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MR. EpIroR Some time since | read IN
your valuable sheet, an intimation that Con-
gress would be urged so to amend The charter
of our city as to allow the citizens 10 declare
the necessity or expediency Of locating grog-
gerry in any particular neighborhood; that is TO
say, majority resident in the neighborhood,
and not two or three interested grocery nser-
chants.


And I have looked for some such memorial
10 attach my name to, but have not seen il
yet Now, / would suggest this plan. Let a
memorial be agreed upon; lei it be printed, a
COPY furnished each Association Of the United
Brothers and Divisions OF Sons Of Temperance.
Let this memorial be brought forth at every
meeting held for the promotion Of Temperance,
and my life for il, Mr.. Editor, nine-tenths OF
the citizens would sign such memorial, and
this would be the way 10 get the signatures.
Let every friend Of Temperance have one in
his office, his d,oeaing; and before two weeks
rolled on, such list Of signatures "you never
did see" While have my pen in hand, ]
will allude 10 another subject. Is there no way
10 make persons who sell spiriiuous liquors
without license pay the penalty Of the law In
my neiehborhood there is groggery, (snd a
filthy one. too,) that has no license, has been
presen,ed--prooi posi,ive--and still they sell
4 with impunity, with open house. The pen
atty can't be inflicted, because the man Of the
house is out Of the district, and therefore his
better half can poison the neighborhood with
alcohol, in defiance Of corporation law. There
is another shan,y close by, candy atop, where
the good critter is doled out to negroes. The
attention Of the police called 10 the fact--the
nnswer-O. the poor devil, you can't make
any thing out of him. Here, sir, is neigh
borhood cursed with these sinks, agains, the
express wish Of l9 twentieths Of the resident,
near, and yet the corporation police is so i'm
becile as TO be obliged to suffer it. Would il be
well to incorporate in the memorial resues,
for power TO declare the violation the license
law, penal offence, subec,ing the offender
to the work house for short period this
would soon stop illicit trade, and the good sense
Of the community would very greatly curtai
the number Of licenses.


Yours, PETER SIMON.