The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-09-22
IN. 7. Tribune.l
PrOhibitory Cider-PreSSeS.

IN. Y. Tribune.l
Prohibitory Cider-Presses.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio are in
sort Of scrape, and their reputation for
consistency is in danger of blighting
damage. Their candidate for Cover
nor, Mr.. Ludlow, turns out to be a
manufacturer OF cider-mills and wine
presses. Substantially, this is as bad
as if Mr.. Ludlow owned a big distil-
lery or was proprietor Of vineyard.
For Mr.. Ludlow's party is dreadfully
uncompromising, and does not permit
cider-drinking or cider-selling by any
manner of means It sees serpents
coiled within vessels Of the sparkling
apple-iuice, and has doubts, predicated
upon its possible and probable week
day consumption, even Of the sacra-
mental wine Mr.. Ludlow would
hardly be good Prohibition candi-
date if he furnished the whiskey dis
tillers with barrels, or even with
bungs; and how he can be much bet
ter in the Prohibition eye while he
makes cider-presses it would take the
most cunning of casuists to discover
and demonstrate. We are not sure
that producer Of cork-screws ought
to find favor with Prohibitionists,
considering the closeness of their prin-
ciples, even if they might be allowed
to vote for retailer Of tumblers or a
cutter of corks. For it must be re-
membered that rigidity is the promi-
nent Prohibition notion. There isn't
any "give," if we may use that word,
to it's creed, while latitudinarian elas-
ticity ought to be it's especial horror.
It is not wonderful, therefore. that
Candidate Ludlow's cider and wine
presses, albeit still uncontaminated by
the flavor and smell Of the obnoxious
juices, have excited public attention
and stimulated unfeeling squibs in
the Republican newspapers. It was
necessary to do something, and it was
thought best, to interview Mr.. Lud-
low in the cider press mandatory
itself. The Champion Call sent its
champion reporter to talk with Mr..
Ludlow about the dubious machines,
and in funny fix the candidate seems
to have found himself, as the screws
Of interrogation were duly applied,
and the recording pencil. in the hands
of the recording angel, vibrated be-
fore the eyes Of the bothered candi-
date.
The first question was solemn, and
categorical should have been it's natu-
raj answer It was as follows: "Mr.
Ludlow. does your firm manufacture
cider -mills?" Everybody knew al
ready that it did manufacture these
miserable machines; but it was neces-
sary to make beginning. Mr.. Lud-
low proceeded to answer, but we are
forced to say thut his response was
not in the least categorical He is
represented as Smiling SOFTLY" for
getting, perhaps, that Smiling is not
Prohibition-like at all, but on the con-
trary the resource of those who are
still in the gall of bitters, the bond of
brandy-and-water, the woe Of wine
and the sin of cider. Still the candi-
date smiled, and said: mot to any
great extent this year." Doesn't
make cider-mills this year, to any
great extent! What kind of Prohi-
bition candidate is this? How little
he has learned Of the exquisite par
ticularly Of his party! Does he know
that according to it's ethics, one cider
mill is as morally obnoxious as mill
ion? Has he forgotten the curt and
concentrated slogan: "Touch not,
taste not, handle not?" Does he not
comprehend that in his diminished
cider-mills may lurk an infnity of
woe? That it is but step from the
one glass Of cider made by his. ac-
cursed press to the more potent beer,
the still stronger wine, the very apple
jack, that most muscular of stimu-
lants? But still he went on Smiling
SOFTLY" "The cider-mill," he said,
Expresses the juice of the apple so
that it can be used for apple-butter!r'
And that was the way in which he
proposed to butter the people Of Ohio,
was it?How could he know that those
who purch sed it for apple-butter
might not in moment Of temptation
forget the sacred pledge and the taste
for butter, and bolt the fluid simply
as beverage9 How could he know
| that the VINE MADE IN MS mill would
be used "for sacramental purposes,
as he hinted that it would be? How
could he keep watch over the numer-
Gus demiiohns scattered through the
State, and filled with the, strong
waters flowing from the Ludlow wine.
presses? One point, indeed, he seemed
to make when he pleaded to the lis
tening reporter that from the cider
and wine produced through his in
strumentality great quantities Of vim.
egar might be made. And so vinegar
might be made of the foreign wine:
the sale of which III Ohio his party
proposes to prohibit. 1t would b.
sinful, then, to make vinegar out O
Sicily, Madeira or other imported
wine; it must not be sold for an7
such purpose; but it would be abso
lutely moral to make it out of eide
poured from the presses manufacturer
, and sold by the Prohibition candidat
for Governor! Doctors may prescrib
:: wines expressed from the Ludlow ap
paratus, but even dying man mus