The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-06-04
That melancholy parsonage who

That melancholy parsonage who
maintains that "the world is growing
worse" finds some grounds upon
which to base his conclusion. We are
enabled, through the facilities for
gathering and publishing news, to
know from day to day what is going
on in the world about US, and as IN
many cases greater efforts are made to
secure and publish the evil or sensa-
tional doings than the good that is
being accomplished, there is sometimes
an appearance Of tendency toward
ruin. on the part Of the people.
Merely for the sake of an illustration
Of the melancholy mans point, let us
quote from single page OF a recent
issue of a well-known daily newspaper.
We find that: There was Commun-
ist demonstration at Victor Hugo's
funeral-An American Consul was
compelled to shoot an insulting fellow
in Brazil-A man from Mansfield,
Ohio, ran away with his young step
daughter, and lived with her as her
husband until her mother came and
had him arrested-A man in Balti-
more assaulted a ladY-A man in Mi
ami County committed suicide-A
Steubenville forger was arrested in
South Carolina-The Indians on the
war-path in New Mexico-Woman on
trial in Lexington, KY, for numbering
her husband-A crazy colored man
stole railway train in Georgia, and
had little excursion by himself
Four armed tramps captured Michi-
gan train-Charles York, of North
Carolina, got drunk and stabbed his
brother to death-An editor in Mem
phis fined for splitting in the face of
the Acknowledgement during Court.
The latter drew a pistol and tried to
shoot the spitter-A man in Indiana
murdered his little daughter, then
killed himself. These are from sin
gle page, and so the news runs from
day to day. But we must take into
consideration the fact that, while every
crime Of any consequence is eagerly
reported, but a very few, compare
lively, of the righteous transactions
of the world find place in the public
prints. We may read Of things that
produce misery, but the influences for
good are kept in the background. 1t
is much easier to find a printed ac-
count of murder committed at a
doggery, than it is to read of soul
being saved in church or Sabbath
School. We read of the one man who
murders his children and himself, be-
cause of some real or fancied wrong
on the part Of his wife, but we do not
read of the thousands of men who are
earnestly striving for the happiness OF
their own families and those about
them. Do you ask US lis the world
growing worse?" We answer yes.
But it is growing better, too. This
may seem strange inconsistency, but
the good influences in the world are
increasing and extending, and so, to
some extent, are the evil. As to which
shall eventually gain the victory, is
another question. But the good peo-
pie of this world are not altogether
discouraged into idleness, and we have
faith to believe that the good will yet
triumph over the bad We are told
of One who can make the wrath of
man to praise Him, and we cannot be-
lieve that He will permit this beauti-
full world, and this intelligent human
race, to fall into an estate of lost sin
fulness.
On next Monday the Republican
County Convention will meet in this
place. Republican Conventions in
Jackson County are always fine
bodies, of which the party, and the
people, may feel justly proud. At
the coming convention there will be
a number Of candidates presented for
nomination. They are all thoroughly
competent men, and there is no dan
ger Of the Convention making any
mistakes, in the matter of nomina-
tions. We trust that ev cry delegate
who may be chosen on next Saturday
will come to the Convention with an
unalterable determination to see that
every man shall have fair showing
that there shall be no wounds to
heal hereafter, and no bitterness of
any kind engendered. The Republi-
can party needs all its available forces
in line, and in active work, and there
is but one way to make such state of
things possible, that is by an earnest,
harmonious working Of the political
machinery. Let that machinery be
put in motion on the day Of the Con-
vention. Let the Convention do its
own work, and do it well. Let this
Convention be representative Repub-
lican gathering, one thoroughly i'm
bued with the spirit of the grand old
party which has made the best politi-
cal history the world ever saw. 1t is
to be hoped that the delegates will
come determined to send to the State
Convention at Springfield men whose
only pledge shall be embodied in their
Republicanism, and their determina-
ton to work for the best interests of
the Republican party. Above all, let
the utmost harmony and good feeling
prevail through all the workings Of
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