Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-10-21
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day of the worshlpers and devo,ees OF Bach
u.s. Bad whisky seems to be holding sort Of
saturnalia or high carnival in our pleasant and |
thriving village. Our citizens witness almost
daily disorders In cur streets, and feel the ac-
cumulston of taxes, and sweat and grunt un.
der municipal burdens, and yet submit to II
all with an endurance that is little less than
heroic Their eyes or thoughts are scarcely
raised IN inquiry after the cause, or the means
Of relief. These s. EN- TO be too far out of sight,
or too inevitable TO admit OF anything
like escape. They are not wholly unmindful
of the existence of stringent and wholesome
laws ior the SUPPRESSION of these evils, but rath'
er wonder why they are not enforced, and the
peace and good order of the community se-
cured. But the accumulating burdens OF tax
alton arc but in differently and indisinctly, If
at all, traced up 10 their connection with the
saloons and liquor shops distributed about the
village. The result of this blindness and in
difference, ii would seem, cannot but be con-
tinuation of the burdens SO keeny felt, but the
cause of which is SO little appreciated. 1t mat
tiers but little how much, rs individuals, or
even as community, we benioan and con
demn the state of things that surrounds us,
while there is failure or refusal on the part
| of our good citizens t0 concentrate their intiu,
ence and stand together with fidelity and
steadiness of purpose 10 breast and force back
the tide of evil iha, is setting in so strongly
upon us. Wrong and evil are always aggres-
sive, and no mere defensive effort TO meet
them will be successful. The powers of dark
ness will only laugh, while the friends of vir-
tue remain lmid and irreSolute The only
hope of relief must, and can only come from
carrying the war into Africa. Let only dozen
men, among our citizens, in the exercise of a
calm, steady, unsw,rying determination to
abate the more prominent disorders and
wrongs complained Of ard how long would it
be before they would find themselves masters
of the situations How long would 1t be he
fore the fountains of the evil of iniempcrance
would be dried up, and the causes of many of
our municipal burdens removed? 1t is, per-
haps, too late in the day to gu, stion the oft
asserted fact, that crime and pauperism pris-
ons and police regulations and systems, and
their oppr, ssive and burdrnsome eXactions,
are the results OF intcmperance. We cannot
but take this us admitted, ior however we may
argue against the geacral fact, here, at least,
it is seen and felt. The complaint is earnest
and becoming somewhat frequent. Ii, on the
totuer hand, sobriety is the handmaid and pa
rent of trugalty aud thrift, and from these
come the Groupings of virtue and morality, is
there freedom from sponsibility-even tho
dollars and dimes do not come into The ac-
count-in allowing The interests and welfare
of tue community 10 be disrcgarded by longer
inaelion? Perhaps the stones do not literally
cry out, in our case, but how is ii with The
side walk in our main stieety Is the re no logic
IN the slreaks and stains drawn by the appi
calion OF the locust to The heads ot the pool
whisky -crazed victims of the Lookup, lha
should point out the path 10, aud urge the
claims OF Gutyy Shall we remain dumb, Will,
to maintain even tolerablr order, our streets
are palr0lied by walchman, police and mar
; shals, aud day and night witnesses simila
scenes in The course OF commitments hil,
the harpies-such as hang upon The brink o
Tie guli-who supply the poison that produ
ces all this disorder and evil, are permitted IL
90 neutrality-suspicious. of justice, TO pur
= sue their work with comparative impunity
| Ii we are indeed 50 pigeon-livered that US
, community, we have no resolution tor tn
work of riding ourselves of these evils let us
, at least, exercise ihe grace of consistency b.
+ suppressing complaint. Let us have no NOR
], grumbling ut the powers that be, who AL
r only carrying out the programme laid dow
:, for them-that which the people recognize
i Let us bear our burdens with becoming manli
i. ness and maguanimity. If the capacity OF th
n Lookup is not sufficient, and the police force
faitblul aud yigilant as IL is-are found To b
g unequal TO the task OF maintaining pence an
II order in the community, it is but an easy mat
e ter to yOte'tbeir enlargement and increas'
;. and the work of meeting once week 10 audi
their bills and vote them orders upon the vii
i lage treasury by the Council can probably u
got along with. No complaints, then 1t
-, 1t be understood that while we are willing {
# tolerate the causes of OuHburdens, we are ais
=. generous and patient enough to submit
~ their imposition. Let the whisky shop an
4 the bludgeOn be protected and continued /
% their kindred work, 0u the one hand, and di'
!. order and cheer ul submission 10 taxatio
n on the other, and it will he demonstrated tht
N no condition of things can be so hard, but TIN
=. |, can he borne, without the pusilanimous CT
\, "our punishment is greater than we can bear
CAPT. GEO. FORD, of the Schr. Yankee, WI
, particularly fortunate, or governed and d
"a rected by pretty clear foresight while
Chicago, during the late fire. He had dl
charged a cargo of coal and was lying in
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