The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-18
whiskey and Tobacco.


There seems to be so much ex-
element on the whisky question 1
thought would say few things
concerning the cause Of the evils of
the present day. They can be
traced back to the lack of govern
ing at the right time and the lack
of training and learning to be tem-
perate in all things. 1 have refer
ence to the country and not to the
cities, as l live in the country and
know how children are raised there.
First, 1 will give few ideas about
whisky. My father raised a large
family of children, the most of
whom are boys. He always kept
whisky about his house and fire.
quently set it out at meal time; he
learned his children to take a dram
and the danger of taking too much !;
learned them to be temperate and
impressed it on them that it would
be wrong to take only so much,
and he saw that they did not until
they were old enough to govern
themselves. The first to be done
and the foundation of good family
government is in training the child
to do what the father and mother
say must be done, and try to keep
them at something at home or about
home, don't allow them them to be
idle. There are amusements enough.
about hOme-den't allow them to
lounge around little towns-there
is where so many boys are spoiled
and take to drink or bad habits. l
will say in connection with what
has been written that my father
never was drunk since l knew him,
nor before that 1 ever heard of; l
am over fifty years of age myself
and never was drunk; never had
brother drunk that l know of;
have raised large family of chill
dren and never knew one of them
to be drunk or drinking too much !;
neither do /, my wife or either
of the children use tobacco.
think there is more poverty in
Tennessee resulting from the use of
tobacco than the use of whisky.
More crime grows out of the use OF
whiskey, but two men out of ten
drink to get drunk, you will find Z
out of ten use tobacco and form a
habit so strong that they will have
their tobacco when they have Meth
er sugar nor coffee, and some no
milk, and too poor to buy a COW,
when the money paid for tobacco
saved for two years would buy a
good COW and calf This tobacco
use is like the whisky use--it does
no good only for medical purposes.
Now back to the foundation. Train
the child at the proper time not to
use whisky nor tobacco and see
that he don't do it only as medicine
or where it is beneficial to him.
Let every child be raised up in
this way and let every parent where
they give a child orders to do a
thing see that he does it and new.
tell him to do a thing positively
unless you know he can do it. AS
Davie Crockett said "be sure you
right and then go ahead" AS L
said in the outset, am for q good
free government and to have that
the foundation is in governing your
children, and in doing it well. Yor
may prohibit the making of whis
ky or to stop raising tobacco and
then something else would come VI
for the people to indulge in exces
sively. Train every child as it
should be from now until 1900 an q
my word for it, it will do more goo6
than all the legislation that can be
done. If you ever get the house
right you must 60 to the found a
tion-the corner stone.
HOME GOVERNMENT.
Runkar Hill