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Show The tail of the late lamented Greeley's bite, B. Gratz Brown, is engage 1 in a e.rusade against rum. Ho said in tho course of a recent temperance lecture: I say now after the most mature consideration, con-sideration, of the question, weighing carefully care-fully the words i uttor, I say we can make Missouri a sober state; we must make Missouri a sober slate; we havo tho! power to mike Alis-ouri a pobr stale, peaceably if we can. but by legialaUve ai d forcible measures if we must In fact, there is no other way to suppress tho liquor trauic but by law. This is what the state id for; that ia its essential function. func-tion. We suppress thieving by law, wo suppress lnuttlur by law, and we can and must suppress liquor selling by law. Strain your imagination to its fullest, and see if you cm fancy a Mit?souriau and not assueuta him with whisky. Indeed, it is not long since Guveruor Brown himself was one of tho "awfjl examples" held up by temperance orators. We believe Missouri can be mnde a sober Blalo, but the present population will have ti emigrate tirgt. |