The Press., 1892-06-30
Number IS.

It is the staasdard, and our effort should be to bring the community into union with the standard of total abstinence and enforcement of law.
 Fidelity to right is immense strength. The church is strong, not because Of its superior numbers, but because of fidelity to divine obligations. Let it be earnest in this work and it would tell nightly against this monster Moloch.
 Any institution which requires the ap- plication of special laws to compel it's unwilling respect for homes, schools, churches or country is volcano, and as long as it has life it has power, and that long it is danger to each and all.
 Is the saloon such?
 In Massachusetts, in 1861, there was a man of strong brain, of great legal fame, g political friend of the slave, he became it's great war governor. When he had laid aside, his official robe, he lent the use of his power and fame to the liquor dealers for the purpose of securing the repeal of the prohibitory law, and the es- tablishment of a license law. To accom- plish this he advanced 8 dangerous soph- istry, by demanding that all men should be put to an equality as to what they should purchase to drink with their meals, whether water, tea, coffee, beer, wine or whiskey. He proposed to establish com- mon victualers and inn holders, who only should sell intoxicants as a beverage to be taken with meals.
 Gov. Andrew had a clear conception of l the saloon, the same in character now as then. He shows this in the following de- scription given by him to the legislative committee in 1867. Listen:
 "Having adopted scheme which looks to the discontinuance of public tippling places, or saloons, or bars of all kinds, surround the licensees by such police reg | ulations as may be had to restrain that abuse.
 "Your regulation of the retail trade will then securely repose on the clear social right to maintain order and public decorum, endangered by bar-rooms and tippling shops, where dangerous and se- ductive beverages are offered neither as medicine or diet, to the chance crowds l of the hour, tempted by each other to drink without appetite, to finger without motive, and to revel without enjoyment. "Where laughter is not mirth, | Nor thought the mind, Nor words language,
 Nor even men mankind"
 On our to-day's program is printed a quotation from the United States supreme court on this same subject, and it effect.
 ually disposes of his theory. In Novem.
 Der, 1890, that court, in it's opinion by Justice Field, says: ''It is undoubtedly
 true that it is the right of every citizen to
 pursue any lawful business, Subject only
 to such restrictions as are imposed upo1
 all persons of the same age, sex and con dition. But the possession and enjoy
 ment of this right, and, indeed, of al rights, are subject to such restrictions as
 may be deemed by the governing author ity of the country as essential to tht
 safety, health and peace, good order ane
 morals of the community. Even liberty
 itself is not unrestricted license to ac
 according to one's own will. It is onl, freedom from restraint under conditions
 essential to the enjoyment of the sam,
 by others. It is then liberty regulated b, law"
 The court says: "The regulations gov
 erning all the various pursuits of life ar,
 almost infinite, varying with the natur,
 of the business, some regulations bein.
 designed to lessen noise, others to pro tect health, others to remove odors, ant
 so on. It would hardly be necessary t,
 mention this, were it not for the position often taken and vehemently pressed, tha
 there is something wrong in principle
 and objectionable in similar restrictions !. when applied to the business of selling b , retail intoxicating liquors. It is urge,
 that, as the liquors are used as bever
 age, and the injury following them,
 taken in excess, is voluntarily inflicted
 and is confined to the party offending
 their sale should be without restrictions , the contention being that what ma : shall drink equally with what he shal } eat, is not properly matter for legisla , tion. There is in this position an as sumption of fact which does not exist 3 that when the liquors are taken in exees 5 the injuries are confined to the party oi : lending. The injury, it is true, first fall 3 upon him in his health, which the hab ] undermines, in his morals which it weak ems, and in the reimbursement which } creates. But, as it leads to neglect (
 business and waste of property and ger eral demoralization, it affects those wh = are immediately connected with and d, I pendent upon him. 9 By the general concurrence of opinio l of every civilized and Christian commun : ty, there are few sources of crime an = misery to society equal to the dram-shol 8 where intoxicating liquors in small qual
 titles, to be drunk at the time, are sol 8 indiscriminately to all parties applyin, Q The statistics of every state show grea s CT amount of crime attributable to tn Q than from any other source. The sale l. such liquors in this way has therefor t been at all times considered the propt @ subject of legislative regulation. Fe f that matter, the sale by the glass may
 absolutely prohibited. It-is question { - public expediency and public moralit. ]: and not of federal law. There is no il 8 herent right of citizen to sell intoxica l ing liquors by retail it is not privilee @ of citizen of the state or of 8 citizen d the United States"
 |. If these two authorities are right, the ], the saloon is our enemy and should | ,. suppressed.
 !, Continued next weekly