The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-05-21

and for the further purpose OF enlight-
ening our contemporary we quote the
provisions of the ordinance, which is the
one of chief importance
SECTION l. IL i hereby declared to be
unlawful for any keeper Of any tavern, coffee
house, ale house, beer mouse porter house. res
taurant confectionery, or drug store, except for
aEv or c P..t 10 BE- Sold barfsred. or even
away, any ale beer, porter, or other fermented
or spurious liquors, or suffer the same to be
drank upon, in, or about his or their premises.
SEC > Prohibits riotlng, reVeilng, drunks IL
ness, Iewd CiiSorderly conduct. etc. at places
OF public entertainment.
SEc- ). Prohibits the sale of liquors to min
SEC. /. Penalty not less than ten nor more
lhan nIty doilafs Ior each offe;lse.
or and police to enforce the ordinance.
This is the whole of the ordinance
which, according to the VolksJlau, is a
relic of dark ages. 1t prevented people
from enjoying themselves in a rational
way. and the repeal established the prin-
ciple that Sunday is to be a day of rest
and recreation. according to the Folks
bLah. The inference then is that without
open coffee houses, and Intoxicating Gq-
uors there can be no recreation. The
ordinance prohibited the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors; the sale of liquors to
minors, and rioting, lewdness, and
drunkenness on Sunday, and this is the
measure that has been repealed, and its
repeal is heralded by its opponents as a
deliverance from oppression The Non
puritan has no more right to disturb the
devotions of the Puritan than the latter
has to oppose the sale of Intoxicating
| liquors on Sunday, says the VolksJLatt.
| This is the shout of liberty, according to
our contemporary and it is from this
level that American institutions are to
| be remodeled and American habits
changed. The house where drunkards
are made is thus put on a level with
| the church, where people assemble to
worship God. Those who as every cor
ner offer intoxicating drinks to the pass
ers by are thus held up as the great pill
| lars of human liberty This is the dec
laration of principles upon which the
repeal of the Sunday ordinance is justi-
! fed; and this act the people of Cincin-
natl and the people of Ohio, are ask ed
to accept as evidence of advanced civili-
zation. We envy not those who take
| this position, but we are ashamed that
this thing has been done in Cincinnati
and that this is to be taken by people
abroad as the standard of our civiliza-
tian.
The ordinance that has been repealed
!
eating liquors on Sunday, was introduced
into council in 1857 by George Keck, the
son of German parents, and one of the
best citizens Cincinnati ever had and il
was passed almost without opposition
1t was introduced and passed because
Sunday had become day of rioting and
drunkenness-so much so that the po
lice were unable to preserve the peace
Because Sunday is day of rest, it viii
always be a day of rioting and drunken
ness, unless the sale of Intoxicating liq
uors is restrained on that day. Yet in
telligent men, like the editor of the
VoLks6Latt, who know that intemperance
is cursing large proportion of our pop
ulation, and thai there are more drunks
on Sunday than the other six days of tht
week put together, halls the repeal o
the Sunday ordinance as an advance Oh
the side of civilization, while every
thinking man must see that it is an ad
vance in the opposite direction.
There a great many thousand people
in Cincinnati who do not bow the kne'
to this Baal, and in full sympathy will
these is an overwhelming majority of the
people of Ohio. Do these thousand
propose to remain silent while this grea
evil is being done in their midst? Whil
cherished customs and principles as ole
as civilization are broken down, and fre
trade in Intoxicating liquors is elevated
in their stead? Is the declaration to G,
abroad from this city, without protest
that the sale of Intoxicating liquors il
this city on Sunday is one of the inalien
able rights of man, and that the churcl
and the barroom are equal in the seal
of civilization?
We shall see.