The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-03-13
Comm unseated.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Pa, March Q, 1891.
Editor Cambria Freeman:
SI.:-Ihere Is pOlitico wElsky ring at
81 augustine One man wishes 10 conduct
q hotel al Chest Springs before he builds a
mousse where there was confiaSrstIOn re-
Gently Business delegates cannot canvass
at EbenSburg unless they steam from the
The weight OF their load. and nearly all the
lights OF the law are hired TO shine for a
week or TWO on the glories and goods OF
OF whisky and beer. Through enlightened
schooling given at this place the pas:
term ana the recent success Of electing
school directors, the ring Is about TO be re-
medeled and made proof against all at
tacks.
II the so-callcd hotel keepers of ST. Aug
uStlne and Chest Springs depended upon
the travelling public for living for three
months, they would be under another kind
OF paStnIa-e before the end Of this time
Ignorance runs riotously when boudsmen
and Signers of such license petitions fear
not TO be tarred with the same immortality
that hoyers about their blasphemous
drunkard making grog-shopS. They prob
ably have greater dread of tar, however,
lhan OF immortality.
Such men, IL not thus ignorant, arc as
suredly brimful OF hatred for their neigh
bors when they do al they can to make
drunkards, blasphemers and idlers OF them.
IL Is claimed oy a great many people that
every applicant for whisky license Will be
successful because certain elections are
soon to be made. Such claimants should
however, whether II IL known or not--that
the voters are not all, nor nearly all, advo-
Gates OF 8 demoraliZing rendezvous at ey-
cry crossroads. Necessity for a hotel
should be the first condition. There can
De no such thing as necessity growing out
OF the appetite OF a few local bondsmen
and slgners. An occasional stranger pass
ing through the place is not sufficient
action like licensing whisky-shops at
which It's local citizens may, choosing the
imperfectiOn OF their liberty, unman
themselves by drunkenness or habitual
drinking. \ necessity in this case should
signify such q frequency OF strangers that
the hospitality of the place would be ex-
hausted IN a very short time. The strang-
er-traEeier who needs hospitality at St.
Augustine or Chest Springs are so few that
one spare bedroom at each place would
on an average more than accommodate
theu- Strangers, penniless and poor, pass
ing through these places, have no trouble
In finding lodging and a rmeal at other
houses than the tayerns. Much moro cas-
lly, therefore, may the stranger, who is
apie to pay for these accommodations, be
able to lind as decent accommodations a.
are now provided at the-called hotels.
1here IS no necessity for hotels, or for
notei at st. Augustine or Chest Springs
ms despite the growing opinions of the
whisky gods, their bondsmen and signers
W nat are all these bondsmen and signers
worth? A strict examination would ex-
pose this fact with regard to the bonds
hiSA- I-ACtpllnR one OF them, the bonds
men OF these wouldbe liquor sellers might
De worth all their effects put together,
the necessary two thousand dollars, over
and above all encumbrances but hardly.
AS 10 the signers. We wonder how three
or four OF them were purchased, and how
half dozen OF them have the requirements
with regard 10 property.
motel proprletorS, as well as bondsmcn
ana Signers, should be moral men. This
morality must admit into its grade great
deal OF immortality. He is not q very NOR
a. man who takes advantage Of the imper-
lection of his eiehbors' liberty in order
that he may eat the bread Of idlenesss.
Every truly moral man not only shuns
evll-the choice of which constitutes the
lmperfection OF mans liberty-but he also
does much TO cultivate virtue in himself
ana In his neighbors, in order that he may
raise mans liberty TO the scale Of perfec-
tion.
The morality OF drunkenness, idleness
ana olasphemy Is rare specimen of that
virtue These men rank themselves with
TINS kind OF morality unless they did not
perform human action, so called, when
they became bondsmen and signers
They cannot have the principles of
Christi ans when they follow not the voice
OF the leaders OF their professed Christian
ity-. without principles, natural or re-
vealed, men cannot be moral. s.A