Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-05
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT..
Conducted by
THE GOOD TEMPT LARS
Mulberry.


Mulberry.
DIsTsLLERs RAISE TILE PRICE OF
CORN.
We are told that the distilla-
ton of grain keeps up the price
of corn. 1t does not seem that
the farmers Of Missouri thought
it would keep up the price of
corn, or if it did keep it up in
some localities and to some ex-
fent the evils arising from the
distillation were sufficient to
weigh down any possible benefit
from the price Of grain. 1 lie
farmers caucus in the legisla-
! ture voted unanimously for the
resolution to submit TO the peo-
fple an amendment TO the consti-
tuition prohibiting the manufac-
lture and sale Of all intoxicating
liquors III the State. This shows
that the farmers Of that State
were net willing to pay $29, 000,-
1 600 for whiskey and beer in or
der to keep UP the price of celn
and barley, and more especially
when it lodeied them down with
taxation for the support of crow
ded jails, pcnitentiaries, poor
houses and ltlnatic asylums.
Twenty-nine millions is the a..
mount Missouri pays annually,
according to Gov. b. GratzH
Brown, fer liquor to poison the
brain Of her people. Judgeflum-
lphreys in his address before the
legislative committee ON the 23d|
I of January last, made out the
liquor bill cf Tennessee, accord
ing TO the national bill of expen-
diture, at least $4,000, 600, which
is less than the amount in pro-
portion to the population. Are
the people Of Tennessee willing
to pay $13,0C0,000 to northern
states in pursuit of the ridiculous
phantom of keeping up the price
Of corn to an unappreciable ex-I
tent? Tennessee cannot afford
to fill her jails, penitentiaries,
peor houses and lunatic asylums
to keep up the price of corn
mainly in the moonshine districts
and the Ncrth. Tennessee can
not afford to keep on hand 90
900 sots and lose 1000 of them
annually by premature death UNI
der the ridiculous pretext of
keeping up the price of corn.
The brewers, distillers and grog-
shops must hunt up some better
preteXt than this. If there was
not a brewer CT distiller in the
State, nor a gallon of intoxica-
ting liquor sold in the State, our
people would be in ten years the
most prosperous people on earth,
and in twenty years the best in
formed.-IeRaeSsee Good TEN
plar.
LIQUOR TRAFFIC. AND TAXES.
Thomas Talbot, Governor of
Massachusetts,. addressing the
legislature of that State two
years ago said: sNWhen I think
of the victims to the use of IN
toXicating liquors III every vii
lage of the Commonwealth:
when I consider orr aims houses |
and hospital and homes for the
fallen and friendless; when | look |
into our jails, work houses, houses
of correction and the State pris-
on, and when / try to compute
the losses and charges upon our
industries, by reason of imper-
feet labor, and the taxes for the
support of these institutions for
reformation and punishment, my
Judgment unqualifiedly CON
dennis, and my manhood rebels
a sainst any system that would
permit the great source of all
wrong and misery and crime to
exist by authority of the Com
monwealth. My convictions a.
gainst the policy of such a move
meHt are too solemn and resist
less for me to hesitate as to my
duty. lit seems. to me that the
only safe and sound position for
a Christian community to take
in regard to this matter is that
of absolute and unqualified OPP
position to the traffic" M
lie O1AN y hAlND > w ILL.
| leave to society a ruined
character, wrecked example and
memory that will soon rot.
| leave to my parents during
the rest of their lives as much
sorrow as humanity in a decrep-
it and feeble state can well sus-
tain.
| leave my brothers and sisters
as much modification and injury
as ! could conveniently bring
upon them. j leave to my wife
a broken heart and a life full
of wretchedness and shame. To
weep over me and my premature
death.