The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-02
CONSISTENT CARY.

The Democratic convention nomInat-
ed Samuel F. Cary as their candidate for
Lieutenant Governor and placed him on
a platform, the fourteenth plank of
which reads as follows:
f'That we are opposed to the passage Of
what are called sumptuary laws, or any
interference with the social habits or
customs not iTl themselves criminal, and
we reprobate any espionage by one class
of citizens upon another, under any pre-
tense whatever"
Now the Cincinnati Commercial has
unearthed a tract written in other days
by this same Gen. @ S. f. Cary when
he was a devoted Son Of Temperance,
and which he took the pains to scatter
broad cast over the land. Let us make
few extracts from this tract and We
shall see what Cary then considered
criminal Perhaps the following para
graph, selected at random from the tract
aforesaid, will best show his position ON
that question:
Murder, robbery and theft are crimes,
because they not only injure individuals,
but strike at the very being Of society.
Whatever wanton act may be committed
which endangers or destroys the life, lib
erty, personal safety or property of a
subject % thus threatening the subver-
sion of civil society, is q crime, zChetter
TecCgnized Jy the lars or MT"
He then goes On to say that the traffic
in intoxicating liquors is an evil and
crime, because ''they impoverish a ma
ton; second, they impair health; third,
they destroy character and reputation;
fourth, they destroy life" Waxing warm
as he proceeds he further asserts:
'"The dealers in these poisons, and
those who kindle the fires of the distiIl-
cry, not only induce men TO raise the
suicidal arm to put an end to their own
existence, but they let loose upon the
earth n multitude to bathe their hands
in the blood of innocence. "They sit in
lurking places Of the villages; in secret
places 40 they murder the innocent
They lie in wait secretly as a lion in his
den; they lie in wait to catch the poor.
They crouch and humble themselves.
that the poor may fall by the strong
Ones They fire the brain, and neTce The
arm Of the assassin. They sharpen tie
1DeGpOilS Of death, and stand Jy and con-
sent and hold the garments, AND RECEIVE
THE PRICE, oOhiLe the crimson current
fOIcS."
Not content with this lie goes on to say
that the Iquor-dealers
care the recruiting officers to the
alms-houses, lunatic asylums, dungeons
and gibbets of our earth. THEY ARE
CRIMINAL ABOVE ALL OTHERS, for
they create and pour upon society q deS-
OLGting stream Of moral DEATH, 1Cliich
brings IOith IL eDeTy Cdriesy IF human
misery and crime; which converts the
blessings of heaven into curses; and
those of life into the tortures of disease,
the premature agonies of temporal and
eternal death. THEY ARE THE PRIN-
CES OF CRIMINALS, for they take array
e0ery UeStige Of property, destroy cIdTdc-
ter, blast reputation, strike dOLDn eDeTy
hope that can cheer, 1Orillg eUeTy.Jf6r that
can feel, before they strike the GLO1O that
sends their suffering JictiMS TO a grace Of
infdmy and a cheerIeSS eternity.
Property, health, character, reputa-
ton, life and salvation fall before them
like the forest before the sweeping tor
nado. The army of liquor-makers and
venders press forward, laying waste Ind
destroying whatsoever things are honest,
Just. pure, excellent and lovely, and of
good report. Their banners are rolled
Ia 6loed, and the StriekS IF murdered
Innocence is the music Of their march.
on eUery hilltop and in eUery GALLEY,
monuments Of human skeletons mark
their desoLatiIig progress.
"a long train of evils is necessarily
and inevitably connected with the man
ufacture and traffic, and this fact is
known to all who are engaged in them,
and yet they will not desist. Hon then
can they help being regarded as OUT
LAWS2'
Thus much for AFR. Cary's tract. In
an article in the CRUSADER, of FEBRUARY,
1858, of which he was the editor, he
deals out the following as TO the custom
Of beer-drinking:
"It is true that the sins of the fathers
are visited upon the children. A few
days since, We were in a community
where lager was almost the universal
'panacea. The preacher OF salvation to
souls while wasting under consumption
and Incidence drank his beer to make
blood, The nursing mother drank it to
make blood. And so on to the end, every
victim of ill health resorting to the poi
'Onous and filthy swill for healthl The
physicians presc. ibe it. Need we won
Ter that under such a system, we raise
generation of stupid topers and drunk
lrds? While we write the child of a
leighbor stands before us. The very in |
locence of its look, half childlike and
lalf idiotic, is singalarly touching. The |
mother drinks beer, and the father is an !
lnmitigated beer 6LOdt. And so the in
locent one must go through life with |
he Lethean stupOr of the brew-vat |
hadowing its brain and spirits. How |
ong shall infancy be made to doZe and
irool upon poison fed at the very foun-
aims of lifel Is it not Internal enough |
o garnish the pathway of manhood with
without fastening its terrible
hrall upon the helpless ones at the
,reast?''