The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-01-31

We fear that the bright light Of Chris
tian civilization turned into Pike county
by the two new railroads-especially by
the Narrow Gauge, from this place, is
rather too much for that whisky produc-
ing and whisky drinking portion of the
moral vineyard. The last number of the
waverly Republican had communica-
tion which ended in this manner:
Just here we are reminded that it has
not been more than six months since
large number Of persons in this commu-
nifty pledged themselves to abstain from
the use of all Intoxicating liquors as
beverage. In vain we look to-day for a
trace of those pledges so far as they
have had any effect in diminishing the
indulgence in intoxicants in this place,
it is as though they had never been, and
il is with shame that we say that COM
munity which in point Of talent will com
pare favorably with any other rural dis
trict Of equal area, will suffer itself to be
alternately swayed and insulted by those
whose only scepter of power and influence
is their barrels of poison. Friends OF
temperance, friends of chastity, of virtue
end Of social order, awake to duty As
tue ASslIidu5t uchfiJ NhiNC AuOhSahN
years ago, meted out swift retribution to
their debauched monarch, whose highest
motto was Eat. drink and be merry ;
everything else is nothing" so may you
by the power that dwells in the voice ol
a united people, expel the hydra headed
monster from your midst. CYNIc.
BEAVER. O., Jan. 10, 1878"
And another from Daleyville, which
closed with the following vigorous Ian.
guage:
when we read Of carnage and slaugh
ter on the battlefields of the late war il
was with the deepest sorrow that we wit
messed the ravages of war in our land
and many, very many were the prayers
that the cruel war might soon be over
/ But what was the war compared with the
ravages Of the rum traffic The record OF
the war shows that 7S. .243 were killed in
battle, &c, ,2l2 died in prison and PIG lS5
died by sickness, making a total of $780,
/ $40 who were killed and died in -four
years. King Alcohol slays men much
faster than war does. Great God can
nothing be done to stay the terrible de
vastating tide of ruin, which has been
streaming down the ages, blighting the
rose buds. scorching the heart and bills
/ NtElDE tue SOUL Win u AOuEut W
fame, which heated by the madness oil
hell, has hissed out the teTrors Of death
and dropped over the earth a scene oi
unutterable woe2
! The demon intemperance is the blight
ing, burning, damning curse Of the world
Language has never been made that can
depict il in all its hIdeousness. Come
from hell, ye damned. writhing, pleading
suffering souls that were robbed of heav.
en- by this sparkling tempter, and cast
the black shadow of thy wretchedness
upon the faces of the living. Oh, graves
give up your bloated, fostering millions
and stretch them in all their sun seorch.
ed ghastliness over the plains and noun
tain tops. Hold up your bony, withered
skeleton hands, ye countless millions OF
starved and starving women and child
rem. Como, all the floods of agonizing
tears, scorched as the lurid fires Of hell
where'e they touched. and boil and foam
and hiss in one vast steaming. seething
ocean. Come, death and hell, and agony,
with your harvest garnered from the
still and the brewery, and let US mass
them in one black. horrifying portraiture
of the damned. And let it tell to the
shuddering trembling souls what Ian
guage never can. ii. Ii. BROWN.