The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-08-09
THE SALOON
MUST GO!
DR.. Petite Hurls Thunder
bolts of Eloquence and
Logic
AT THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
The Anti Saloon League of Column
bia Now Has Over Two Hundred
Members, and is Growing Larger
Every Day.


A large audience gathered at the
First Methodist Church Sunday night
in attendance upon the union temper
ance mass ss-meeting. The Baptist
Presbyterian Cumberland Presbyter-
ian and Episcopal churches held no
night services and large number from
these congregations were present at
this meeting.
DR.. A. S. Petite, the speaker of the
evening held the rapt attention of his
hearers as he delivered a powerful ad
dress, full of eloquence and sound logic,
against the saloon.
1t was one of the strongest arguments
for Temperance ever delivered here, and
those who heard it were inspired to
exert stonger efforts henceforth in their
opposition to the whiskey evil. A
synopsis of his address follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Aeneas, a
Trojan prince, escaped from the ruins
of Troy with few scattering but brave
remnants of disastrous war. Taking
ship, they were tossed by unfriendly
seas until they landed upon the coast
of Western Italy. A large number of
Italian tribes under the leadership of
Retulian Turnus leagued together to
expel the invaders from their country.
Aeneas, seeing that his band was small
in numbers, and knowing that he could
not wage successful war against such
an overpowering enemy, sought ALI
ance with a friendly tribe. Among
those was young warrior named Pal
las. In one of the first battles fought
Pallas met Turnus in hand to hand
conflict and was slain, and deprived of
his trophies. Shortly afterward in the
midst of the battle Aeneas and Turnus
met in mortal combat. After a des-
perate struggle between them, Aeneas
hurled his spear with such power that
he slew Turnus, who prayed for mercy
and plead for his life At first Aeneas
was inclined to grant the favor, but as
he turned his eye upon his prostrate
foe he beheld at his belt the girdle OF
Pallas, and he cried:
And burst thou then to grace pretend,
Dress d as thou art in the trophies OF
my friend?
To his sad spirit a grateful offering go,
'Tis Pallas, tbs Pallas, gives this dead
ly blow"
Sympathy fled as he gazed on the
girdle of his dead friend, and with one
stroke of his heavy sword, Aeneas Sc
vered the head of Turnus from his body.
why do / recite this poem so beau
tifully and so graphically told by the
immortal Virgil? 1t is because | wish
to make an application. In this age
the saloons are saying Let us alone.
The same plea | think, would have
been made by the devil after he had
wrecked the garden of Eden. The sa
loon with the advantages it now has
is perfectly willing to let things remain
Just as they are, and there are people
who are playing into the devils hanC
by playing this game of let alone.
They say Let us deal gently will
them let us be merciful to the saloon.
When | think Of the woes that the sa
loon has wought, of the sorrows ant
the miseries it has caused, of thu
evils for which it is responsible, m,
heart stirs within me and | say to thu
saloon,
And aurst thou then to grace pretend
Dress as thou art in the trophies O
nv friend?
To his sad spirit a greateful offering &c
'Tis Pallas, it's Pallas, gives the dead
ly blow.
"a few years ago | went to the littl
town of Jonesboro, Ark. There wer
five saloons in that town. | began
study those saloons and their methods
Saloons are always an object of interes
with me. So | began t) study them, fo
| knew that in short time | would be
gin truceIess, unrclenting war aganst
those saloons One day as | sat on
street corner watching them to see VIII
entered | saw farmer drive up to 81
loon in his wagon and in that wagon wa
bale of cotton. The man unloosed hi
horses from the wagon and went II
After awhile he came out wiping hi
mouth. lie went off and sold his cot
ton and came back to the saloon. h
visited that saloon two or three time
more. and after awhile | saw the ma
under arrest. for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct. Some part of tina
cotton paid his fine. The oth5r went {
the saloon. That bale of cotton wa
the product Of the labor of that man
wife and children for out in that cour
try women work on the farm the sam
as mem and they who toiled TO produc
lit were robbed of that to which the
were entitled. When | saw that seen
my arm was nerved TO deliver anothe
blow, and said to the saloon
} And burst thou then 10 grace pretend
Dressed as thou art in the trophies q
my friend?"
"A few days ago gentleman told m
that mau here in Columbia sold hi
horse for $50 and spent $3.50 of it "a
, groceries for his family and the othe
So 30 went into the saloon. | am gla
that man was generous enough TO speu
; g. 50 for supplies for mis- family, but
I am sorry TO know that he was so d,
, based. SO degraded. 50 foolish as {
, spend the other 90 80 with saloons.
Only yesterday read in your evs
ming psppr an account ni a man gOin