The License Question.
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The Senate had not, up to Tuesday evening,
acted defnitively on the New Excise Bill of the
Assembly. We barely hope for a favorable result.
And yet the proposition is just, republican, so
benefcent, that we cannot see what ground
Senators can justify themselves in opposing it. BY
what right does the sale of Alcoholic Liquors claim
exemption from the general prohibition ot the dts
pensing of poisons to those who there is good rca-
son to believe, will use them prejudcially? 'Oh !,
Alcohol is not necessarily poison says apollo
gis, for the business. Yes, sir so we understood
You BEFORE but that is the very question on lictts
differ You say it is net-we say IL is; and we
point to its millions of miserable victims IN
support Of our position. II these do not satisfy
you, we appeal to the established truths Of Physl-
clogy and Chemistry ss laid down by all approved
writers on those subjects. We maintain that Ar
dent Spirits are nsrer harmless, and in most in
stances positively in millions fatally, injurious. On
these grounds we ask that the People be aHowed a
control orer the traffic these poisons. Let the
jorty of each community decide by whom and IN
der what regulations the Rum traffic shall be
ried on, if at all. They are false to Popular Gov
ernment, they are panders to vicious and degrading
License, who refuse the People the right to speak
on this question.


But for the exertions of those who sell liquors
the bill would pass the Senate, az it has already
passed the Assembly, without opposition. And
now we can but family hope that the mistaken sell
fshness of the few may not outweigh the vital and
permanent good of the many. But if defeated
now, the friends OF Temperance and Public Virtue
must take care not 10 be again. The Future is
ours,'