Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-07
COLUMN,
EDITED BY JONEsBoRO W. c.. 7. U
MRS. KATE B. SIMPSON, Superintendent
of Press Work.

vite the Christian women of our town
to this meeting-Thursday afternoon,
at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. Bateham, National Superintend
ent of Sabbath observance, asks that
we specially set apart one day in the
week of prayer the first week in April
and request every White Ribboner to
observe it with earnest and united pray
er. She says IF the outlook is dark,
the uplook is bright" Being fully i'm
pressed with the peril and the need of
prayer, as well as effort, we cordially
agree and hereby designate the Sd of
April as the day wherein all White
R%lbboners are requested to unite their
prayers that God will incline the COM
missioners Of the Worlds Fair to de-
eide that the gates shall be wholly
closed upon the Sabbath, and that no
in~toxicants shall be sold.
April 8, the red letter day of u cal
endar. We must not forget the whole
week is set apart for praying and work
also, that the question is to be settled
the week previous for Sunday closing
at the Exposition. In response to the
pe~titioning of our White Ribboners,
New York, Massachusetts and Ohio
have voted against having their State
exhibits open on the Sabbath at the
Exposition, and others will probably
soon take the same action.
THE BICHLORIDE OF GOLD CURE.
If the Institute at Knoxville, or any
other place, wants to gain the good will
OF the best men and women of the
times, it would be wise on its part to
discard such articles as the one written
by w. d.. Peters and published in the
Knoxville Journal of March 20. We
have no controversy with the bichlo-
ride of gold cure for drunkenness. On
the contrary, every good, honest, tenn
perance worker will bid it God speed.
Neither have we any argument to offer
as to whether drunkenness is a crime or
a disease what we think is immateri-
al. 1t is a we'll known fact that after
one has INDUCED in alcoholic beverages
for any considerable length of time,
almost every part of the body, and es-
pecially the more vital parts, are badly
diseased. 1t is also a scientific fact of
heredity that the disease, habit, faint
or whatever it may be called, is trans
mitted from parent to child. Will the
bichloride of gold remove the heredi-
tary faint? If not the man with in
herited appetite is not safe after he has
been cured by it. Alcohol is never
found in growing plants, but is a pro-
duct of death and decay, and carries
death wherever it goes among the hui
man family. Death to the body, death
to the soul, death to happiness and
death to hope for time and eternity.
Sir Peters must be financially interested
in the Institute, judging from the man
ner in which he encourages, nay, al
most urges the use of "a little drop
now and them" upon beginners. He
well knows, probably by experience,
that if he can prevail upon them to
take the little drop he recommends,
it will be only a question of time when
they will reach the lowest depths, and
be fitted to enter the bichloride of gold
institute, thereby helping to perpetuate
it and the proceeds thereof. He speaks
of gems OF literature, music and art as
having been inspired by drink, when
we know that alcohol is the most subtle
of brain poisons and the chief deterio-
ration OF the thinking powers of the
human race. All through his article
he denounces the prohibition of the H.
quor traffic and the determination of
the saloon. Why does he do this 7
Because, forsooth, that would necessa-
sarily be the death knell of the Insti-
tute. He says thousands upon thou
sands of the best women and men in
the country have been enlisted for sew
eral years in the cause of temperance,
honestly believing that prohibition will
stop the liquor business" 1t would be
reasonable to suppose that the opinion
of thousands of the best women and
men of the country would be worth ut
least as much as that of a man holding
such theories as W. D. Peters. Why
have a law against murder since it is
being committed every day? Yet what
good citizen would be willing to see the
law abolishedI He says, moreover,
prohibition has never caused u man to
stop drinking of his own accord" The
blessing to him and his will be the
same whether he stops Oh his own free
will or because he is compelled to.
Many drinking men are prohibitionists,
knowing full well That if we had pro-
hibition the temptation would be re-
moved and they would be permanently
cured of the h. bit, whether willing or
not. 1t is no wonder the prominent
East Tennesseeann fell from grace and
his pledge, if his ambition was only to
wear the ribbon.n Where he could
have been to YEA O ribbon badge prior
to 1850, it would be hard to imagine,
since ribbons have been worn, as tenn
perance badges, only since about 1870,
and the white ribbon not until since
1873. If temperance societies, pledges
and ribbons ~ failed TO keep him So
Der in the first place, what is to keep
him SO now? The same temptations
remain and the same hereditary faint.
He says now he is a free man." Is
he any more free than he was before he
formed the habit? Out upon such doc
trine-.that because a cure has been
discovered temperance workers may
cease their efforts to wipe out the curse.
What think you, mothers and fathers /;
had you not rather your boys would
not form the habit Of drunkenness and
thereby decend to the lowest depths of
degradation and crime, of which man,
made in the image of God, is capable,
and also to run the risk of dying while
in that condition, or being killed in
drunken revelry, or wasting the best
years of life and bringing anguish un-
utterable to their homes all this for
the sake of being cured, even if that
cure were certain, which all admit it is
not. With best wishes for the success
Of the cure for drunkenness, we moth
ers are still heart and soul for the re-
moval of the cause.
The prostration after the Grip is entir ely
overcome by Hoods %Sarsaparilla. 1t
really does make the weak strong,