The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-09-20
What They Are Doing.
CHAPTER XII.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that
have not known thee, and upon the Kingdoms
that have not called upon thy name"-Ps. 79 6.
This was the language of the Psalm of Asapb,
lamenting the desolation of jerusalem The
psalmist mourns that 1--WE become a re-
proach to our neighbors, scorn and derision to
them that are round about u.s." The saddest
part of the fact of mans becoming a scorn and
derision to his associates, is that such a result
comes, in most cases, from his own voluntary
acts, but not infrequently from the acts of his
associates themselves. There are multiplicity
of evil influences surrounding man, either of
which would be sufficient to encompass his
downfall did he not successfully combat them,
and in the strength and determination of his
| manhood, rise above them. And the most
| potent and dangerous of these influences is In
temperance. This evil influence will destroy
the man who suffers himself to become entan-
| gled in its fatal meshes, no matter what may
| have been his standing in life. The saloon is a
dcadfall, set for victims, and never did border
trapper lay his schemes more deeply, to entrap
| the unwary animal, than does the doggery-
keeper bait and watch his deadfalI, for victims.
We do not believe in dragging the misfor-
tunes OF fellow-being before the public, but
when q man who has been accorded q high
position in the world, falls, through the deadly
influence of the evil we are engaged in fighting
lO-uey, we DellGN6 GDaC tDe IilOSL SOOu possible
to be gotten out of the lesson should be laid
before the public, as warning to others.
Some excitement has been occasioned recently
by the misfortunes of the young man who has
| been our County Treasurer for a few years past
| This young man came to Jackson with as good
name, for sobriety and honesty, any man
| ever brought to community. He was men,
Der of the Church, warm hearted, genial gen.
tleman, and one especially vivacious in the
| al iro1o Ja hol Too
long until he made hosts of friends, and with
some of these friends-after residence of some
time here-begap to go, occasionally. to some of
| the dens of Satan that abound in this place.
From this time onward, it is the same old story.
| He relied upon his own strength for safety from
the evil results of intem perance. The habit
grew upon him. His boon companions would
laugh at his drunken antics, and encourage
him to go onward and downward, toward ruin.
For perhaps year before his misfortunes cuI-
minated in public disgrace, he was drunk
| almost constantly-not in beastly state of
drunkenness-but at that stage where the
drinker thinks he is smart, and every decent
man is a fanatic,
He was very free with his ~ money, treating
| crowds. and loaning to friends. In order to be
fully up to the measure of fast, anti-fanatic,
he had, of course, to keep lewd woman. All
this time the doggery-keepers of Jackson were
ago this young man left, presumably upon one
of his semi-occasional sprees, but not returning
at the right time, an investigation disclosed the
| fact that he was an embezzler. That the dog
gery-keepers of Jackson had gotten in their
work. The man was wrecked-gone. The
DEVILS Agent may boast one more victim, but
the Recording Angel will mark down serious
charge to be met by the doggery-keeper in the
judgment.
of |, ,iS fI,ao
| armed with writs of attachment went to his
farm and seized everything driving off the live
stock, amid the tears and sobs of the wife and
| children of the erring man. Thus will this
house be sacrificed to the doggery. We do Lot
feel like adding to the misfortunes of the fallen
man. He is the victim of the associations and
influences with which he surrounded himself
the victim of the doggeries. And, saddest of all
to contemplate, there are number of young
men in the community who are blindly blum
dering along the same path trod by the erring
| Treasurer. Should any we'll ll-meaning friend
| attempt to reason with any of these young
| mon, they would curse him for temperance
fanatic, and for being entirely devoid of politi-
| cal wisdom and foresight. And it only remains
| for the friends of such to allow them to reel
| along their way to the prison or the grave. The
work of the doggery-keepers of Jackson is per-
fectly appalling. And it is so everywhere. We
moment, to vote for the utter prohibition of
| this liquor curse.
Well may the unfortunate victim cry out, in
the language of our text, for the pouring of
| wrath of the Great Ruler upon the heads of
| those who have known Him not. When the
doggerykeeper, and his bloated and blistered
| hapgers-on, get good man started the
| downward road they not robbing him of
anything save selfrespect and ease of con-
science. But they are robbing his family of the
necessaries of life. Think you that the scene
which transplred at Keenan's farm on last Fri
day morning could fail to provoke the Wrath
of the Lamb against the men who have caused
Mr. Keenans downfall? Think you that the
tears of that good woman-worse than widowed
and the sobs and cries the children-worse
than arphaned-Were not heard and recorded in
Heaven? The unfortunate man deserves, in a
large measure, our pity. The doggery-keepers
and bummers who have been the cause of his
ruin deserve our condemnation.