Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-02-24
The License Power.

Editor Press
/ read with no little interest the
article in your last issue under the
title "Where are we drifting ~ and
it stirred my soul to the very depths.
| would like to put few facts before
your many readers, hoping they may
start more to thinking and that think
ing may take to acting till this great
evil be overcome with good. Where
is the remonstrance Why did it not
have at least hearing? To think
our temperance people could not have
their say about one of these hell holes.
How gladly some of our best citizens
as | happened to know-signed this
while this Wretchedness, caused by
hosts of licenses, is allowed to exist.
For shame. Take one Of these vile
places and put it in town Of this size
then watch the result. Eighteen
licensed liquor establishments in a
town the size Of fEmporium-thc fact is
appalling. May the judge who had the
esteemed privilege ~ Of granting
these licenses get down before God
and deeply repent of this sin, tif he
never has or never will commit an
other will send him to that place of
dark despair, where, with the liquor
dealers and the drunkards he must
spend eternity. ,"Oh how shall guilty
man contend with such GOdW
If ladies dare not pass on sidewalks
for fear OF the vile and insulting Ian
guage they are sure to hear by meeting
the poor drunkard, what Of the homes
Of some of these drunkardS? Mother
and children groveling in poverty and
want, who would be glad to gather
the crumbs that fall from the table Of
our Judge. Surely such things ought
not SO to be. When / see the increas-
ing boldness of the men who we place
in high positions, of the corruption Of
such, of the liquor traffic, the grab and
greed system that is taking the life out
of the common people, say we are
gone, hopelessly gone; there is no hope
for us unless we assert our christian
manhood, rebuke this foul tide of cor
ruption, place men and parties in
power that will stand for the right If
were true to their God, to their fellow
men and their convictions, Emporium
would not be in the sad plight in
which we find it to-day. Is it not time
to enquire ''where are we driftingT'
Must we be deprived of our rights?
Will our law-abiding citizens suffer
this state of affairs to continue? God
forbid! o! that God would raise up
man in our midst like Neal Dow, who
would never slack his efforts until our
State had enacted and established its
prohibitory law. Success VIII come on
this line and never on any other.
Some one has said when our law makers
come to the conclusion that they can
pass an act to guard the girls and
boys Of the nation against strong drink
as easily as they can protect birds,
fishes, rabbits, deer and skunks they
will certainly do it. They viii by and
by take as much interest in the protec-
ton of their own offspring rs they do
in the protection of the brute creation.
do not wish to be understood that
object to the first, but | advocate the
latter as well.
What viii arouse the people; the
church going people? You tell me
that the call Of the church is to save
people from their sins, and 50 it iS.
But ! point cut to You that on the last
election day she went in for saving
everything but men, and with the eN-
ception of 4 few loyal hearts, stood for
saving gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, hides, Wool, tln--anythlng
but men, and she sWarns with men in
pulpit and in pew, who make Z mock
at sin, in party politics: and who get
votes and offices, and power by the
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