The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-02-01

stabbed in the back by Frank Kelly's
brother John, and laid low. Having
lost the knife in the struggle, John
Kelly seized an axe and dealt McPart-
land blow on the head that stretched
him senseless. When the police ar
rived on the scene, the fight was over,
but several arrests were made.
Scenes not unlike these occur near
'ly every day in the year in the saloons
of this city. If they were reported
from the dens of vice in new settle
ments, on the outskirts of civilization,
we would wonder that anybody goes
there to live, Or rather to run the risk
of being killed, in the vicinity of such
savages. But they form part of the
daily life OF the great metropolis of
the continent. While intelligent
Christian citizens are enjoying the
luxuries that religion and wealth and
education furnish, they are able to re-
fleet, if they will think of it, that
within pistol shot of their houses and
churches, colleges and schools, these
scenes are almost constantly in prog
ress. And the second reflection is.
that all Of these tragedies are per-
formed under one inspiration-that of
strong drink. Billy McGlory and
Company are licensed by the city au-
thorities to keep and sell the material
which it the inspiring cause of this
violence and bloodshed. Thus the
city, the constituted government of
the people, which represents the aver
age civilization Of the great commu-
nifty, is party to the state Of things
which we are now deploring. It
comes to just this and nothing less.
There is no nearer connection between
any effect aud its cause, than there is
between the liquor-saloon and crimes
of blood. And as the Government
maintains these salons, and takes
money for the permission given Billy
McGlory and Company to furnish the
fuel for these fires. the Government is
morally responsible for the mischief
that results.
1t is hardly possible to imagine a
subject more stale and fiat than this;
and | can hear you saying, "This is
not the entertainment to which I was
invited" Just so; but / have often
told you, [ must write Of that which
is for the moment the most pressing
on the mind. And, 1T is borne in
upon me" that the most serious, inn
portant, and momentous question Of
the day is involved in the matter of
temperance or intemperance in the
use Of Intoxicating drinks. There is
no party issue so nearly vital to the
welfare of this country. The tariff,
the currency, everything dwindles,
when compared with the gigantic pro-
portions of the increasing evil that
comes from this one pestilent source
| do not pretend to propose solution
of the problem, what to do about it."
Where there is a public sentiment
that will sustain laws to put the traffic
on the same footing with the vices
and sources Of vice, by all means let
US make laws to help in saving the
people. And we may labor and pray
to bring the people up to that high
water mark of virtue where such laws
will be made and sustained. But push
the subject aside as we may, treat it as
a vulgar, dull, and dreary question to
be attended to only by professional
who are often regarded as
great bores, the subject will not be
put down. 1t is on us and around us,
and we must deliver the country from
the cause of it, Billy McGlory and
Company have their clutches on
the poor, the vicious, the lawless,
On thousands of voters, on millions of
the people There is much fighting
and bloodshed in the shops of Billy |
and Company, and our fight
out of the saloons, and in the pulpit |
and press, in the market-place. and at
The polls, must be with Billy McGlory
and Company, till we put them down.
IRENEUS.