
they were not so intended. That ended
the discussion and, there being no further
business, the board adjourned.