Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-19

Let the whole white ribbon army re-
joice with us. The black cap is taken
from the head of Tennessee after q pa
tient and persisting fight on the part
of her white ribboners for nine years.
We can't award too much praise to our
brave and patient superintendent of
legislative work, Mrs. Emily Little, of
Nashville, who for the last four years
has stood upon that watch tower. All
that woman could do she has done, and
hereby thank her from my Utmost
heart and in the name of every mother
in the State. The bill provides that the
nature of alcoholic drinks and mar
cotics, including cigarettes and their
effects upon the human system shall
be taught as thoroughly as other regu.
lar branches, that no certificate be
granted to any person to teach in the
public schools who has not passed salts
factory examination on these subjects.
The bill goes into effect January /, 1915.
Tennessee is the third State to pass the
scientific temperance instruction bill
during the year 1895, the other two be-
ing South Carolina and Indiana. There
now remain but two with the ''black
cap"-Arkansas and Georgia.
The principal function of our Ameri-
can public schools is to equip the youth
of land so that they can intelli-
gently discharge the duties of citizen
ship. This equipment must include
sound bodies, sound morals, and sound
minds. The State is interested in the
proper development of these three.
Another way of stating the proposition
would be that health, character and in
telligence in its citizens are necessary to
the stability and prosperity of the State.
Weak, puny boys make dependent men,
recruits for the hospitals and infirma.
ries. Weak and vicious character in
its citizens fills the jails and prisons
and imperils the very existence of the
State.
Within the past ten years, and more
particularly during the last five years,
a vice insidious and demoralizing has
fastened itself upon the youth of the
country, and especially upon our school
boys, in a way to call for the most
earnest efforts to stampit out. and that
is the vice of cigarette smoking. The
vice is q specific one. The juvenile
cigarette smoker draws in the smoke
with a quick inhalation that sends it
well down into his lungs, where a de-
posit of nicotine, volatile oil of tobacco
and the oil of paper remains after each
operation. This deposit is quickly
taken up by the circulation and dis
tributed through the system, causing
injury to health and character and APP
preciably diminishing mental power.
Frequent and increasing indulgence is
an almost unvarying characteristic of
the vice. 1t is a fascinating habit and
soon compels a servitude, complete and
almost helpless. The gold cure people
realize this and will not treat any pa
tent until he consents to abandon the
cigarette habit.
WHAT II SALOON REALLY is.
The American saloon is the rendez.
vous of all that is bad, vile and vicious.
No place as here, aside from the bag.
MO, is the atmosphere 80 saturated
with that is vicious and corrupting.
AT the saloon n meets with the
worlds flthiest characters, flthiest
pictures, filthiest conversations, be-
cause there c%ongregates society's filth.
lest souls; cutthroats, gamblers, buns,
ramps and ~deadbeats throng around
them like midsummer flies around q
gluey paper prepared for their destruc'
tion. This is the place where the down
fall OF women is planned; this is the
place where plots to murder mortal
man are arranged; this is the place
where the young mar is robbed of al
his harl earned dollars; this is the
lace that makes the hole in the
money bag for the working classe,
spoken of in the Bible; this is the place
where the strikes of the working classes
are planned; this is the place from
which the anarchist draws inspiration
to throw his dynamite bomb; this il
the place that is building jails, worl
houses, State p~enitentiaries for thu
largest per cent. Of our criminals anC
infractors of the laws, not churches
and schools; this is the place that il
causing widows tears and orphan
cries; this is The place where the littl,
barefoot waif, in soiled and tattereC
garments, goes and pleads, "Pleas,
don T sell my dear papa rum" this il
the place that is putting annually on,
hundred thousand of our might hav,
been, best and most talented men il
drunkard's graves ahead of time; thi
is the school of vice and intemperanc,
from which our young men graduate
for perdition; this is the last place OF
this side of eternity next to the bottom
less pit called hell; this is the institu
ton licensed by the Federal and mu
nicipal Government 10 debauch ant
destroy our boys; this is the institution
you are sustaining every time you cas-
YOUR vote with either Republican o
Democrat praty, on which it has
mortgage. and around whose neck
has an imperishable rope-thstis wha
the American saloon is and nothin
else. What do you think Of it and il
missionY-Rev. E. G. Avis, in The Pilot