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times be open for inspection, in which shall Be
recorded an accurate account OF the quantity
and kind OF liquor sold, the date Of such sale,
and the person who purchased


This is as il should be, and no one can COIN
PLAN that his rights or Liberties are invaded,
or abridged by such regulation. To use IN,
loxicating liquors as beverage is a sin
against God, and endangers not only the life
of hm who drinks, but the peace and welfare
OF society. God has signally fulfilled his sen
tence against those who put the bottle 10 the
lips of his fellow man, and the whole world
are witnesses for God, that g wine is mocker,
strong drink is raging" and that, sat the
last, it biteth like serpent and stingelh like
an adder" No man can have moral right
to sell or drink, for Jehovah has set The seal OF
his condemnation upon it. No man has le-
gal right 10 poison his neighbor, or beggar his
famlly,,or injure in any way the society OF
which he is a member.


If portion of our citizens had burning
thirst for prussic acid, or any other destructive
agent, and few depraved, ayaricious Williams
were willing to feed this morbid appetite, and
were daily sending to an untmely grave those
who were so unfortunate as TO come within
the range OF their influence, and thus bring a
VI all VI uuuuuUcIcu cVllS upUu oOCiCiy, 10
there man who would object to such regu-


ation as has been adopted by these License
Commissioners, 10 stay the tide of death? NO.!
Why then, when the burning lava is rolling
its scorching pillows over our land, consuming
all the verdure and beauty of our otherwise
happy country, why shall any complain Of the
severity or tyranny OF any means that may be
adopted to stop its onward progress.


We like the plan Of requiring record to be
kept, which shall be open to inspection. If
the Bank Exchange" and " William Tel" !"
and the one thousand other grog- shops kept
such record, what testimony they would fur
nish that it was a God-defying, soul destroy
ing business. When a man had been MUIR
dered, we would be able to trace the history OF
the case from the low dram shop, where the
deed was perpetrated, to the fashionable hotel,
where the FIRST lesson had been learned, and
the first step in the road to ruin had been
taken.


Such a record would startle the rum seller
himself, if his conscience was not entirely an
nihiated. Reader, would your name be found
on the deuiPs book! The authorities who
grant licenses in this region would dislike
such regulation. Their names (some Of
them at leasD would be found on almost every
page of the record Our army Of licensed
doggery keepers would writhe and foam, and
rage, if they had to keep set of books, with
the names of their customers, the kind of
liquor sold, and the date Of the purchase. Yet
it would be right Ohio Temperance Organ.