The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-11-01

provision is made for the return Of a
ratable proportion of the 800 tax
paid by the keeper Of such ale, beer or
porter-house.
But when you come to apply the
prohibitory principle of the 'Scott
Law " to the suppression Of saloons
having paid 5000 tax, you will be
startled to find that no provision has
been made for the return of any part
of the 5000 and that legalized drink
traffic must, therefore, be permitted
to continue.
The State can not take a mans
money without rendering him an equi-
valent therefor. Back of the omis-
sion on the part of the Legislature to
provide for the return Of a ratable
proportion of the 5000 tax there must
have been legislative intent, and that
intent could have been nothing else
than that the lawful drink traffic
might go on after the tipping and
intemperance had been suppressed, if
it were possible to continue the one
and suppress the other. If Mr.. Nc
Dougall's legal acumen has not pene-
trated the Scott Law to this depth, he
has studied it to poor purpose; and
if it has, he is evidently assuming that
his Temperance readers are still ignor-
ant of the fact.
The fact is the power to suppress
evil does not inhere in the Scott Law.
AS means of raising revenue for the
State it is success, but it of necessity
succeeds at the cost Of putting the
liquor traffic on a frmer legal basis
than it ever occupied before in Ohio.
And it does more. 1t antagonizes
the Christian conscience Of the people
by granting the power to lawlessness
in every place where the lawless may
happen to have a majority, or where
through fraud or bribery and political
corruption they can obtain control Of
municipal governments, to set aside
the God-hoEored and time-respected
Sabbath day in the interest of vice
drunkenness and debauchery, by
legalizing the sale of wine and ale and
beer on that day.
The fatal mistake Of Thomas Nc
Dougall and the Republican party was
made when they went before the peo-
pie for an Endorsement Of the Scott
Law. Judge Foraker made a greater
mistake when he declared the "prin-
ciple Of the Scott Law to be eternal "
than when he said the amendments
were not political issues, and he would
neither discuss them nor vote for
them This is no guess work, but
the actual experience Of one who met
and tussled with these questions in an
honest effort to secure his election.
There are hundred thousand men in
Ohio who, like the writer, voted the
Republican ticket and the second
amendment who would not have voted
the ticket but for the amendment, as
kind of side-trac for their consci-
ences, and who will never vote to
ratify or indorse the iniquity they be-
lieve lies concealed in the Scott Law
The Scott Law and the policy Of
the Republican leaders, especially Nc
Dougall and the Commercial Gazette,
was meant to recover the whisky vote
lost last year through the passage Of
the Pond and Smith Sunday Laws.
The enterprise proved failure, and it
always will: That vote is, and of
right ought to be, the property of the
Democratic party, and the sooner Re-
publicans recognize and admit the
fact the sooner they will get on solid
ground and recover their supremacy in
Ohio.
M. REDKEY.
LEEsBURG, O., Oct. II.