The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-08-04
The Temperance Question.


The temperance Gimp Meeting at
Loveland last week was a large, earn
est and enthusiastic affair. A good
many people are becoming fearfully
and terribly in earnest upon this sub
ject. There is getting to be a skele-
ton in nearly every household. When
the angel Of death passed through
Egypt, and the next morning the
first-born in every household was
found to be corpse, the slaveholding
Egyptians looked at each other with
amazement and awe. A good many
fathers and mothers have seen their
'blue-eyed boys worse, ten thousand
times worse than murdered by this
devil of intemperance, and they have
lost patience, and they would crush
this devil out, if it must go like the
devils we read about in the New Tes-
lament, rending and tearing the bodies
in which it has taken refuge, whether
those bodies are the political parties,
or even the churches.
We make the following lengthy ex-
tract from the proceedings of any day
at the Camp Meeting:
short IS spirited talk to goodsized
ence. He said It would take life time for all he
what do you think of the Republican platform
adopted in Cleyelands'' p''O- .,
esS spasan tGh ticket
I'VE have $4,000 votes in Ohio,
tsBut never poll them"
We can and will poll them next ts fall and show them
not the first election then at the second one: Mr.:
Logan said: If l were now candidate for office, l
my own tf father were candidate for office with the
not individual interest. We occupy: as temper
understand. The temperance thought of the Nation
tons % In summit county We % have strong "f temper-
f the toy
the sale Of s
Weapons and bury them out of sight A vast number
dR o haTe
TIME has We aord to set pary claims
higher than home claims. have blue-eyed boy.
eeep see the His father has from o the
%a 6 nse oaT % viii sf0ac
boys if we poll $4,000 votes for two successive
We have voted with this that party and have not
tS or e9w wit iFse se hold 0T bd dss
platform look IKE IT. are there any tokens Of friend
@nlstsr tod me that he he had been good
the Interest; said he gave no attenton-didnt think
rer talk and
the sp6s
other The Of the
great piece of folly and mistake to vote for
That in Rea of fail Ie9e o in
We put sueh IN in once il Canton: 4 boy got
was called he pleaded ignorance for his client
and asked me ishieney Of the Court. The liquor
dealer off Wh Rs & of @ y and costs 1 M How
tion and stand fast and forever.
Mr.. Henry Camp, of Cleveland was the next
fMr, Camp said Mr. Logan had felt the cold steel
bite of the serpent and sting of the adder and aimed
II you not radical here to-day you will be rad-
A gentleman who resided Euclid avenue, in
in total abstinence You go too farS 'eie'e
We replied; when the slime Of the serpent covers
seG dr him to
nd n eoy @ Tt Of sa ia @ as Il of
one of 200 to take my axe and go out and smash VI
Mr. Camp said-"IIe had become more radical than
| / was"
There is an apathy on this subject among Christian
people that is absolutely astonishing.
estimate of strong drink when Nations. and tribe,
of r 1 ths @hose opo f to IS n
fading flower; which the head of the fat valley
| of them which are overcome with wine"
| 1.-THE crown of pride, the drunkardS of Ephraim
shall be trOdden under feet.''
aBut they also have erred through wine."
s.Yes,'' said Mr.. Camp, there have been grievou
| natl is swallowing the city of Ohio. People err
through drink, and Cincinnati is the greater power
If the whale had been smaller, Jonah might hav
force and swallowed Jonah.''
| Mr.. Camp stated that not single nation trib
| had gone down since the days of Noah that liUuo
| was not the main cause He cited ancient Baby ylon
| Greece, Rome. Russia, the kingdom of Henry tn
| Eighth. who might have been the leader of gran,
ali England mourned, for great was the fall.
| Alaska did very well until the United States oh
tanned possession and then we sent gunboat, at a
| drink. We made them drunk with Christian whisk
and shot them with Christian guns.
We kill 8O,Oo0 every year at home OF our own ctti
churches disturb the clouds with tall spires, bu
their members sleep these startling facts. Ha
the spirit and genius ofthis Government advanced o
retrograded?
Mr. Camp contrasted the utterances of such
Jonathan Mason and Samuel Adams who wrote
ment founded on virtue, Christianity and temper
ance. These were compared with the schemes
these times to capture votes at the expense of ustic
teeth, so don't need taffy either; the thing has bt
come monotonous. We have more tears or groan
We will use no more moral suas ion, but we deman
right in the name of God to banish this monst'
, from otherwise fair land and here stand ii
the crack of doom.
Mon nf hOfh m O.