The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-02-25
AS TO THE SMOKE
Colonel Vann Writes a Long Letter
About Things.
He Tells Some Truths Which Seem 10
Have Been Slow.
NE IS AFTER SMOKE IN GOOD SHAPE
H. Prada the Riot Act in a Way That Is
at Once Convincing and Salts
factory to All.

Fiat luStltla, ruaL COeIum J"@
be done though the heavens fall" Is a
stereotyped phrase often made use OF by
callow sophomores and brainless polltl
clans: those who fain would become both
the leaders and teachers of degenerate
men, and yet blazon on their banners that
fallacious dogma-"a necessary evil" Is
there a limit to human credulity? To be-
lieve that any evil is necessary to our
we'll being is to question the infinite wis
dom of deity, who has said, "the soultha'
sinneth shall perish everlastingly." The
law of the land, fashioned and prOmul
gated by the representatives of the peO-
pie, tacitly acknowledges that Smoky
Hollow is a necessary evil, and in the
language of the skeptic says: "There is
no eternal sheol, boys, sow your wild
tares in the days of your youth, and fear
not that silly myth-divine retributive
Justice" You may search through all
the dialects of earth, and yet fail to find a
term to match the black infamy of Smoky
Hollow, that perlieu of debauchery and
still the law-that emanation from wis
dom's Observation-Disclosures beneath it's au
gust smile those painted sirens of lust
who, day after day the year through,
openly defy, in the face of high heaven,
all the laws of decency, and put to shame
our boosted nineteenth century christian
civilization!
1t is the proper thing, doubtless, to
evagelize the heathern Chinese, and a
r~iotously delightful occupation to clothe
the nude sons Of the Soudan but would
it be treading upon the toes of either in
dividual or collective piety to first a
the sinner at our gate? Probably you
are skeptical as to the propriety of CIV
ing those soiled doves a home in glory
remembering, as you do, that there was
a rebellion in that far away country once
upon a time, which we are at liberty to
infer, in the absence of other evidence,
was caused by another Trojan Helen.
You will also note the disadvantages
which accompany education, and the
slavish fears of the would-be wise-what
a tangled labyrinth of idiocy we founder
in If you think it a difficult thing to
disprove a negative, then turn your soul
loose and and repute a indicative sheer
-mild-eyed philosophy has ever failed
in the attempt, and so will you.
Now, honestly, what do you think of
the moral status Of the nation that will
license a brothel, under the plea that it
is a necessary evil" and then use the
funds-the price of virtue-thus collected
to further the cause Of intellectual de
velopment? Would that be the plan,
as taught by the NaZarene of the long
ago, to gain immortal life beyond the
grave? We are taught, or were taught
in our youth, that the price of dog OF
the hire of a harlot were not, under any
circumstances whatever, to be put in the
treasury of righteousness but why the
inotfensive canine should be classed
with the daughters of Belial was, and is
a mystery that we shall not attempt to
unravel.
1t would appear, from the way infalli
bic man o has the business fixed up
that this was an error, or at least an over.
sight, in the ignorant translators of holy
writ; for both the dog and the nymph
du Pave are emancipated from the thrall
dom of ages, and the nymph, if not the
purp, now with uuerring regularity chips
the shekels into the Golfers of all en-.
lightened nations. This is a sad. bu,
wholesome commentary on the root oil
all evil; but we are delighted to chron
icle the fact that the unsophisticated dog
is the only one in the drama of error.
that has come out Spotless, and with s
conscience void of ofrense-all honor tC
his canine sagacity! Now let an homes
world put the wreath of immortels rounC
the neck of the right individual, anC
never again place the noble brute nea,
communicating temptations
Where is my wandering boy to night?'
How often this has been a prelude to
mothers prayer.l Echo takes up tn,
fearful refrain 20 where is nv bow tn
night" Let US hope, christian mother
that your hoy" nay not be hrough