The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-11-09

from the natien But you say such law of extirpa
ton could be executed if 1t passed. Try 1t
1t has been executed in different parts of Maine,
Massachusetts, in Rhode Island in Maryland in Col
orado, in Iowa and in Kansas. Give such a law G
entire prohibition in these Eastern States and if tn
authorities do execute 1t will do the Forty
miners did in California when they formed Vigi
lance Committee who made quick work with tn
offenders. Give us such a law in Brooklyn, and
the authorities do not execute 1t will some Sunday
standing in this pulpit, gather battalion of stron
men, and we will go out, and in the name of ou
| homes, and in the name of the Lord God Almight.
! shut up every grog-shop in Brooklyn. But 1t viii
never be thoroughly accomplished until the natiol
awakes from its Indifference to its magnificent oppor
tunity. But of whom would such party be made up
First of ALL hundreds and thousands of drunkards
who helpless in the presence of temptation, woult
like those places of alurement forever removed from
their eyes. These of appetite for strong drinl
not the gauntlet of many inebriate restau
rants, many wine-cellars, many bar-rooms
These unfortunates can not, from morning to night
get the sight of these places They in
street of every city, before them, behind them OF
either side of them, all encircling fire of demonit
bombardment For Gods sake give these over.
whelmed a chance to escape, and let 1t be posi-
BILE for to walk the whole length of Fultor
street. and Atlantic street. and Chestnut street, and
LaSelle street, and Pennsylvania without In
halaton of alcoholic malodors. On the petition to
the next Congress for the enactment of national law
against the manufacture and sale and importation o
intoxicants If such petition be well circulated there
would be the struggling signature of hands tremuous
with dissipations against which unsuccessful battle
has long been waged signatures written if need
like the of the Scotch Covenanters, in blood
dipped from their veins, if that would make the
petition any more importunate. That was wild
scene last Tuesday when madman rushed through
the crowd at Broadway and Fourteenth street, and
with pair of sharp compasses stabbed right and
left till wounded men and women and child len filed
ambulanCpS. 4
man threw maniac TO the pavement and others
helped to make him powerless. But there is thou
sand armed maniac of alcoholism rushing through
the streets stabbing to the heart whole families,
whole neighborhoods the whole nation. Who will
help the United States Government throw the foam
ing demoniac? Who will help the wounded from
under the paw of the red dragon?
Belonging to this party of National Prohibition
will be the physicians of the United States. hold
the names of 123 prominent physicians of New York
and Brooklyn, asking for State and National legisa
tiOn which shall cenne the traffic in alcohol to pur-
poses of science and art and mechanism. Nine hun
dred and ninetynine out of every thousand doctors
in the city of America would sign such document.
They know other class of men the raYages of
this evil. They have not only been called to bind
up the wounds of the sot tumbed into the station
houses and hospitals but in the best and brightest
and weathiest homes of your cities have stood and
helped hold down under costly canopy and amid
terpiece pictures and the embroidered pillow the
victims of delirium tremens when the jungles of
Africa pour into the diseased Imagination all the
reptiles and perdition all Its devils.
Belonging to such party would be the women of
America. Do you say they, can't vote? They all
vote. Are you not willing to acknowledge that the
mothers and wives of America are the mghtiest in
iuences eStant? The woman carried Iowa and Kan
for State Prohibition. The women will yet carry
the United States for National Prohibition and for
God Every man who has a wife who is not fool is
nightly influenced by her sentiment. If wants
advice moral questions he asks his wife, unless he
Is resolved on immortality and then he asks advice
from no one. Now, the women of the land have in
tense appreciation of what this red dragon is. 1t has
put of Its fore feet the nursery, and another
fore foot the wardrobe; of its hind feet the
breadtray, and the other hind foot satura-
ted with the tears and blood of a destroyed home.
Women know what rum is by its fiery wake. Charles
Dickens laughed about the punch-bowl, and poets
have wreathed garlands about the wine-cup, and i'm
personators have made audiences at the stag
gering step of the drunkard but women seldom see
any fun in such dramatization. They beyond the
footlights the shoeless feet of children, and their
daughters by destituton turned to infamy, and
cash across the wifes temples by the broken glass
of decanter, and dsheveIed and wild stand
ing mid floor uttering haloo at which the children
shrek and the wife falls her knees praying to
God who for ten years has not seemed to any,
thing for her; fist of the dashing through
the mirror at which his bride had arranged her
tresses the other hand casting the Bible containing
the marriage record into the fire, and with cracked
lips cursing the God who will yet avenge the of
the suffering, though He great while to post
pone His judgments! Not much fun in all that for
woman. 1t is TO her not such sde-splitting comedy
as blood curdling tragedy. We shall have million
Deborahs yet crying out to Sod and to the Congress
of the United States for national prohibition There
yet to arise IN the Senate of the United
States the House of Representatives who ordained
by the laying of the hands of God Almighty and
the hands of all the righteous men and women of
America, shall demand that the right arm of the
American Government be stretched out for the stop
ping of this plague. And he will in his speech III
the plant of hundredsof thousands homeless
children, and the groan of widowhood that reaches
from sea to sea and from earth to heaven and before
the vision of those national Legislators before whom
he pleads there win appear two lakes lake of
and lake of blood; and two Scrolls the written
like Ezekels SCROLL within and without, with lament
alton, and mourning, and woe; and the other scroll
containing an emancipation proclamation mightier
than that which Abraham Lincoln signed, and giving
freedom to more slaves from worse bondage, and de-
claring that under the majesty of the law well
under the swords and bludgeons of an outraged
ton, shall down the red dragon which so long has
hooked with its ten horns and regned with its
crowns, dragging the third part of the heaven
after it. T.
Yea, III that party of national prohibition will come
the nen of the parties who tired of buid
the work of rum sellers. All patriots who want no
offices for themselves. but want this nation saved
from drunkenness and crime, and to become para
disc OF contenment and prosperity, domestic Social
national into that party the Church of God will
come soidly, the rum-drinkine Christians will get
out of her, and go clear to the devil, who
them from hat to heel; and the Episcopal Church,
and the Methodist Church. and the Baptist Church,
and the Presbyteria Church, and the Congregational
Church, aud the Lutheran Church, and the Catholic
Church, and all the Churches will join that party of
prohibition. Politicians may scof at Christian peo-
ple but tell you that the Christian people to-day,
massed together for any good great and
movement carry anything, either at the ballot
box or in the National Legislature They have never
yet been massed for work. Forgetting all the diff
ferences OF creed let them rise in their might and in
the strength of the Omnpotent and resolve on the
death of the Red Dragon, and the work will be SO
thoroughly done in our day that when we are dead
and gone, in the far future in the museums of the
country lachrymal from ancient tomb and a
demjohn of day win stand on the same shelf, and
alike be curosites about which the antiquarian will
lecture telling his students that the recepta-
Gle of tears for the dead and the other the fountain
patriotic people. Republican, Democratic Green
back, for all good women well as for all good men,
let the battle cry for the next twenty years be- Down
with the rum traffic! National Prohibition! No
quarter for the license system! Eternal smash for
wine bottles! Death to the Red Dragon! With the
drawn sword of the Lord L run him through and
through and stamp on his execrable carcass. And
cry with the angel whom John in Revelation,
standing in the at the time the beast was slain:
To all the fowls that in the midst of heaven
and gather yourselves together unto the supper of
great Cod" -.