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

many law-abiding, moral, Christian men
| We wish to call the attention OF all such
| to the course pursued by the Democrat
ic press on the temperance question
Among our Democratic exchanges, nine
out of ten openly favor the sale of in
toxicating liquors. And they pursue
the same course IN reference to the vio-
lation of the Sabbath day. On this lat
ter question we will give an editorial
from the Folksfreo,d, the leading erman
democratic paper of Cincinnati, and an
editorial from the Cincinnati Gazette, the
leading Republican paper of Cincinnati
From the ToIkstreu.d
VICTORY OF THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY.
The effect of the change in favor of
| the Democratic party could not have
been demonstrated in more glorious
manner than by the repeal of the hated
| Sunday laws, whose fate was yesterday
sealed by vote of the Board of Alder
men All honor to the brave men who
stood like wall against all the efforts of
the temperancists in pants and petticoats
and held high the banner of personal
liberty. Babylon the great has fallen,
and beneath its ruins and decay it has
buried the stink of Puritanism The
hypocritical Pharisees, with their long
PRAYERS in the market place, are defeat
ed. and the breath of freedom is felt
Throughout the city. Does anybody still
doubt the vitality of the Democratic
party? Is there any one who will still
call it rotten and worm eaten? Facts are
stubborn things. What no Republican
City Council has succeeded in doing, that
.. ,5l
plishedi And the tradueers of the dem
ocratic party must become silent All
their virulent prophecies have come to
naught, for the Democratic party has
surpassed the most sanguine expectations
of its warmest and most enthusiastic
friends Even those who at the confer
| ence at Columbus croaked ''The noun
tain can not come to Mahomet," where
by they meant the Liberals could not 90
over to the democrats, and who even last
fall whiningly called upon the Democrats
to come over to the new party, the glo-
rious pi-pi-party, you are in a hopeless
minority They have all come over to
the Democratic party, when at the last
election it lifted high the banner of per-
sonal liberty, and proclaimed vengeance
on the muckers, the Pharisees and the
: temperancists That the repeal of 1.-The
Sunday laws is a positive gain for the
cause of personal liberty, in spite of the
fact that the State laws remain in force,
our readers can see the best from the eff
forts which fanatical praying sisters and
female temperance men made to prevent
the repeal of the Sunday laws. Thus
even in the session of the Aldermen last
Friday a number cf muckers, among
them John Simpkinson, in whose prop
erty Mr.. Sissman keeps a saloon, present
ed petition, in which the difference be-
tween the State law and the Sunday or
nance, in reference to the sale of intoxi
eating drinks, was plainly shown. The
State law dates from 1881, and prohibits
the sale of spirituous liquors on Sunday
The municipal ordinance was passed in
1857, and prohibits the sale of ale, beer
, porter, and other fermented liquors as
well, and is also more stringent in other
respects. While, for instance, the State
I law prescribes fine of five dollars, g
r person may, under the city law, be fined
as high as fifty dollars. Then. again, by
the city ordinance it was made the spe
cial duty of the Mayor, the Marshal, and
! the policemen. as well as the Prosecutins
E Attorney, to enforce the ordinance, while
it was made the special duty of no one
to enforce the State law; and is thus left
to the despicable class of informers tC
call the violators of the law to account
In this connection we call attention tt
the fact that the President of the BoarC
: of Aldermen, Mr. Bishop, by his opposi
e ton to the repeal of the Sunday ordi
8 nance, made himself especially conspic
uous, and should not, therefore, be for
gotten by our readers. Probably Mr.
D Bishop is speculating for the Mayorality
Y but may go to bed with the assurance tha
: the Emperor of Russia has about as gooc
T prospect of becoming Mayor of Cincin
natl as he. Mr.. Bishop may be perfectl,
honest in his convictions, but the VoIkS
a freund and its readers cannot, and that i
r settled, digest temperancists and muck
d ers Mr.. Bishop made very weak argu
= ment in favor of the retention of tn
y Sunday ordinance. He said man wa
merely a machine, and needed rest oc
n casionally. Nobody doubts that Blu
does it follow that a law must compel
f man to rest on a specific day? Let ev
eryone rest when he pleases; the Turl
on Friday, the Jew on Saturday, the fre
t thinker when it seem good to him. Hov
I shall we call our land the land of free
dom, if bigoted men shall have the righ
of putting us in the straight jacket O
( Puritanism? Why are the saloon keer
n ers to have privilege, and to keep thei
A places OF business open Sunday, Will
. all other business places are closed
l.
- the saloon keeper asks no privilege, fo
e he has no objection at all if Others choos
A to keep their places of business open ol
r. Sunday. And then Mr.. Bishop must no
overlook the important fact that as, ac
cording to the Saviour of world, man
P not made for the Sabbath, but Sabbatl
If for man, so men are not designed for tn
q saloonists but the saloonists for the me-
who do not spend their Sundays at hom
> Within their own walls, with heads bow
, Ell and eyes cast to the ground, but VIII
If go out in the air, and who desire to tax
l. something good in pleasant beer gardel
while at the same time they do not thinl
. of molesting their tellow-citizens in thei
Il devotions, or of hindering them from
drinking all they choose out of the flui
h treasures secreted in their cellars.
l From the Cincinnati Gazette.l
II REPEAL OF THE SUNDAY ORDINANCE.
The work of repeating the Sunday oil
: dinance was completed by the Board c
:, Aldermen on Monday, at special NEE
e ing called for that purpose. So imps
. tient were the opponents of the Sunda,
= law to wipe out that ordinance that the
u could not wait for the regular meeting
II OF the % members of the Board |
e were present, and of these II voted fo
i repeal, and only one-Mr. Bishop
against it. Heretofore the main argu
e ment against the law was that there be
2. ing State law on the subject it was ST
i perhuous, and at any rate twas not enfort
q ed. Now, however, a very different rea
son is given, and we call attention to tn