Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-05

about the lecture recently delivered Il
this town by DR.. GoTwALD, and about on
comments upon the same. The moral q n
truthful little VmtOn Record had some
thing to say too. A day or two ago, il
looking over some Of our old exchang
papers, we came across a copy Of III
jackson Standard Of January "A, 1869
is useless for us to say that the editor o
the Standard, the editor Of the Vmion Rec
ord, and DR.. GoTvALD all belong 10 III
moral, highly educated, an1 very loya
Radical party. 1t appears that the Dr.
delivered lecture in Jackson on the GIL
Of January, and that the editor OF th
Standard noticed it in what he calls ''Ran
dom Thoughts" in the following style:
ION Wednesday night Of last week DR.
Gotwald, Of Dayton, lectured at the Goo,
Templal's Hall in this place. ! did no
like his lecture. do not think il di,
anything for the cause. Of temperance. -
The drift Of his argument was intended I,
prove that all drinks containing the leas
particle Of alcohol, utterly destroy diges
tion, and much time vas taken in an at
tack upon sweet cider, blackberry an,
ourrant wine, &c. Now every Physiologis
knows that It is tobacco, aud not alcohol
which destroys digestion, by poisoning tn,
salivary secretion, and thus destroying III
proper function In the process Of digestion
Every body knows that sweet cider is no
unhealthy. Aud know men eighty yearl
OF age, whom have seen dead drunk ,
hundred times, and who have been drunk
ards to my certain knowledge for psriot
OF forty years, and they are yet healthy
and their digestion always good. Alcoho
is dangerous enough to the health, bu
these false statements, which every mar
of experience knows to be false only in
jures the cause. Ny opinion is that III,
great evil Of intemperance lies in another
direction. While Tie lecturer was speak
ing, my mind was dwell ing upon another
class of evils arising from strong drink.
The Standard editor then a led abou
one'half column with accounts Of crime
accidents, So, &c., from his own personal
knowledge and from different newspapers
all o: which we're caused by strong drink
and then says:
"Tben what's the use Of talking about
dyspepsia, caused by sweet cider I? Tha,
Is all CANNON, and no man Of sense will
be deferred from intemperance by such
afguments."
And in the editorial columns OF III,
same paper we find the following:
sour friend Morgan wishes TO know
why we did not like the lecture of DR.
Gotwald, and why the promised article
did not appear last week. The reason
was, it did not find room in the paper.
We give it this weak. After that article
was written, we heard the Dr. lecture al
the NJ. Il. Church. on the following Sun.
day night. He old much better than a,
the first lecture, but sLe was. still utter "
reckless In his attempted -stateme nts OF
fact. For instance, he said he had read
in the Cincinnati Enquirer about young
man killing his father in this county. He
three times spoke Of the young man as
being now in Jail, awaiting his trial, on
a charge Of murder. Now il no had not
gone TO the copperhead organ of Cincin.
natl for his information about our local
affairs, he might have come nearer the
truth, He had then been in our town
from Wednesday to Sunday night, and
he might have learned from any of our
citizens that young Scott had never been
in Jail at all, and is not even under re
cognizance, IS all his neighbors regar I'd
the killing Of bis father as excusable
homicide. But the other attempts of the
DR.. to state facts were equally wide of the
truth. He is too smart lin his own esti.
mation) for our town." ..-
There, reader is what one Of the Doc
tors own political friends says Of his
lecture at Jackson. II a political friend
Of the DR.. can't endorse his lecture, can
the Good Templars Of Macarthur expect
us TO endorse it2 We "do not think
1t did anything for the cause Of temper
anSe." The editor Of the temperance
advoca !e-the very nice, little VmtOn
Record-says he wasn't at the lecture
delivered in this town few evenings ago
AMI isn't prepared to offer any criticisms,
but says we undertake TO say things
sharp rather than things true" We sup
pose that he will say now that the editor
Of the Standard has said "things TRUE
rather than things sharp" or will he
think the things are both true and sharp
Wonder II "ths hifalutin ideas Of the
En9u1r'' critic may be realized" now ?
Eh 2 ...II
And as the Record excused the Dr's
utter rscklessness in his attempted state
uents Of fact" by saying 90 movement is
on foot to induce ]. M. McGILLIvRAr 10
deliver the next lecture" here, we SUP
pose the WITTY Record will next say that
"a movement 10 ca foot to induce" D /.
Editor Of the Jackson STANDARD,
10 deliV er the next lecture" at Jacks onl