Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-04-07

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EdiiorR-To answer all Of the Irrelevant
questions asksS By WohItheaser would oc-
capy too much Of your valuable space, but
shall content myself with veniiiating his
pointers and personal insinustions Inone
Of my articles think ! made IL very clear
that was In favor Of Prohibition and sug-
gested woman's suffrage as the speediest
way OF accomplishing IL He seems 10
ridicule the idea thai whsskey should be
regarded as legitimate branch Of business
Now n the possible case that il ever should
be, would be consider il unfair TO the
whi<key dealers to place il on an equal
footing with other indu-tries? In the case
Of his 10 year old boy, how win high license
which mEltiplies Law breakers. prevent
him from doing the things he may do nowf
Is II good reason that we are worse than
other sections because we have law break
ers? Excepting the coarseness Of expires
sion do not see that my construction of
his murdered boy indicates the bent Of q
fanatical mind any clearer than the true
one. In any construction there are FOUR
two things are absolutely certain; first. he
would rejoice more over the 9999 that
didn't 60 asirsy, than over the one found
ling that did. for be would not give him q
chance 10 be founding. Second. he
would rather somebody else should do the
10000 killings than jeopardize his own
neck. In either event he would be regard
ell as an extremist The irfiri:ely more
humane remedy, of COMPRISING boys
bibation lobcs If on examination, Il we've
a7certainCd that the Omnis:ient had made
them too large. would be considered ex-
treme Isometimcs AXE drink of whiskey
and when come to Town, take two. but
10 not treat minoiJ, nor ask them TO drink.
Any one refusing TO drink with me on the
ground of not drinking is never asked n
second time. When taking drink in the
presence Of friend whom know drinks
my conscience would prick me If didn't
ask him, but what has that and kindred
questions to do with the subject under
consideration? How will high license
remedy the evil. A part of my life which
Is familiar to ever body there can be no
secrecy about My misfortunes and sub
sequent affection seem to be in the mouth
Of every one, and should not be mentioned
except in selfdefencc. When ! became
afflicted had not drank drop Of whiskey
for four years. except once in Washington
six months prior 10 the event not exceeding
half gill, nor did drink drop for thee
months afterwards and only resor:ed TO 1t
then TO relieve me of mind worry, and
several months a, erwards when / was
taken in charge il seems that whiskey was
assigned as the cause, thus confirming the
old saying that thousand derogatory lies
will be believed sooner than one extenuat-
ing truth. / have been prosecuted and
almos. driven TO despair. / was even
denied the poor pllre of magistrate two
years ago at The irstigation Of one with
whom have barely a speaking acquain
lance and consequently could know moth
ing of my then present condition. T..lth-
fully whiskey had no more to do with it
thaa water, and but for whiskey would
not be well man to-day, the Doclors 20
the contrary notwithstanding. Equally
as truthfully can say that no culpablc act
Of mine brought it about. communed
with Angels not with snakes.
"a legitimate business. indeedr' exclaims
Wohltbaetcr and then asks "from what
standpoint From the standpoint that il
has not been abolished by the law, and
will be until it il and those in the trade
remunerated for their loss Of capital. The
only higher law that know or care any
thing about is the Golden Rule practically
and truly applied. What right has he to
disregard the rights of Others by soaring
about the law and at the same time hold
ing them amenable TO the law. Truly "a
thinking yeomanry cannot be enslaved."
II is great pity that Nature did not give
US another navigable river running through
the middle of the country leugthwise. In
that case we should certainly % have a
railroad, perhaps two, one on either side.
Canals perhaps would come along also to
connect the waters, so that we could trans
port our ores and minerals. We do not
propose to quarrel at present with our prom
inent men on the score of Interior motives,
they have them Of course, politicians gen.
orally do, but the trouble at prese Mt is. they
are getting too smart. We shall want
them this Fall to cr.ticise class legislation
growing out of the nefarious tariff laws,
which they cannot very well do after
advocating measures that have the same
bearing. without being put to shame by
the Republicans. The question at issue
would be bad law anyhow, it would punish
innocent aud guilty alike.
Yours Truly,
j.