The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-09-13
What They Are Doing.
CHAPTER XI.

Woe unto the wicked; it shall b. i'll with
him; Tor the reward of his hands shall be given
him. 3-L.
The were the words of the Prophet Isaiah,
concerning Jerusalem and Judah. The warn
ing of the Prophet would have had much deep
er meaning at the present time, if applied to
that nastiest wick kedest and most horrible class
Of sinners, the doggery- eepers. We believe, as
regards this class, that sit shall be ill with
them;' we have n-ver been able to bring our
faith up to the point of believing that dog
gery-k keeper-who dies as such-can ever enter
the Kingdom of Heaven. Were it possible for
him TO do SO, Heaven would be a hollow mock
cry The Bible is filed with the most ringing
denunciations of the business of drunkard-
making, and when the Holy Scriptures declare
that no murderer shall inherit the Heavenly
Kingdom, it is certainly fair to consrue the
declaration meaning the doggery keeper.
Thus, it shall be ill with them, if allowed to go
on in their sinfulness until death over take
them.
But the horrible devastation wrought by
them in the world is the danger which COM
mands our Immediate and earnest attention.
When poor, sinful, degraded doggery-
keeper drops out of the world, we can afford, in
so far be is concerned, to take our farewell of
him-for five but faithful we shall never
see him again-but he may succeed in running
hundred homes before he is called to account
before the Judgment Bar.
We have here ofore spoken of the great pro-
cession of drunkards who are reeling TIN ough
Jackson, on their way from the saloon to the
grave. In every instance we have mentioned
an actual occurrence, or a picture from every
day life in jackson. We will meption here. as
slowing the horrible fatal control the doggsry
gets over the victim, a conversation we had a
few weeks ago with one of these victims We
will not give his name, but every man in this
county perhaps knows him, and no more socia-
BILE gentleman or thorough business man-when
sober-is 10 be found. In describing the crav-
ing appetite for in oxicating liquor, he safd
81 felt the horrible craving one morning
about daybreak, and Immediately sought an
ex for coming to town, asking my wife if
she did not want some steak for break fast But
the good woman replied in the negative; then
declared that would have some steak; the
poor woman knew what the matter; she
had learned by bitter, horrib1a experience; my
little child, just able to run about the yard
seemed 10 know what was drawing me to-
wards town. and hustled out of bad thus early
in The morning, to ATTEMPT in his childish way
10 divert my after ton. and cause me 70 forget
my journey. He would toddle along before me
in the path. call my attention to this or that
object, and endeavor bv every childish art 10
drive off he horrible monster which was lay
ing hold of me; but shook off the love of this
little child, laughed the subteriuges of my
older children, trmpled under foot the excuses
of my loving wife, came up town, and got a
little bit of beefsteak, and good deal of whis-
ky; and here am, fool drunk, as you see
wishing that we're dead. know that am a
disgrace TO nay family and nay friends, but
cann6t help it," +.i y
The experience of this man is the experience
of hundreds and thousands of others; the habit
OF occasional drinking in the many doggeries
that abound in this town grows upon them
until, instead of being a habit Ii becomes a
horrible, craving appetite Lookout upon the
street almost any evening, and you will see
from three to six drunk men reeling about.
rebuke to he officers, disgrace to their friends,
and a miserable picture of the work OF the dog
gerry. The necessity for prompt and vigorous
action on the part Of every temperance man,
and every man feeling an interest i'll the well
fare of his fellow men, lies in the fact that the
doggeries are ever striving TO extend their ipfu-
ence. Their main drive is toward enlsting the
officers upon the side of lawlessness and crime,
and in this thev are too frequently successful.
When the drunkard-maker can once ply his
internal trade under the protection of the
oficers-sworn TO enforce the lawS-he is
dered doubly dangerous to the comm nifty.
Lei us hope that it will never be in jackson.
These dens that lure the friend of whom we
have spoken away from his family and make
him drunk would not stop at anything as being
TOO horrible for their purpose of obtaining his
money without working for 1T the keepers Of
l he Sc dens would take his last cent, and ssnd
his family to the Infrmary, with little
morse as Jesse James would have reached into
victims pockets and robbed him. They are
only waiting and watching to ruin this mans
boys in the same manner in which they ruined
the father. They feel that Satan has given
them power to compel men to support them
without work. and when they see young
druukard reeling about the streets. they gl' at
over the prospect of the long-continued rob-
berry of another victim. Friends, in view of
the horrible evidences of the curse of this traf-
fic, how can We BE- good oitizens and not vote,
and work, to crush the horrible traffic out ?
Everybody admits that the traffic is a danger
and curse; everybody admits that ii is the
cause of heavy and useless taxation; nobody
C caims-unless it be the dngg -ry- keeper him
the community would not be vastly |
better off without it then, in view of all this,
let us vote to crush the horrible thing out. Let
US vote for the second proposition.