Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-04-03
A TRUE INDICTMENT.

menu gives o dark picture but hopeful.
When a good physician comes to un.
derstand his patients cause well, /. it
is not incurable, there is much hope.
Within the last few years America has
begun to understand municipal dis
ease and needs much better than ever
before. There is a bright picture of
our country. The light is being thrown
on the defects of our Government, and
the sight of these is the signal for i'm.
provement:
THE masses OF our people are gov.
erned by the saloon. The drink prob
lem is an old one, but the saloon is a
modern institution. 1t combines the
drink, gambling and social evils. We
haven't a very good library in New
York. We had $4,000 children on the
streets last year fer want of proper
schools. We have no institutions for
the poor. nor orphanages, but we have
5000 saloons. They're our specially.
We send a beer key to our Senate to
fill the seat once occupied by Seward.
We've beer enough to float the navies
of the world. We worship mammon
in New York City. Home life is be.
coming a memory. In those frightful
tenement houses thirteen persons are
crowded into a room twelve feet square
because it pays. While they starve,
in n street tailors in Fifth Avenue
devise costumes for dogs.
THE biggest gate of hell in city life
is city hall rule. Government is the
source of order. When it becomes q
source of crime society becomes a farce.
Where is the power to save humanity
in the conflict Of the twentieth century?
Municipal politics must be made a re-
ligioD. You soldiers of the cross must
prepare men to live, not to die. Talk
about pure gospel The man who
sings like an angle and votes like the
devil will be found with tn devil when
the votes are counted out. The church
of God is not the fortress behind which
%shivering towards may crouch. Can
this city be saved? Yes. | am no pessi
mist. 1t has improved greatly in the
last four years, and | look to see ouI
city of New York sweep away Its
abodes of %wretchedness and become a
fairer city in the heal f%uture.n
Danish the saloon. Do away with
the spoils system. Let the Government
only issue money. Public control OF
natural monopolies. Graduated in.
come tax. Return of portions of mil
lionare estates to the people are al
forces to help bring the good day.
THE TRIAL OF THE DEMON.
l sometimes wonder what will be the
moral standard of men when | shall
have reached mature manhood?
wonder if the young mel who are now
beginning 10 supply the vacancies
caused by age and retirement from &C
tive public life are prepared to aid in
raising the worlds morals to higher
plains by d%enouncing and laborine
against the liquor traffic? l certainl,
hope 30.
l have yet my first vote to cast, blu
when the time does come l go Prohi
bition unfaltertng. While rocked il
the cradle of Democracy, l oppose {
party that will uphold and behold sucl
a thing.
Back somewhere in the morning O
the eigh ties there was in a hotel in on,
of u large cities an intoxicated fathe.
and with him was his elder son WHIT
lacked about two years of buddin,
into teens" The pair were three O
four hundred miles away from home
Their Don was on the fourth floor O
the hotel, and afforded a window GU
of which one could SEQ a long distanc
in a semicircular direction. The fathe
lay sick and intoxicated on the be,
near by the window, in which sat tn
little son, as he imagined, destitute
Directly his mind would travel back t,
home and mother, brothers aud sisters
fond relatives, kind friends and "tha
pleasant fireside."
Who else was distressed? All, 90 t
the home of that troubled mother
lot of little children near by who di
not understand her trouble, and VIII
were to be supported and educated
How dim was hope, and how little wa
life worth living-husband far away
being consumed by a fiendish appetite
her boy, where, how was he, what Of
earth would become of him?
My soul is stirred when | think O
the asylums that ale being filled, tn
jails and psnitentiaries that are bein
inhabited, the graves in which drunke,
husbands and fathers are being lai
away, and the homes that are bein
disgraced and wrecked in this manner
tho wives and mothers made miserabl
and introduced to almost, if not pa,
perism, the thousands of girls RUNE
and boys that follow as they have bee
led.
l know more about that father an
son than most anyone else-enough
say that the father lives today and
Christian man. Early life was yer
soberly spent with the boy. H
paid dearly for his lesson and now o
fers it in hopes that some one may pro
it by the story.