The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-10-22

ticeably the case when the great Georgia
Prohibition campaign was in progress.
Mr. Howell joined the Vets, Mr.. Grady
the Drys, and as they could not agree
they fought in the columns of the paper
Oh both sides The appearance of signed
articles in parallel columns and in di-
rect conflict was a novelty in Journalism
and helped the paper immensely.
Mr.. Grady's Prohibition tendencies
were we'll known and were considered
remarkable in a man of his temperament
and surroundings. He was, moreover,
one of the few Prohibitionists who did
not hesitate to avow that he loved drink
Probably no better statement of his po-
sition was ever made than that which he
wrote to his young friend (afterward his
successor), Mr.. Clark Howell. In letter
inclosing a birthday present, he wrote:
Ny son will be just about your age when you
are about mine, and he will enter tho paper
when you are about where am have got to
looking at you n sort OF prefguring of what
my son may be, and of looking over you and
rejoicing in your success, as l shall want
you to feel toward him. Let me write to you
what would be willing for you to write to
him:
men, this is the worst, the strongest and the
most insidious. Outside of the morality Of it,
it is the poorest investment, the poorest bust
ness and the poorest fun. No man is safe who
plays at all. 1t is easier never to play.
never knew a man, a gentleman and man Of
business, who did not regret the time and
money he had wasted in it. A man who plays
poker is unfit for every other business earth.
Never Drink love liquor and l love the
fellowship involved in drinking. My safety
has been that never drink at all. 1t is much
easier not to drink at all than to drink little
If had to attribute what have done in life
to any one thing | should attribute it to the
fact that am a teetotaler. AS sure you are
| born, it is the pleasantest. the easiest and the
safest way.
Marry Early-There is nothing that steadies
q young fellow like marrying a good girl and
raising a family. By marrying young your
children grow up when they are a pleasure to
you. You feel the responsibility Of life, the
sweetness Of life, and you avoid bad habits.
If you never drink, never gamble and marry
early. there is limit to the useful and distin-
guished life you may live. You will be the
| pride of your fathers heart and tho joy of
your mothers.
l don't know that there is any happiness on
earth worth having outside of the happiness of
knowing that you have dono your duty, and
that you have tried to do good. You try to
| build up. There are always plenty others who
| will do all the tearing down that is necessary.
| You try to live in the sunshine. Men who stay
| in the shade always get mildewed.
Mr.. Grady was called the prophet of
| the new south. He was active in every
enterprise that promised the development
of her resources and the satisfactory
adjustment Of the vexatious problems
| that appeared to him as retarding her
progress His speech before the New
England society at its annual banquet
in New York in 1885 was published in
almost every daily and weekly paper in
the United States and the London press
| co1nplimented it in the highest terms.