The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-09

OF untold woe presses upon her heart,
and conjured by her boding fears, all the
vice and misery, sin and crime of which
that dubious football is but the tonic note
rushes in one wild avalanche, over her
startled brain; and the mother weeps
tears, not of remorse, but of soul-sorrow
more bitter far than the waters of Marab
her first born cut down, before her eyes
in the very flower and glory of his bloom
ing manhood; cut down by demon hands
against which she feels herself for the
her is but the beginning of many nights
of vigil and sad waiting. The youth con
tinues his recitations and Beelzebub him
self finds no fault with his steady advance
ment.
Were the evil to stop here it would not
be intolerable. The proud father of the
once promising boy might turn prema
turely gray, and the canker of mortifica
ton might tester in his thoughts by day
and harrow his sleep at night until des
peration driven, he shuts out all by the
suicides death; the Christian mother
might go on hoping against hope, trust
ing in faith, because of her maternal
| yearnings, that God at last would call the
wanderer home, until she too would be
gathered to the silent city of the dead
and the world would not be appreciably
the worse But the evil does not stop
here. The proud father hopes and the
Christian mother trusts, and they in
their hope and trust conspire with the
darkness to shut out and conceal the
sons fault, from the eyes of men; in
spired by that heaven born hypocrisy
which is godlike in parents, they stand
between him and the censorious world,
still endeavoring so to share and steady
his footsteps, that his character may be
preserved fair and blameless, and thus in
nocently aid the faculty of this dark
school of social desolation still further to
blast and destroy its victims.
The youth is kept in society, the gar
ment of parental pride and love is spread
over his faults, and if perchance wrong
does for one moment CLEAN forth it is
treated but as the emphemeral eferves-
cence of youthful spirits, and from the
world it meets smile instead of re-
buke-the youth is kept in society-the
strong vitality of early life, for time,
prevents the inroads of dissipation be-
coming too apparent, and after while,
encouraged by the world, he links to his
the destiny of another who is all trust
and confidence and love; whose deluded
and partial eyes see demi-god in the
form of her present hero, and have no
vision of the hideous devil lying conceal
ed beneath the fair and promising exte
rior. Now indeed the evil receives new
impulse; mothers heart has been
wrung for few short years, a wife's must
now endure a lifetime of laceration. The
demons shout at the union of these two
destinies, and all the hot holocaust of
hell shakes with fierce Internal delight
at the prospect of generations full of
transmitted misery and Inherited sin yet
coming to make their abode in the do
main of the hopeless.
And the evil spreads; all the gaunt
tribe of the grisly vices, begin to rear
their heads. Hunger, rags, profanity,
ribaldry, lechery lasciviousness, all the
street concomitants of a finished educa-
tion join in the procession constantly
from tho auar opo, Joors &c +b;,
great school whose session is perpetual,
whose commencements are daily, whose
graduates, if not all of the same class as
the youth above cited, are all of the same
degree, and all of whom immortalize their
instruction by transmitting its baneful
seeds to the future Horrors invade our
homes, crimes stalk about our streets
and destruction turks in our street cor
ners.
Oh the skeletons that inhabit the
closets of the good people of this town );
Oh the iron that is soaring and burning
the hearts of the fathers and mothers !;
Oh the soul pollution being implanted
in the minds of our children!
Powerless, at present, to stay the fear
full progress of this school of the street,
we are compelled by circumstances to
send our little ones, fresh from the nur-
sery, with all the tenderness of disposi-
ton Impaired by mothers devotion in
to its wide and open portals, where their
tender ears are made accustomed to the
coarsest vulgarity and the most vulgar
profanity, where their infant tongues
soon learn the accents of falsehood, and
where their little hearts are filled with
all manner of guile. 1t is all taught up
on the streets of jackson aye, it is
taught there by proficient masters and too
often in the presence of grave and digni-
fed men, who deign not, or dare not lift
rebuking voice. The streets of the town
are made hot houses of vicious training
purposely by many, because of their pub
licity, for here can be faunted the pirate
flag of the vandal band that steals from
our children whatever of good impress
sions they may have received elsewhere
and implant in their stead vicious
thoughts, and Haunted with impunity,
numbers give confidence and the bold
swagger of vice terrifes by its noise, and
when it assumes the most terrible of its
weapons and threatens truth and order
with accommodation and loss of public
favor, the public claps its ready hands,
vice is applauded, virtue driven from the