The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-08-25
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WE must confess that we have no
patience with papers that lay anv
claim to respectability, when they
come right out in favor of the curse
Of intemperance. For instance, take
this, from an editorial in the n. Y.
Tribune:
THE trouble with prohibition Is
twofold-it does not prohibit, for
liquor selling goes On in spite of it,
and it is regarded by large portion
of the community as an invasion of
individual liberty"
From an editorial in the Pomeroy
Telegraph, we take two extracts, of
similar import:
The Prohibitory movement against
the manufacture and sale of intoxica-
ting liquors comes of the idea that man
is incapable Of self-control, and must
have some one to look after him and
tell him what to do and compel his
obedience in case he is refractory. It's
spirit is the spirit Of despotism, and
has no fellowship with free govern
ment. 1t assumes that man is fail
ure on the subject Of the choice of his
beverages, and that it is necessary for
government to take charge of him
and regulate his habits in that respect.
The theory Of our Government is that
all just laws derive their authority
from the consent of the governed; :;
but your modern prohibitionist, after
having argued himself into the belief
that all liquor drinking is sinful,
wishes to make his conscience the
standard for others, and to impose it
upon them by arbitrary power 5
Better free trade in liquor, with all
its attendant evils, than forced absti-
nence, brought about by benevolent
despotism' such as these parties would
create. For under the one the ten
dency would be to grow strong, self
reliant men, who can be trusted to go
anywhere without danger Of falling;
while, under the opposite system you
would rear those who would be pow
erless to withstand temptation when
taken beyond the control of the arti-
fetal influences under which they had
been reared. Under liberty, even
where there is license, the tendency
will be constantly toward the elevation
and betterment of the condition of the
masses; while, under the opposite
system, the tendency would be the
other way"
If there is any reason or argument
IN such talk, then every criminal law
ever enacted, or settled by the Com
mon Law, where that controls, should
at once be repealed.
When we read in the Tribune about
the invasion of individual liberty -
we turned to another page of the same
number of the Tribune, and found
three of the following extracts, and
the balance Of the extracts were taken
from two other numbers of the Ilib-
Mne:
BEATEN BY A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.
Mrs. Mary Eastburn, of No. 25
East Ninety-frst-st., appeared before
Justice Patterson, in the Harlem Po-
lice Court, yesterday, as complainant
against her husband, charging him
with assault and battery. Monday
Eastburn went to his home drunk, and
dragging his wife, who had two days
previously given birth to an infant,
from her bed, beat and kicked her un-
mercifully. Eastburn was committed,
in default Of 81 900 bail, to answer
FRIGHTENING A BABY TO DEATH.
The Coroner was called yesterday to
hold an inquest on the newborn child
Of Otto Hitt:ian, a watchman in
Schaefer's Brewery, that died at No.
$50 West Fifty-seventh-st., Wednes-
day. DR.. Frustnight, who was called
to attend it, refused to give certifi-
cate of it's death. The child was born
Sunday night. Tuesday, while the
sick mother and child were in bed, an
inmate Of the house, Michael McCabe,
who lived ON the same floor, made a
great noise in the hall for the purpose
Of annoying the sick woman. There
had been a feud between the two fam
lilies. McCabe is an Irishman and was
drunk; Hittman is German. Upon
being demonstrated with, McCabe be-
came more violent, and broke in the
door of Mrs. Hittman's room, smashed
chair and threatened to brain the
defenceless woman. She rose from
her bed and ran with her child down
stairs, where she tainted from fright
and exhaustion. The child was seized
with convulsiars and died on the fol-
lowing day, while McCabe was repeat
ing his antics.
Hittman applied to the police for
relief and was told to go to court. In
court he was told to go to the police.
When be finally obtained summons
from Justice Murray, be was left to
serve it himself, and was laughed at
by McCabe, who boasted that he had
been in the Justices employ as bar
keeper, and that he would not be
locked 4p. Dr. Frustnight's opinion
was that the child, which was healthy,
had died from fright.
BEATING HIS MOTHER FOR FIVE YEARS.
Albert Becker, of No. 419 Fulton
ST., was arrested yesterday afternoon
for beating his aged mother, because
she would not give him money:
Becker, who is very sto2t, struggled
violently when arrested, and was with
difficulty taken by two policemen to
the Washington Street Police Station.
The mother said her son had been
bea ing her for five years. He had
been in Raymond Street Jail for theft.
He was accustomed to pawn his
| clothes for money TO oct linnnr He