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The License Law: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mes-rs. Eüitors: - I would like to nquire whether there has atiything been deneat jour place or within your knowlcdge inrelation to putting in force the law rendering it penal tu sell inioxicaUtig drinks without a Lácense.- VVhat is (lic renson of the universal apathy on the subject? As far as I can 6ee and hear in the lowns which voled J'o License, there is just about as mucri liqnor sold as before. Is ihe law good for nothiog? Is there some defect about it by which it ia unavoidable - Or is there not moral courage enough in com munity to punish a Law breaker as he deserves' Must it be that a lawless bami of Hotel and Grocery keepers, by mutually conIribuling to instire impunity, shall be allowed to prevent right being done? As nenr as J can ascerlain, the liquor sellers think (and wiUi what reason let people look around them and see) that the No Tjicenee Men meant when they voled .Vo License that mntlers phould be precise!y the same or a Itltle worse than before. Kow Messrs Editors, I am not one of these "all talk and no eider" men. I believe it to be the duty of every good rnan, not only to keep the law him?elf, but to eee that othere keep it. If the Supervisor, wbose duty it apears to be to proseente, refuse lo do so, lethim liave iho strongest assurance that he shall suffer the penalty of the law, and though no lawyer, I see no reason why he cannot be ndicted. Lei him have the assurance thai in performing his duty he shall be vvell backed, and vvhen the day of trial comes on lei the friendá of law be ot hand to sympaihise end encourage, and it will all go straight. - There can be failure unless the law is not enforcitle. Public opinión will support tbose wbo put that law in force. The people of this place have made up their minds to try whnt "virtue there is in sione," and if th e Bale of "L'quid Damnaüon"' is nol s-t'ppcd in this place, it will not be fur want of efibrt. Our liqvior dealers must "toe tlic mark," if there is any virtue in the law. U is amusing as well as mortilying to spp the inconsistencf of even Temperance men in thia matier. "Hi'ld on," "Ho! on," is tl cry. "dont go to bemg too has'y: you can'i drive folk?: you will make two enemies to une friend. Moral force is the only lorce proper to re-iort to."Well. we expect to mnke enemie?, and we ilon't care if we do. Eveiy lawlcss avaricious dealer vvhose mind and soul is just large enongh to tcach him to stand beiiind a har and retail liqm.r nt three copper cents a glites, and every coppr r noeed oofer who drinka the said glass and pays tne eaid lliree "copper cents'" as nforcsaid, will of cotuse be au enemy. - And as to moral forcé, as C. AI. Clay píivf, "il bas of often been rode on a rail' Moral furcr passed the law last winter, and moral rorco will sustain the l;iw, if we properly assist it wiih the Physical. It never can be done, ot any ratp, by standing elill, as we have done, and merely voting No License. - I eee no way but to put evcry 6oul of them througl) a etraight cotirse - ihen we have o clear conscience, if nothing tnore.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News