The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-03-24
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mob our lecturers and break up our
meetings.? Was DIR. Crosby or any OF
his class ever mobbed by rum-sellers?
How is it that, the moment we get
one of the prohibitory laws, (which
delight rum-sellers," passed, these de-
lighted men from parties to defeat
every man who voted for it, crowd
the lobies to repeal it, and never rest
until, by threat or bribes, they have
repealed it? If rum-sellers long and
pray for the coming Of the millenni-
um of prohibition, why don't they
all move down to Maine, and get as
near to the desired heaven as they
can? If rum-sellers delight in our
total abstinence labors, how migrate
full in them to allow their organs, all
over the world, to misrepresent and
deny what little success even DIR.
Crosby allows we have had in Maine?
They ought to chuckle over it and
scatter the news far and wide. When
DIR. Crosby has answered half these
questions, we have some more difficult
ties to PROFOUND, which trouble us,
about the unaccountable freaks OF
these delighted rum-sellers, who, de-
lighted as they are with our work, yet
never can bear or praise the very men
who, DR.. Crosby says are constantly
employed spending time and money
in "delighting" these unreasonable
fellows.
We are the cause of all this drunk
enness; and the temperance movement
a failure, and always must be fall
,ro ond o1oht tO ha 60
I will prove that Christianity is
frilure in the same way. The famous
unbelievers, down from Voltalre,
through Mill, to the last inidel critic,
prove Christianity, by the same sort OF
argument, to be a failure and the
cause Of most Of the evils that burden
us. Exaggerate all the evil that ex-
lists, especially those vices that will
never wholly die while human nature
remains what it is; belittle and cast
into shade all the progress that has
been made; dwell with zest on the
new forms of sin that each age con-
tributes to the infamy Of the race;
keep your eyes firmly in the back OF
your head, and insist that there
nothing equal to what we had in old
old times-not even the snow-storms
or the st. Michael pears-and the
thing is done.
81 Before our movement began three
quarters Of the farms Of Massachu-
setts were sold under the hammer for
rum-debts. You could not enter a
public house, in country or city, OF
the frst-class or the smaller ones,
except through a grog-shop. Their
guests felt mean if they did not at
dinner order some kind of wine, and
often ordered it when they did not
wish it. Now the grog-room is hid
den from sight; men stink into 1t;
and not more than one man in ten at
the most fashionable hotels and not
one in fifty in common inns orders
wine at dinner. Then the sideboard
of every well-to-do-house was covered
with liquors, and every guest was
urged to drink; the omission to dc
which would have been held a gross
neglect, if not an insult. No mar
was buried without lavish use o1
liquor; no stage stopped without the
traveller being thought mean if he die
not help the house by taking drink
Now one may travel hundreds O.
miles on rails which allow no liquo
in their stations. Every farmer fur
nished drink to his men; famous doc
tors went drunk to their patients; th
first lawyer in the Middle States wa
not singular when he held on by the
rail in order to stand and argue, half
drunk, to the Supreme Court OF tn
United States; rich men saw to l
that every clergyman who attended
convention was piled with wine; ant
the preacher Of the Concio ad Cles'aa
was fed on brandy punch, to be on
more exhiliarated level than hi
hearers. If man caught sight of
grog-shop, he was as sure he had ar
rived in Christian land as the ship
wrecked sailor felt when he got sigh
of gibbet. DIR. Crosby then ha
every man, lay and clerical on hi
side in constituting the Bible; wherea
now we are in healthy majority
Then a few scattered temperanc
tracts, like rockets in nigh
only betrayed how utterly th
world was in the desert on thI
subject; now temperance literatur
crowded with facts, strong in argr
ment, filled with testimonies frol
men Of the first eminence in ever
department Of science and literatur
challenges and defes all comers. The
the idea of total abstinence was nc
so much denied as wholly unknown
now, if New England were polled tx
day, our majority would be ovel
whelming. Then all men held liquor
to be healthy and useful; now sevent
men out Of hundred, whatever the
practice, deny that claim, and I'll
upper classes, well-informed and car
full of health, lead the way in givin
up the use. Then the medical pr
fession waded in the same slough
indulgence and ignorance as the
patients; now the verdict Of the pr
fession is undoubtedly and immeasu
ably against the use of intoxicati1
drinks at all in health, and but seldo
in favor of it in disease.
We have driven the indulgence
drink into hiding-places, and for Il
first time the legislature is oblig
and willing to prohibit the use
screens to hide rum-drinkers from t
public view they dread. Is not th
skulking evidence Of weakening?
Sixty years ago the legislature pas
ed few formal laws perfunctoril
and dismissed the whole subject. B
ten years ago, Liquor gathered at t
State House all the experts of soc
science, the lights of the medical pr
fession, all the famous science fro
Harvard College, and retained an e
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