Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-15
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. T. U.

FOk A FIGHT To A FINISH.
1t stand to reason that the liquor
traffic must either live or die. Prohi-
bition says it shall die. All who say
it shall live are anti Prohibition. Here
is the crucial test.
At every crisis, when Prohibition
argument and persuasion seem on the
point of becoming irresistible; at every
time when the old parties are behaving
so abominably that honest men every
where are looking to the Prohibition
party as the door of %hope-some inven-
tor springs forward with a scheme al.
most as good and much more practical
BILE, differing in the one little item that
the liquor traffic is to live.
In 1881, when Prohibition seemed
likely to sweep the country, having al
ready carried Kansas, the system of
High License was invented, and de-
cived so clear headed q man as John B.
Finch for a little while. High License
has run its course, 80 that DIR. Crosby,
in the last year of his life, admitted
that it did not diminish intemperance,
and Robert Graham is giving it up.
Now, South Carolina was all ready
for Prohibition when Governor Till.
man sprang upon it has d%ispensary
plan. 1t will close up all saloons ex-
cept those the Government runs. The
system is simply High License pushed
to its logical conclusion. There is the
con inusd existence of the traffic; there
is the State authorization, there is the
influence upon the citizen, and especi-
ally upon the young, that every sys'
tenn sustained by leaders of State and
church must have. But it is practical
BILE, because the liquor traffic is to live,
and the great liquor magnates will not
seriouslyand long oppose it.
Then comes the Gothenbug system.
The State will wash its hands as clean
as Pilates. There shall! be no liquor
selling except what is done by a COM
pany-but the liquor selling can go on.
That point must be secure.
Suppose we quit fooling. We want
TO stop in!emperance. As Neal Dow
says, 1.-THE cause of drunkenness is
drink" To stop drunkenness we must
stop the drink To stop the drink is to
spoil the liquor traffic. When we at
tempt that. we have all the liquor fra
ternity, high and low, to fight. I, for
one, am in favor of fighting them to a
finish right now, before they get any
stronger, and not of wasting the rest of
this century on measures tainted with
the inherent futility of providing for
the alcoholic drink traffic in some
shape or in any shape. death to the
alcoholic drink traffic." is the watch.
word that leads the shortest way to
victory.-Rev. James G. Fernald, in
The Voice.
Three significant utterances at the
Christian Endeavor convention deserve
special notice. The first was by Rev.
Smith Baker, of Boston, who said:
What justice is there in %forbidding
an intellectual, cultured woman, pos
sessed of property, who is conversant
with the history of her land, paying
taxes to support the schools of her
land; what justice is there in allowing
n poor, penniless, illiterate foreigner to
vote when such q woman is not per-
mitted to do so? l do not propose to
discuss this question, but when the wo-
man who is capable of being president
of a college, when the who is
capable of presiding over business af-
fairs, when the woman who is capable
of teaching boys and girls the princi-
pies of our constitution, when the wo-
man who is capable of taking care of a
home and children, and, oftentimes,
her husband also, shall have justice
done her she will have the right to
vote. These are truths which any
Christian democracy and which Christ
ian citizenship must claim for every.
body" Our great hearted brother,
John G. Woolley, said in his marvel
GUS address, given in full in our last
issue: II will hold nc politician s coat
while he stones a prophet or denies full
citizenship to woman. By the grace
of God l will be a Christian Christian
and a manly man. | will confess
Christ before people and on election
day, which in this land of equal rights
is mans day. l will show myself n
Christian voter, fit to represent unfran-
chised wOmanhood at the polls. I will
go to Him, hear His words, and what.
ever lie says unto me | will do it.
Upon that rock l will build my politics
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it," Samuel Gompers, today
the most trusted labor leader in Amer
lea, had these words in address to the
country in which the Federation of
Labor declines to strike: 1--WE reiter.
ate the fundamental trade union pin.
ciple that working people, regardless
of sex, creed color, nationality, politics
or occupation should have one and the
same interest in one common cause
for their own political advancement"
The conference Of Kansas City politi-
clans to name n prosecuting attorney
favorable to the lottery swindlers was
held in a brewery. The friends of the
murdered Bobert Ross went to see Sen.
ator Murphy about the election thugs