The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-07-30
cambridge LETTER.
What a Correspondent knows
about some things in that's
aa@ Place.
To the Editor OF the MOrristOwn Gazette:

:, everything but true. cambridge,
i this time, is blessed or cursed wit
,e three saloons. This is the way "
sSs have it now days: Since our kin
20 Legislature has made a law, as the
u thought, to prevent the sale OF spiri
: aous or Intoxicating liquors nea
o the respective schools of our land
% we of course took advantage of thi
1t blessing, and to rid ourselves Of thi
Internal plague, we destroyed ou
= corporation. For the Legislature
said within the limits of such towns
:. there should be no whisky sold. W.
e have succeeded in moving out the
last doggery. Now, we are all right
. eb: Newman picked up his bee
like the man of old, and went tc
Morristown. In obedience to the
law, soon Mr.. Cape followed in the
, same way. Down, dropped the bar
room signs like falling hailstones.
Now the law is satisfied. No sa.
looms are thers-no whisky. Do
you see any drunken men on the
streets? What do they mean by
saying that we are for once without
whisky? True enough the bar men
have not changed their saloon signs
to "drug stors," bat ut the same
time there is just as much whisky as
/ before. Now, I will tell you, my
dear people, what is going on in
cambridge. Three Of the fullest
kind of bar rooms-the hardest TO
control and hardest to reach by law
are in full blast. They are divid-
ed into three distinct denominations.
The first is a pitiful, pale, ignorant
looking bar-keeper he is a Presby-
terian he takes the record Of the
church and places it over his face
so as to hide his shame.stricken
countenance from the face of Chris
tian men and women, and on the
back of it he writes in bold. gilt let
terF, "DruggiGt;" )" in his left hand he
holds q fictitious prescription in his
right hand he holds the b0ttle con-
tanning the broth of the DEVILS
breath, and thereby he cloakes him
self from the shame and black cor
ruption aud damnation that he,
through the crevices of the law is
permitted to creep; and through the
dark alleys of his souI-damning de-
ception he drags with him many q
poor victim that did not dare go in
to bar room. He goes to church
Sundays and with his veil of deeep-
tien tries to look as innocent as a
lamb before its shearer. The next
is Baptist saloon. The Baptists
are accused OF being bit too friend
ly with whisky. But don't think
the church has any interest in this
stock-this bar man. He is 40
slouch; he resembles Newman be-
hind the bar-he is polite, and when
a gentleman comes in he does not
wait for him to call for drink; he
says, "Vat vii you haf, eb?" and if
the customer doesn't buy, he pre-
sents him drink in order to start
him in. He is little green in the
business, but the old goats have
told him the way to the best pasture.
He keeps fine wine a little spiked
with esrn juice. This lad is not so
ignorant as the first. He knows
where the money is, ana if the
church will just keep still he will
have good thing of it. Ny young
friend, the people may keep still
and the church also, but God in a
day will call upon you to account
for all this, This great Judge of all
hearts will show you whether or not
you are licensed to deal out TO the
young and rising boys that promise
their parents an honor that no other
person can bestow upon them, this
dreadful and attractiye bate to
drunkenness and damnation. VIII |
God hand you in judgment a robe
stained with this red and sparkling
cup and with the dsmnation of these
boys written across it's besom God |
pity you. This second snake den
goes under the head of 6 Family |
Groceries," Saloon number three
is new concern. / am not able at
this writing to say what it will do. |
But am glad to think, according to |
outside appearance. it will do no
harm to the community, from the |
fact that the proprietors will keep |
all of the snake feed fer their own
immediate use. They will prescribe
for each other until they get SO far
along that sheet of paper will
look like bed quilt, and a pen like
a fence rail, then they will turn over
all business to the bartender. This
firm is Pedo church, consequently
has nothing to do with Christian peo-
pie. They are the right kind of men
to run a business of that kind if we |
must have a bar room. Now this is
about the condition Of our town so
far as linuor In concerped. T.egisIa.