The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-02-29
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the question now before the public is not
high license or low license; but, license
or no license--w1ich For If it be righl
to license at all, then the question of a
big or little license fee is only one Of a
good sharp, business transaction as to
how great sum of money can be gotten
into the treasury for the benefit Of town
improvements, or anything else. But il
1t is sorong to license, then high license
fee will not make it right to grant such
permission. The saloon is either right or
it is wrong There is no neutral ground.
One must be on one side or the other.
That the sale of liquor ths traffic. is a
monstrous evil and sin, no one of sense or
Judgment win deny. One of two things,
then, only remains to be done: Tolicense
it as legitimate business; or to regard it
as wild beast--a terrible nuisance which
inust be destroyed. In the face, then, of
morality, common decsncy, aud common
honesty, TO license an evil is sorongi
Besides, the very arguments which are
used in favor of licensing such an evil as
the liquor traffic. are used by others for
licensing the social egI. These grounds
for license, and their arguments, are just
as strong and legitimate as are those of
the advocates of saloon license. Dare
you join hands with them and make as
signation houses legitimate businessf
Repenue. There is much talk now of
the feasibility, or justice, Of taking from
tobacco and liquors, the tax which is now
imposed. o, We powers that bel No
! No |! ! Mol by no means rather in-
crease it ! Let the tax on whskeys be not
less than five dollars gallon, and on to.
bacco and cigars about the same per
pound. For this reason; Not for revenue,
but for fine. The governments posi-
ton should be one of opposition to this
Internal traffic, and then, if any are
found who will engage in such diabolical
business let them be heavily fined as a
means of running the business, and not
for protecting it. Tobacco and whiskey
are two of the most filthy, degrading and
abominable things which now enslaye de-
PRAYED man, already too low in the scale
of degenerate humanity. There is but
one passage in the Bible favorable to the
user of tobacco, viz: "And he who is
filthy, let him be filthy STILL"
Progressive Euchrs.--This is nothing
less than gambling. Because it is played
in somebody's parlor by people who
claim to be respectable and honest does
not take away its gambling character.
Because the present offered to the best
player, or couple. is book or picture, or
anything else that may be useful; aud be-
cause the poorest player is a"booby"
and gets the "booby present" just for
joke and to be laughed at j; why this does
not make the winning of them any moro
honest than If the same persons had gone
into billiard hall or faro bank, staked
their money, and won them. All things
won by gambling are dishonesty gotten.
Shakespeare has said that rose by any
other name would smell as sweet; but
there are some things which are not roses
and which are thought to smell great
deal sweeter by any other name than by
their own. Gambling is one of those
things.
Whtskey Drinking. -Any one who says
there is no harm in drinking whiskey
shows himself to be as big an ignoramus
as the one who should say that there was
no harm in eating arsenic. Such people
are ignorant of the first principles of ply
siology and hygiene, and the elements of
chemistry. Eminent chemists and re-
nowned practical physicians, who have
experimental for years and tested results,
say that alcoholic liquors are poisonous
and harmful to the human system. And
yet some corner grocery, or rum-hole
loafer, who has never seen the inside of
physiology or chemistry, will discourse
vast amount Of learned ignorance about
the harmlessness of whiskey; but if you
could pull out bis old whiskey soaked
stomach, and turn it inside out before his
eyes, he would turn deatbly sick at the
sight of the horrible repulsive putridity.
NASSAU.