The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-01-19

simply absurd. They were much les
ready than we are. Travellers, AM
citizens of Kansas tell us that nine o
ten months ago, dram-drinking wa
much more universal than in our owl
State.
If [ remember correctly, the bill
submitting the prohibitory law to tn
people, passed the legislature by on
vote only, and the papers throughou
the State hooted at its indorsemen
by the people.
:. But-God bless the people Of Kan
sas for th-ir noble work! 1t did carry
and is to-day, grand success. AM
the drunkards who were in rags an
disgrace are again clothed and in the1
right mind. l have the verbal state
ment from reputable citizens of Kan
sas that they have frequently hearC
these reformed men-only reformed
by the temptation being taken away
express their gratitude to the tenn
perance people for their humanity il
delivering them from bondage worse
than death! And it is a great deliv.
erance for Kansas. 1t is, as it were
"a nation born in a day."
The great question of the day with
US, is, What is to become Of our great
keystone State, which is now running
rife to drunkenness? The present
citizens of the State are responsible
for its future.
If the writer is just as ''impractica-
ble'' as he is ''cowardly," let me here
make one bold statement:
We, the voting citizens Of the great
State, the fathers Of the children, are
training the rising generation in a
school Of drunkenness; and it has in
attendance much larger per cent. of
the scholars of the State-the boys
at fifteen years Of age and upward,
than all the literary, moral and reli-
gious schools combined; and we will
soon-unless there is reform in our
time-hand over to our children a
state government in which the same
power will be chief, with a generation
of drunkards to control it. Please sit
down, Mr.. Editor, when you have a
leisure hour, by the side of some old
upright citizen of your city, who has
had his eyes open all along the line,
and ask him to give you history of
the early wealthy families of Ross
county, and if I mistake not, he will
tell you that the greater part Of that
wealth was squandered by prodigal,
drunken boys.
In this day Of multiplied dram
shops, and bad whisky, with two or
three billiard and pool tables in each,
to invite the boys in, the result must
be much worse to the rising genera
ton. This is one reason why I have
been so ''impracticable" for years past,
as to vote for no man for any position
Of trust, who, to my certain knowl-
edge, encouraged or patronized these
institutions of crime-Satan's schools.
What is the situation to-day? Tie
Democratic party, with apparent stolid
indifference, folded her arms in the
late political contest, and waited to
see if any good would come to them
in the strife. The Republican party
lifted it's voice above the din of the
conflict, and in the anguish Of it's soul
it cried to the temperance people.
stop, stay with us, and we-the great
party of moral ideas-we only will do
you good What was the result? on
ly 16,607 temperance people had the
courage to break away from party
lines, bearing aloft the standard of
Reform, and open hostility to this
gigantic crime Of crimes" The lar
ger body of temperance workers, many
of whom we know to be true men in
the cause, said to the Republican par
ty, by their votes, I'VE will try you
once more" and for the present that
party is responsible. What will they
do? The rum power says I'VE have
laws enough" And til watchmen on
the walls for the Republican party
seem to be sounding the same trumpet.
They say in substance: Make no
more stringent laws on this question
until public sentiment trained under
the rum school,-comes up higher -
1.-The very fact that the present laws
are not enforced, proves conclusively,
that public sentiment is not in favor
of temperance laws"
May God deliver the temperance
people Of Ohio from this fatal delu-
SION! The temperance element is
mostly responsible for the situation
they have the moral force. and the
numbers too, if they will exercise
them without delay. They should, al
once, make one combined effort, ire
spective Of party, to induce the legis.
lature that will shortly assemble, tC
apply the ak of prohibition to the
roots Of the deadly upas tree; the a2
which Kansas lifted; the only weapon
that has ever successfully crippled ant
broken the rum power.
Now one word concerning our mucl
vaunted temperance laws. | think
speak the experience Of all men wh'
have thoroughly tested these law
when | say they are comparativel,
worthless. There is not more than
one law upon the statute books, tha
is worth the turn Of the hand fo
effectually suppressing dram drinking
and that upon one day only.
wish the editor Of the Gazette will
before again accusing me of cowardic
upon this question, reproduce an arti
Gle from my pen, entitled, "a Screy
Loose" that appeared in your column
sometime in the Spring Of 1871. Il
our determined effort at that time, t
relieve our community Of this growing
evil. we were fully convinced of tn
inefficiency of the laws to meet tn
case. It was impossible to execute th
laws in Ross county then, because c
the technicalities that hedged abou
them, and it is equally so now. Blu
this is not all. Our county seat is
hot-bed of intemperance, and in ever