Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-04-04

the four mile law to municipalities.
with the Mississippi law land endorsed
by 1900 OF the best citizens of Ten
nessee, would without doubt enact such
a law.
Let every enemy of the saloon join
us in this effort with their work and
prayers to Danish from our beautiful
towns the accused trafic.-K. R.
Plumber, in the Pilot.
A PARALLEL.
There was once q gigantic evil on
the earth. Striking its roots deep into
the soil, reared its hateful head aloft
and spreadi5s baleful influence abroad.
and men compromised with it and
a~pologized Tor it, even while they de-
plored it and only here and there could
be found n brave enough to propose
that the whole accused thing be torn
up by the roots.
Mostly men said, st is evil, but we
must put up with it. To destroy it
would be to overturn the existing or
der of society. 1t would cause so much
loss, suffering and distress, on every
side, that its destruction is not to be
thought of. Let us fence it in curb
and restrain it in all possible ways {;
get out of il what good we can and
shut our eyes to the rest. 1t is all we
can do"
A few wise hearted and keen sighted
ones foresaw what the end must be,
and dared TO lift up strong, uncom-
promising voices, demanding its down
fall, but they stood alone.
At last in tears, and blood, and
smoke, and ruin, slavery persisted from
among us. BY what it cost to kill it,
men measured them its iniquity.
But there yet abides among us an
evil towering up in giant strength,
and bringing ruin and desola,ion to all
"POh "hOhi leS ouuuUW ldllb. ana
men are dealing with it in the same
way, saying. LET us bind it, but not
destroy"
Is there any parallel between slavery
and intemporance and if SO which is
the worse?
The slave was subject to his master
even unto death. His happiness or
misery depended wholly upon the kind
ness or cruelty with which he was
treated. Though he laugh and sing
today, tomorrow may see him in a con-
dition 80 forlorn that the very beasts
might pity him. But is not the drunk
ard in a far more hopeless, helpless
thrallp Can money redeem him, or
love Tighten his bonds? Nay, every
alienation only tends to make his con
ditions worse. Friends, home, love,
Joy, peace and hope, are all flung
into the scales, and weigh as nothing
against the bondage of an all consum-
ing appetite.
The ownership of slaves had a reflex
evil effect upon slave holders. They
were hardened and made callous to
human pain and woe. ut was all in
the way of trade" Some of them were
kind and considerable, and sought to
make the yoke as light as possible,
What can we say of the rumseller
His occupation embrutilizes him far
worse than anything else under God
clear heaven can do. He grows more
than used to suffering and sha me.
his condition is voluntary. 1T,
too is in the way of trade, More than
likely he is Il slave himself to the cup
no offers others. But it is when we
compare time with eternity that the
unreasonable difference In these con-
ditions makes itself felt. By so much
as the eternal years to come are worth
more than these few fleeting moments,
by the value of the soul as compared
to the body, by the estimate we place
upon the forever and ever''-by all
these is the slavery OF the inebriate
worse than that of the bond man.
If we must take upon ourselves one
OF the other of these two forms of life,
which would would we choose? Would
We not gladly, if we might, for our
loved, exchange the chains of the
drunkard TO the shackles of the slave?
As for me, itI must be a captive-if
Ole must be my master. a man or a
fend, then let me never walk the green
earth fetterlt ssl Let my cup be filled
with the bit crest draught a bondman
ever drank, but God save me from a
drunkard's doom!
MARJORIE MOORE. |