Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-07
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Some individual, evidently espous.
ing the rum side of Tennessee politics,
sends us Geo. W. Peck's alleged sum-
mary of prohibition effects in Tennes-
see and especially marks the descrip.
ton George makes of prohibition
list, dividing them into two classes
the born prohibitionist, a cold, clam
my, dried-up individual, and the poll
tician, who is for prohibition for q
purpose.
We don't know what George looks
like but he certainly must be in per-
sonal appearance different from the
sketch he depicts. Therefore we take
it for granted that he is full of rich,
red corpuscles gathered from generous
rotations swilled daily, and possesses
lots of good, red blood in his veins,
whiskey made In other words, that
he has devoted his life to the selfish
end of making himself full of good red
blood, ON the same principle that
farmer fills his hogs full of slop until
they can't see out of their eyes. In
contra distinction to this he slams off
adjectives like cold" ''clammy,"
diseased" "dried-up," etc, etc., on
the prohibitionist whose only effort in
this direction is to correct abuses that
were daily growing larger. Notice the
expression "were," for owing to the
honest labors of many intelligent
workers for temperance, and prohibi-
ton, if you will it so, the evil is being
curbed. Nor win the fight be let up.
Every effort the whiskey devils make
will be promptly resisted, even if it is
necessary to put the women and child
rem into the scale to out-balance the
powers for evil.
To resume our picture of Gov.
Peck's ideal man. A belly like q
barrel with an enormous capacity for
drink, the more the better, for if a
man cultivate belly that shall con-
tain half barrel of whiskey day,
shall he not work great benefit to his
friends, the saloonists2 Therefore, in
accordance with Gov. Peck's sublime
idea, let us stop cultivating our
brains, or even worry them with ideas
relative to the health and happiness of
this or future generations, but rather
let us develop the belly. Let us make
it bigger and bigger, capacious cav.
ern attached to head, two legs and
two arms. Darn the thinking powers.
The swilling powers are what we are
after. In fact, we don't care about
any legs. All we want is just one arm
to convey the drink to our outlets, and
a laundering big belly to hold it.
without legs we could ''merrily roll
along until we landed in the Internal
pit
We would deal rather trust the
government of the ship of state, or ev-
en- a mule, to man, who might be as
lean as rail, whose eyes might be as
yellow as hornet, and who took pill
every hour, than trust either of the
positions to the whiskey advocate
whose mind is controlled by the
amount of booze within him at the
moment.
Gov. Peck is doubtless paid hand
somely for writing abusive articles on
prohibition and prohibitionists, but il
is tainted money and he will find 1t sc
in the great settlement of matters.
The commandment to love thy neigh
Dor as thyself is in as great force now
as years ago and it is just as obligatory
on us to-day to see that our nei ghbol
don't make a fool out Of himself as il
ever was, and when man gets ravine
drunk or even slightly booty, there il
no doubt that he makes fool out o.
himself, more or less
After writing the above we conclud
ed to give a specimen paragraph o.
Gov. Peck's ribaldry or Peck sniffiar
whiskeyisms, if you prefer to call it so
''There are two kinds of prohibition
lists. One kind has always been so
and he lis dried-up, diseased, nevel
breathes his lungs full, has a kind o.
blood that looks like curdled milk, il
he cuts his finger. whose eyes shine
yellow, whose hand is cold and clam
my, who looks you not in the eye wheI
You talk to him, a man who carrie
liver pills in one pocket and laxativ'
pills in another, and takes indigestion
tablets after his meals, and gulps wine
and fiocks with weak and sympatneti,
women instead of full-blooded men
and thinks be is doing Gods work il
looking after his neighbOrs' morals
The other kind of prohibitionist is tn
business or professional man or poll
tician, who is in it for what there i
in il for him. WI o pulls the leg Of tn
dyspeptic dry man, who will proclaim
around that he is a dry. when in tn,
presence Of drys, but who viii winl
and laugh shamefaced laugh whei
talking with wet, take him 10 ont
side and whisper that he don't believ,
in il. but you know how il i. wi
have to stand in with the drys OF the,
will ruin our business One has NOR,
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