The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-05-10
Coal Township Still Leads.

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Washington Township. To-day it is
two hundred times the size it was six
teen years ago. That beats the old
parties on growth. .'-Standard.
The principles Of that party are
still growing and will continue to
spread until that horrible enemy OF
home, church and state is driven from
our borders. Eighteen years ago
when those two votes were cast, the
almost universal cry was, "You can
never accomplish anything by voting
Moral suasion was the great remedy.
But, while you persuaded one, the sa-
loon by its allurements would entice
half dozen to their ruin. No, no,
you must not vote, you will bring it
into politics. Politics or no politics,
the saloon must go. Recent expert
ment has demonstrated that while
the question can be handled to GER
tain extent without making it a po-
litical issue, yet we must have legal
suasion or laws, and to get wholesome
laws, we must have wise and good
lawmakers, or legislators; and these
must come from some party or par
ties. In Ohio, our Legislature has
given us the opportunity to vote for,
or against the traffic. The false cry
that prohibition will not prohibit"
is becoming thing Of the past. It
will prohibit in the same degree that
other laws prohibit. Coalton tried it
for one year without the saloon, and
after the experiment, speaks in thun-
dering tones that she still wants a
prosperous and decent town. For she
was at one time, with her dozen sa-
looms, terribly filthy. Coalton became
famous on account of the presence of
evil. Murderers were manufactured; !;
adultery and profanity rife; gambling
by young and old, day and night. In
short, she was ''Natchez Under the
Hill'' at times, terror to her inhab-
itants, and a place of insecurity to her
visitors.
But now what change. With the
assurance that we will be free from
the curse of the saloon for two years
longer at least, business is improving,
lots are selling rapidly. Happy hearts,
happy homes. The town out of debt
and five hundred dollars in the treas
ury. The best schools in the county.
The boys and girls now have clothing
to wear, plenty to eat, and books to
read. Business men prosperous. One
Of our butchers who failed to make
any money heretofore, during the "dry
year" has bought property and i'm
proved it. I know man, who had
no one to keep but himself, but not
withstanding he was good worker
he did not save enough to keep him
self in decent clothes. 1t all went to
the saloon. Now he goes well dressed,
and has money in bank in Jackson,
and an interest in a loan association
in Wellston. [ give this as one in
stance Of the many. The good work
does not stop in the corporate limits.
Coal Township has exercised the right
Of the ballot, and with a majority of
one hundred and two, says the saloon
must go. This township has three
villages and boasts of twenty -four
coal mines, which are all, more or less,
operated during the year. With these
great and numerous works, and a di-
versified population, the result of the
election, was surely a great victory
for the right, worthy Of imitation by
our sister townships. How strange
that Wellston, with all her material
push and advancement, is so far be-
hind the times on the temperance
question. Your growth will be i'm
peded if you do not look after the in
terests of your homes To illustrate,
on Saturday, while Coalition was assist
ing the township to get rid Of her
nuisance, one Of Wellston's leading
citizens was here trying to organize
tent Of Rechabites. Now brother,
you are fifteen years behind the times.
Lodges and tents were all right in
their day. You want US to throw
away the moving machine and take
up the scythe. We cannot do it. The
field is clear Of stumps and we cannot
afford to bother with the slow and
'old-time'' way. About year ago, a
a saloon-keeper Of Coalton urged your
writer to get up some temperance
lodge so the young men would have
some place to go, and went on to ex-
plain the great good that might be
brought about. His object was to
lead the mind off of legal means. The
saloon-keeper becomes terribly inter-
ested in the welfare of our young men
by times. My dear brother, what do
we want to pay for the privilege of
signing the pledge, when we have
nothing to drink. The boy need not
pledge himself to keep the Eighth
Commandment when there is a failure
in the fruit crop. We have better
method of doing it in Coalition and
Coal Township. We stop the foun-
tain that furnishes pine-tenths of all
immortality, and thus place benedic-
tion over the community.
W. ScoTT.