Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Must Suppress Liquor-Selling by Law. [ARTICLE]

Must Suppress Liquor-Selling by Law.

At a temperance meeting in St. Louis, the other evening, something of a brezze was created by the following utterance from ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown : “Hat ng in the past done some effective ■■ ervice in making Missouri a free State, 1 say now, after mature consideration of this question, weighing carefully the words I utter, I say we can make Missouri a sober State—peaceably, if we can, but by legislation and forcible measures if we must. In fact, there is no other way to suppress the liquor traffic by law. .This is what the State is for; this is its essential function. We suppress thieving by law; we suppress murder by law, and we can and must suppress Jiquor selling by law.”