The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-08-09


1t seems unnecessary, in applying he above
text 10 the case of the oggery-keepers 10 pray
for any thing save the last clause The dogg-ry-
keeper is already put TO shame; he feels that
he is a criminal and he is as much concerned, in
bis attempts to va lie the clutches of the law, as
the murderer the hors- thief. He knows
that his business is horrible, ruinous. and as he
rakes In the money for which better men than
himself have toiled, he chuckles to think that
the people will be such fools as to permit his
internal traffic in their midst.
A lot of these DEVILS Agents were around, on
last Wednesday, VISITING each others doggeries
and discussing "der ordinance" At one of the
dens' their drunken howls, and attempts at
singing might have been heard a square away.
Now, if q gang of sixteen murderers, or sixteen
horse-thieves. were to open sixteen drns in this
town. where they laid their plans for raiding
the stables of our citizens. would not the entire
community be down upon them? Yet. is there
q man in town who would not far rather have
his horse stolen than have his son destroyed,
body aud soul? These drunken, bloated dog
gerry y-keepers as they sit over their mugs of
slnps, are pla ming the destruction of the boys
and young men of this town 1t is the only
hope for the success of their crime. If they can
create, in the young boy, An appetite for beer.
he will be the drunkard of the future. who will
bring them all the money he can earn, borrow,
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doggery-keepers. their wives and children are
permitted to take part, so that, when the Devil
shall call the doggery-k-eper home, he feels
sure of leaving son or a daughter, or a half
dozen of them, to CONT uue his crime.
We spoke some time tim ago of mechanic
who had gone home drunk, from these dens,
and was seized with d, lirium tSemens, fright
| ening bis family almost TO death This case
| was one Of hundreds. On the day of the show
|
than .ver seen in any one day in Jackson. In
| the afternoon a man was dragged along Ports
| mouth street to his home. This man has a
good trade, but both himself and his mother
| are drunkards. On the same evening we saw q
| weil-known mechanic being hauied home in
| H-les buggy, so drunk that he spread himself
| pretty much all over the buggy. On thu same
evening two young men-men of great physical
| strength and fair education-went reeling and
tumbling home TO respectable families. And
SO the Devils work went on. And so it is going
| on eve'y day.
| On Wednesday evening blacksmith who
| spends his time between working at Lakes
shop and taking periodical drunks, attacked
and beat, or attempted to beat, his wife He
was arrested. and plead guilty before Mayor
James, when he was sentenced to pay fine of
| five dollars and costs. and be mprisoned in the
county Jail for ten days. ''-I'm no - mur-
| Qefer J! SAID ne Wnen ne was thrust INTO JAIL
| you - son of a -" yelled Luke Jones,
''if We had you in here, we'd attend to your
| case! I"
| The blacksmith was so terribly frightened
| that he want to be plac in some other part
| of the Jail, for fear Luke would eat him mp
This fellow made brute of him~elf by drink
| ing, beat his wife, and must now lose ten days
time in prison. And what Tor? Simply that
the low, brutal doggery- keepers of jackson may
| get his money without working for it.
The doggrry-k-eper is a loafer. He makes
his money off of men who loaf around his den.
and his entire existeuce points TO idleness and
crime as the chi-f end of the Devils Agent. He
is an enemy to the progress of the community
| an enemy to everything decent. While the
| pulpfts are pointing souls heavenward, and
| seeking to eleva mankind into high and
noble life the doggery-keeper is seeking to sell
mems souls tn the Devtl and degrade ami ruin
| humanity. The enIiment of tue community
cries for the downfall of the doggeries the suf
| fering families of their victims cry for theiI
| downfall; the graves of The murdered drunk.
| ards-aye, worse than murdered-call for their
| suppression; everything that is nobl-, and
| good, and pure, the world, call for the utter
extinction of the horrible, sickening, murder.
GUS hell holes that are disgracing and running
the community. How long will the people
permit the work OF ruin to go on?