Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-23
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ymS ~ people o; this atate are
61 - prchibit, by amendment Of the
Mutton, h the manufacture, sale
~ GogQlng FOR sale Of intcxicating g liquor
- ~ - beverage" only that and
11ng nore.
~ eousumption OF Intoxicating II.
ooe y not forbidden; and upon this
|101nd ex-Chisf Justice Agnew and
(1le lntslllgsnt men, who cannot get
|1Gov ftom TIE doctrine that the natural
4A1o q man must he respected
~ ~ law, feel themselves abe
~ oVprovo Of law which
Ilo11ds The making and sale, but not the
- e intoxicating liquor. It is mani
soDoely . fine point to rest upon, since
Uhnt man cannot make or buy he OBJ
sVlouSly cannot use. But, they reply, he
- by it outside the state. And this at
s1oDous is 10 but IL every outside coun-
~ would prohibit It's people from max
{ ~ and selling intoxicating liquor, 1t
1o1M mot be had by Pennsylvanians
~ That those who prohibit It's
3innnufactuie here, and admit that
llo use cannot be forbidden, rely
Sontissly upon the greater respect for
1G1vats rights manifested by other coun-
~, 70 maintain their position that they
~ rightly forbid the making and the
syn1ine BY the people of Pennsylvania OF
N1At they may not rightly forbid their
assumption. And 1t Is clearly very
sIane position to take. That this law will
: not b effective In suppressing the use
e intoxicating liquor is demonstrated
~ the liberty given the citizsn
. buy such liquor outsids the
otate, aud bring it into IT as
~ property. The most that can be ex-
poeted Of such law is that 1t will operate
- restrict the consumption Of intoxi.
eating liquors, just as the high license
eyytem is expected to do. The radical
66esas In the working Of the policy is that
n does not give the state the opportunity
% supervise the esconsumption of intoxi-
oants, - the license sy stem does and
furthermore it deprives the state Of the
B high license fees, as well as the tax upon
tue property used In the manufacture Of
~ beverages to say nothing Of the in
dividuAl loes inflicted upon those engaged
I = ~ business.
Il does seem that no friend Of temper.
/ onoe can be enchanted with the idea Of
Z NJ unrestrained use OF Intoxicating
! liquors, imported into Pennsylvania from
other states ; II is very hard indeed to say
q how any intelligence can be persuaded
that the result will be favorable to tenn
4 perance. It will cause wholesale pur.
ehase OF liquor by the consumers; the
natural result will be its Wholesale con.
aumption.
II viii not matter to the fanatic that a
large industry has been driven out Of the
State and given to its neighbors. Penn
sylvania viii be, thereby delivered, they
will ny from great sin and her greater
glory viii b. full compensation for her
3 Great loss.
Z But what have the farmers to say
about It, who are free now to make
4 vine from their vineyards and cider
from their orchards 2 They under.
Gfand, CT course, that this new
1egislation will deprive them Of their
privilege Of making any beverage that
0ay intoxicste. The solid form is the
only one In which intoxicants can be
taken, They may eat their apples and
THAR grapes, their corn and their rye; and
they may eat their fermented and dis.
TILED juice, II they first solidlfy it as
they may do in winter, very cheaply
perhaps, by freezing it. We under
stand that frozen intoxicants will be
free, since they are clearly not beverages.
And we note, as the result OF the success
q this prohibition amendment, that the
vending Of solidiied liquor will bios.
som out into q great business in
Pennsylvania to the great idetri-
ment Of the citizens stomachs
but 10 the c0ntentment Of the doctors,
The undertakers and the untaxed venders
Of the cold collation.. We do not
nnderstand that the frozen stomach may
n0k Be promptly relieved by hot
beverage, that is not intoxicating; and we
forosee for that troublesome member OF
thshuman onomyasuccession of hot and
cold shocks that will try it severely, and
reduce 1t 70 chronic state Of dyspepsia
that b guaranteed to be a sure cause of
mntal irritability, and that may be
solied on to cause more numbering and
vile : beating than even the liberal
amount now charged to the sale of liquid
intoxicAnts.
30 that our latter end will be very apt
. b worse than the first, between the
ftee importation OF wholesale lots of in.
eoxicating beverages by social clubs and
the saleo Of solidified intoxicating LIQUOR
by unlicenEed dealers.
Brain Cavities
It u popular!y supposed that a man
thinks with his brain and a pig may be
mD00ned tn do his liv,ytad onoo,ut "a