Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-13
COLUMN,
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. T. U.
WHAT DISTINGUISHED MEN SAY.

WHAT DISTINGUISHED MEN SAY.
l have known Luther Bension many
years. He is a gentleman highly es-
5eemed, and an admirable orator.
Thos. A Hendricks.
On the subject of temperance he is
one of the foremost orators living
Daniel Voorhees,.
He is one Of the most thrilling plat
form orators in the United States. Col.
Geo. W. Balm.
! have heard all the great apostles of
temperance-Gough, Cary and Murphy
and Luther Benson is second to none
of them.-W. P. Fishback, former law
partner of President Harrison.
His eloquence is rare, unique, and
persuasive.-S. S. Cox.
The orators words were interviewer
with flashes of brilliant wit, bright,
genial humOr, singing rcasm and
genuine eloquence, and for nearly two
hours the great audience, representing
the best elements of the cultured 80.
ciety of the University City, listened to
Benson as he told a story that only he
can tell.-Robert j. Burdette.
Riverside, California, January Z, 1913.
Il have listened to four lectures on
the subjects of temperance, delivered
in this city by Luther Benson, and for
wit, pathos, eloquence and argument
have never heard them excelled.-
Rev. Chas. Button, Baptist minister.
Luther Benson delivered four lectures
in the First Methodist Church in this
city. Large audiences greeted him
each evening. We do not hesitate to
speak of Mr.. Benson at the peer of Col.
Balm, or any other lecturer of the times.
Rev. W. M. Sterling, pastor of the
Methodist Church, Riverside, Califor-
MIA.
PRESS COMMENTS.
The superior of Gough.-Bostou Post.
Never had an equal.-Cambridge
Post.
The best temperance lecturer in
America. Sentinel.
Mr.. Benson's lecture will live for
ever in the memories of those who
heard it.-Columbia Is. G )Sentinel.
Mr.. Benson is the most pleasing lee
turer that ever appeared before an
Atlanta audience. Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Benson is a born orator. Eloquence
perches on his brow and beams from
every feature of his face.-Oatesville
(Texas) Advance.
Eight times as much money is spent
on tobacco by Americans as for the
support of their churches.
"a bushel of corn makes four gallons
of whisky, which retails for $40. Out
of this the Government gets SO, the
railroads 81, the manufacturer "a, the
vender 81, the farmer forty cents and
the drinker gets the delirium tremens."
Which group will legislate for and
protect the homes of Chicago best, ten
thousand average men or ten thousand
average women? What right have the
men to legislate for the womenp
Would the women use their earnings to
crafty their appetites rather than to
give food, clothing and shelter to their
children? This is not meant as a criti-
cism upon men in general, but upon
the men in particular who from the
city council in Chicago and other great
centers of populations.
Nearly every man or women advocat-
ing some special phase of the temper
ance form thinks that his or her meth
cd is the me-. Perhaps this is emphat-
ically true of those who stand for tenn
perance education in schools, and the
warm friends Of this department will
be glad to know that the st. Louis Hy-
gienic College of Physicians and Sur
geonsteachesn non alcoholic medication.
When colleges swing into line with
public schools and churches and Sun
day schools join the ranks of those who
systematically teach temperance, how
great will be the bombardment against
the walls of the saloon, the school of
the inebriate and his children.
Twenty four hundred bottles of beer
that had a few days before been seized
from a cellar in the town of Downs
were cracked at Osborne, in northwest
ern Kansas, Monday, in the presence of
1000 people and the contents poured
into a ravine. The volume of LIQUID
flowed some distance before it was
dried by the parched earth. This pro-
hibited liquid was the property of Tim
Mccarthy, who had for months been
running a wholesale supply house for
northwestern Kansas. While the de-
struction of the beer was going on old
topers stood by deploring the waste of
liquor, while hundreds of men and
women shouted amens as the sheriff
and his deputies broke the bottles.
Mccarthy, who the day before had been
convicted on thirteen counts, fined
$1,000 and sentenced to thirteen months
in the county Jail, sat in the window
of his cell and witnessed the demon
stration outside, hurting anathemas on
the State temperance Union.