Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-20
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. t. U.

.Nph WYNN w taS AsSk thot
Luther Benson would lecture in Jones'
boro in the near future. We also ap-
pended some concentrations, press
notices. After sending in the announce
ment We received a letter stating that
owing to serious illness in his family,
the renowned lecturer would be obliged
to cancel all his engagements for the
present, but would fill them later. Just
why the announcement failed to appear
with the press notices would be hard
for some of us to guess. AS the notices
appeared last week, they certainly
needed some explanation to make them
at all ineligible.
When some one demonstrated with
an old saloon keeper for enticing in the
boys, he replied, "Oh, it is beezness,
beezness-the old drinkers will soon be
dead and where will my beezness be if
don't get the boys?"
The Scientific American is not a
"fanatic,,' and still it says in a late
number that beer drinking in this
country produces the lowest kind of
inebriety, closely allied to criminal in
sanity. The most dangerous class of
rufians in our cities are beer drinkers.
Iceland has a population of seventy
three thousand, men and women being
political equals. The mothers teach
the future citizens and in all the island
there is not an illiterate after the age
of seven; there are no prisons, no po-
lice, no extremely rich and no misera.
BILE poor.
Before the Dispensary law of South
Carolina went into effect the keepers of
the houses of prostitution began to think
that there was a great deal of ground
for them to feel serious injury.
While the law was not directly aimed
at houses of prostitution and such an
idea was not intimated during the dis
cussion of the bill, it was found after
the terms of the bill began to be con-
sidered that the houses of i'll fame
could not continue to derive revenue
from the sale of beer, wines or other
classes Of liquor from which they had
all along been receiving a considerable
revenue The law expressly provides
That no one, except the authorized dis
pensers, a sell any class of intoxica.
ting liquors. No one else can sell it,
give it away, barter it, dispense it, keep
1t or come into conflict with the bust.
ness OF the State establishment. 1t
was not an uncommon thing months
ago for these houses of prostitution to
issue invitations, regular formal invita-.
lions, to the young men of the city to a
reception at the house" upon the ar
rival OF any new prostitute or upon any
special occasion. As those were &C.
caslons OF festivities the "house" would
plenty of beer and wine which
would be sold to the young men at large
profits. The prices on such events vas
usually regulated by the size of the
pocket book. Beer never sold for less
tina 20 cents a bottle and other drinks
in like proportion. The proprietors of
these houses did not wish to run the
risk Of doing an illegitimate business
IN this line for fear of a heavy fine, and
they had a reason to fear that on &C.
count of this feature being eliminated
from their business it would very nat.
urally fall off very considerably.
Columbia, the State capital, presents
perhaps as suggestive an illustration as
any other place III the State. A few
months ago there were two large and
regularly recognized houses of prostitu.
ton where white women resided: TODAY
Doth OF these institutions are outside of
the State. One proprietress has moved
to Memphis, Tenn, and the other. who
mas Deem In business in Columbia for
the past 20 years., has her head.
quarters at Augusta, Ga.
We have read of the barons of the
hhine' who from their castles sent a
shot across the bow of every passing
craft, and defending as hawks from the
crags' tore and robbed and plundered
Inc voyagers until their greed was glut.
'ed' or the strength of their victims
spent Shall this shame of Europe.
against which the world reyolted. be
repeated to this free countrvp And
yet when a syndicate or trust a arbi.
trarily add 25 per cent. to the cost of a
single article of common use. and safely
gather forced tribute from the people
Until from its surplus it could buv
every castle on the Rhine, or reouite
every baron's debauchery from its
kitchen account-where is the differ
ence' save that the castle is changed to
a K office and the picturesque
river to the teeming streets and the
broad fields of this Government "of
the people, by the people and for the
People4" l do not overstate the case.
economists have held that wheat,
grown everywhere, could never be corn.
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cred by capital. And yet one man in
Chicago tied the wheat crop In his
handkerchief, and held it until the sew.
ing woman in my city, working for 90
cents day, had to pay him 20 cents
tax on the sack of -four she bore home
In her famished hands. Three men
held the cotton crop until the English
spindies were sfopnod acd u~l