Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-02-07
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. T. U.
THE POPPY LAND LIMITED EMPRESS.
The first train starts at 8 PM,

Ats Pm. the next train starts
For the Poppy Land afar;
The summons clear falls on the ear,
Gan aboard for the sleeping carr'
hope 1t is not dear"
The fare is thiS-a hug and a kiss,
And It's paid to the engineer.
SO | ask of Him who children took
On His knee in Kindness great,
"Take charge, l pray, of the trains each day,
That leave between 0 and s.
keep watch DER the pass'ngers,'' thus | pray
For to me they are very dear,
And special ward, o gracious Lord!
DER the gentle engineer"
WHY LILIUoKALANI OBJECTS TO ANNEX
ALTON.
The following address to her sub
jects by the late Queen of Hawaii has
never before been made public
l, Queen Liliuokalani, sovereign of
the Hawaiian Islands, though some.
what under eclipse just now, being de.
sirous to avert from my dearly beloved
subjects a terrible fate that threatens
them, herein indite this epistle.
The attempt is being made to annex
Hawaii to the United States. l, in the
name of humany and Christianity,
protest. The United States is q bar
barous nation, composed for the most
part of heathens and savages totally
unfit to govern themselves. Are We
prepared to see Hawaiians degraded t.
the same low level? l an informed
that in the United States the republi-
can form of Government has become
such a Trace that, in a place called
Gravesend, after all the men have vo
ted, the officials allow the streets to
vote and even cigarettes are entitled
to the solemn privileges of the sufF-
rage!
In the metropolis Of theUnited States,
called Gotham for short, if a man sells
a loaf of bread to q hungry man on
Sunday he is arrested and sent to Jail,
while in the same district 1000 gallons
of beer may be sold on the same day
and no II interferes.
In that barbarous country, Ii of
the favorite% diversions of the populace
is to build up huge piles of wood, over
which they pour kerosene oil, that it
may burn more readily, and then tying
some prisoner on top of the pile they
set fire thereto and dance in ecstasy
around the blazing pyre.
There is, moreover, an institution in
that country which is honored above
all other institutions with political
power and wealth, but which | can
hardly describe to you, so incredible is
its work. BY means of it men who are
kind fathers are in q single hour
changed into madmen who place their
OWN children on red hot stoves, ravage
their dying daughters. and with axes
chop into pieces their gray haired
mothers and loving wives. This insti-
tuition is protected by the Government.
and the people who make the Govern
ment, because it is supposed to help
pay the taxes, and all appeals in be-
half of the vi :tims of its atrocity are
secuted and ridiculed, even ministers
of SO called Christian churches turning
a deaf ear to the appeals and register.
ing their views every year anew in favor
of the continuance of this deadly Sin
stitution."
l can not see Hawaii, the pearl of
the Pacific, degraded to the plane of
such a brutal nation, where men are
enticed, by official sanction, to drink a
poison and then, because their bodies
are not proof against its effects, are
robbed by the courts of what money
they have left and confined in dun.
geons while their wives and children
starve. In the aforesaid Gotham it is
even the fact that in some cases the
very man who entices them to drink is
the man who sits in the court the next
morning to sentence to fine and impris-
onment those whom he has entrapped
the night before.
Annex Hawaii to such a heather
and barbarous country No, no bet
ter a thousand times die in defense of
our omes.-Liliuokalani, in the Voice.