The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-10-09
From The Wilmington Journal.
Gideon T. Stewart.

A man of this name is cantering over
the State, like wild Ass colt, professed-
ly in the interest of Temperance and
Prohibition, but really in the interest of
Bill Allen, Allen g. Thurman and the
Democratic party. He is a candidate for
Governor without party-a head with
out tail, and but very little of the
former He addressed mournfnl crowd
of a few dozen, shivering with the cold,
at Dover Springs, on Saturday afternoon,
and at the Court House, in the evening;
on both of which occasions, he made up,
in malignancy and falsehood, what he
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Stewart thought he was very facetious
when he declared, that the last Legisla-
| ture evlnced more regard for the pro
| lection OF hogs from strychnine than the
protection of the people from the evils of
the whisky traffic" This was, of course,
the language of the blackguard, and only
proved its author to be q libeller
and a low flung demagogue He
suggested nothing in lieu of our present
liquor statutes. He did not show wherein
the Republicans could have made them
more efficient, but admitted that they
were nugatory. We make no such admis-
sion. They can be enforced in Clinton
county. Every dram-shop i'll Whining
ton can be dried up in less than thirty
days. If certain persons ever intent on
office and mischief, and hate, and melev-
olence, would cease their insane howl
about Prohibition" and go to work with
will, and spend their money freely, they
can close up all the gates of hell" in
Clinton county, in less than six months.
The man who refuses his time, his tai
ents and his money, to accomplish this
great deliverance, is not sincere friend
to the temperance cause; and we venture
the assertion, that when he is away from
hcme, and no eye but the saloon keeper
on him, he takes "his nip with the
gusto of London Alderman
There are no doubt, many ignorant,
simple-hearted people, who honestly be-
lieve that Prohibition is the remedy, but
we assure them, that it will not be ac-
complished until the Devil is chained
for thousand years Those who are
good i'll sacred mathematics are respect
FULLY invited to ascertain when that will
be. You must take man as he is The
whole world was once drowned, and it's
inhabitants submerged in the sea, and
yet Noah, the great commander in that
terrible upheaving of the great fountains
of the deep, got drunk and abased, and
disgraced himself, as soon after he landed
as possible. Is Gideon Stewart and his
followers, any wiser and better than that
illustrious old preacher of righteous
ness?' NoP No; nor anybody else
After all, you can only regulate" the
evils arising from the liquor traffic; and
you can't do that, unless backed up by
unanimous public sentiment You never
will while grass grows and water runs"
prohibit its manufacture and sale The
work of temperance must be wrought out
in the family, in the church. and by as
sociated effort. aided by cords of green
backs. Don't stand aghast, when money
looms up before the miserly visage of
some Of you! You can prohibit the flow
ing oil the tides just as readily as the
flowing of whisky. While corn and rye,
and wheat and barley grow, the devil
will distil and his devotees will drink