Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-21
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Men of America, l ask you, rs God
dead? Has manhood left this nation
f%oreverl Are we an army of towards?
Or will we say, from this hour, God
helping us, we will buckle on the
whole armor of Almighty God, and in
His name and with His power we will
take a stand alongside of the mothers
and children of our land, and with our
ballots, which execute the will of the
people, we will bury this home and
soul destroying business beyond the
hope of a resurrection?-St. John.
1T MAKES ANARCHISTS.
Experiments have been made by DR..
Buchner in submitting working bees
to T. regimen of alcoholized honey. The
effect is astonishing, and much the
same as in mankind. Not only do they
lose the Unborn hereditary instinct for
work, but they will steal. The hier.
archy instinct is quickly lost also.
They revolt against their queen and
commanders, and give themselves over
to %idleness, brigandage and pillage un-
til they are cast out by their fellows.
Alcohol makes veritable anarchists of
them.
AN L SAW.
Along with the Irishman's declara
ton, that whisky was meat and drink
to him" we may link this old saw:
THE reason some men can't make both
ends meet is because they are too busy
making one end drink. THE Patriot.
THE TYRANT OF POLITICS.
The saloon holds its sovereignty by
Its ability to cOerce the great parties
into compliance with its will. The
liquor trade is IN organized force. 1t
casts its influence on the side of the
party it can best trust. 1t cares for
neither of them, yet it has them both
at its feet, its chains are on their necks
and they dare not spurn it's mandates.
Municipal and State officials are nomi.
mated by the saloon and in the saloon.
Nominating conventions only confirm
the dictum of the saloon and publicly
present the candidate of the liquor in.
terests. Each saloon on an average
controls ten votes-a power balance
that makes rum rule inevitable.
The rum power is placated, not Of
Tended. The saloon is bought, and not
excluded from power. 1t has its price,
and that price is paid. Good men are
excluded from Office, and creatures of
the saloon elected. Public improve.
ments and municipal reforms await
the will of the saloon. This interest
dominates the city and State govern
ment, and is fostered at the expense of
everything else. Intensely partisan, it
places no value IN the principles of
any party. 1t sells itself to either that
will pay the price, and tramples down
either that is not obedient to it. 1t goes
for 1.-The trade" first, last and always.
1t is the interruptions tyrant of Ameri.
can politics.
1t will continue 80 until voters once
for all annihilate the liquor power.
Only then can good government be
expected. There should be a union of
all reformers against the foe of all re.
form, the drinking trafic.-The Consti.
stitution.
CRAZED b CIGARETTES.
st. Louis, April Zelda Tourville,
only fifteen years old, a pretty black
eyed, little girl, is in the city hospital
in a precarious condition, both men,
tally and physically. The child is a
cigarette fend, and twice has she at
tempted suicide in a week because she
was deprived of cigarettes,
The girl was taken to the Young
Girls Home ten days ago, and because
she was not allowed to have cigarettes
she seized a table knife and tried to
cut her throat. Then she was sent to
Bethesdy Home, but not until they
had promised to let her have as many
cigarettes as she wished. The promise
was not kept, and today Zelda was
caught by her skirt as she was about
to plunge out of the third story window.
"GIMME A SMOKE" HIS PLEA.
New York, April 1.-The death of
George Merkt at Bellevue Hospital
was q horrible one. With his hands
bound and his body strapped to his
cot, Merkt shrieked in his delirium:
Gimme a smoke. The table g heap