Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1892-02-04

Victor spring wheat -four will produce
whittier. sweeter and more nutritious breat
than any other -four. Trvlt.
The Adpocate SAYS that number OF gen
tlemen of Carroll county arc contemplating
trip to Southern Maryland, next spring, I:
view the cheap lands in that region, probably
a party oftwelve.
WANTED--A cheap farm Of about ion
acres, in slate, mountain slope or limestone
belt. Owners of highly improved and high
priced farms need not apply. Address Of
call on The North End Real Estate Agency
Mechanicstown or Emmitsburg, Md.
High License.
In previous articles We have endcavored ia
show the fallacy of the belief that Local Op'
ton is In any degree a Temperance measure
and we believe that we have shown that 1t ls
a standing menace to the morality and gen
eral well being of the youth growing up.
1t now rests with US to show that, without
jumping out of the frying pan into the fire,
by returning to License as 1t prevails else
where in this county, there is another and
much more effective way of dealing with this
problem Of drink, a pre- requisite to the en-
joyment of which is, the repeal of the Local
Option law.
We propose in its stead High License
Law.
We realize fully the weight Of the burden
that we are called upon to carry. just is soon
us We advocate License: the word has come
to be bugbear, owing to the excuses COM
mitted under it and even though High Ii
cense should be a measure Of restraint, yet
because it I. license, the word IS used where
with to frightcn the timid who are honestly
Inclined to temperance views.
We recognize the great advantage possess,
ed by the impracticable and wholly .heoretlc
temperance people, who have only to draw
upon the stock argument, which consists of
something like the following: 1.-The very ab-
surdlty of claiming to lessen the use Of liq-
our by licensing its sale" To the biased
mind or the superficial thinker and observer
the simple statement of the above proposition
10 sufficient, naturally it is bound TO be. 1t
is, however, those who have the capacity
to digest more or less complex propositions
and who have the liberaity to agree that
there are grounds for argument IN favor Of
some plan other than the existing one, that
we shall hope to set a-thinking by what We
may have TO say.
We assert, first, that under law drawn
to cover all that is latest and best: discarding
all that experience has proven to be imprac'
tlcable and embracing all that mas proven to
he possible of successful application in the
line of the restricted sale of liquor, as embod-
led in the only practicable Temperance
Movement this country has ever had inaug-
uratcd, HIGH LICENSE, we are bound,
sure, morally certain, to find All improvement
upon the present system.
What do we desire!
Surely 1t is a lesscning of the consumption
and removal from constant contact with the
young, of intoxicating drink.
To do this, remove tie necessity of purchase
In quantity take II out Of the side pockets
and hidden places and put it on the bar.
Remember that we stand upon our statement
that n,ne-tenths of the local sales are not made
in quantity. Render it no longer an absolute
necessity to the use ofintoxicating drink land
the theory that 1t will not he used is Ct"pan)
that it must and can only bc possessed in
quantity.
Do this by licensing its sale.
Have you not heard of fighting the devil
with fre1'
Then make it most profitable to those who
sell liquor, TO observe law drawn to min
lm,zc the evil effects of the sale of strong
drink. The High License laws that have
been most effective in restricting the evils Of
strong drink, have been based upon the the
DRY that no one deliberately enters upon
course in business that will surely prove un-
profitable
In the first place, no saloons can secure
license: only hotels, whose proprietors have
q care for the comfort Of their guests and who
sacrifice very much more than the saloon Ii.
cense by a violation Of the law.
The cost of license is made 50 high that its
loss alone becomes a consideration and the
penalty Is JAIL we have heard from localities
where this law Is effective, something like the
following: Eve could stand fine, or even
the loss of our license, but we can't 90 to jail"
Between intempcrance and theft in tie eyes
of a just man, there can be no grading rs to
degree Of crime if the punishment for theft
be failing. let 1t be the same for making
man drunk. That is the basis upon which
the High License statutes are founded and
who will dare question either the justlre Of
the plan or the likelihood Of its proving more
effective than the existing hollow mockery?
High License bears the same relation to in
temperance that the criminal laws of the
land do to crime like the latter it recognizes
the presence Of the evil and cndcavors to re-
strain it.
Prohibition bears the same relation to IN
temperance that Thou sha not Kill, ell
acted into a statute, would to murder it has
been found to be necessary to recognize the
evil and to provide penalties For no drop
of liquor sold into this district is there even
a semblance of penalty: as 1t is and will be
sold, place ITS sale where you can put your
hand, bearing the penalties that stringent