Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-06-18
Written for the REPUBLICAN
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Henry, Of senatorial renown, stands
next to the king. Henry whose for
tune was made by an accident.
But Henry has been to the city OF
Columbus and has astonished the ma
tiYes with the eloquence of the Ma
poleon hills.
I Henry has returned to his books and
his briefs, and by way of making up
for lack of fame in the State Senate,
he has become famous as an anthem
perance man on the streets of Millers-
burg.
No sooner did the brave women at
tack the citadel of intemperance in their
work of reform, than this Ex-Hon.
gives the praying band the benefit of
his public schooling at Columbus in the
real old billingsgate style. Henry would
have the ladies know that he has been
feeding at the public crib, land has grown
fat and important in the public service.
Besides all this he has property rented
for the sale of whisky, and this tenn
perance crusade must be put down;
this interfering with the rights of
others, and here in Millersburg too.
Why, this serious business must be
stopped right here. So the Ex-Hon.
measures his strength with the women.
Poor Henry! in his haste for fame, he
denounces the women of the cru
SADIE as unfit for, society, adding by
way of flourish, that to take fine
tooth-comb and scrape the streets of
Millersburg there could not be found
such set of old Hays as made up the
praying band of hypocrites now infest-
ing our streets.
But it's possible for fat and over
grown boys to talk too fast, and just SO
it was with Ex-Hon. Early the next
day the husbands of the ladies met the
defamer at his Office, and there, soberly
informed Henry, that the insulting Ian
guagc offered to the ladies must be at
toned for, by public acknowledge
ment OF the wrong, or he must abide
the consequences. Henry comes down
with his apology and his old friends for
give the wrong, nay the insult, to wives
and sisters. Thus ends act first with
Henry. The man whom the people
had honored with their suffrage, only
to be abused by him at the first oppor-
.unity. When will the people learn
wisdom? When will moral worth be
properly appreciated? When will
principle preside over cast, and judge
ment obtain over prejudice and passion.
But Henry has dared to set at defi-
ance public sentiment, to trample on
morality and to open up saloon of his
own, and why not? The people dare
not sustain the law. Why should the
Lawmakers care for the law?
Moreover, Henry aspires again to SEN
atorial honors and asks the free and en-
lightened citizens of Holmes county to
send him again to the front, and this
corner saloon may play quite an i'm
portant part in the politics of the fu-
ture. Henry's friends, like Nasby's
will need their sustenance, and more
than this. Drinking must be restored
to its former state OF respectability in
Millersburg and especially at the cor
ners.
A noted libertine once said of adul-
terry: 1t must be practiced until it be-
comes popular, then the offence will
cease and the SIN may be Indulged in
without rebuke.
Henry has said saloon keeping and
whisky drinking must be made as pop
ular at the corners as heretofore, and to
this end he is quite a leading feather in
the whisky wing of the Holmes county
Democracy. SAXON.