Locomotive, Volume 8, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1849 — Page 3

License or no License The Family Visitor of. this week contains a very severe and uncalled for stricture on us,for our article on this subject last week, and it goes far out of the way to do this. We ask our readers to look at our article again, and see if it should call forth language like the following : . '. - -' " The large sum of two hundred dollars to the city treasury,' is given as an inducement by the Editor to vote for license." The Visitor must k now that the revenue that would accrue from license is variously estimated from $500 to $1 500, seldom less than $900 a year ; we had it on good authority that it would not exceed $200, and we stated this as a fact, not to induce people to vote for that sum, but to give the correct amount, so that they could vote with a full knowledge of it. The language or connection in our article could not be distorted into an inducement, by anybody but the Visitor, to vote for license; fori it could, the language did not convey our meaning we wished to decide for no man, to induce no man,' and we distinctly said so. Those disposed to cavil on any subject can easily do so it is done every day on the bible. Again, 1 " The Editor pays that the revenue, iflicense be granted, will '.lie about "tuo hundred dollars, "and u that ninny good men will vote license" To this opinion we. most positively dissent. No xjood man can vote to give permission to individuals to perpetrate murder and crime of every description! No good man can vote to license individuals to steal and rob!!" We are not disposed to denounce evGry man that honestly differs from us. and call them .murderers, and associate them with convicts of every class, as $articeps criminis before the fact ; we think men may differ from us, even on the subject of temperance', without being past all hope of redemption. The Visitor does not think so. We think that honest, upright men, old settlers, and pioneers to this city, who have had the confidence cf Ihcir fellow citizens, and filled offices of honor and trust with credit, arc good men, even if they do vote " license." The Visitor does not think so. We think every man is entitled to his own opinion on this subject ; that he, not us, takes the responsibility, and that sven his voting " license," ( if right in other respects) should not place him in the same rank with convicts and felons." - But 7, the Visitor, am right

nil else are wrong so it would .have us believe. , We believe these good men (that the Visitor sneers at,) care as little for.the $200 as the Visitor man. There are two sides to every question men Will honestly differ and the decisions by the Superior Courts on the license question have given great room for this difference. These men have a Tight to differ from the editor of the Visitor, and to , express that right at the ballot box, but that paper has no right to vilify and abuse them as it does for it even if it had the right, it is not the '.Vay to carry its point, as by doing so it injures itself and the cause it advocates. The article in the Visitor has compelled us to say this much, whether we wo.uld or no. On next Monday we expect to vote "no license;" we do-it honestly, and we have every reason o believe that many of those that will vote against us are equally honest with this view, those good men (or good citizens, if you please,) do not deserve the opprobius epithets applied to them by the Visitor over our Shoulders. , . . 'sDust. The I)ust on Washington street is now 4 inches deep if the Fathers will only have it tako off the citizens will have it sprinkled.

LaW and Order. The law and order meeting on last Monday evening Was organized by appointing James M. Ray President, James Gillespie and Adam IIacjgh Vice Presidents, and, Esquires Ketcham: and Taylor Secretaries, After a few opening1 remarks by the President, defining the object of the meeting, and giving a brief account of the troubles of the early setlers in maintaining taw and good order, and a prayer by Rev. P. D. Gurley, the following resolution was presented by Mr. Secrest. ' , " Resolved, That the crime and ruin which! following naturally in the wake of liquor selling in any of its forms, whether in a city saloon, eofl'ce house, grotery or cellar, or treats at pretended dry goods stores, forbid that the authority of law should be given, in the way of license,' to the disposal of liquor in any torm in this city. . ' , - . ' i In support of this resolution Mr. Secrest made a few very sensible and pithy remarks. ' He said that crimes or outrages committed by a foreign nation on the Union were immediately followed by a declaration of war to redress those wrongs, and yet J evils of a far worse character were permitted in our midst with little notice. He alluded to the many murders that had been committed within the last year, and said the cause that produced them still existed, without any decided effort on our part to be rid of them. lie referred to the right of every man to express himself at the ballot box, and hoped it would be done in a decided manner. ' In taking the vote on the resolution but one man voted in the negative. Mr. Calvin Fletcher then offered the following: Resolved., That the preservation of the public peace, the good order and the prosperity of the city and townships, are intimately connected with t lie election and appointment of decided friends of morality and temperance lo every public office; and to effect such selection?, it is the duty of every citizen, in preferance to mere party politics, or other interests, to unite in every proper and fnthful exertion at the approaching township and city election.- . . ' Perhaps there is no person in this community so Well "qualified to give the progress of law and good order, and to state the advantages derived from the one and disadvantages from the other, from tho first settling of this country "to the present day! as Mr, Fletcher. On this occasion he contracted Columbus with Franklin, and other places, in respect to this. Columbus has always been a disorderly, whiskey selling place ( unless, perhaps, within a few. years,) and the citizens, Professional men and Mechanics, have never prospered the most of them died poor, many of them drunkards. Franklin, with a poorer country around, farther from the riv er, and less advantages, has always been a law abiding place, and its citizens and mechanics arc all prosperous ; many of the old settlers are now living independent, and the property in Und around the town is more valuable than in the other place. The olio place has. churches and schools,' the other has not; the citizens ill one place arc upright, law and order men, governed by a strict moral rectitude, while the other place has been a whiskey drinking disorderly hold, Under the sway of grocery men arid their influenfee. ' So it is with Pendleton and AridersonloWn', and so it is with different townships ill our own county. "AH this went to show that no place could be prosperous that permitted riot and disorder to rule, He showed the object of municipal regulations ; compared them to family government ; that each member of a family or city has certain rights and privileges that others should not encroach on. That idle members of a family live off the industry of the others, and so in cities ; that vicious animals or men are an injury to the community and should be brought under subjection. To do this laws were made, arid to make these laws effective faithful men must administer them. That the city and its property was" common property purchased by taxes paid by every citizen, and to protect this men of " moral force" must be placed in charge of it; that no man should have charge of the common property that was not trustworthy as an individual. The result of all this waa that the right kind of men must be placed in charge of the city. We cannot do Mr. F. justice

in this short notice, for his remarks were a relation of facts that were highly interesting. The resolution was then unanimously adopted. The following was offered by Mr. Ketcham. ' Resolved, That, owing to the influence which groceries have always extrted in elections, the laws, oa the subject of groeerv license have elways been below the public sentiment And although our present laws are greatly in advance of former laws, yet they are much below the great public sentiment, and need to be revised in some important respects. Mr. K. made some very apt remarks in support of the resolution, giving a brief account of the different laws that had been passed on the subject of temperance, noting their progress, step by step, up to the present time. In the course of his remarks he made allusion to an article that appeared in the Locomotive last week on the subject of license, calling it a " back handed stroke at temperance." : The object of that article was to make a plain statement of what we believed the facts in the case, giving the proper revenue derived from license and the amount of liquor brought here if that is striking at temperance, so be it. That 3000 barrels of whiskey were brought over the railroad within the last year isaac; that about $200 will be derived for license is a fact ; that liquor is now sold without license is a fact, and that many good men will vote for license is a fact this is all we said, and we have nothing to correct or take back. Gentlemen who live in the surburbs of the city have no idea of the drinking and carousing that has been going on here for the last year ; they hear no noises and think the city is quiet, but they can be correctly informed on this subject if they inquire of those living near Washington and Meridian streets. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Ray offered the following ' - : - Resolved. That the Judges of the Circuit Court of this county' be and they are hereby requested in view of the crime and ruin which are promoted by the sole of liquors, to inflict the highest penalty of the law in every case of conviction for selling liquor without license ; and also to refuse to defeat the just penalty of broken law in such cases by consolidating indictments ; and inat the friends of good order in this county be requested to investigate the consequences of nominal fines by the officers of law in Biieli cases. In support of it he alluded to the course pursued by the Judge on the bench and the prosecuting attorney in consolidating indictments, said it had a direct tendency to defeat justice, as the liquor seller could compromise the matter with these parties by paying a nominal fine. The resolution was adopted, and then the meeting adjourned.. JElfe Company. A new fire company has been organized in this city and a committee appointed to procure an engine and hose carriage. The name of the engine will be " Hand in Hand," and the hose 'carriage " Friendship." The motto " Friendship goes Hand in Hand." " Mary Smithers, was acquitted before the Court of Magistrates, from the charge of poisoning her husband. We noticed this in part of our edition last week.

The trial of Merritt Young will not take place until the next Court, which meets on the last Monday in April. . He prefers to remain in jail until that time, to having a public trial. Constables. On next Monday the Constables for this township are to be elected. S. A. Colley and S. T. Woollen have made good officers they are candidates for re-election. To-day at 10 o'clock the Democrats of this township meet at the Court House to nominate delegates to the county convention on the 12th ult. 5th WardA majority of voters in this ward have their candidate (James Sulgrove) and will not attend at the Brewery to-day. , We see that II. S. Newcomb, Esq., has been announced a cad id ate for Mayor. License.; Remember io go to the polls on Monday, and vote either for rJlr against License.'