The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-10-27

1t is manifest that it cannot have legal
sanction without our assent, and the stay-at-
home voter is guilty of criminal neglect if he
knows OF the danger to his neighbours family,
and uses not all the power with which God
has endowed him to avert it, We must either
put down this wrong or be put down by it.
If we permit it or legalize it, we are surely
pdrttceps criminis. 1t is worse than folly for
the church to thunder her anathemas against
it, as nearly every denomination, Protestant
and Catholic, has done in these United States.
and then by her own Indifference allow all her
legal energies to be wasted over questions
having no moral basis, and whose effect upon
the industrial prosperity of our land are not
one 1.-THE of this. But does not it yield i'm
mensc revenue?
1.-THE excise is fattened with the rich result
OF all this riot and ten thousand casks,
Forever dribblng out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of the State,
Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.
Drink and be mad then, It's your country bids.
Gloriously drunk obey the important call;
Her cause demands the assistance of your
throat:
Ye all can swallow and she asks no more"
Thus wrote Cowper, more than one hun
dred years ago, and our modern Salons seem
to have learned nothing since. But there
seems to be an awakening in our own native
county for which l have long labored and
waited and, unless all present indications
fail, the Church will let her powers be felt at
the ballot box for once, at least
There is one other stale saying that | have
heard for many years from the mouth of men
who had not the logic to see the sort of u
boomerang they were throwing, that is
worthy of analysis: II am in favor of the
law ii you will only enforce it."
Every man who repeats this, or tries to
justify his moral cowardce by adopting it as
his sentiment, docs with the same breath pro-
claim himself disloyal citizen. He in fact
puts himself outside the pale of citizenship
and the protection of any law. If one class
of people refuse their aid in the enforcement
of one law that the public safety demands,
can they consistently ask protection against
high way robbers or burglars? II a man
should say in Elkton that he knew OF "A cas-
where a mans pocketbook had been Dor
i'"N' lioIii iillll, NilHout HIS tolS'It, anu
that he knew that there were repeated acts O.
the same sort occurring constantly in the
same place, and he knew the names of many
of the parties, but did not propose to give
any names, lest it cause trouble or because
the borrower was friend of his, that mar
might well be considered as liar or Il thief
And if he should Justify his course by say
ing that there was not very much money il
it, l.. e. the pocketbook, that the strange
did not seem to be DANCE! ously wounded
when he was knocked down. but went away
with some friends of his. and that he thought
after highway robbery. What should we say:
Is there not something strange about this
statement of the acknowledgements of our
local prohibitory laws, when these men cite
the fact of government license, as evidence
that State law is evaded? Why do not men
who defy State law, run the risk of prosecu-
ton by government officers. if it is true
(Which it is not) that every one of thesa
licenses represent a breach of the former? All
who sell liquors of any sort for lawful pur-
poses pay this government tax, so we see how
Kent countys villilied.
The facts of the case are that it is the
'pull" that the grog sellers gamblers, ETC.,
have with the local political bosses that
secures them exemption. That Il majority of
those in this business are OF foreign birth and
care not for any law or the perpetuity of our
Republican institutions is another chapter in
this disgraceful story of our nations shame.
That a L. s. law, ifor revenue only, can lie
enforced, is proof positive that Il prohibitory
law for protection only can he equally well
enforced, and | mistake the temper and hon
esty Of the voters Of Cecil county, if they
again drive out this destroyer and then leave
the door wide open, or give the keys into the
hands of their enemies GEO. BALDERsToN.
Colora, 10, %, "a.