Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1859 — The L censu Law. [ARTICLE]

The L censu Law.

We publish this week the law prohibiting the sal<‘ ot intoxicating liquors as it passed the legislature, and it will be seen that its pT.'visions are very stringent. We do' not. believe th it in the sm ill towns in this co inty th re will be .my application for license, and indeed, we do nit. see an.’ very great specu latioi. in thee ter prise even in t lie larger tiwns. If the law hid nit permitted a less qu intity th m a gallon to It s od without a license, the i we wouM Ii ive Ii id one or two groceries in full t»l ist, in very town in the county, tint when every on • is permitted to sell by t ie qu ir', th • ret il num think tli it that will be t ie most tu.'hionable way of drinking, ami those shops which have procured license will noLm.ike enough tojusti.y them in depositing ii ty dollars with the county treasurer. We very much doubt whether the liw will be productive of go.id. n>r are we siti.sfi ‘d that it will at all restr iin drunkenness. It looks to us tliai the Ii v sim >ly means lb it you shan't-m <ke ain in drunk by selling liquor to him liy th<‘ glass, with >ut paying li - ty dollars, but then you m<y mike a hilt d <z'ii bt' istly drut.k tor nothing, provided you deal it out to them by the q i irt. We will !> • glad i< there are nothin <re drunk irds m ide under this quirt law, during its cont inn m<‘e on the st it urn, than w?.s ever made by any li pmr law in Indi ni. We tear that liquor will be more abund nt y p Hired out tn in it his ever been ben-r-, and th it instead of the shops procuring license to retail, they will ende.iv >r to sell as much us p issible bv the quirt. We hope we are mistaken.—Pulas', i Democrat.