The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-04-10
'sWhOm the Gods Would De-
strOy They First Make Mad!"
ARK., April 5, 1856.

BATAVIA, ARR, April b, 1856.
Editor Times
When | looked over the last
weeks Banner, which | was en-
abled to do through the kindness
of Il friend, who has it sent him
by some one, the above quotation
came wildly to my mind, and |
could but regret 10 see the great
downfall, or rather wreck, which
was there shown. 10 see men
who in time past were proud snm-
pies Of the work of divine proyi-
dence, men who in the glory of
God-giyen manhood were the
pride of their ueighbors and
friends. Who had been the re
elpieHts Of fayors from an honest,
christian and morality loving peo-
pie, men who by the failure of
their own manhood to assert the
power given them to control their
passions had degraded themselves
and nearly brought want to their
doors; trying to apologize for tho
acts of usurpation lately perpetra-
ted ON the people of Harrison,
brings wildly TO my mind the past,
and in viewing it as it moves be-
fore me, ! can but cry, Can such
thing be-
In the editorial part of the pa
per we see man who has lost all
self-reSpeet from the abusive use
of stlmulants, whose daily walks
are only as q procession to keep
before the people the wreck that
King Alcohol has made attempt
ing TO lecture yirtuous women or
sober, intelligent men on their
duties to selves and country. To
see such Il man fighting, with all
the maudlin ability left him, the
noble efforts of a free people to
educate the masses; to sec him
apologizing for man or men who
by their actions are endeaYoring to
make every young man in our
community equal to himself in the
scale of social manhood and hor-
rible examples of the effects Of
the cursed stuff; to see him under
take to parade himself as a bright
Democratic light, SO very brilliant
that all are compelled to accept
his definition of the living prinei-
pies of the party as gospel, is dis
gushing enough to even make a
crow sick. To see n man whose
daily walks and talks are anything
but those Of even a passive Chris
tlan undertake to preach to God
fearing men and women their du-
ties makes me feel that there
should be, if there is not, some
way to confne such creatures to
prevent them from thus insulting
our people.
Leaving this Alcoholic wreck
for the time, l wish to simply east
my eyes - another who also
parades himself before an injured
constituenS5, and in his FALLEN
let us view him as he
lands. Once the pride of "Old
,arroll," honored by her people
it'll the highest offices in their
gift, around whom chung the
of their esteem, even
when casting himself at the feet
of King Alcohol, and through his
libations had lost his manhood and
made himself physical wreck,
and a standing disgrace, behold
them covering his failures and in
order to assist him in placing him
self above want, again throwing
the mantle of charity over him,
and placing him in one of the best
Offices in their gift, little dreaming
that from his previous experience
he would like the adder bite the
ones who had again warmed him
into life. To see him over his
own signature dealing the id
lie to men who thus befriended
him, and availing himself of the
infrmities brought on by his own
abusing the best men in
our land and country. Yes, | say
the best men, for the accusations
which he now seeks to lay entirely
upon your paper have been talked
and re-tallied all over the country
by some of the best men III it long
before the TINES ever mentioned
It. They have reasons for believ-
ing that an influence was welded,
ard certainly they have a right to
heir opinions without being brand
I'd - liars. To see such a man
comparing the present Judge Of
Boone county to such n man as
Hon. j. NJ. Pittman, can only be
accounted for by the depths Of the
degradation into which he has fall
an and the impudence which he
assumes as his right. These are
.hings that should call forth from
Every true breathing Christian an
exclamation of condem-
nation. Every one who was ca
oiled into assisting such man,
reasoning from my standpoint,