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thing, but insurance is what is wanted. If the mule were a free, 

 moral agent, he shoukl be put un(hn- bonds to keep tlie peace or be 

 sent to a reform scliool, and tlie liouse sliouhl be insured ao-ainst 

 damage in case, there ever is afire. In the case of insurance, a man 

 is put under bail against tlio ]ial)ility of his running away. Under 

 prohibition he is hung without giving liim a chance ! On the ground 

 that an evil is criti('al, proliibition would either suppress before there 

 was any certainty that it ever will be a crime, or else through a 

 mistaken view, permit it to escape altogether from paying anv dam- 

 ages, in case it should become a crime. Surely such a kind of pro- 

 hibition is plainly untenable. 



INSURANCE vs. LICENSE. 



It may here be asked if the jirineiple of insurance is not equiv- 

 alent to a license? No, for a license is levied indiscriminately 

 upon the good and bad alike. Insurance is only placed on risks 

 mcurred. A license is the same to all. Insurance is high or low ac- 

 cording to the risk. License is a tax. Insurance is only a security. 

 License finally comes out of the drinker. Insurance comes out of 

 the pi'ofits of the saloon keeper. In the case of license, it may fall 

 far short of the damage done, or be far in excess of it. In the case 

 of insurance the liquor deale^- is held responsible for the exact amount 

 of damage, when it occurs. If it does not occur, he is unrestricted 

 in the sale of liquor. 



LIRERTY THE BASIS OF ORDER. 



"Then eveiy one is to do as he pleases. Individual liberty is 

 to be so extolled as to preclude all jiuthority, order and discipline. 

 Every thing is to go on in a laisscz-fuirc way until it plunges over 

 the Niagara of crime. The youth is to be permitted to taste, tlie 

 taster to become a moderate drinker, the moderate drinker to be- 

 come a drunkard, the drunkard to become a common drunkard, 

 until lie at last blows out his wife's brains, makes paupers of his 

 children, and dies of delirium. Great is the liberty of license!" 

 cries the prohibitionist. 



Ncal Dow sjiys "Wc do not wisli to interfere withonc's private liberty to (/nwA." 

 How then will he vto)) intemperance r He ehiinis to proliiliit only the riiiht to itrll. 

 How then i!< one to have the rijilit to drink, if there is no place where one can K»'t 

 anythtng to drink ? It ic like the boy's |)light when his mother told him he might 

 go in swimming, but lie mniit not go near the water. But the late Constitutional 

 amendment, now advocated, puts a quietus on all this liberty business. It says 

 fermented liquor shall not be sold, mauufactuted, or used. 



