The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-04-12
W. c. I. U. COLU Mn.

The natives of India call the intoxicatin.
liquors made and sold by Government Ii
| cense Apra Shrdb Government shame
water In Constantinople, because saloons
are kept by foreigners, they are called
| "Christian drinking places" None are al
| lowed within $50 feet of any Mchammedar
place of worship.
Rev. DR.. j. Ii. Ecob puts it this way: "It
prohibition, AZ law, never closed saloon,
prohibition as moral principle must yet
challenge the loyalty of the individual and
the state. l am not called upon to work the
ten commandments. They are prohibitory
laws and they do not prohibit, but am not
called upon to replace them by soma softer
scheme that will work -
What is the Irish question? 1t is the
whisky question. If the Irish had been able
to live in their true IN ,jesty and conquer
The appetite for drink, there would be no
nobler people There are no more loyal
hearts on the face of the earth Whisky is
the cause of the Irish question. The whisky
bill of Ireland is 81, go, 900, which is more
than the whole rental of the country
Canon WilbetJorce.
The following resolution was passed by
the Aqua Pura Lodge of Coed Templars,
Chicago, in regard to the proposed lottery
scheme in North Dakota:
"WHEREAs, We gratefully acknowledge
the service OF the public press and the fear
less and uncompromising attitude OF honor
able men of various creeds and parties who
have wisely counseed against the base offer
of gold for public virtue, therefore,
"ReSOlred That wherein we have given
permission for the existence aud license Of
the saloon evil for money consideration,
we have parted with public virtue ana
honor. have accepted and cursed with
bride. The proceeds may fittingly be APP
piled toward new 'potter's field, and poor
house, the criminal court and county Jail,
hridewell, insane asylums and police pro-
lection"
That high license will not secure dealers
who will conscientiously observe the prohi
billions of the law is illustrated by an incl
dent occurring at Woburn, Mass, recently.
At a temperance service Sunday evening in
one of the churches of the town, Rev. Hugh
Montgomery produced ~ bottles of whiskey
which had been sold in the presence of wit,
nesses toa minor seventeen years old. These
bottles were obtained of uine of the eleven
licensed dealers in Wnburn, each of whom
paid 81 600 for his license. If the success of
high license depends on the willingness of
the dealers to observe honestly the provis-
ions of the law and to inform Against unli
censed dealers, little or not ing need he
looked for from it. Nor does the great viz
tue claimed for high license necessarily in
here in the amour of the fee exacted. OF
course the fee may be put so high as to be
practically prohibitive. One town in the
South has fixed its license fee at 500, 900,
and it has no saloons. There are also couu-
ties and districts in South Carolina, Georgia,
and other states in the South, where the
fee is too high to make the business profit
able, and saloons do not exist But what is
called high license in Massachusetts, Min
nesota, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Omaha, and
elsewhere, imposes fees which are not re
garded by dealers as Observation-Disclosures
Protestant.