The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-08-16
What They Are Doing.
CHAPTER VII.
"But God shall shoot at them with an arrow
suddenly shall they be wounded .'-Ps. 64-7.

"But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
suddenly shall they be wounded ."-Ps. 64-7.
We have faith that God will shoot at the Dew
lis imps, the doggeIy-keepers, with the arrow
of His wrath, yet we believe that every good
citizen, and every Christian may very materi-
ally assist in stringing the bow. We are not of
those who favor trusting any great work solely
to Divine Power, without any human eXertion.
The Lord helps those who help themselves.
The doggery-keeper fears not God-his sole fear
is of man. The only possible moment when
doggery-keeper might be brought to fear God,
is at the moment when he is about to step off
the shore of time into eternity, and then he
knows that he will never See God, hence he is
rarely brought to fear the 'fwrath of the Lamb"
until it is too late for repentance. When h ow
ever, Divine Power strikes through human
agency, and the imp begins to feel that be is
about to have his bloated heck grasped by a
firm, an inspired grip, he begins to realize that
there may be danger to him and his interests
though he will maintain to the last that the
attacks upon his crime the outbursts of
human fanaticism. To doggery-keeper, eve
| rything that doesn't stink is fana ticism.
Take single saloon in Jackson as a speci-
men of the life the DEVILS imp leads: Many
years ago the proprietor of this den came to
Jackson and opened up sort of confectionery
ture began to assert itself, and he added grog
| shop to his business. Through long series of
eyentful years that man has conducted his in
| fernal traffic, and a sea of sorrow and death
the result of his work for the DEVILS spread
| out all around him. TIL ere are more graves
| than one, in the cemetery, whose occupants cry
out against this one doggery as the chief m cans
| of their destruction. We seem to one of
them now. A man of fine personal appearance
of o,1x hoo
an eloquent public speaker; man who was
entrusted with high official station, who held
more than one office of public trust no life in
jackson county gave brighter promise of a
| brilliant future. We knew him as a friend ,>as a
| fellow-citizen and public officer and we
| know that when sober he was man of good
| impulses. But the doggeries of jackson got in
their work, and the doggery to which we refer
red in the beginning did the principal part of
the work, perhaps The last time we saw this
man alive he was going into this doggery, and
was wild and raving with delirium tremens.
He was still handsome man-exce pting the
stare of the rum maniac in his eyes. OF a good
| family, he surrendered to the doggeries and
went down rapidly; and after bringing all the
disgrace and shame-which was possible for
him to bring-upon his family, he died the
death of the drunkard-raving with the widest
horrors. A family disgraced, a wife and several
|
perhaps soul lost forever. And why was all
! this?
Simply that this doggery keeper and few of
his associates might get the mans money with
| out working for it. Imagine, If you can, all the
long years of disgrace, of terror OF suffering, a
brilliant life blasted and destroyed a family in
| constant fear for their lives; and all this time
this bloated doggery-keeper-and few assocf-
ates-were constantly, day after day, raklng in
the mans money, and brutaly laughing at the
disgraceful street scenes their Internal traffic
| was causing. This is only one of hundreds of
cases. This victim was raised in Jackson, and
every reader of the STANDARD, perhaps, knew
| him or has heard of him often, and could his
| wrecked body rise out of the grave on yondeT
hill, it would bear witness to the entire truth
| fulness of what we are writing. 1t is some con-
ISOLATION to know that in this case "God has shot
with an arrow and wounded the doggery-
keeper until he hobbies about horrible speci-
men of his own work, and in his rounded
beauty. as he shuff1es along the street, suggests
the idea of small bug propelling huge ball
Yet he still labors on in the field where he has
| wrought so much destruction adding, year by
year, n ew victims to the already appalling list
You may see, almost every day, in passing
this den, horrible specimens of the work of the
place, lettering about the door. These are on
their way to the grave; this doggery is the toll
gate on the way to death and hell, and the
keeper of the place rigidly collects the toll
| these loafers must have money to give the
DEVILS imp; they do not work; how do they
obtain money? 1t is but a short step from idle
ness to crime, and when idleness is made drunk
it materially accelerates the descent of the vic
| tim.
Here is passing, in plain view, a long pro-
cesson of young men, marching, marching, on
the road to destruction. through this horrid
toll-gate; at every other doggery the same
thing is transpiring, to greater or less extent
This procession of victims moves right on,
through the doors of the doggeries, and, rap
idly on, down the road to ruin; we look in
vain for the rear-guard of this army of young
men; we find it not; the ranks are rapidly
filling up from the rear, and when a wrecked
life drops out from the front, some young, ten
der boy Immediately supplies the place in the
rear. And the most horrible feature of this
death-march is that occasionally we find men
wearing the garb of Christians acting recruit
| ing officers. 1t is not necessary for us to &c
behind the screens to depict the horrors that
beset this horrible march; the results are plaidly
| to be seen from the outside. How long will
the people permit these destroyers to carry on
their horrible, murderous traffic? How long
will they be permitted TO live, as beasts of prey
| off of the earnings of their fellow-men? Nc
doggery was ever known to benefit a COM
munity. On the other hand every doggery is q
positive injury to the community, and a stand
ing menace to the life of every boy, and the
| happiness of every girl in it. We quarantine
| against yellow fever and smallpox-why not
! quarantine against the doggeries, a vastly
greater plague. We would not ask any citizen
to be Influenced by anything he reads or hears
| but "seeing is believing let him look around
| him and see the wrecks upon every side; let
him witness the horrible, siekening march
from the doggery to the grave; then ask him.
self If man cali be good neighbor, good
citizen, or good Christian, and not do all in
his power for the suppression of the liquor
traffic and the consequent protection of hu-
manity.