The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-06-21
"The Journal" and "PrOhibitiOn." !"
BY JOHN 4. CALHOUN.

BY JOHN 4. CALHOUN.
The Journal is more moderate in regard
to my late Standard article than looked
for it to be. Calling people liars don't
prove the untruthfulness of statement
you say.
Beg pardon Mr.. Journal, didn't mean
to call you liar. don't think you have
enough originality to invent one. do
say that the oft repeated cry prohibition
don't prohibit" is a lie, and assume all
responsibility for the assertion. An old
proverb says, lie well stuck is as good
as the truth, and the liquor men and their
organs are evidently acting on that
theory. Neal Dow says that when the
Prohibition Amendment became a law in
Kansas, the first thing the liquor men did
was to advertise for fifty first class liars
While they evidently have found them,
| it is no wish of ours to insinuate that the
Journal man is one of them. He is only
repeating the lie, like parrot swears in
Dutch.
Then some saloon keeper, most likely
reads me lecture on charity, etc.
have no defense for the icentious-
ness of Mohammedanism. I do admire
the thoroughness of Mohammed's prohi-
bition of drunkenness. AS far as the
icentiousness of our cities and towns
to-day go, every one knows that nine
tenths of it comes direct from the drink
crime. Suppress the drink traffic and
libertinism would lose half its vicious
ness. AS to Mohammed's promulgating
prohibition with one hand while he held
a sabre with the other, will Mr.. Mulgy
please tell us how Mohammed got his
sabre? He probably knows as much of
Mohammedanism as he does of logic.
What use is it to give instances of the
success of Prohibition to such people
They will not be convinced if one were to
rise from the dead. Maybe the Maine
recipe of 500 fine and six months in Jail
might help him to believe.
But then Christ made wine at Cana. 1
don't care if he did. Hurting the Bible
in the way of all modern reforms has
never been an effective way of checking
them. Next some one will tell us Jesus
was a saloon keeper, likely, and paid his
tax like little man. Can any thinking
man or woman imagine Christ in their
widest dreams, who would have shown
the least favor to the modern drink curse?
Were 1 convinced that Jesus was patron
of drunken vice, 81 for one would sooner
bow, Parsee, to the sun, or tend pray
er-wheel in Thibetan brooks, or beat
drum on Yedo's temple floor" But l
forbear. Some of us can remember when
half the pulpits of the nation were prov
ing from the Bible the divine origin of
slavery, and good many of them are
doing it yet, and they have much more
foundation for their claim than the men
who find wine in the Bible have. There
is story to the effect that some one asked
Stephenson when he put his first locomo-
tive on the track, what would happen if
it met a COW. $50 much the worse for
the cow" was the reply.
If the advocates of the drink crime in
sist on throwing the Bible in the way OF
Prohibition, all 1 have to say is so much
the worse for them. l won't say for the
Bible. One of the strongest proofs OF its
divinity is that it has survived so long the
indiscretions of it's supposed friends.
AS to calling hard names, Christ could
do little of that too, when he chose.
Liars, hypocrites, thieves, sound roughly,
but we have the authority of the meek
and lowly Jesus for using such terms. 1t
is always safe to call things by their right
names.
And the Republican party. 1 have as
much stock in it as the Journal men have.
have voted its ticket for fifteen years
without scratch, in community where
TO be an outspoken Republican meant
good deal more than it ever has in this
county. 1 know the Democratic party
too we'll to expect any good from it,
neither do I expect them to dominate the
nation long. What is more, nothing but
Republican folly has made their success
possible. If any one knows what the Re
publican party is in favor of. will they
please tell? Last year they seemed to be in
favor of wholesale throat cutting.
| A persistent effort seemed to be made
to crush every man who had brains
enough to aspire to leadership. AS the
result they succeeded in turning nearly
all the States over to the Democrats. Ii
to give the Democrats control was "Re-
FORM" let us go on reforming. | didn't
help. 1 only deal with facts as l find
them. 1t did look at one time as though
Malone might hold Virginia, but it is
gone too; but it is Reform" and we be-
lieve the Journal is Reform" organ.
We hardly think there is an intelligent
American outside of a lunatic asylum
who expects the next administration in
State or Nation to be other than Demo
cratic. With the loss of the offices there
will be nothing to hold the party togeth,
er. 1t has abjured all principle, unless il