Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-05-19

The whisky ring by their course in
the past several legislatures have slow
ly but surely been working out their
own doom. Prohibition is a thousand
times better than a whisky lobby that
attempts to control all legislation, that
stands hand in glove with the railroad
lobby, and the Zee lobby, and which
joins in every vile scheme to thwart
the will of the people. Nashville Sun.
DRINK BENUMBs INTELLIGENCE.
The liquor organs are publishing
with n good deal Of evident satisfac-
ton what is claimed to be the opinion
of Warden Cassidy, of ian eastern
pe~nitentiary, the name and location
of which institution for some reason
are withheld. This INDICATED prison
official says:
1.-THE crime class, the professional
burglar of the higher grade, the forger,
the die sinker, tho engraver, the EN-.
bezzler, the people who make their
living by their wits and cheating other
people a not afford 10 be d~runkards,
for under the influence of liquor they
could not carry on their business"
That may or may not be true, but if
it is. it proves far too much to afford
comfort to the liquor ~apologists. 1t
helps to establish the dangerous char
acter of drink to the individual. Ac-
cording to Cassidy, liquor benumbs in
telligence and even befogs the cunning
of that class of criminals whose law.
less calling depends upon their pos
sessing a clear head. That such is the
nature of drink upon men generally
was claimed by PIohibitionlsts long
before the liquor organs discovered
Cassidy.
But the fact that the vast majority
of brutalizing crimes are inspired by
grog, and perpetrated while under its
influence, is still proven by constantly
accumulating evidence. The daily
crime records of the newspapers, the
experience of courts and the dockets
of magistrates establish this claim be.
yond the possibility of a doubt in the
the estimation of all men whose judg,
ment and comprehension are not be
fuddled by drink,
PLEA FOR ToBACCo-USING.
In defense of the habit, we are tolt
that great statesmen, inventors, phi
losophers and clergymen of older
times we're tobacco users. Suppos
they were, does their example prov
that tobacco is not i%njuriousp Men o
great intellect have been wine an,
liquor drinkers, but it does not follow
that wine or liquor is harmless. Alex
ander the Great was one of the great
est military leaders the world eve
knew. Within twelve years he overral
Syria, Palestine and Egypt, fouude
Alexandria, conquered the Persian
and penetrated far into the Indial
Yet wine conquered him and he die
from the effects of intemperance at tn
earlv age of 80 years and left his vas
empire to others.
We are referred to Gen. Grant {
being q smoker to justify the practic,
1t has been said that "PhiladelphI
gentlemen presented to Gen. Grant i
front of Petersburg in March 1865
costly Meerschaum, and in substanC
he said gentlemen it is true l snok
but it is a bad habit and l propose
drop it," But, in the Long Branc
Railroad horror June 30, 'S2, ''Gel
Grant was in the smoking car and W,
precipitated into the water abol
breast high. He was drawn up throul
a window slightly bruised still smo
ing"
A physician ono said to us, ''alth
l use tobacco, there is no one thing
the Materia Medica so injurious to Il
nervous system as tobacco, and adde
au going to try and leave off. 9th
intelligent men say they would gi
hundreds of dollars if they could ri
up using tobacco. Thus we see talent
men bear testimony against the prt
tice, and continue in it, for the sal
reason that Alexander and others CO
tinued to use intoxicating beverag
They can conquer armies, dlseas
and deny the indulgence Of a natul
appetite for certain kinds of food
cause the price is high. Yet they
conquered by an unnatural appel
for a poisonous weed, which is neitl