The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-31
QI Liberty IN Drink
ctiOnS Of WhiSkey and Water
judaism and Democracy

, liquors in Penns Grove is
the County Court this week.
to be an issue for a long
en- those who desire to drink
o make a profit by its sale.
lesire for profits removed the
it would soon decrease I'M
cation of little need for it ex-
.dical purposes.
his contention of legal forces
p in mind that it is not from
nifty or ill-will between the
but a contention of differences
legal, moral, industrial and
rinciples.
!. Supreme Court has declar-
re is no inherent right for a
| intoxicating liquors, like
i'd groceries. 1t is prohibited
trade is injurious to the
morals of society. While the
| liquors can be given by a
preventative of the people, for
of entertainment of travellers
. tavern, some may be amazed
ment that neither the Prohi-
he Good Templars nor the
League in no wise say what
eat or what he shall drink.
is in Maine where there has
,ition for sixty years may
S and berries into wine and
cider for his family use, and
hard as desired, but he must
esires other than through the
trade and the public facilities
ltification of appetite must
lar letter issued by James K.
,erintendent of New Jersey
League, December %, 1915,
stion of the traffic in intoxi-
RS is a governmental prob
the use of liquors is an indi-
lem, and in their discussion
be separated" The conten-
1.-THE sale and manufacture
intoxicating liquors for bever-
S is wrong in principle, not
the public good" The con-
gainst public sale for bever-
5 and not that it is a sin or
elf to drink the liquor, any
t is a sin to take a dose of
dose of strychnine. The sin
e act of drinking, but in the
. and abuse of the narcotic or
excessive use has become so
to society and individuals
lst July LIST, no one car buy
xcepting with a physicians
a license to a man to keep
vern by the law of New Jer-
ack as 1916, twelve reputable
I certify that the applicant
must be a man of good re-
esty and temperance and the
aduce to the public good.
continuance of the license he
.ep a d~isorderly tavern, nor
and shall prevent as much
tgaming, tipping, drunken
Ter vices"
5 may be defined as cursing,
q blasphemy, which are not
the moral law, classed as
hishable by statute laws.
we're the only public places
officials used to meet to trans
without charge for the ac-
S and where elections were
of our oldest inhabitants can
elections were held in
tel. There were elections
irty had the right of sale or
ors in the front basement
he other party dispensed Ii
l policies in the back room.
Iery created led to the pass
W prohibiting the sale of Ii
ction day.
he early seventies the Good
lsade was so strong in Penns
there were two lodges. The
temperance sentiment led to
of Odd Fellows Hall in the
} there would be a public
meetings without frequenting
also for lodges and business
KIM
tn of Prohibition sentiment in
manifested by $4,000 votes
B. Fisk in 1886, for Cover
the enactment of a local OPP
n 1888. Upper Penns Neck
by about forty majority and
nty by nearly a thousand.
local option law was repealed
s rce Werts liquor law put
trictipa n the sale of liquor.
sale a man of Intoxicating
e influence of liquor.
assed about ten years
.strictions on the en-
liquors are sold.
brought about by the
aa3ge ance sentiment in the
la early ffties the hotel
4, nily was welcomed in
'hureh to hear the gospel.
.eIa lnce crusade swept over
Qnugt 1858, the hotel keep
r. an church, un-christianized
1sn cised from the Methodist
.fl3l he latter seventies when
.th b ID a sweeping sanctifca-
mbers of the Methodist
@ iign licenses. Later the
total abstinence from Ii
rage was required. Now
would exclude members
~ who had constitutionally
cheeks and kept liquors
for medicine, which they
necessary.
4 years ago, some farmers
little whiskey necessary in
ED to stimulate the energy