Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-16
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo w. @. t. U.
DRINK.

Drink, drink, drink Fully a year.
ago ] went into a Manchester Jail. We
have got a new and magnificent one,
and as long as you license drunkard
makers you will have to build prisons
to hold the drunkards they make. l
went into that prison, and | stood on
one spot where, with n glance could
command 1000 cells. Picture those
1000 cells, and every one tenanted!
] went from door to door down those
terrible aisles with a warden and a
chaplain; and, as door after door was
opened, / put the question, "How came
you herep" The answer that met me
in almost every case was drink. On,
on we went, down the gloomy aisle,
and it came like a funeral k~nell-drink,
drink, drink Dragging down the
young, the educated, the uneducated;
no respecter of persons, bringing them
first to Jail, and untimely hurting them
down to hell. I say, let us stand be-
fore the evils of our country, and try
to ascertain their cause. Let our
Christian ministers do it-they are
bound to do it. We are bound by our
loyalty to our country, and above all
by our loyalty to our common Father,
God. go, then, to the prisons and
ask, What brought you here?" And
then comes the old ap~swer-drink! l
60 into the workhouse, and / ask,
"What brought you here?" Out comes
the answer-drink! l go to the lunatic
asylum, still it is drink. I look down
into the damnation of hell, and from
millions of voices m the response
drink! I am no philosopher, l am no
orator. am a plain, blunt man, but |
have common sense enough to see that
if we reno We the cause the effect must
cease.-Rev. Charles Garrett.
BEECHER ON HEREDITY.
1t seems hard that when a man does
wrong his children should be put under
an almost irresistible inclination to do
wrong; it seems hard that when a man
drinks spurious liquors his children
and his children's children should find
themselves urged by a burning thirst,
which they can scarcely withstand,
toward indulgence in intoxicating
drinks; it seems hard that diseases
should be transmitted, and that be-
cause a man has violated the laws of
health his children should be sickly
and short lived-these things seem hard
SO long al we look at them only on one
side, but what a power of restraint this
economy has when every man feels, Il
stand not for myself alone, but for the
whole line of my posterity to the third
and fourth generationl'-''Mr Beecher' s
Imprinted Words" in Ladies' Home
Journal.
DR.. MEAD, OF NEW YORK, SPEAKS.
DR.. G. II. Mead, of New York, a
member of the quartette, proved clear
ly that not only is he an excellent
singer, but also a strong talker as we'll.
He began by saying that every mill
needs and has its raw MATERIAL The
saw mill needed logs to make boards,
the grist mill grain to make flour; SO
the gin mill, the saloon, needs its raw
materials, the boys, and without them
saloons could not live. The power
which runs the gin mill is license, and
the voter turns on the. power. What
matter If a mothers heart is broken;
womtn's hearts were made to pave the
streets for brewers horses to tread
upon.
The sum of 81, 1850, DOC, 900 was spent
for whisky in twenty years in this
country. Just think of it. Take these
cart wheels, worth fifty five cents, with
"In God We Trust" on them-for the
other forty five cents and pile them up.
The column would be just 1878 miles
high; or like the trees of California,
where it takes two men to see to the
top of them. In conclusion he said the
voter was the only person who de-
Tended the LIQUOR traffic.