The withdrawal of a license, or the total suppression of a tavern, on the plea of its being a riotous and disorderly house, immediately followed the refusal of any demand, however excessive; and most persons preferred the remote possibility of ruin, with the chance of averting it by ready submission, to the positive certainty of losing both substance and liberty by resistance.
Fearful was the havoc occasioned by these licensed depredators, yet no one dared to check them--no one ventured to repine.

They had the name of law to justify their proceedings, and all its authority to uphold them.
Compromises were attempted in some instances, but they were found unavailing.

Easily evaded by persons who never intended to be bound by them, they only added keenness to the original provocation, without offering a remedy for it.

The two bloodsuckers, it was clear, would not desist from draining the life-current from the veins of their victims while a drop remained.

And they were well served in their iniquitous task,--for the plain reason that they paid their agents, well.