The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-07-23


cannot be enforced effectually, the trafnc |
in spirituous liquors is virtually free: For |
the sale of Intoxicating liquors to minors |
or habitual drunkards the seller Is re- |
suonsible. of course, but under what Is
known as the Adair law there have been
but two or three cases in Hamilton Coun-
tn, and these resulted in nothing. These
remarks apply to every city in the State.
"The point we are seeking to make Is
that our present system Is a bad one, and
those who depend upon it to suppress or
seriously interfere with the traffic in in
toxicating liquors must be disappointed
That is, because public opinion is kept
in SO low condition in Cincinnati,
through the influence of such papers as
the Gazette, that the laws are disregarded,
therefore there are no such laws.
The Gazette says:
smother inceSsant misrepresentation
by those who assume to know all things,
both movable and unknoweble, Is tnat
the vote afor license will "legalize'' the
trade. Bv this they mean - convey that
| the trade is per Sc, outlawed and illegal.
| But. in the absence of prohibitory laws.
the trade is free and legal as any.
We suppose the Gazette does not know
that the very same thing may be said of
theft, arson, murder. and every other
crime or offense. In the absence of pro-
hibitory laws they are all as free as the
selling of liquors in Cincinnati There is
not country squire or village pettifog-
ger in jackson county who has not sense
enough to know that there are no Com
mon Law crimes in Ohio, and in the
absence of statute law, no man be pun
ished in Ohio, even for murder.
The Gazette is warmly in favor of local
option" That is, if majority of the
voters-not of those interested, but a
majority of the mere voters, desire liquor
to be sold, then it is legal and right. The
voters are one-fifth of the population in
any community, and this small fraction
shall have the power to fasten this gigan
tic crime upon the other fourth-ffths
This was the old pro-slavery squatter
sovereignty doctrine of the Democratic
party twenty years ago.
The moral perceptions of the Gazett
appear to be on a level with its informa
ton and intelligence. 1t says:
This repugn ance to the truth is ,
strange feature in a moral cause. Instead
of that they call hard names they charg'
that all who do not vote mo license" ar,
in favor of intemperance; and then the.
fall to that billingsgate, which they cal
logic, and demand, why not licens
larceny, burglary, adultery, fornication
and murder thus claiming to be moral
lists, while confounding all moral dis
tinctions, and ass erting the selfeviden
lie that to drink or supply glass of wine
beer, or spirits is sin or a crime Hk
adultery, robbery, and murder"
The Gazette evidently thinks the sam
as most of the people of Cincinnati, tina
there is nothing wrong in selling o
drinking liquor, but that they are bot
laudable and eommendable practices
} Nearly everybody thought and talke'
) that way about human slavery twent
years ago; yet few thought differently
; and Abraham Lincoln said that if SLAYER
, is not wrong, then nothing is wrong
r Some fanatics think the same about tn
r selling of liquor.
} Some persons will judge the criminalit
l of an act by its results. If the use c
3 strong drink does not cause more Grim
and misery than all other causes con
) bined, then the history of the times, an
) the experience of every man is d,
r lusion.
We will close with few clipping
} made from the papers during the pas
' week, to show what the use of stron
drink is noao doing, in the face of all tn
crusading and war against the evil.
"a HORRIBLE WIFE MuRDER.-A late
dispatch from Fond du Lac, Wis, give
, further particulars of the murder of Mrs
/ Lotus by her husband, at Gravesville
f Calumet county, yesterday afternoon
Lotus crept into the house and dealt hi
wife a blow with a hammer while she wa
standing over a wash-tub, doing tn
weeks washing. She fell, and he the
, crushed her skull with an ak, and drae
ged the body under the house To max
certain of his work he returned for tn
ak, and nearly severed the head from tn
trunk. The body was soon afterwar
found by the woman's six-year old daugI
ter. LOTUS was arrested in saloon; b
was quite drunk
The following is from the Cincinnati
Times:
"AFTER THE DREes.-In front of Mali
street saloon, near the Court House, thi
morning, a sight was presented for tn
entertainment of lawyers thereabouts no
at all pleasing to fine sense of decency
An old vagrant with an appearance as i
he had been dragged through the filth
est sewer of the city staggered along tn,
walk where number of empty beer keg
were stacked, waiting a call of the brew
er's wagon. This deprecated specimen
of manhood, driven by fhe burning thirs
of a long-continued debauch, and by re
peated rebuffs from bars where his nick
els and pennies were wanted more thai
his poverty and rags, made an example
OF the degrading use of liquor more i'm
pressive than the finest descriptive elo
quence of temperance orators or tht
pathetic prayers of crusaders A home
less. friendless wreck, drifting whiterso
ever time and circumstances might carr,
him, he stranded on that stack of empt,
kegs, and clung to them as if he hat
. found friend. Taking his shabby hat
/ in the very last stages of dilapidation
like his mind and body, he poured it ful
, of beer dregs from keg selected iron
the pile, and drank the nauseous stuf
until the last drop was drained He thel
reeled on his way, with no home befor
him but the Work-House, no restin,
, place but paupers grave"
, The following is from the Cincinnati
, Commercial:
7 BLOODY TRAGEDY IN WARREN COUNTY
Since the 2lst of January last the temper
2 ance people of this town have been val
iantly fighting King Alcohol and every
saloon was closed but one, and that on
was selling only by the package whel
! | at the spring election a Mavor and nav