Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-31

ho'o hei wy tuuRnI tue eHeCt5 OF al
cohol and narcotics ON his body, don't
you think her sphere needs broadening
just a littleY OF course, we women
in Knoxville don't know, but we have
been wondering the last few weeks
II 1t would have make any difference
with our own city council in regard to
the last petitioning we did about closing
the saloons at night-if the mothers,
sisters and wives of Knoxville had been
allowed as much freedom in the last
election as the saloon took.
1t SENS we need something more eff
fective than petitioning after election.
What shall it beY Let us learn from
u neighbors. How did they recently
get municipal temperance legislation
in Norfolk, Virginia? Why were the
saloons in Little Rock, Arkansas,
closed last Sunday for the first time in
many years? Because at their last
election the p%etitioning was done in the
ballot box. The preacher and Sunday
School mar did net vote with the
brewer and saloon keeper. If the
Christian voters of this country would
stand together at the ballot box today,
there would be no legalized liquor
traffic in America tomorrow.
Suppose our streets are full of drunk
ards and we have thousands of men in
the liquor traffic. That isn't the worst
thing in the country. The worst thing
In this country is the setting up of a
throne of iniquity by law that takes
issue with the throne of God. This is
the awful sin of this civilized nation,
and we say to this throne of iniquity
you shall exist and exist by law" and
the solemn thing about this is, God
never is very long patient with a peo-
pie of whom he has given light and
who refuse to use it. We are no long
er dealing with ignorance but with the
apathy of guilt. Men know their duty
and do not do it. Oh, my brethren let
me beg of you when you go to the bal
lot box remember a vote is an official
record of a mans opinion. No voter
ever throws away his vote, he has
simply had the Government record his
convictions. This saloon can no more
run without boys than the mill without
logs, let your vote say whether it sh all
be your boy, and make your next legis-
lature of such men that it can not be
said, when the temperance education
bill comes up again Jas it will that
it would have become a law had it not
been for a Knox County man.
God grant the time may come when
we shall cease seeing.
Out from the hearthstone the children fair
Pass fresh from the breath of q mothers
prayer,
And their fathers vote, on the crowded street
Consent to the snare. of their thoughtless
feet.
The liquor trade sounds q note of
warning in the Pacific Wine and Spirit
Review, which says: THE liquor trade
may as well come to the conclusion.
sooner or later, that a great danger is
found in 'womans' suffrage On gen
eral principles nine out of ten of the
American women are opposed to the
saloon as an institution. The liquor
trade need not expect any quarter from
'unreasoning' women.
The great Mary T. Lathrope saws
IF you want to know what a boy is
worth ask his mother" She goes into
the very jaws of death to give him
birth and then puts into him her DAYS
OF love and nights of care and by the
time he stands before her strong and
clean and tall at twenty one, she can
tell what he is worth from the crown
OF his head to the soles of his feet: and
when the legalized dram shop takes
hold OF him and tears him down, fiber
by fiber, and puts oaths on the lips
she used to kiss, and brushes out his
mothers hopes, it is no wonder she
makes outcry.
Ii you want to know what a home is
worth go ask a loving woman who has
kept herself as pure as a lilly to her
marriage day, when with great shining
light in her eyes she gives herself up
into the hands of one man ''for better
or for worse, for riches or for poorer
until life's end" and when the dram
shop with its fearful curse crosses the
threshold of the home they have built
together and takes down her strong
overs OF hope, stone by stone and de,
grades the father of her children it is
no wonder she makes cutlery. You
men sometimes say to us as we stand
in places like this Home is your king.
DOM" we know it better than Won.
But it is our kingdom that is outraged.
You see us standing b~allotless and de.
fenseless before this vampire of our
civilization and say, You do not need
the ballot we defend you by love and
law" Do you? When for eighty five
years by well defined license legisla-
ton motherhood has been uncrowned
and her children slain by law, and YOU
have made no protest against it. You
have prayed about it in prayer meeting,
but 1t comes to the sweep of empire
in the ballot box and in politics ana in
political organization you have made
no protest. o, men; | do do not believe
a civilization is worth much that can
not protect its women and its babies.
And grand as you are, and strong as
you are, and true as you are you will
never be able to protect your women
and your children and the dram shop
all at the same time.
o, in shame; in very shame either
rise up and strike down this enemy of
the home and wifehood and of child.
hood, or else put the ballot in the
hands of your women for their own
protection.