Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-09-16
SIXTEEN TO ONE.

SIXTEEN TO ONE.
The great important problem that is
today agitating the American people
from shore to shore is the currency
question. We hear it on the street, in
office, store and home, all the secular
papers are full from the first page to
the last. Indeed, nothing seems to hold
the interest of the people as does a dis
cussion of the question, for or against
the free coinage of silver at a ratio of
16 to |; meanwhile the saloon goes on
coming drunkards of our boys at q ra.
ito fearful to contemplate. AT least 16
to | of IL boz s go astray through the
baleful efforts Of the drink habit, and
as many husbands and fathers make
desolate the homes they ought to pro.
tect, where there might not be one but
for the u~nspeakable saloon.
Sixteen mothers here in Jonesboro
and elsewhere are made anxious, care
worn and broken hearted when not one
would be were it not for the snares of
the legalized saloon.
Sixteen dollars go into the family of
the sal~oonkeeper where one goes into
the home of the drunkard and helps to
build up an honest business.
More than sixteen children go thro'
life vicious and ignorant because of
the reign of King Alcohol where one
would not other wise.
More than sixteen to one murders are
committed that the saloon is response.
BILE for.
More than sixteen to one casualties,
accidents by rail and other Transport
tations are due to the drinking habit
of employees.
More than sixteen times as much dis
ease is transmitted through alcoholic
heredity as in any other way.
There are 16 times as many widows
and orphans as need be and thousands
worse than widows and orphans.
There are sixteen Christian voters
who do not vote against the saloon to
one who does, and at least that proper.
ton of women who would like to help
vote the liquor traffic ont of existence
before their boys are ruined.
All this ado about free silver or the
gold standard will amount to nothing
so long as the saloon swallows up the
coin and debauches the citizens.
Whichever prevails will produce no
permanent betterment of conditions to
be compared with the wiping out of
the saloon power. While Satan trem-
bles for his stronghold, the saloon, he
is making a desperate fight, and he
seems to be wiser than the children Of
light. When he sees the conscience of
the Christian citizens of this land par
italy aroused, as it is occasionally, at
unimportant times, some hew aud cry
is at once raised to distract attention
from better things. When everything
else fails there is the terrific question
of the tariff and protection, everything
under the sun except the home and hu.
mainly. Then the root Of all evil is
firmly implanted in the hearts Of 1G to
l of the people that it is an easy matter
to get their attention along that line
by promising them unlimited quaint.
ties of silver and gold if they will bow
down and worship him with their bal.
lot just this once more. Long years
ago a golden calf was devised to divert
the minds of the people from better
things; but it was left for the Christ.
ian citizens in the light of the closing
days Of the nineteenth century to bow.
not only before q golden calf, hut
also a great bovine Of silver which
must be sixteen times as large as the
one of gold.
What shall it profit o man If he gain
the whole world and lose his own soulg
When there is an evil to combat which
costs our nation 81, 300, 900 600 annu.
ally and fills our idiot, insane, deaf and
dumb a%sylums, and prisons, which are
run at a tremendous cost to the State
and nation. and starves people who
ought to be making q market for the
best Of food, and clothes them in rags
when they ought to be able to buy good
clothes, it would seem the sensible
thing to do to stop this little leak be-
fore trying to put more coin into circu-
lation. Think of it, over a billion dol
lars to begin with, then add the cost of
asylums, the trials and imprisonment
OF criminals and then we must add the
labor which is lost by the incompe.
tency Of workingmen through the drink
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