The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-02-15
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From DIE Glll.lin Examincr.l

FROM ib' hIIi'lID IsAdHlUtTI
We have taken occasion to differ
with one class Ct our temperance reform
cr in their, method Of reaching the
point they seek by the abolition Of the
charters Of Incorporated towns and have
given our reasons therefor. But we
will join IN any movement that does not
contraycnc our conceptions Of legality
and the natural rights Of citizenship.
| And VIC will concedc, also, that in an
organized society, every one must sur
render soncof lis natural rights for the
good Of the Whole. Men cannot be al
lowed to do anything they please, for in
many things they need the restraint Of
laws that curiaii their natural rights.
Society must protect itself, often even
at the comfort Of individuals. Lccomo-
ton is a natural right, but the law will
sicze hold Of one with the small pox,
and place him in the pcst-housc to pre-
vent danger to others. just how far
the law shall nbridgo those rights, just
where the line shall be run, is II matter
requiring the greatest wisdom and dis
erection We desire, with the most ar
dent temperance man, to further the
cause, and 70 rescue the thousands who
are victims Of strong drink from its
clutches And now we propose one
plan in that direction. We say Sin
that direction" for it is but one step the
right way. Others may be thought OF
in aid Of the same object.
-four people ~U drink, they should
drink nothing but good aud pure H.
quors In old times our ancestors dis
Tiled whisky from corn, and it was
wholly free from poison. There was not
II headache in II barrel Of it, Men lived
H. three score and ten, or longer, drank
all their lives, some Of them to excess
and died ~ their beds sober to the last,
and comparatively uaharmod Now a
fcw years Of whisky drinking sends its
dcvOtccs to their graves. From five tc
ten Years will kill Of ninety men ont Of
, each hundred, and the chief reason il
that they are drinking poison, slowly
, but surely. We are not sufficiently
learned in the chcmica! art to analyz'
any Of our Southern liquors, and 81
make no specific charge against them
but we do know that analyses Of the Ii
quors sold by The most respectable
houses in the larger cities in the North
at st. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville
reveal in them the most deadly poisons
f. Whether our whisky.makcrs use then
5 or not, we are not prepared to say. W.
! hope they d. not. If they do not, the,
b cannot object to scientific enquiry in
| to the composition Of Tennessee whi>
, ltics.
t This conceded, we propose that tn
; next Legislature Of Tennessee place TIN
- liquor ma Ic in the State, or imported
/ under the most rigid surveillance ant
V provide that every gallon shall be in
r .pcclcd by competent chemists before it
! sale shall be- authorized. We are tryin;
b. to prevent h,u.c-hmuing by coal oil in
spcc,ion, but pay no attention to tn
. wholesale stomach burning and whisk,
poisoning that i. general all over TIN
| Commonwealth. We require the drug
e. git to label every drachm Of poison
, that he cells, and care nothing for thu
| deadly ingredients that enter into liquo
e with which our, people are crazed an'
e made ready for rcd-handcd murder, o
: other yillainics that people our penten
z tiary and county ioiIs with breakers o
the law, for il may be very safely us
| sumad that much the larger proportion
. of the crimes of the State are directly o
' indirectly produced by liquor.
B. Win some Of our qualified chemist
: take hold Of our suggestion by putting
u a variety of samples of our Tenncsse
\ and Kentucky WHISTLES and brandic
n through the alembic Of their laboratc
c ries and let the public have the results