The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-08-06
From the Wilmington Journal.]
eyes, or No."

The question will soon be submitted to
the people of Clinton county, whether
they will or will not, permit the licensing Q
of tap-houses in every township in the
county. If the license clause becomes q
part of the Constitution, Wilmin gton,
New Vienna, Martinsville, Westboro,
Blanchester, Clarksville, New Burlington,
Port William, Sabina, Reeseville, and
other villages, will swarm with doggeries,
and nothing but violence can abate the
curse for at least twenty years. If ma
jority of the people of Ohio vote for Ii
cense, we shall have, practically, free
trade in liquor. 1t is a vain delusion
held out by the Cincinnati Gazette, and
other grog-shop organs, that the General
Assembly will regulate" and ''restrict"
the liquor traffic. and compensate inju-
ries resulting therefrom." The thing is
impossible. How is wife to be ade-
quately compensated for the debauchery
and ruin of her husband? How is a
father and mother to be redressed for
the ''injuries" inflicted on their sons
When the sale of alcoholic beverages is
legalized when it is protected by law ;
when it is made respectable, how are we
to ''restrict" it2 Will the Cincinnati Ga
zette tell US hos0?
See the array of influence on the rum
sidel Papers like the Gazette, Commercial
and Times, in all the cities and large
towns; all the distillers, brewers and
wholesale liquor dealers, with their tens
of millions of capital; all the saloon
keepers; all the beer and whisky guz-
zlers; all the sly, hypocritical drinkers; !;
all the male habitues of houses of ill-fame
and gambling dens; all confirmed drunk
ards, bloats and vagabonds, with few
decent, misguided temperance men, will
rally to the polls, on the 18th of August
like an army of locusts, and deposit
their votes for the indefinite perpetual
ton of the greatest evil which ever
cursed human society.
This is the Pandemonium army the
genuine temperance men of Ohio are
soon to meet. There is no use of blink
ing the issue. We are to have square
fight with the powers of darkness. >"
"All hell will be let loose" The vote
will show, beyond all doubt, how the
people stand on aquestion, which more
than all others, concerns the veal or
woe of present and future generations.
The elector who votes against license.
takes his position on the other side. He
repudiates and condemns the liquor traf-
fic in toto He would neither license,
regulate, restrict, or compromise with a
traffic, which, in its consequences, in
wolves murder and the whole catalogue
of crimes, with their attendant fruits of
penury, wretchedness and misery.
Voting against license, and incerpo-
rating an article fol ever forbidding it in
the fundamental law, will demonstrate
that the people of Ohio are determined
to ultimately suppress the manufacture
and sale of liquors. This may not be ac-
complished by the first Legislature, but
the poaoer is ample. and will be enforced
when the people demand it, for the
General Assembly may, by law, restrain
or prohibit such traffic, or provide against
evils resulting heretrom" This clause pro-
vides ample scope for the final overthrow
of a scouge worse than war, pestilence
and famine.
Some temperance advocates of license
propose to srestrict" the sale of ardent
spirits by creating monopoly; that is
choke off the little doggery runs ellers,
and create st. Charles or Delmonica in
every town, or as many as can pay high
licensed The devil never invented a
worse snare for the youth and manhood
of the country than this. In our opin-
ion, the "upper-ten" whisky palaces, at
tended with their gorgeous trappings
and oriental splendors, do more mischief
than the thieVing ''rat-rows" of the cities
The former prepare the graduates for
the latter. Through the portals of the
st. Charles they pass on to the Gates of
He'll
The principle of charging one man
more for license than another, is anti
republican. And then, how are you to
know. whether the rich "brandy-smash-
er" will keep a more orderly establish
ment than the poor benzine mixer
But, license will not take that direction
Substantial free-trade will be the rule.
Every man who can buy barrel or a
jug Of whisky will be able to commence
business on license of an equal but
nominal scale. Remember that the
small liquor dealers have votes, and, that
in many localities, they have the "bal-
ance of power. Do you suppose, for ex-
ample that candidates for the Legisla-