The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-07-06

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Is the Standard not aware that it
does great and vile injustice when it
says we have been advocating drunk
enness and Sabbath dissertations?
The statement Of the Standard is a
lie. We are in favor of taxing the
liquor traffic and Of decent Sundays.
We are in favor Of the license system
for the liquor traffic and of the regu-
lation of the saloons on Sundays ac-
cording to the English system. We
believe the Pond and St. Smith laws
inconsiderate and impracticable, and
that the Republican party was an ass
to take the responsibility of such leg
islation. Everybody ought to be able
to see that now. The Standard
should correct the lying that it has
heard until it has believed, and settle
down to common sense and plain busl-
ness.-Cincinaaati Commercial.
We are certain that we do the Com
n,ercial no injustice. What we said is
not from what we heard, but from read
ing the Commercial. We have read
it carefully every day. If it does not
favor free liquor and no observance Of
the Sabbath day, what in the name Of
truth does it favor? We leave the
truthfulness Of what we say to any
one who has read the paper.
The Commercial says we lie, and it
wants us to settle down to common
sense and plain business; so we call
the attention Of this pretended lover
Of truth to two or three matters of
plain business.
About two years ago there was Sc
rious trouble in this county between
the laboring men and the furnace
owners and coal operators, and the
Sheriff telegraphed to the Governor
of the State for soldiers, and troops
were sent to Coalton and kept there
for a time, to prevent bloodshed.
Some Of the soldiers afterwards died
from exposure while at Coalton, and
it cost the State large sum Of money
During this dangerous excitement,
the Commercial published an editorial
in which it used every effort to excite
the laboring men to violence. The
editorial went on to state that at one
Of the railroad stations in Jackson
county was a railroad agent who was
also agent for one Of the coal compa-
nies. This company charged the la
boring men such enormous prices for
meat, that several families each raised
pig. When they wanted to kill
their pigs they went to the company
to get isalt, but the company would
not let them have salt. They then
combined and sent to Portsmouth for
barrel Of salt, and when it arrived
this railroad agent charged them more
for freight than the salt had cost them
in Portsmouth, and remarked that he
would show them-he would punish
them for not buying their meat from
the company.
We knew at the time that this was
lie, as we were personally acquainted
with all the railroad agents in this
county, We wrote to the Commercial
asking the name of the agent, and the
name Of the station, as we would in
form the railroad company, and have
the rascally agent removed. The
Commercial paid no attention to our
request. In a week or ten days we
wrote again, but up to this time, now
two years, the Commercial has never
taken back this malicious lie.
Soon after the decision on the Pond
law, correspondent Of the CONNER
cial asked that paper if it was not a
fact that only one Of the Judges of
the Supreme Court was a Democrat,
and that he was the only one Of the
Judges who sustained the law. The
Commercial answered that that was as
it understood it. We called the at
tention of the Commercial to the fact
that Judge Johnson, who sustained
the law was and always had been, an
open and pronounced Republican; but
it never made the correction.
Soon after that the Commercial
quoted an article in favor Of license,
from the Gallipolis Bulletin, and said
the Bulletin was a Republican paper.
Now the Bulletin is, and always has
been, Democratic paper, and is edit
ed by Col. John L. Vance, late Demo-
cratic member Of Congress.
We could give, had we space, many
more such instances, in the CONNER
cial, which talks so lippantly about
lying.