The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-09-07

average near $4,000 employed. These gentlemen be-
Ing untaxed, are grown rich, and having business
great and almost unparalleled profit want inter
ference Had 1t not been for this vast property inter-
est, and advantage in future business, would not
have heard of the "Liquer Dealers Rebellion This
Is the power that provides the "sinews and mnni-
tons Of war;" This is the power that lifts up the
standard of revolt This is the scepter to which the
Democratic leaders cringe and kneel. Thirty thou
sand ducats, 1t is good round Judas received
but thirty pieces The Democratic leaders ready
at Cincinnati with itching palm to sell and mart
their Offices to the brewers. What spectacle! The
distinguished Captains of great party, in political
procession, all fours, with listening keeping
step to the gushing of the faucet and the gurglng of
the bung.
In this Brewers Congress the late temperance
measures were denomnated "the iniquitous Pond and
Smith acts of winter and the Democratic chiefs
echoed the word iniquitous and with the saloonist
made common cause. This association passed many
resolutions. Thelast two read
ReSolUed, That as brewers, as citizens, and tax
payers condemn the unjust arbitrary laws passed
by State Legislature last winter with the sanction
and approval of the responsible leaders of the Repub
lican party.
Resolved That this association will oppose, and If
defeat political party that lends itself to
the passage of laws intended to abrdge rights
| citizens.
Here in the very presence of these Democratic lead
ers, for they (says the EnQuirer) to be in the
neghborhood, in the brewers convention, which
meets to-day at Eureka Hall, needs their services
The brewers condemn the two late temperance acts
unjust and arbitrary" passed with the sanction
and approval of the responsible leaders of the Repub
lican party;' and resolved If possible, to defeat any
political party that lends itself to the passage Of laws
"intended to abridge rights citizens' 1t was
known to the Democratic leaders then sin the neigh
| borhood" that the brewers had determined with all
their power and wealth. to destroy the party that
acted the Sunday and tax laws. I'm Michigan" said
Mr.. Muhhauser, "the retail dealers in chains al
most as CALLING prohibition outright would be-,
The Michigan law to which he referred is similar in
its features and effect to the Pond act 1t is the
traint that disurbs the great liquor and calls
1t to arms. The Sunday act is especially odious to
these gentlemen, they hold 1t is in violation Of
personal liberty, In which interest they resolved
"to have a thorough canvass, which, we remember,
will be enon-committal." The Republican party, by
its platform, is committed policy of taxing the
liquor traffic and of enforcing the Sunday act. Our
resolutions this matter might well have been
worded in language more SPECIFIC. If there is any
thing wanting in clearness and directness the policy
of the party is made sufficiently definite by the clear
statement of its leading men who have spoken on the
| subject. The Supreme Court has held the Pond act
unconstitutional the ground that h clause of the
act requiring the execution and delivery of the bond
and prepayment of the tax, named in the act,
ditions precedent to the right to SELL in the
ture Of license to vend, as without such compliance,
by the vender his sales would unlawful. only
the clause which relates to the bond aud tax
diions precedent that the court hold to be unconst
tutional Judge johnson dissented, and held the act
CONSTITUTIONAL on the ground that the clause of the
relating to the prepayment of the tax and giving
the bond were but restraining and regulating meas
There is great diversity of opinion among the
legal profession to which ground is the stronger.
The principles involved In the Pond act are still
practical and vital Under the liquor civil
damages act, which has stood the test of time the
property, personal and real, of the vender and the
property occupied in sales of liquor where damages
are sustained, without regard to whether owned by
tel fo alp fo
damages See revised statutes sections 1868 1854
1t is clear In the light of the late holding of the Su
preme Court, that the Legislature has the constitu
tona right to provide for tax, similar in character,
barring prepayment, to that of the Pond act. 1t is
equally clear in the light of long established law
in the instance of several criminal and penal acts that
the Legislature has the right to provide for the COL
lection of such tax, in summary manner, by seiz
ing all the property of the vender personal and rea
to pay such tax, and that the property used as
place of whether owned the seller his land
lord, may be made subject to sale for nonpayment.
Such provisions will be just effective means of
revenue restraint and repression as the prepayment
of the tax and execution and delivery of the bond
provided for in the Pond act.
The Republican party has put its the waters
of the Rubcon, and will pass over and so forward,
with such OF taxation, restraint and regu-
latien public sentiment may demsnd. We
to surrender the right of legal control the
traffic. VIII we do it? Never never. Such sur
render would jeopardize the civilization of coming
generations. 1t is recent thing for class
party to have the temerty to attempt to destroy
the Sabbath day of rest The greatest living
Democrat of Ohio, Judge Thurman, FEW years SINCE
in the of Bloom Richards, o. s., rendering
the united opinion OF the Supreme Court, without
partisanship bias speaking of the statute forbid
ding labor Sunday, says: 1.-THE Sabbath could not
stand If the sole foundation the Christian duty
of keeping that day holy and its sole motive to
force the observance of that duty For power
things merely spiritual has been delegated to the
government, while every preference of religion
over another, the statute, meaning contrary one
would give, the above hypothesis is directly pro-
hibited by the Constitution. We are, tn en-, t
regard the statute under consideration mere mu
nicipal regulation, whose validity is neither
strengthened weakened by the fact that the day
of rest 1t enjoins Is the Sabbath day. Wisdom re-
quires that men should refrain from labor at least one
day III seven and the advantages OF having the day of
rest fxed and fixed to happen at regular recur
rir intervals, too obvious to be overlooked 1t
was within the constitutional competency of the ZEN
era Assembly to require this cessation of labor and
to the day of rest 1t did by the act referred
to, and In accordance with the feelings of majority
of the people the Christian Sabbath was properly
selected Twenty years ago this great jurist
rendered this opinion clear in defining the right
fulnsss and wisdom the maintenance the Sabbath
day Of rest Is it the destruction of personal
liberty" to require showmen and liquor vendors to
cease their daily labor Sunday? The farmer stops
his p1ow; the artisan retires from the anvil and
bench; the merchant lays by his measure and closes
his ledger; the teacher and student rest from the
class the Judge quits the bench and the lawyer lays
aside his brief All business and employments, ex-
cept those controlled by inexorabe necessity have
ceased By what authority do Democratic officers
and Democratic jurors in Ohio refuse the execution
the Sunday closing act while the act Of the Federal
Congress closing up saloons in the National Capital is
enforced and Sunday there is quiet as in country
| village?
In the great cities of New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, and all the cities Of the South, in great
measure, except New Orleans the saloon palace and
den, is closed. Even West Virginia has in force
Sunday closing act. Alas! for personal liberty in
| Oh1o. Does 1t require no Sunday had thou9ht
that the liberty of ends where the liberty of
another begins. had thought this State, in keeping
with the power exercised in all the Christian world,
had authority to police and restrain of all
kinds Injurious to the pnblic deny that personal
liberty in Ohio has to worship at the shrine of
| anarchy.
The Sunday act aims at such carnfvals, shows,
certs, dramas, and Black Crooks regarded by
| the cannon judgment of mankind as tending to de-
bauch the mind of youth, and demoralze society.
Sunday for rest and Improvement some designated
day in old the law of Moses, and is uni
versally found to be most wise of civil poll
cy Sunday is and has been the day of res designat
by Christian world from the days of the
The magnificent civilization of modern Europe and
America sprang up beneath its touch Our Anglo
Saxon fathers loved and defended it. Germany en-
forces It, We have observed 1t as day of rest since
pioneer fathers penetrated the wilderness OF Ohio,
subued the savage and wrought out this triumphant
civilization. 1t is day rest, 'sweet and Benign
Who comes to take 1t away? Who attempts to an
null the Sunday act? Who, by making all days days
of labor, would silence the bell of our free
churches and transfer the youth from the Sunday
c school to the show?
Republicans good citizens, all to the FORUM call the
lovers of law and order the ballot. Swear by the
bones dead ancestry that the Sabbath of ths
= ages past shall be defended and not taken away.
: The President of the Brewers Association Gays
''We know very well that the Democratic party holds
e great many temperance and far that veal