The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
YOURS, FOR HEALTH"

Extensive notice had been given that
DR.. A. B. Leonard and Hon. Mills Gard
ner would speak at this place on last
Thursday, and there was considerable
curiosity manifested to see and hear them,
and especially to see and hear Leonard.
On Wednesday night, however, word was
received here that neither would be here.
This caused some disappointment, as
there was perhaps two or three dozen
| people in from the country on Thursday
morning to attend the meeting.
Rev. James G. Pinkham, of Minnesota,
arrived on the afternoon train, and a
meeting was gotten up in the big tent in
turned out, the colored choir was secured,
| and a good-sized audience assembled.
Pinkham is pleasing speaker, gifted
| with some eloquence, but possesses the un-
fortunate habit of wandering away from
the facts in the most distressing manner
Of course he pretended to be an old Re-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY nearly all Prohibi-
tion orators do that-then he lauded the
Solid South, and declared that they had
better civilization in the South than in
the North-better regard for Sunday,
fewer saloons, and so on. But he did not
tell the people that up the ravines and in
the caverns of the South they are
constantly manufacturing moonshine
whisky. and shooting the Government
officers who attempt to collect the tax
upon it. Then there is some difference
in the population of the two sections, nu-
merically. He made out all the great
men-Chase. Morton, Wade, and such
men, Democrats. But he failed to state
that their greatness was all achieved
after they left the Democratic party.
AS specimen if the kind of stuff our
Minnesota to give to the intelligent peo-
pie of Jackson county, take his anecdote
about freeing the slaves. All these Pro-
hibition orators were members of the
Republican party at its birth,' and Abo-
litionists before that event. as well as
conductors on the Underground Railroad.
This man was running off three slaves
in Indiana, we believe-when the U. S.
Marshal caught him. He didn't take
Pinkham back and have him punished
for violating the Slave Law. Oh mol The
latter Just reached down into his pocket
pulled out three thousand dollars, and
bought the three colored persons, setting
free, and receiving and turning over the
deeds for them. There was not man in
the audience, perhaps, who did not know
more of the shareholders methods than
that. Our Minnesota friend may have
believed what he said.
He had been in the South, and found
everything lovely down there. He would
be with the South like kind father who
was compelled to whip his boy. He
would forgive the boy and forget the
wrong. He would not receive the boys
embrace, and acknowledgment of error,
then turn to a neighbor and say the boy
always had been a bad, unruly child. But
the illustration falls before the facts.
Suppose the boy should strike his brother,
without cause, and the parent should
spank him for it. Then suppose the boy
should cry. between sobs: dad, know
ye can lick me, fur We heo doneit don't
want to fight We any morer' Then sup
pose this self-same boy should seize
shotgun and begin shooting at his
brother Would the father fold his hands
and count the tears that trickled down
his nose as he said: "Poor Johnny, he's a
good boy! 1 spanked him for striking
his brother, and now that is all past and
gone We must forget that matter" Or
would he not, the rather, take the ramrod
of that gun and continue to build the
fires of vengeance about Johnnv's coat
TAIL until the shooting was stopped?
Our friend Pinkh am struck the wrong
vein. There are too many old soldiers,
there are too many empty sleeves, there
are too many soldiers graves, there are
too many good women made widows by
Southern Democratic traitors, for any
speaker to make headway by preaching
| up the beauties of the Solid South here
1t seems to us greatly mistaken idea on
the part of these speakers, this attempt to
insult every old soldier and every Repub-
lican, by such stuff. Yet we shall not
object if our friends on that side keep
it UP.
Members of the Y. M. J.. L. are notified