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an old golden rule of medical diet, that fish, in order to be fir for digestion, should swim in such a liquid.
4. Because it is more custom, well established by a long experience of and very ancient and respectable order, to forwith fished intended for a long distance, in order to keep them alive, with a sponge in their mouth, moisted with some, [illegible], pale, or Blossum ale, which we could not do, if the Maine Liquor Law was passed.

5. Because, by passing such a law, intending to multiply the water drinking classes of creatures to such an awful extreme, your honorable Bodies not only would deprive this state of such an ornament as were [remembered?] Club,- heretofore has been justly regarded, but you might even put an end to all water powers and to all manufacturing in our dearly beloved Wisconsin.
The need not add that our lives improvements, with all the consequent pleasures of appointing committees, distributing our creative officer to well deserving friends, indemnifying contractors &etc. would be at an end, and that there fore you would be under the necessity to lay an additional burden upon a people, all ready grumbling and blind to the great benefits of a heavy taxation.

From the above few remarks your honorable Bodies will, we trust, not fail to advise to the full convictions that such a legislation as petitioned for by the friend of the Maine Liquor Law, would be extremely prejudicious to the rights of man and Earth, and detrimental to your humble petitioners and to the well understood interest of your hnbl. Bodies as well as to those of the whole State, and we hope that you not only will refuse to grant the prayer of those inundating watery petitioners, and refer them to the rest of Mankind, but, furthermore, that you would enact, [illegible] more? stringent measures against the adulteration of Good Liquor. And we will ever pray.