The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-07-27
Random Thoughts.
BY ID. MACKLEY.

oCfcId OcIHldu pdpeIS, WulCH PuI-
ports to be taken from the STANDARD,
and which says ugly things about the
Germans generally, and says they all
ought to be hung up by the neck, and
many other silly things. This is an
other Democratic lie and forgery.
Why should have any thing against.
the Germans? My ancestors, on my
fathers side, were Germans. | have
heard my father say that he did not
learn to speak the English language
until he was ten years old, and have
heard him and his German neighbors,
such as old Peter s-7l, George Yeager,
and others, talk in the German Ian
guage nearly every time they met.
Ny father had sister living, which
was older than he was, who did not
live near us, but she would come to
visit us once or twice year. She
spoke the English language very bro
kenly, and she and father would sit
and talk German 1--WE always called it
Dutch then,) for hours at a time,
looking each other Straight in the eyes
all the time.
always admired the Germans for
their patience, industry, economy,
thrift, honesty, learning, patriotism,
&c. l was clerk and salesman three
years for an establishment where
many Germans, as we'll as Welsh,
Irish and native Americans worked
and bought goods. | had to settle
with the men once month, and l
never had any trouble in settling with
German.
| have taught school and boarded
around, where there were Germans.
was always treated with kindness by
the parents, and had no trouble in
governing their children.
l have for many years, and still
have, fair share Of German subscri-
bers to my paper, and in all my deal
ings with them, if ever one cheated
me out Of dollar, or even showed a
disposition to do so, I cannot now re-
member it.
Some Of the Democratic papers in
sinuate that 1 have some kind Of race
prejudice, or prejudice against foreign
ers. Nothing could be more unjust
than this. l have never read any pa
per, or talked with any man, where ]
found them to agree with me in my
liberal views.
I most religiously believe in the
fatherhood Of God, and the universal
brotherhood Of man. I believe that
one man is just as good as another, if
he does right, no matter where he
may have been born. lie the making
of constitutions and laws was left to
me, every resident, male and female,
black, yellow or white, should be per-
mitted to vote and hold Office. / ask
nothing for myself that would not
concede to the humblest member of
the race. A man comes here from
Germany, or Ireland, or Wales, or
Africa, or China, and brings property
with him. He must be an alien for
five years; yet he must pay just as
much taxes on his property as does the
citizen. If he violates a law of the
land, he pays the same penalty as does
the citizen; yet he has no voice as to
how much his property shall be taxed,
what shall be done with the money
which may be collected from him by
way Of taxes, who shall make and ad-
minister the laws, or what kind of
laws shall be enacted. This is tyranny,
and nothing else.
While | would be thus liberal with
all mankind, yet do object to any
one nationality coming in such num-
bers as to band together organize, to
defy the laws Of the land. 1 under
stand that the Germans in Cincinnati
have done this thing. They claim the
right to sell beer on Sunday, and
every other day, in open defiance of
the laws of the land that has shown
them very great iberality. They de-
clare that they will continue to bring
ruin upon families and whole commu-
mites, and they will defy the laws.
They have attained such control there
that juries commit open. willful and
corrupt perjury, and their papers, in
cluding the Commercial, boast Of this
condition of affairs. Do they not see
what the end will be? He that takes
the sword shall perish by the sword.
If men can cause so much misery, in
sanity, pauperism and crime, in open,
boastful defiance Of law, can they
complain ksome Of those who have
suffered most at their hands, should
adopt their own course, and also, in
defiance of law, but in justifable self
defense, hang lot of the outlaws, or
blow up their hellholes with dynam-
ite? Such will be the result of the
course pursued by the Cincinnati
Dutch. s.
The Mevet Democrats, led BY. .Conk-
lin r,s H,,,o,, r,ilIioor Goororo W;IJ;o,,,