The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-02-17
APETITIoN IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION.
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PETITION IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION.
To the Honorable Legislature of Ohio, in House and
Senate assembled:
respectfully petition your honorable body TO pass
to law he S Pehd@ng @ 6efore YoS to pr
itself from the sale of liquid insanity known as
not. n The popular acceptance of the term, a
guard us-or rather permit us to guard ourselves
In this day Of adulteration, when all our food is
less poisoned BY wicked dealers for gain
Way vnrFf fan aan aH acohoiic and malt liquors
this Is G an on s of sss @ so Il Is
ing power restrain eradicate. The practice of
al Of
hind eon nter and IN front Of Bottles and gassss to
eating liquor, IS wroug-doing that at should be pun
Bei}eSing: as do, that alcohol has its uses the
head Of the family of every necessary life,
aa h and e d
sn % % for s p npp
the gaiiows, % makes orphans the poor
es should pas L n
sh4oid % Sprn to the wrongdoer the
What would be the horror Of a community if broth
s with
seemed h0f and @itoSt
Courts and police? And yet the evil we ask You TO
Guanee than either or both for it is the parent Of the
6rothe and y11fn % nrae 49 criminals capable
L write with some feeling but no exageraton. for
there is not one of you gentlemen who has not had
heart wrung by having this terrible evil come
home your family and in many instances to your
freside.
1 know that this reform is besct with difficulties.
All reforms But must not count them impos-
sibiities. The obstacle however. with which have
the least patience is that presented by large body of
men held together by pecuniary considerations. who
threaens that party with loss politically that dares
That body of men having degraded politics
until the road to Office is only the candidate
through the grog-shops and beer saloons, seek
take advantage of their wrong. and obstrurt
politics malaria that poisons all ii touches.
Were 1t not that sense of duty is so much weaker
and less efficient than hope OF gain. should expect
the good af both parties 10 rise in their wrath
such threat, and relegate these men TO party of
their own. They would then be found In such mi
nority to be not only harmless but ridiculous.
Gentlemen, the cry of agoniZed women is heard at
your door begging for protrctiona majority of the
people here demanding legislation. There is a
faith alive perhaps it is only superstition that
live under self-goyernment, where before the |
law written constitution the majority rules.
make their politics depend sale of their liquor?
respectfully petition that this bill may be separa
ted from all others and passed to law upon Its
merits. We have right to this and trust that
right may be recognized
am not in favor of the re-enactment of the law of
God. By this mean the moral relations existing be-
tween the creature and his Creator. think \
not supplement His win with human legislation. i
The limit OF all ntoipal law is the relation OF man
to man, and not man to God. Therefore if
fit to get drunk, so long he abstains from
act against the of the State and the rights of his
fellow.ciGSe1A such ss breaking windows, beating