The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-02-11
Highland County, Ohio Thursday February 1875
Correspondence of the News.
Kansas Opinion Of'Jack-sn-
the-Pulpis'' and 'sP. w. CO.

Kansas Opinion Of"Jacksn-
the-Pulpi,'' and "P. w. CO.
SALINE Co., Kansas, JAN, 1875.
Mr. BoARDMAN:-I have read your
paper of December 81, 1874, with a
great deal of interest. AS we are
living away out here in Kansas, the
news from old Highland is welcome.
There were two communications in
your paper of the above date, which
were very peculiar in their import
"Jdck-in-the- Pulpit and one signed
"P. w. G." We think the first men
toned would be splendid hand to
bray in front of some ''Beer garden, y
for the position he takes, and the way
he would have our ministers do,
would certainly please Satan himself
and his Jacks in the pulpit
He thinks ministers were not or
dained to preach against the sin Of
Intemperance, or the sin of manu-
featuring ardent spirits. l wonder if
his conscience is to be the standard
of the ministers of this day and age
of Christian enlightenment, or l
wonder if he would have the good
women of your town and many 9th
er places adopt his code of morals,
when he admits drinking beer and
visiting places of drunkenness If I
mistake not, slack in the Pulpit car
ries all the signs of what he advo-
Gates. People who know him do not
have to be told. 1 think he is trying
to get cheap popularity for some po-
itical end.
He speaks of two young men hav-
ing him bound to. pay fifty dollars in
case they remain sober until they be-
come of age. Now this reminds me
of a farmer who had a large flock of
sheep. He had three sons, and for
fear that his Oldest son should he
tempted to imbibe of that which
sack thinks good, the farmer told
him he would give him sheep if he
would not taste or handle for one
year any kind of ardent spirits. The
son readily agreed. The second son
hearing of his fathers generous propo
sition, desired that he should also be
included, and the father made the
same contract with him. Then the
youngest son came, and wished to
make the same contract with the old
gentleman. After the contract with
him had been closed, he looked up
in his fathers face and said, "Father,
aoouyd 1t not be aoeN for 9ou to tahe a
sheep too?"
Is there one among your many in
telligent readers, who will not say
that the sons advice to his father
had more substantial morality in it
than could be found in all the SER
mons "Jack-in- the-pulpit' could
preach in a year? Arguments utter
ed in the vindication of intemperance,
or the making of ardent spirits, will
not have very great influence while
signs and wonders are so conspicu-
uous.
"P. W. c." undertakes to vindi-
cate the selling of corn or other
grain to those who manufacture ar
dent spirits, and in order to get a
complete justification he goes away
back to Noah. He does not refer to
anything but antiquity to prove
anything He says he thinks it is
right to make liquor and right to
drink it, if we do not go to excess.
1 judge he is trying to be a Christian,
and thinks because Noah got drunk
and God did not raise big fuss
about it, that Noah was right There
were many practices in the past that
were not expressly dsapproved by
God. Isuppose if "P. W. G." wished
to adopt polyganay, he could do SO
and justify himself by the example
of Abraham.
A simple observation of things as
they exist at the present day, all
around us, is all that is necessary to
show that Intemperance is destroy
ing more happiness, making more
criminals, paupers and orphans,
than all other sins combined, and
the man who sells his corn to a dis
tillery to be made into whisky, is an
active agent in contributing to pro
duce all this misery and destruction.
just as certainly as though he we're
dealing the whisky out behind the
counter. You ask me why? I reply,
Your corn makes the whisky. That
whisky produces the effect. Did
you not sell your corn to be distilled,
there would be that much less drunk
enness. When you sell one bushel
of corn, you sell about two and a
half gallons of damnation. 1 think
if good old Noah could be called to
earth in this the 10Th century, he
would say, "Shame be to z. W. c." !
A. r. II.
The Ohio State Journal has this to
say of the recent speech of Senator
Sherman on the Louisiana question
GsTt uou1d ba q GRAND thinp for