Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-06
COLUMN,
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. c. t. U.
CORK SCREWS HAVE SUNK MORE THAN
CORK JACKETS HAVE sAvED.-JoHN
PIOIJgHMAN.
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eNNeNA N lduN
whose every dress and outward
wrap is adorned with a little bow of
white ribbon 30 that no time of day. or
emergency of haste can find her with.
out it, was visiting the Fair recently.
AT breakfast one morning she found
herself seated by the side of a lady
who, though a stranger, was likewise
a wearer of the white ribbon. The two
formed acquaintance and lady number
one learned that her new acquaintance
lived in a town with some of her own
relatives who were very dear to her
but whom she had not seen for q num-
Der of years. The second whit, rib
boner knew these friends by sight tho
she had no personal acquaintance with
them. That night lady number two
sought lady number one and told her
that she had met those friends on the
Fair ground, had told them of number
ones presence in the city and had
made arrangements for them to meet
the next day at a specified time in a
certain n of the buildings. The
meeting took place and arrangements
were made for a second visit before the
friends should part. In the meantime
the relatives of the white ribboner met
other very dear friends of both and
brought them to the second meeting.
One of this second party of friends
was an old school girl friend and she
had met at her boarding house two
other school girl friends. The result
was that a few days later four women
who had loved one another as girls
and had during their early life been in
constant, close companionship, but
who had been separated for years, met
together, talked over old times and
took up again the broken cords of the
old friendship. Moral-Always near
your white ribbon.-On Duty.
Ii LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND THE FARMER,
The Wine and Spirit Gazette COM
ments as follows upon a recent statis-
teal table in the Voice
THE Voice shows by elaborate ia
bles that 4,0O9, 994, 131 pounds of grain
are annually put into beer and liquor
in the United States, or a loaf of bread
aday for about eleven million people.
And this enormous consumption of
grain it calls wasted. We direct the
attention of farmers and grain growers
to that claim. At the present time
every man, woman and child in the
United States has all the bread he, she
or it requires. Therefore no more grain
is demanded for consumption in that
form. Therefore if this great quantity
OF surplus grain is not put into beer
and liquor what will you do with it?
Its growth would seem to be unneces.
sary,' as there would be no market for
1t. Do the Prohibitionists propose to
destroy the principal industry of the
farming community Our Agricul-
tural brethren would do we'll to look
into this matter before giving further
support to the avOwed enemy of their
calling"
The assumption that the American
farmer has REACHED the limit of his
market for all the grain he raises not
used in the drunkard making industry
is cOntradicted wherever there can be
found a hungry, half fed man, woman
or child. The limit has not been
r~eached-and it is a crime to assertit-
when there exists a half starved human
being within the range of the white
sails and the smoking engines OF Amer
lean commerce. What is the farmer
to do with his surplus grain ? We
commend to The Gazette the word of
meaning in the answer of the Kansas
farmer to a similar question propoun-
ded by an prohibition orator "We
will raise more hogs and less hell |"
Most emphatically, Prohibitionists
do not propose to destroy the farming
industry. On the contrary, they
woul dgive 1t a greater impetus. What
tariff, high or low, would begin to
benefit the American farmers like the
existence about him of q community
free from saloons and drunkards, with
every member eating his three full
meals a day, possessing his two or
more good suits of clothes and sleeping
under his sheets and blankets made
from the products of the FARM Drink
burdens the farmer by increasing his
takes. Drink narrows his markets lust
in proportion to the poverty and mum
Der OF the drinkers. Danish saloons
and saloon legislators and you open to
the farmer the flood gates of prosper
ity.
oon mioSioN III THE BEER VAT.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has sent Col. c. ]. Murphy
to Europe as special agent to introduce
American Indian corn into that coun.
try. Mr.. Mates, formerly a Nebraska
brewer, was appointed to accompany
Colonel Murphy and aid him in his
peculiar mission. According to the
official records, n of Colonel MUIR
phys duties in connection with his
special agency is to interest the brewers
OF Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ger,
many etc., in the use Ct American In.
dian corn in their drunkard making
industry. This explains why Brewer