Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-03
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
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wooLLEY's WISDOM

constructive perndy.
The heart of the church is true as
tempered steel, but her hands tremble;
she flames in the Funeral Conference,
but fumbles in the general election.
If ballot boxes we've monographs or
gas meters, she would have made a
record, but being only deal boxes they
don't take her seriously.
The liquor traffic can not be legal
lied without the Methodist vote, but it
is legalized.
The Methodist idea translated into
action seems to be, ut can not be le-
galized by Democrats without SIM"
l find nothing in your discipline or
minutes about tariff or silver, or fran
chise or party, but your splendid decla-
ration against license rings around the
world; yet, so far, you have consented
to postpone the liquor question to
either tariff, silver OF franchise.
1t is even probable that the bulk Of
Methodist vote this fall will be cast
with sole reference to the preservation
of a political party; the preservation of
your own integrity being adjourned sine
die on motion Of scoffers at your reli-
gion.
A Christian church that ~enunciates
a political convention, and habitually
deserts it for considerations Of party
expediency, stands self stultifed, and
drops out of circulation like any other
counterfeit.
A licensed saloon keeper Ia a con-
victed criminal who has bribed the
judge and got a years reprieve. He is
a slaye who coins his golden ball and
chain and cries to the State for more
chains-and gets them.
The saloon keepers say, IF you make
a righteous law, Wen break it, and
that will put it in ~disrepute and put
legislative decencY at q discount, and
we shall all be criminals" and a ma
jority Of the decent people of this u
try snap the bait and proceed to form a
high license society for the prevention
of felony by compromising it in ad-
vance, by an advertised scale of prices.
"Who killed this boyY" cries the cor
oner; and we, from the thick cover,
pipe like quail, Bob White, Bob
White" Now, Bob White is the So
loon keeper, and when accused, he
says, and truly, "The mayor gave me
leave;" and we pipe up the mayor, who
defends himself by saying, 1.-THE Legis-
lature babe me.o Then we flutter
and cluck about the Legislature, which
answers, and truly, II am the voice of
the people crying in the Government:
Prepare ye the way of the liquor traffic
make its paths straight and respecta-
ble-or expensive, which is the same
thing" ~
We go to the saloon Keeper and say,
"Hear us mourn. Why don't you
weepY" But what cares he for your
mourningr He has made three dollers
by the dead boy yonder, and he cries
with oaths: Stand back. To hell
with the dead. Make way for the liv.
ing boys. Don't you see the boys com
ingp" And the Landlord, a professed
Christian, cries: ''Let the man alone,
he is my tenant;" and the pastor says:
Look out how you talk to the land.
lord, he is my leading member. Stand
back"
The coroner, the judge, the Legisla-
ture, and the voter, play blindrnan's
buff with murderers; and Christian
men are trying to draw the ark of God
in government, with a license and an
indictment driven tandem. =
IS THIS YOUp
Many a man who has asked God to
lead him when he goes to prayer meet
ing suffers the devil to guide him when
he goes to vote.
Another surprise to ME is that female
suffrage is in full blast. / found ele-
CANT ladies telling of their experience
at the ballot box, and l hereby report
to the American ladies now moving for
the right of female suffrage that New
leland is clear ahead of them and that
the experiment has been made here sue
c~essfully. Instead of the ballot box
degrading woman, woman is here ele-
waiting the ballot box. and why in New
leland or American or anywhere else
should man be so afraid to let woman
have a vote, as though man himself had
made such q grand use of 1t. Look ut
the illiterates, and the incompetents
who have been elected to office and
see how poorly the masculines have
exercised the right of the suffrage; look
at the governments of nine tenths OF
the American cities and see what work
the ballot box has done in the posses
ion of man. Man at the ballot box ID
a. failure, give woman o chance. ]
am not clear that governmental affairs
will be made any better by the change
but they car not be any worse.
New Zealand has tried it,let Englant
and America try 1t. 1t is often said il
America that If women had the RICH
to vote they would not exercise it. Fo
the reputation of that theory I put tn
fact that in the last election in New
Iceland Of 100, 900 women who regis
tered 10000 have voted, while Of tn
$4,000 men who registered only 1870,
600 have votedsq This ratio shows tina