Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-11-11
HARD TINES.

try in the world, the cry of hard times
is so general. Over production is given
as the cause. Under consumption,
however, is the more accurate reason.
If the peoples money were spent for
staple and honest productions, it would
set the forces of factories and farms
and mines and commerce so actively
at work that labor and capital would
breathe more freely. This under con-
sumption has its top root in the ex-
penditures of the masses for intoxi-
cants. The subject is one of such fin
ancial proportions that all involved in
both tariff and silver questions COM
bined does not equal one fourth of this
every year.
Drop the s%tupendous sum Of the ma
ton 3 liquor bill from the amount that
should be coursing through healthy
channels of commercial and industrial
operations, and yet you will see what
is the chief cause of stagnation in the
legitimate and equitable business of
this country.
This point is plausibly answered by
saying, 1.-THE money spent for intoxi-
cants is thus put in active circulation,
and so prevents instead of creates hard
times.' The answer is more plausible
than accurate. The ~pickpocket takes
one hundred dollars from the pocketoi
an honest man who is going home at
night; that money is put in circula-
ton. But it is circulating in dens of
shame and crime. The next day it
would have been circulating among
workingmen for their wages, or the
merchant for dry goods instead OF
wet goods" 1t is transferred from
healthy to unhealthy circulation, and
harms instead of helps the true inter
ests of labor and capital. Consequently
it would have been better for labor ant
capital il that one hundred dollars haI
been sunk "where the sea is deepest.
That hundred dollars is a type o
money worse than sunk in retail trad
in intoxicants. Selected.
GIG PAREsIs.
Chicago, Ill.-Beads of perspiratior
%glistened IN the yellow skinned fore
head. The pupils of his eyes, unnatu
rally enlarged, CLEANED and glittered
never for an instant still. Four strong
men carried the poor creature into che
car and forced him into the seat, just
before the Illinois Central train pulle
out of the Twelfth Street station. The
emaciated arms, strong only with ma
niacal energy were strapped together.
and fastened firmly to the arm OF the
car seat and the wreck of a mar sat
impotent, glazing into %nothingless.
"Crazy?' said n of the attendants.
"Well, | should say SO. Going to Kan
kakee for life. Never get well, the doc
tor says. Cigarettes did it,
Woman's suffrage is undoubtedly
coming, l for one expect a great deal
of good to result from it.-Henry w,
Longfellow.
For over forty years l have not hest
tated to declare my conviction tina
justice and fair dealing, and the dem
ocratic principles of our government
demand equal rights and privileges o
citizenship, irrespective of sex. l hav
not been able to see any good reasol
for denying the ballot to women.-J
G. Whittier.
NEVER PREsCRIBEs WHISKY.
DIR. B. W. Richardson states that i
5000 cases treated at the London Ten
perance hospital the death rate wa
only 6.3 per cent, q rate which is on
par with if not lower than that of an
other hospital. He also said that in tn
II cases in which alcohol had been az
ministered at the hospital he did n,
believe it had done a bit of good an
that he never prescribes it himself.
A TRAFFIC THAT DAREs NOT DEFEN
ITSELF.
The liquor traffic skulks behir
screens to do its disreputable bushes
1t is ashamed to openly defend itse
when attacked by men. 1t can new
do its own lying, SO bad is its chara
ter, but must hire the publishers
more or less reputable newspapers
print what is false and misleading.
can only win the fight by keeping o
of sight itself and hiring Others to d
ceive the people. Why do we not he
we A From u; s. - q s'si'