The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-18

hCense-is iaI Oetter tnan pretenSlon
on the part of the state to do something
which it makes no attempts 70 do
The action OF the PhiladeIphia grand
jurors should commend them 10 the com
n1unity in which they live They mani
Test that instructive appreciation of the
sancity and value of law without which
no republican form of government can
| stand for day. Whatever may be the
| result of their action, they at least, have
done their duty
| The Columbus Gazette IS q calm and
able paper. 1t says:
TALKING TENPERANcE.-If the temper
ance cause is ever to succeed, it is not to
be done by Safeguarding drinkers and
venders of drink. If we were keeping a
| saloon, and man should apply such ex-
| pletiyes to US as we often hear applied to
this class, it would originate more bit
ter determination in our minds to stick
| TO the business with more vim than ever.
That lntemperance is a wrong, but
few really doubt That the selling of
/ drink is an honorable calling, but few
really believe. But what is the need of
| heaping upon them all the vile words of
the English language. There is no argu-
ment in it. 1t only makes matters worse
instead of better. And then. there are
|
are fine men-men who were never seen
the worse for drink, and never will be.
The dealer in liquor will have no en-
nifty against you, if he does know you are
a temperate man. He respects you as
common courtesy is shown him. But if
he and all those who drink-Inod
| or otherwise-are classified as demons,
and fends in human shape, their COM
| bativeness is at once aroused, and the
cause of temperance retarded instead of
advanced
Right here, reader, is one reason why
so many of our lecturers are total fail
ures. They do not attempt to investi-
gate an idea calmly and discriminatory.
Their discourse from beginning to end is
one mass of abuse, and without one atom
of charity to season it. Such temperance
talk as this is of no avail, and never will
be.
I'VE have often been asked to drink
Sometimes-we will not here say that we
always do for it might give us too virtu-
GUS an appearance-we refuse. We have
never been blamed for it. We have ever
been respected in the refusal. both by
the drinker and the vender. The truth
is, honest. temperance ideas are treated
respectfully, and all arguments against
the liquor traffic accepted for what they
like, fall short of the mark, and injure
the speaker the worse of the two. We
believe in talking temperance. We be-
lieve that all men would be better off
without the liquor traffic; but if any re
former expects US to use hard names in
connection with our remarks, he will be
sadly disappointed.
The N. Y. Observer is perhaps the ablest
religious paper in the United States. 1t
says, in the course of an editorial:
"In the present state of things, What
can be done? is a more important ques-
ton than, What is it desirable to have
done? No one believes that all that is
desirable is practicable. 1t is the part of
wisdom while aiming at the total extir
patton of the evil. to attempt first that
which is possible. If we cannot lay the
AK at the root of the evil and fell it at
blow, let US not refuse to lop of any
branch that is bearing the bitter fruit.
II we cannot rid the whole country of
the curse, let every community that is
prepared to purge itself have the oppor-
tunity.
"One of the first questions for the
friends of the temperance cause to delib-
crate upon is, how far will public senti-
ment sustain them in taking measures to
This is the point beyond which it is not
only useless but absolutely injurious to
go. There is no greater fallacy than the
idea that laws do good by being enacted
aud left as dead letter upon the statute
book. They act, it is true, as educators
of public sentiment, but they educate in
the wrong direction; they teach the peo-
pie to despise law. They bring legislation
into contempt. The next worst thing tn
having any great evil legalized is having
it forbidden by law with no successful
enforcement of the law. The friends of
! temperance must consult together and
ascertain how far they may hope to carry
not only the lawmakers but the law
executors with them; and as the whole
people stand behind both, it must also
be taken into account how far the people
will sustain laws when they have been
enacted and enforced. Repeals of whole
some laws that were in advance of public
sentiment have done much to set back
| this and other good causes. The sound
est discretion of the wisest friends of
| temperance is requisite in resolving upon
what shall be attempted in the way of
| legislation.
1--WE are decidedly of the opinion that
the convention at Saratoga acted wisely
in resolving against the organization of a
third party in politics, temperance
party, in order to secure the desired leg
islation and action. The foes of hu-
manity are too powerful to be met and
overcome on this issue alone, nor is in
temperance the only evil which is to be
removed. All good and honest men,
whatever may be their views in regard
| to the personal question of total absti-
nence from Intoxicating drinks, ought to
| be willing to combine for the purpose of
delivering the commonwealth from the
fearful burdens and evils under which it
is suffering. There are multitudes who
would not join q mere temperance party,
who are prepared to take hold with the
| friends of good order and of honest ad-
ministration of law in doing that which
is for the life and good of the Republic
Let all such men unite in securing the
nomination for our legislatures and for
executive offices of good, true, honest
men, who will be sound on other matters
as well as on this one subject, and a great
advance will be made in this and every
good cause"
o. B. Chapman Esq, editor of the
Pomeroy Telegraph, is the Republican
candidate for Representative in Meigs
county. What he says in the following
article indorse:
"'RUrLAND, ME1Gs Co., O., Aug. Is.
"'ED TEL-Sir: AS you are the candi-
date of the Republican party to repre-
sent US in the next Legislature of Ohio, 1
desire you to express your views on the
following questions, through the next
number of your paper;
al Are you in favor of the sale of in
| toxicating liquors as beverage?
"'2 Are you in favor of license law