The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-05-31

such papers always recalls the remark
once made by prominent politician
Of state, where prohibition is being
tried. II am opposed to Prohibition
because it makes it so awful hard to
get whisky" [ suspect this reason is
at the bottom Of the Journals OBJ
lection to Prohibition. I have no idea
the Scott bill will do any harm, no
hopes that it will do any good. As to
the tax, if the saloon men can be COM
PEELED to disgorge little Of their i'll
gotten gains. to relieve the vice and
pauperism they are causing, [ say,
amen. AS to it's constitutionality, |
neither know nor care. Foster has
the Supreme Court fixed for that,
however. One matter about it is
rather puzzling. Can the Legislature
authorize village corporations to do
what they can not do themselves,
prohibit the liquor trade? It is a
primary principle of legislation, that
no legislative body can delegate pow
ers they do not possess. No one in
Ohio or anywhere else however can
tell just what that 18th section Of the
schedule of the Constitution does
mean.
But to return to our text, "Prohibi-
ton don't prohibit" 1t don't do it
in Maine, they say. This lie is like
the law governing the radiation Of
heat, only reversed. That is, that heat
decreases according to the square of
the distance traversed; but this lie
increases in the same ratio. The fur
ther you get away from Maine, the
oftener you hear it. 1 would as read
lily believe Jas. G.. Blaine, Nelson
Dingley, Joshua Chamberlain and Lot
M. Morril, when they say Prohibition
does prohibit, as some low doggery
keeper, or his newspaper champions,
when they say it don't. Did any one
ever hear of citizen of Maine worth
the powder necessary to kill him, who
said Prohibition was failure there?
True, Maine has sometimes to try men
for violating her liquor laws. Ohio
has to hang murderers once in awhile.
How would it sound for a Maine man
to cry prohibition Of murder is fail
ure in Ohio, let us ''TAx" it?
C. Irving Ditty, Collector Of Inter-
nal Revenue for Md, started out a
few weeks ago to prove Prohibition a
failure in Md, because, as he claimed,
the government collected more tax
under Prohibition than license.
When the Prohibition leaders tried to
get his figures he refused them access
to his books, until Commissioner Raum
compelled him. The telegraph told
the rest Of Mr.. Ditty's story a few
days ago. suspended by the Pres.
for drunkenness and incompetency."
Wonder how many Ohio editors take
ullu lOI d
Then Prohibition is a failure in
Kansas. On one hand they tell us
liquor selling is practically untram-
melled, on the other that Prohibition
is driving all emigration from the
State. An odd sort of law, that
makes whiskey free, yet drives all
emigration from the states because
the new corners can't get it. But then
the liquor organs are nothing if not
illogical. Sen. Vest, man who
fought four years to vindicate the
right of state to secede, has carried
the Kansas law before the Supreme
Court on the ground that the national
government protects the trade and is
supreme over the state. We suspect,
could he be induced to say what he
thinks, it would be that Prohibition
does prohibit.
The other day the Brewers Con-
gress met and denounced Prohibition
as tyranny and injustice. Why is
this, if they sell more liquor under
Prohibition than license? The fact
is, the liquor men give the lie to the
claim that Prohibition is failure, by
every act, and word. IF Prohibition
IS not success, 1T soiH get be made
one If 1T becomes necessary to hang
euery scoundreI that insists ON selling
liquors or making them as high as
Ahasuerus hung Hansars.
But Prohibition 'has proved futile
in all ages Were this true we
might add, so has license. Ask the
average Mohammedan> about this.
Any one who has ever read the Koran
has no doubt been struck by the saw
age denunciations on every page of
wine and wine drinking. The mur-
derer, the thief, might be pardoned
and reach Paradise, but for the man
who drank wine there was nothing
but eternal fire. It is curious ques-
tion, just how Mohammed would feel
could he take a stroll through some
saloon cursed American town. [ sus-
pect he would heat his hell ten times
hotter for the especial benefit Of mod
ern saloonists and their champions
may be give the Scott Bill real warm
corner. This much we do know, the
first wild rush of the crescent closed
o,-o~,, ,,;,,o ebon Prom, tho Gosniap to