The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-16
THE NEW Journalism MADE
THE OLD CHRISTIAN SAD
But it Is Shown That Journalism is Good Thing for
Many People. How Drunkard
Was Saved.

IAN opportunity to vote for or against
whiskey; and. from Dan to Beershe-
ba, it has been understood that his
principles on the temperance question
were as Interchangeable as the laws
of the Modes and Persians: yet. never
theless and Notwithstanding all these
things. l can't help feeling a very
deep concern and little uneasy. HUI
man nature however much inclined it
may be to do right. can't stand every
thing: and, it is very we'll known that
the aforesaid friend and brother is
possessed of q considerable amount
of human nature, and that's what
makes me uneasy.
/ understand that some friend or
friends, in token of their very high
appreciation of the services he has
recently rendered TO his State and
country, presented to him, not long
since. very fine cut glass decanter
! and a full set of fine cut glass wine
glasses: and all the world has heard
| of the fact that the five hundred
Democratic editors who recently met.
in a fraternal way. in the city OF
New York. presented to him as d
! token of their highest esteem, and
most sincere brotherly love, Loving
Cup: and so. | can't help feeling I'M
easy. Those things are so suggestive.
Don't believe the brother even thinks
| of such thing as slipping wine from
those glasses. much less of drinking
| punch from that Loving Cup: but.
they are dangerous things even to
| look at.
Looking on the bright side of the
matter. L try to console myself with
the reflection that, i'm the hands Of
our brother the Loving Cup" the
decanter ana the wine glasses. will
be SDiked gins c2ntllraH from th..
enemy; and be kept as relics Of an
age and custom the world is leaving
| forever behind.
Nevertheless. l can't help being a
| little anxious. and did [ feel at lib
erty to make a suggestion I might
ask Mrs. Daniels to forbid the taking
of any mere such useless yet danger
| cusly suggestive gifts.
| promise the reader in the mean
while that. if fatherly advice will avail
| anything. no very serious results shall
come out of this affair
So long as the opposition continues
| to "wobble" on the temperance cues
| tion-playing open and shut--and
| otherwise making il doubtful which
side they are on or what they would
/ like to have, / earnestly hope that
! the prohibition guns will not cease
| to play upon their strongholds: and
| if ammunition gets scarce wen throw
in the Loving Cup" and the cut glass
and give 'em broadside.
BY the way, I received q letter 81
few DAYS ago from a Kentucky liquor
firm. which informs me that "Investi-
CATION and observation have taught,
that from the early history OF man
to TIE present day, an alcoholic
stimu tlt has been one of his most
important requirements"
| There's va
thousand years, "of the early history
of man. alcoholic stimulants were
| unknown. Not until the eleventh GEN.
tury of the Christian era. was The first
| distillation made--a little over eight
hundred years ago. SO. instead Of
| alcoholic stimulant being an i'm
portant requirement in the early his
tory OF man. he didn't have a drop
of it in over five thousand years.
| This Kentucky whiskey man got the
wrong SOW by the ear. 1t happened
this way. A fellow by the name of
Adam" in 1901. just 103 years ago.
made an improvement on the art Of
distilling. and that Kentucky distiler
made the mistake of thinking that
he was Adam the first. who. with
! Eve. set up a distillery in the garden
of Eden; and so, he jumps to the
conclusion that Adam the father of
! Cain and Abel. started the whiskey
business: and doubtless he thinks that
Cain was drunk that day when he
killed Abel; for he says in his letter
! before me that drinking alcohol
has been often abused: ana adds:
ut has always been, a source of great
regret to us that any one should abuse
himself by the excessive use" of al
cohol. Yes. he evidently thinks that
old Adam started the shilling business
down beside a snring branch in Eden:
and. it's a wonder he did not try to
prove that the Creator himself. sat by
and saw the first run.
Now, here comes the distilled"
nuint essence of cheek. He saws:
1--WE enclose a little leaflet giving our
views of temperance"
Those views of temperance on that
leaflet. when boiled down. are: Our
whiskey is one of Gods gifts to man" :;
God made man a free agent. vet
devolved upon him the responsibility
of drinking whiskey." ''Some are
strong, and don't get drunk" they
ought to drink. Some are weak.
therefore we say empFatically that
+, all such should abstain
The question arises. how is man
to find out whether he is strong or
weak until he drinks awhile? AS
understand the matter: this Kentucky
apostle of temperance would nave All
drink. DQt, Wnen a Door IellOW las
gone on drinking until he has become
a drunkard, ruined his life. lost his
money and his health. and is not con-
sidered fit to associate with those VINO
have not yet lost their money and
their standing in society. they ought
to quit and become total abstainers
If there is anything that is funnier
to the devil than a liquor sellers
temperance creed, it is the foolishness
| of those who are gulled by it.
/ Mr.. William G. Kearney, of War
rem county, q gentleman of large for
tune. and of great usefulness in his
day, did a deed, if tradition be true.
/ that should not be overlooked by the
historian when he comes to write of
the men and events of the nineteenth
/ century. There lived in Warren
county a gentleman of most excellent
family, man of brilliant intellect
who was. withal. we'll educated; but
he was habitual drunkard. When
sober he was the gentleman. the schol-
ar and the agreeable companion: but.
when drunk he was the terror of chill.
dren and the shame of friends.
One day. SO the story is told. lis
ne lay on the sidewalk in Warrenton
drunk-a spectacle of filthy deb9uch-
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