A JUDGE'S VIEWS OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
IN sentencing a murderer to death, a judge made use of the following language:— "Nor shall the place be forgotten in which occurred this shedding of blood. It was in one of the thousand ante-chambers of hell, which mar, like plague spots, the fair face of our State. You need not be told that I mean a tippling shop—the meeting place of Satan's minions, and the foul cesspool which, by spontaneous generation, breeds and matures all that is loathsome and disgusting in profanity, and babbling, and vulgarity, and Sabbath breaking. I would not be the owner of a groggery for the price of this globe converted into precious ore. For the pitiful sum of a dime he furnished the poison which made the deceased a fool, and this trembling culprit a demon. How paltry a sum for two human lives! This traffic is tolerated by law, and, therefore, the vender has committed an offense not cognizable by earthly tribunals; but, in the sight of Him who is unerring wisdom, he who deliberately furnishes the intoxicating draught which inflames men into anger and violence and blood-shed, is particeps criminis in the moral turpitude of the deed. Is it not high time that these sinks of vice and crime should be held rigidly accountable to the laws of the land, and placed under the ban of an enlightened and virtuous public opinion?"