Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-23
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JosrspoRo W. c. T. U.
THROW ON THE LIGHT.

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interest all mothers. There are ideas
brought out in these meetings and -se.
lections read that are very helpful to
those who attend. The majority OF
the mothers of Jonesboro evidently be-
long to one Of two classes; either they
are already supplied with all the helps
and suggestions they want, or they are
sublimely Indifferent to the need of
more light. Every body is cordially in.
vited to attend the Mothers Meetings
and discuss these subjects with us. The
subject of the last meeting was Hered.
ity. The following is a short paper
written for and read at that meeting.
HEREDITY.
Heredity is simply reaping what
someone else has sown. The subject is
a subtle, fascinating, far backward
reaching and important one. Therefor
the saying that ito have a child we'll
born we must begin at least one hun
dred years beforehand" Begin to train
and purge from habits and diseases,
the ancestors for generations back.
How often we notice habits, tricks of
taste or appetite cropping out in a child
that are foreign to its parents and date
back, we infer, to some ancestor; hav.
ing skipped over a generation or SO.
How important then to young people
choosing q companion for life, is the
family or ancestors of those chosen.
a man is often more particular about
the pedigree of his horse or his dog
than he is about that of his wife or his
daughters husband. The animal must
have a pedigree as long as possible
from which everything detrimental to
the highest degree of perfection has
been carefully eliminated. Oh that
we might exercise the care over the off.
spring of humanity. Since a large ma
jority of the children born into the
world are, through heredity, predis.
posed to diseases the best we can do
is to protect them as far as possible
from developing those conditions by
right living. A very small minority
inherits disease itself, but almost all
inherit tendencies to certain diseases,
both moral and physical, so that a lit
tie carelessness, neglect or wrong doing
in that direction develops the diseases.
For instance consumption, scrofula
and many other ailments are transmit
ted, not so often the disease itself, but
the tendency toward that form of dis
ease. The poison of alcohol, tobacco
and opium predispose the offspring of
those using these poisons to certain dis
tressing diseases, which, if their chill.
dren car be kept from forming these
habits and brought up with every op
portunity for healthful development,
they may escape a child inherits an
appetite for strong drink, but as long
rs ne does not taste it, the appetite lies
dnrmnnt, 10 net Developed auu mupr
proper conditions he grows stronger. If
they are brought up in pure and health
ful environment and do not use the
poisons themselves they nay escape
and will certainly lay the foundations
for a higher type of humanity in the
future. We therefore study this sub
ject in order to understand how we can
best protect our children from the evils
OF inherited tendencies. How to save
the present generation from the dread.
fui legacies bequeathed them. Many
an untimely death is mourned, and
providence arraigned because narcotic
poisons have done their slow but deadly
work, for the mills of God grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding small, while
with patience he stands waiting with
exactness grinds he all.
The suppression of the saloons is,
moreover, a moral issue. 1t is o uues-
ton of fiscal expediency alone. 1t
does not appeal to self interest alone.
Its claims reach the conscience of men
and women, simply, directly, and with
tremendous power. 1t does not, before
reaching the moral sense, require a
mans intellect to grapple with COM
pick and abstruse problems of finance
or commerce. 1t contains the potency
OF a great moral enthusiasm, the only
thing in this sublunary planet that has
ever overturned great organized inius.
tice entrenched in governmental and
financial authority. 1t strikes at an
evil that men see and feel. 1t stalks
before them on the street and thrusts
itself upon their notice on the railway
car, In the street car, anywhere and
everywhere. II is an evil that comes
close to men, in their homes, among
their friends. Men see and feel and
know it, and once give to this move
ment for its extirpation a size and
sweep that give promise of near sue
cess, and the nation will witness such
a tide of moral enthusiasm, such q re-
sistless uprising, as, we verify believe,
was never before witnessed in this
American Republic. This is proven
by the extent to which this issue, in
State amendment contests, and despite
the combined forces of both old party
machines and nearly the entire daily
press, has stirred the communities to
their very depths. 1t is an issue men
and will brave death for it is
an issue some of them have gladly died
for.
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