The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-03-20
Newark Americana
A Blot on our Civilization.

Bi0t on our CIVILIZATION.
A meeting Of more than usual sig
nifcance was held at the Cooper in
stitute, New York, on Thursday night
of last week. The audience was large
and represented the best elements IN
the city. Chief Justice Noah Davis
presided. The object of the meeting
was to impress upon the Legislature
of the State the necessity of some leg
islation looking to munciple reform.
The city is at present in h : hands OF
the liquor dealers. Municipal cor
ruption is open and robbery audacious::
Speeches were made by a number OF
representative men. And there was
a good deal Of plain talk. The Hon.
VIM. NJ. Evarts was one of the speak
ers and In the course Of his remarks,
called attention to the fact that the
liquor dealers defantly say, What
are you going to do about it? We are
ten thousand strong, and each one OF
us controls at least ten votes. Mr..
Evarts suggested that it was time this
proud pretention of theirs was re-
duced. 1t was time for good men to
combine. | agree with you, Mr.
Chairman he said, ''in your senti-
ment of New York for New Workers
But require with emphasis one other
play upon these words-New Workers
for New York. | do not believe in
New York for New Workers if New
Workers mean the liquor dealers OF
New York | do believe in New Y ork
for New Workers if that means that
the people Of New York mean to take
the subject of government into theil
own hands, and if it is good or bad, to
feel that it is a government OF the1l
own making. But if the New FORK.
ers, the citizens Of the proudest city
yea. the proudest city in the world
are going to take out their pride in
their city and their pride in them
selves in bending their necks to the
yoke Of those petty tyrants, who
make the signs of their political pow.
er by the misery that issues from
their influence if that is New York
and these are New Workers, | do not
care what happens to New Workers
or New York.
These be brave words, and they are
said to have been loudly applauded
The liquor dealers will not always
rule. The time is not far distant
when men will be ashamed to have ii
known that they were among the num-
Der who said: 'Well, yes, l know II
is a bad traffic, but then you can't
i prohibit it" 1t can be prohibited.
Dram selling and dram drinking
are the nations curse. The open sa-
loon is pestilence that walketh IN
darkness and wasteth at MONDAY
There is no phase of the business that
is not demoralizing to the last degree
and no man engaged in it, whether ne h
stands before the bar or behind it.
whose heart does not admonish him
that he is thereby at war with both
God and humanity. Good men every
where denounee it. Every good we-
man in the land is against it. 1t is
curse and blight upon the poor. and
hundreds of thousands of homes are
turned into hells because of its exls-
tence. The Legislature may modify
the Scott Law, but the people will
modify Legislatures and modify dram
selling, to the end that the curse be
driven from the land. The liquor
dealers rule this city and county. Ii
will not always be so. A nation that
cannot rise above the rule of rumsell-
ers cannot live, and is not tit to live