Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-15
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EDITED BY J%oNEsBoRo W. C. t. U.
SEE THEIR ORR.
Read the dynamite work of the MUIR
derous hearted liquor men of Musca-
tine, Iowa, and the burning of the Bap-
fist Chronicle office at Ruston, Louisi-
ana.
These outrages coupled with the
countless deeds of lawlessness and Sab
bath dissertation, besides the number
less murders and other crimes daily
noted by the Press are enough, in all
conscience, to arouse the christian n
patriotic people of the country to use
their ballots to delegalize and forever
destroy the license liquor system.
M~uscatine. Iowa, May 11,-Because
three men, citizens Of wealth and cul-
ture in this city and prominent in
Iowa as advocates Of Prohibition and
its strict observance, saw fit to prose-
cute v~iolators of the law, their beauti-
full homes were practically blown to
atoms with dynamite or some power
full explosive used by the liquor mon
sters whom they dared to fight.
The three sufferers are Hon. John
Mahin, editor of the Evening Journal,
E. NJ. Messenger, a retired capitalist and
treasurer of the county temperance al
lance. and N. R~osenberger, an attor-
ney. The fifteen occupants Of the
wrecked homes escaped death most
miraculously.
1t was after midnight that this dia-
bolical deed was committed. The city
was startled by three terrible explos-
ions and it was soon discovered that
these three residences in different parts
of the town were a mass of ruins.
The fire alarm sounded and the streets
were quickly filled with crowds of ex-
cited people.
1.-THE RIGHT WING"
We dread most the weakening of the
Right Wing of the army, the Christian
men. They hold the balance of power
and if they withdraw their supper
from us the traffic is gone.-A Liquor
Dealer.
PLAIN TALK.
From Mrs. Cougar Concerning WIFI,
Murder as a result of the Liquo
Traffic.
When the strong men of a nation
show themselves incapable or unwill
ing to protect their women and child
rem from any enemy that threatens,
is a sure sign of national decay.
Such times have been when tn
Deborahs and Joan of Arcs have arise
to command and save men from thei
own weakness and w~ickedness. His
tory gives me no record of a manhoo
more recreant to the trust of woman
hood and helpless childhood than tina
of the men of the United States at pre-
sent. No barbarian men have write
a more cruel record than is being dali
made by this so-called Christian pee
pie by the awful and frequent murder
of women and children by drunke
men.
That our men will not protect the
own mothers, wives and children Is
sad and shameful fact. They seem u
terly %hypnotized by the evil that
about them and they are 80 dead
these terrible facts that no murd,
seems shocking enough to make the
assert themselves against the agent
that is creating the most horrible Ii
of crimes that has ever been made
the annals of q nation.
am constrained to 80 write by +
account in Chicago Press, the II
inst, Of the murder of a Mrs. Williar
by her husband, crazed by the liqu
poison sold by the legal consent
men over the saloon counters of CT
ago. A good wife, a gentle woman,
the record shows, has been driven fro
her home by this ~lunatic, when he ft
lows her, cuts her throat and then,
his delirium, ends his own miseral
existence.
Two dead, q home wrecked, frien
heartbroken, society outraged, a Ct
disgraced. Within the last two wee
the Press has told of four other wi,
murdered in as cold blood by dril
crazed husbands. Two of these tc
the lives of their infant children. c
scalded his 8 monthold baby to dea
by deliberately pouring a kettleful
boiling water owe it as ii fell from
lap of the mother and wife whom
had just dealt a deadly blow. 7
other stabbed his wife, then the sis
who came to her rescue, then cut
legs off his 10 month old babe.
end his awful crime the citizens t.
the life of this lunatic at the hands
the frenzied mob.
In two years l have gathered a
of 1904 wives murdered in this &C
try by drunken husbands. Day
and day out drink crazed men are
ding to this awful list. This has
come 30 common an occurrence
no editorial protest is entered by
great metropolitan dailies.
No longer can I, an American "
an, hold my peace against this der
ish state Of society. The time
hand for the men Of this countr
show whether they will allow
Wholesale slaughter and hrutali