The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-08-13
Prohibition Department.
B.JONRS.
The Impeachment Of King
Alcohol.

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est enemy Of our time, to handle the
greatest living question. This mon
ster has the world for home, the flesh
for mother, and the devil for father
He stands erect, a monster Of fabulous
proportions. He has no head, and
cannot think he has no heart and
cannot feel he has no eyes, and can
not see he has no ears, and cannot
hear He has only an instinct by
which to plan, passion by which to
allure, coil by which to bind, fang
by which to sting, and an infinite nav
in which to consume his victims. We
impeach this monster, and arraign
him before the bar Of the public judg-
ment and demand his condemnation
in the name OF industry, robbed and
beggared of the public peace, disturb
ed and broken of private safety gagged
and garroted of common justice, yio-
lated and trampled ;of the popular con-
science, debauched and prostituted !;
of royal manhood, wrecked and ruined
and Of helpless innocence, waylaid and
assassinated. With the gold his crime
have brought him, no seeks to secure
friends in the halls of legislation to
put his judges upou the bench, his
advocates at the bar, his witnesses on
the stand, and to make surety doubly
sure, his views in the public mind.
He would fill not only our cells and
graveyards, but also our judgment
seats and our police commissions.
This is our foe-cunning as a fox, wise
as a serpent, strong as an OK, bold as a
lion, merciless as tiger, remorseless
as a hyena, fierce as a pestilence,
deathly as plague. To condemn
and correct such criminal is not the
pastime OF an hour, but the manly
hero-born, martyr-bred work of life
time. This enemy stands among us
fellow-citizens-the history of whose
reign is history of repeated injuries
and usurpation, all having indirect
obiect-tne establishment of an alb
solute tyranny over mankind: Tt
prove this, let facts be submitted to 8
candid world. He has refused to sub
nit to laws the most wholesome anC
necessary for the public good he has
kept among us in times of peace, stag
gering armies with the consent o
our legislatures, he has deprived oul
citizens, in many cases, of trial by so
Der juries; he has transported many O
our citizens beyond the bounds Of rea
son into the seas OF dissipation anC
ruin; he has imposed taxes on III
for the support of pauperism anC
crimes of his own engendering he ha
established and sustained depots fol
the manufacture and sale of the mos
destructive instruments to complet,
the works of death, desolation and per
tidy unparalleled on the most barba
rous ages, and utterly insufferabl
among a civilized people; he has oc
casioned more than three-fourths 0
the pauperism, three-fourths OF tn
crime and more than one-half OF tn
insanity in the community, and there
by filled our prisons, our alms-house
and lunatic asylums ; he has infuenc
ed our election by bribery and corrup
ton; he has destroyed the lives c
tens of thousands of our citizens an
nually in most merciless manner; h
has turned aside hundeds of thousand
more of our free and independen
citizens to idleness and vice, infuse
into them the spirit Of demons an
degraded them below the level {
brutCs; he has made thousands c
widows and ophans and destroye
the fondest hopes end blasted tn
brightest prospects; he has entere
our courts OF justice end our legislatiy
halls and disturbed their councils, an
even the sanctuaries of our religion
and the ministers at the altar, hay
not altogether escaped his prevailin
and blighting influence; he has Ell
couraged Sabbath breaking, profanit
impurity, thieving, house-burninl
robbery, gambling, SANDER and fight
ing aud has ruined the morals
every community over which he hi
obtained an influence; he has di
honored God, in whose image and fc
whose glory man was created, by sinl
ing his image beneath the level Of I'll
irrational brutes.
We will now call the world to wi
ness five have been wanting in after
ton and forbearance to the traitC
while he has been extending his III
warrantable jurisdiction over u
Has not our government affored hi
the most liberal protectionH Has |
not sailed under our flag on eve
ocean and in every sea? And we no
declare it as our belief that the hi
tory OF the human race affords l
parallel example Of slavery and degr
dation inflicted on a willing and u