The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-05

and in order to have it we must have
proper officers.
When the people elect them, (as they
will, and that soon, then they will make
better laws, and we will be blessed with
both good laws and good officers to exc
cute them.
/ am inclined to think the gulf of sep
aration between my brother and me is
very insignificant, only that of time. He
thinks that it will take the American
people part of a century to discriminate
good from evil while l do not. Almost
every reliable paper in our land, adds
testimony to the fact that public opinion
is fast drifting in favor of Prohibition,
and not only in one State, but IN the
United States You Will see by the fol-
lowing, which 1 take from the Western
Christian Adcocate, that the temperance
peopIe are at earnest work in the east
"A late number of the New York TTib-
s,ae states that the war against liquor
sellers which has Just begun in Massa-
ehusetts is at its height in New Hamp-
shire; and also that the dispensers of
| stimulants there are rather Inscriptions
| in their line of defense. They girdle the
| trees of prominent temperance men;
paint their doors black; and in Plymouth
| they ruined 5000 worth of marble monu-
ments, belonging to temperance trades
man. by smearing them with black paint.
1
| That seems to us an improvement on
their former conduct.
"They had previously devoted their-en-
ergies to poisoning their patrons and re-
| ducing women and children to beggary.
To ruin $500 worth of marble is not
much of a disgrace for men who have
made their business to take all manliness
and nobility of character from their fell
beings, and to send them by scores
and hundreds to infamy and untimely
graves Surely girdling trees and black
eaing doors is noble in comparison with
that! Therefore, we beseech the makers
and administrators of the law in the
Granite State, that, whatever penalties
they may impose on these men for their
later and milder misdeeds, they will visit
upon them much heavier ones should
they return to their former bad courses
Be wise; be just; proportion the penalty
to the crime"
Their opposition will rather invigorate
than weaken the temperance cause. II
is hard to fight against God and his peo
pie.
The Anti-Slavery party experienced
greater persecution than ever our party
will be called to pass through, yet they
I were courageous, and continued to opreach
pray and practice, until victory came
, How can man deal out poison and wO'
property of the residue, with the expec
] tation of success If Paul Silverberi
: were to winter his Grand Menagerie il
jackson, and his lioness would occasion
ally break out and devour some one be
fore she could be reeaged, think you tha
: the proprietor would gain many friend
r by damaging the property of our citizen
a simply because they try to dislodge tn
: plague and nuisance which he is harbol
: ing in the community? The action whicl
l defends open wrong, succors right.
: Blackstone says, natural laws requir
s that man shall live honestly, hurt nc
body, and render to every man his due.
Does the rum-seller live honestly huI
: nobody, and render due remuneratio
for the money he takes from starvin
4 children? Common law does not gran
= a man the privilege of using his propert
to the injury of another. But we wi
come back, more directly to the vindici
ton of legislation. What prohibitor
legislation an entire failure? He VIII
makes the assertion betrays either ign
rance or insincerity. In support of tn
law, we will give some indisputable fact
le The following figures will exhibit tn
., falsity of the statement that it is accon
;; 111ishin0 nothing