The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-25
Random Thoughts.
BY MRS. wM. j. KIRKENDALL.

Those Office devils seem to have taken
possession of the STANDARD. At least they
make very convenient scapegoat. An
error in Prohibition manuscript they
hail as a valuable acquisition to their stock
of argument They have tampered with
every article | have yet written. In the
last said 1t is time such relics of bar
barism, should flee away, and hide their
deformities from the clearer light of ad-
vanced and advancing civilization. That
devil makes me say. 1t is time such
relics of barbarism should flee away, and
hide the clearer light-a very consistent
devil surely. You say nine-tenths of
those who will this fall vote the Prohibi-
ton ticket are (I would say hare been) Re
publieans. In your estimation l should
think this would speak well for our
party; for you claim that party should
be judged by the character of those COM
posing it. Permit me to present little
more argument of the same weighty
kind. The North Ohio Annual Confer
which has just closed its session at Belle
vue, unanimously adopted the following
Resolutions. First. That it is our duty,
both as ministers, and people, to exem-
plify in our 4ives the principles of
total abstinence, and never to tire in
urging the same for adoption upon those
around us-not of mere policy, or expedi-
ency but of right.
Second That we will enlist all our
God-given privileges as Christians, and
as citizens, for the entire prohibition, the
utter humiliation, of the liquor traffic
the manufacture, the importation and
the sale as beverages, of intoxicating
liquors.
frL;nd Tbot mo ooroastlv roo,,asf o,,r
Constitutional Convention to engraft into
the constitution a section empowering,
and making it obligatory upon the'Legis-
lature thus to prohibit the traffic.
In the Pittsburg Conference at its late
session out of three hundred members all
but three, pledged themselves to vote for
no party, and for no candidates,
but those pledged to entire
prohibition. The Xenia Conference
was still more unanimous. All the
Methodist Conferences so far as l have
heard as fast as they hold their sessions
are taking their stand upon the sure and
safe platform of Prohibition. The General
Conference held at Brooklyn, in May,
1872, committed itself and the church to
this platform in it's first resolution on
the subject, as follows We are more than
ever convinced of the absolute need of
total legal Prohibition as condition for
the removal and cure of the evils of in
temperance, and we here pledge our ut
most endeavors to inaugurate SO wise,
and salutary dispensation. If am not
mistaken l heard a gentleman give it as
his opinion, that there were not ten Dem
ocrats in the county who would vote the
Prohibition, ticket. | am quite sure there
are that many within my own circle of
acquaintance. They are taking the
Prohibition Era and declare its platform
Ehe best ever presented to the American
people You devote long space to prov
ing the past aims of the Democratic
party This has all passed into history,
and God has overruled the madness of
those people to their own destruction,
and has wiped out this blighting curse OF
human slavery, and is now fast bringing
about the means by which We shall be
emancipated from this other great curse,
and much it behooves those who profess
to take God and His son Jesus Christ for
their leader, to take good care they are
found not fighting against Him. You
say, Does Mrs, Kirkendall desire the
DEMOCRATIC party to attain power? Mrs.
Kirkendall very earnestly desires the