The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-07-26
What They Are Doing.
CHAPTER ".


''The Lord thundered from Heaven and the Most
High uttered His voice.,-Samuel 22-I4.
There is not doggery-keeper in this commu-
nifty, with sense enough to think, who does not
possess guilty conscience. There is not one of
them who does not regard himself as a crimi-
nal, and his business as scheme of making
living by wholesale murder. The Lord does not
permit these fellows to be ignorant of the evils
of their traffic, neither does He permit them to
enjoy pathway of roses through life. AS the
drunkard goes rapidly down after the first
drink, so the doggery-keeper is-in almost ev-
cry case-hurried on to misery and ruin.
The grandest temperance lecture to be con-
ceived would be procession of the doggery
keepers of Jackson, waddling and shutting
along the street, like so many hogs being driven
to the slaughter pen. Within the past few years
several of the DEVILS Agents have swelled up
and died, like poisoned dogs-and poisoned they
really were. But they succeeded-before. the
Devil foreclosed his mortgage upon them-in
destroying scores of better men than them
selves. Several more of these fellows are begin
ming to waddle wearily, and labor heavily,
wheeling and putting, as they pass along the
streets, and we are satisfied that the Savior, as
he bore the heavy cross which was to be his
death, TO Calvary, did not suffer nearly so much
as do these miserable sinners and imps of Sa-
tan, as they bear wearily along the load of bloat
and filth that is to kill them. The finger of God
is pointing at the doggery-keeper, and no mat
ter whether the second proposition be carried or
not, the work will go right on, and in any event
the days of the doggery-keeper are numbered.
A friend told US, few days ago, of poor wo-
man who went to one of these DEVILS Agents,
and requested him, with tears in her eyes, not
to sell her boy any more whisky. "Damn you
and your boy! Keep him away from here!"
yelled the brute. Conduct none the less brutal
is going on every day in the Jackson doggeries.
Most of these fellows, however, resort to the
easier method of lying. Ask one of this class
not to sell to a drunkard, and he will fondle his
| red nose, wink his bleared eyes, and say, "Don't
know the mamie never comes here"
Aside from being brutal, these doggeries teach
dishonesty, and breed dishonesty. We have
known doggery- keepers in the town of Jackson
to take articles of clothing in pawn for drinks,
after the victim of their Internal traffic had
drunk up all his money. The doggery-zeeper
has liquors for sale, and he does not care how
nor to whom he sells them-so that in some
way the pay is secured. 1t is not marvellous
that these fellows get r1ghteously indignant
when public attention is called to their prac-
tices behind the screens. Here is a case, by
eyewitness: A great, stout fellow is keeping
doggery in Jackson which he calls ''a tirst-class
saloon," one of the places which claim great
distinction under the Scott Law. Crowds of
men are sitting around tables in this hall, gam
bling [this is not fancy sketch, but is occur
ring to-day, and tonight in Jackson,l for beer
and cigars. A couple of boys, not more than
twelve or thirteen years of age, come in. They
want beer. "Of course" the proprietor of the
"blace of peesness" won't sell them any-they're
minors, you know! Do these youngsters go out
without their beer? No, they know that the
proprietor wants their half-dimes, so they go to
two of the card-tables, hand two of the gam
blers nickel each, and the gamblers call Tor
"two BEERS" which each one slips under the ta-
BILE to one of the boys. "Ofcourse" the proprie
tor didn't sell to the boys, So after getting their
"peer," they gulp 1T downat their leisure. These
boys will probably go onward, and downward,
until their parents or friends come to ask the
keeper of this den not to sell them anything
more to drink when that "honorable peesness
man" will stand up, unblushingly, and say that
he has never seen the boys. This, friends, is a
specimen of the work of the doggery.
One may frequently observe, in passing one of
these dens from ten to twenty-five empty beer
kegs pitched out in front of the door. Every
one of these kegs tells a story of so much money
worse than wasted. Every one of them tells OF
headaches, and quarrels, and fights, and delir-
ium tremens Every one of them tells OF crime,
of ruin, of broken home circles, and heavy
Court expenses. Now, suppose all the nasty,
sinking dens were wiped out of existence
Would it not be blessing to the community?
We noticed, on Friday, dozen kegs OF the
slops of the doggery being unloaded almost i'm
mediately under the Mayors Office pedestrians
being compelled to wait until the Devils Agent
could get his kegs rolled past. In the window
of this den number of liquor-bottles are dis
played. We suggest that these be taken out,
and printed signs put in their stead-for in
stance: "Murderers furnished with Inspiration
Within, - 'Souls fitted for the Regions of Dark
ness, ""Families Destroyed" "Tickets for the
Mad-house furnished Within" &c. These might
not look so pretty, but they would be fully as
respectable.
Every dime spent in one of these dens is vast
ed-worse than lost-to the man who spends it
and great majority of the dimes SO spent, be-
long to the families oil the men who spend them.
In the great world of trade the doggery keeper
is a consumer of money, and producer of mis-
cry.
We defy any man, anywhere, to show where |
any doggery has ever been of one cents benefit
to a community. 1t makes criminals of young |
men, loafers of middle-aged men, and sufferers
of women and children. 1t makes
police officers and police courts necessary, and
inaugurates general reign of poverty, want
and ruin, in the community in which it is To-
Gated. The way to strike death blow to this
curse of the community, is to vote on God s side
for the SECOND PROPOSITION ONLY.