Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-12-06
COLUMN,
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. t. U.

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And right the day shall win;
To douLt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.
Rejoicing sprang to every true re
formers heart on hearing the glorious
news from the Centennial State last
week. Bishop Berkeley 8 stirring lines,
Westward the cours of empire take
its way" are again exempliied, and
here are the earnest words Of Colora
dos w. G. T. U. president regarding
this splendid result of their equal suf-
frage campaign Before this finds its
wap to the columns of the Union Sig.
nal, the world will know that the VIC
men of Colorado are free citizens of
the commonwealth. The 7th of No
vember gave a majority of over five
thousand in favor of equal suffrage.
Already saloon men are saying: u
told you 80. With equal pay for equal
work will come prohibition of the IL
quor traffic. 1t is the death knell to
our business! = God grant that these
predictions may come to pass. Tho
the State is passing through a trying
financial crisis, there is a feeling that
the worst is passed, and we are now
ready to meet the issues of the day.
Let white ribbon women all over the
land pray that wisdom and strength
may be given us to use this newly &C
quired power to aid in wiping out these
great evils for the well being of the in
dividual and the glory of the COM
monwealth." Now let the Eastern
States arise in their might and over
come the powers of prejudice and con-
s~ervation.
AGAINST ALCOHOL.
The first session of the eleventh an
nual meeting of the Tri State Medical
Association was begun this morning,
says the Memphis Appeal Avalanche,
in the Gayso hotel.
President W~iessinger and about 100
physicians were present.
An address was made by President
Wiessinger. DR.. Wiessinger said I'm
casting around for a subject which
will interest you practitioners l have
hit upon alcohol. Its Uses and
Abuses
alcohol, applied to the root of a
plant causes the plant to .wither and
die. Taken upon the stomach, alco-
hol has the same bad effect. An ami
NAL when put under the influence of
alcohol for some time has the same
symptoms OF impaired constitution as
are visible on a a Habitual ex-
cesses tend to decrease muscle and in
crease fat. The human who INDUCES
in alcoholic drinks to excess becomes
palsied in mind and body, and in many
cases eventually becomes an imbecile.
This subtle agentin some way so works
on the brain that the indulger has an
Unsuitable thirst for drink. The crav-
ing for drink is traced to early indulg-
ence when not transmitted from par
ent."
The speaker then gave instances of
the good health which blessed the
children Of sober families and the I'M
paired health of the progeny of inc
briates. DR.. Wiessinger also cited ex-
periments made on animals who had
been put under the influence of alco-
holic drinks before giving birth to
their young. The progeny of animal
thus treated are in most cases dwarfed,
misformed or still born.
Now" said the physician, that we
have shown the bad effect of alcohol
on every being, the question confronts
us whether it is our duty as practitioners
to prescribe alcohol. l would answer
this question unhesitatingly nay.
when l first started as q physician
alcohol was prescribed for nearly
every i'll and ache.
"You ask what we are to do when
artificial heat ia to be generated in a
patient. say, try every other meth.
cd first, and then when all these fail, it
is not without great misgivings that we
should give alcohol.
You ask me what l should do with
inebriates. l answer, build a sanitar-
ium for them, with gorunds annex ID
where they a have healthy work
while they are being treated"
This address was received with much
enthusiasm.
DR.. w. B. Rogers rose and said that
he wished to introduce for his part
what had been said on the subject of
alcohol. DR.. Rogers stated that the
views of DR.. Wiessinger were exactly
in accord with his, and that he had at
a previous meeting takan a stand
against alcohol. DR.. Rogers spoke at
length as to observations he had made
on the use of alcohol on patients of
typhoid fever. He would recommend
morphine, %sirychnine and other similar
things instead.
"Alcohol N surgery is little used,''
said DR.. Rof ers. "In my practice | do
not think l Use a pint in a year"
Crea u-uot Skim Mill
Every farmer and v~illager, their
wives and boys and girls, will be inter
ested in the big little, cream not skim
milk paper. the Farm journal. OF