The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-12-26
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lumbia. Here the Constitution gives to
Congress the right to exercise exclusive
legislation in all cases whatsoever. No
one can deny that the permit of the Ma
tional Government to the liquor venders,
is a full police license. In this district
Government has licensed over 1900 men
to carry on this infamous traffic, under
the eye Of Congress, and by its direct au-
thority. These men are the agents of
your Republican Congress, and your
agents who elect them. These 1900 le-
| gal dram-shops stand as burning shame
and disgrace to our Christianity and civ
ilization, and to the Republican party.
1900 legalized robbers and assassins, pro-
tected by our Government in order that
it may gather into its Golfers the price of
the lives of its victims in dollars-dollars
coined from blood and tears. All this
'enormity is forced upon its subjects by
Congress without their consent, and
against their protest All national places
within the States. purchased by the Gov
ernment for naval and military stations,
and asylums for orphans and infirm, are
exclusively under the control of Con-
gress. The States have no power or ju-
risdiction over them, and if the benign
blessings of prohibition is ever extended
to them, it must be done by Congress.
| Over the National Territories Congress
has exercised the right to prohibit slave
ry and other evils, and this right has
been repeatedly affirmed by the Supreme
Court. This vast region is larger than
the original thirteen States. How i'm
portant it is that these Territories, as
they are born into States, should be con-
secrated to that intelligence and virtue
which would make them pillars of
! Ictr 7ufh To Dat
of the Government using its strong arm
to foster that virtue and intelligence, it
has permitted its agents to scatter the
| blight Of rum all over the land, degrad-
ing not only the white man, but making
! the red man more brutal. OF all our
costly wars with savages, there is scarce
ly one that has not grown out of a "whis.
| ky barrel" Congress has the power to
| legislate over our interstate, lake and
railroads, and navigable rivers, and also
over our foreign import and export
trade. For having failed to exercise its
Constitutional power over all these plac-
es to suppress this traffic, we hold the
Republican party responsible. But more
than this, it has thrown the mantle of its
protection over the traffic, and become
participant in the crime by dividing the
spoils.
Friend Austin thinks because Mr. Neal
is Christian gentleman, and temperance
man, that Prohibitionists should vote for
him. When, or where, did Mr.. Neal
ever do anything officially to entitle him
to the votes of Prohibitionists? Has he
ever raised his voice tn Congress against
this licensed crime of the Government?
| l concede to my friend Austin great
fertility of Imagination, but he is sadly
in fault in application. Prohibitionists are
not in favor of syringe policy, but would
use all the power and machinery of the
Government to suppress the traffic while
Mr.. Austin and his friends would attack
it with their squirt guns, otherwise small
fines, which are scarcely ever collected.
| Mr.. Austin says when the Republican
party has secured to every man beneath
the flag the unquestioned, unchallenged
right to speak and vote his honest con-
victions in every State, it will then settle
the liquor question. How long will it
take to .consummate this result at the
present rate of progress2 1t is patent to
every reader of history, that the Repub-
| lican party is eliminated from every
Southern State, and in very large part
of the South no one is permitted to advo
cate this "unquestioned and unchalleng-
ed right. All this has been brought
about under Republican administration.
| The policy that has brought about this
elimination has been indorsed or passed
| by in silence by almost every convention
held since its adoption. Henry W.
Beecher once said that he would willing
ly have had slavery to continue twenty
years longer, in order that its abolition
should rebound to the honor Of the
Christian Church.
Fred Douglass reply YVES, that if he
had good raw hide, and Beecher was a
slave, he could take that sentiment cut
Of him in less than twenty minutes. So
| think that if Mr.. Austin had to endure
all the misery shame and degradation
caused by the liquor crime, it would not
take twenty minutes to make Prohibit
ZIONIST of him. Mr.. Austin thinks the
drunkard the victim ,of his own evil ap-
petite. But is he always responsible for
this appetite? Are not many of our chill
dren born into the world with this "evil
appetite" transmitted? And many more
made to acquire it before the years of ac-
countability? The drunkards are not
the only sufferers. Hundreds of thous-
ands of widows, and those worse than
widows, drunkards' wives, millions of
orphan children, are the sufferers. Very
many of these children are deprived the
benefits of the common schools, and all |
the education they get is around these
Government dram-shops. 1t is a humili |
ating fact that while we expend ten mil
lions of dollars for the support of our
schools in Ohio. we expend six times as
much for intoxicating drinks. What! |
ten millions to enlighten the youth of |
our State, and sixty millions to curse and |
ruin them Yes, this is the sad picture
we have to look upon under your good |
enough laws" Has not the liquor inter
est forced the issue upon US, just as the
slave interest forced the issue of free or
slave territory upon US? On the slavery
issue God did raise up such leaders as
Garrison, Smith, Giddings, Chase Wade,
Lincoln, Sumner, Greeley, Wilson, Love
Joy, Phillips, &c, &c. So God is raising
up such leaders as Black Russell, Smith,
Thompson, Dunn, G. I. Stewart, Haven,
Mother Stewart, &c, &c, to lead US for
ward in the great work of emancipation
of all races from the slavery of rum
Friend Austin thinks Prohibitionists
should be very humble. Humility is a
virtue in the presencs of honorable age,
but in the presence of concentrated vice
and corruption, is sign of weakness.
Prohibition will never bow before the
God of Bacchus. VIM j. KIRKENDALL.
If perfection is to be found anywhere,
it is in the highway robbers of New
York. Whatever they do becomes in
the eyes of the police miracle that
nothing but Omnipotence could have
Thev Swoon down oll |