Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-07-19
COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. @. T. U.

And If the wrongs of earth e'er ceases,
If ever comes the reign of peace,
Twill be because each soul will say,
II will do what l can and may.
Nor waste the grand, God given powers
In vain regrets, through idle hours.
TEMPERANCE TwIas.
You might as we'll try to pull pine
stumps with tweezers, as to root the
rum traffic with pledges an blue rib
bon an coffee houses.
Every now and then Rip Van Wrinkle
wakes up an says: "You Can't re-
form drunkards by law" We've
knowed that a hundred years, Rip. Its
the %drunkeries Prohigbishun is after.
The church has jist as much use for
a saloon as Eligah had for Baal.
1t don't matter whether you spell it
revolution or abolition or Prohigh-
bishuu, it's the same power of God
workin' through willin hands to clean
oppression an wrong out of the world.
The christian who prays for God to
sweep intemperance from the land,
don t mean it unless he is willin' that
God should use him as the broom to do
the sweepin' with. .
What some people call their spine,
when it comes to temperance action,
proven to be nothin' but ''supine."
Every voter in the land who helps
to keep up a license system, is a part
ner in the whisky business, with a
one twelve hundred millionth interest
in the profits an results.
1t amt so much more iron in big
ships to fight furrin' foes that we need,
as more iron in the blood to enable US
to rise up an wipe out the great inter.
nal foe-whisky.-JoHN HAYsEEDs in
The Voice.
The w. @. 7. U. in Evanston, ILL.,,
has branched out on a new line of the
white ribbon work. Under the care of
Mrs. Jane Eggleston Zimmerman, sis
ter of Edward E~ggleston, the novelist,
a night school for boys has been organ
lied and is a pronounced success, the
pupils begin earnest, eager, and doing
their boys best to behave. During
the winter there have been as many as
seventy pupils. Subscriptions have
beer by well to do business men.
Along with the three RS. an effort is
made to instill principles of purity in
the habits of life, and to win the boys
to a higher sense of manliness, at the
same time amusing them and interest
ing them 30 that they will be kept off
the street and away from the influence
of bad companions. Mrs. Zimmerman
writes: "The burden is heavy in addi-
ton to my other cares, but it is such
a glorious opportunity to influence
and help forward our working boys
that can not be sorry the task was
set for me-"
The Legislature of Quebec has passed
a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco
to boys under eighteen years of age.
Boys under fifteen will be imprisoned
or fined when found using the weed.
How about the father who. Set the if
teen year old boys the example?
1 find this tobacco habit a constant
stumbling block to the temperance
work, and a thing harder to overthrow,
or even make any impression upon
than the great liquor curse itself.
1t is fast running the boys, and from
what observations l have been able to
make during my limited experience | IN
the temperance work, it does more to-
wards undermining the manliness and
stability of character than anything
else. notice that the boys who are
inveterate cigarette smokers are the
less reliable, and more apt to be care.
less about keeping promises of all
kinds in the simple transactions of
every day life.
The tobacco is by far the greatest
obstacle to be overcome in my Loyal
temperance Legion work, and some
times l could cry aloud with the
awful hopelessnese of it all, so far as
the older boys and Young men are
concerned. We can never get men,
young or old, to sign anything but the
pledge against drinking. I do know
two that have given up tobacco, but
both of them had gone SO far that ill
health and early death haunted them
and they made a dash for freedom.
But when a man is a member of the
church, a steward, a deacon, a minis.
ter, knows the habit is both injurious
and uncleanly, and you give him hy-
giene and the bible and still he persists,
what can you do?
q not see how ministers, of the
gospel can conscientio isly indulge in
such a habit. fgs ...
know a young man who begin to
use tobacco when a child and used it
several years. He become converted
at the age of seventeen, and at once
gave up the habit, taking it as a mat.
ter of course that a christian could not
use tobacco.