Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-04-18
A PLEDGE IN RHYME.

THIS nttle band do with our hand
A pledge now sign to drink no wine;
Nor brandy red 10 turn our head;
Nor whisky hot that makes the sot;
Nor fiery rum TO turn our home
Into a hell where none can dwell.
Whence peace would fly, and love would die,
And hope expire, mid such a fire;
Hard cider, too, will never do;
Nor brewers beer our hearts to cheer:
Tobacco, too, we do abjure;
TIC quench our thirst we will ALWAYS bring
Cold water from the well or spring.
Now here we pledge perpetual hate
To all that can intoxicate,
And here we stand, a brave, bold band
With heart and hand TO save our land.
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DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes recently
answered the question of a young man.
who asked whether he should smoke,
II he desired to do we'll in life: Ger
tainly not. 1t is liable to injure the
sight, to render the nerves unsteady, to
enfeeble the will and snslave the nature
TO an imperious habit likely to stand
In the way of duty to be performed"
Thos who do smoke are to be pitied.
Those who do not smoke are to be con-
graduated.
Saloons turn men into paupers and
thieves and murderers; and for this
wonderful Transformation they willing
~ pay a goodly sun to the Govern
ment. Then the people put the paupers
into nice poorhouses and support them;
they hire police to watch the criminals
n arrest them; they build fine court
houses and costly jails for them and
employ high priced judges and attor-
neys to try them. Then they erectg great
buildings called penitentiaries to keep
them in until a Governor pardons them
out, any then they have to go we the
same process again. Great scheme,
isn't itP And yet, people who do not
approve of such conditions are told that
they must keep their mouths shut, in
order that some license party pet may
get the office he covets. What a shame!
SECONDARY TO PROHIBITION.
After thirteen years of continuous
and persistent efforts on the line of H.
cense and other supposed legal r~estric-
tions of the liquor traffic, that great
thinker. Howard Crosby, said: 'Tbere
is but n remedy-the destruction of
the liquor shop. This" he says, lis
the most important question before the
American public. Tariff, the railroads,
the negroes, the silver question, reci-
procity-all are of secondary conse
quence when compared with this matter
OF the fundamental morals of legisla-
ton and society,"" Then he adds: 'It
would be well if the attention of our
citizens could be diverted from all other
questions and concentrated on this until
it should be settled that rum is not to
rule our land and spread its filth and
its corruption over the glorious poten-
tialities of the heritage with which a
generous Providence has endowed us. I"
POLITICS"
One angel met another on the jasper
street taking earthly observations.
"What are you looking at?"
Men" said the other.
And what do you seep"
II see wise men living under laws
made by fools and knaves, and submit.
ting of their own Wills"
Strange, "said the other. "And how
do they justify itY"
"They say it's all wrong"
"And why do they SUBMIT"
THAT it can not tell"
"And what do they call such a strange
anomaly"
politics. Selected.