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Banks County Gazette. • | YOU. lI.—NO. IT. LIQUOR AS A MEDICINE. A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN’S OPINION On tlie Subject of Liquor—He Asks, “Shall the Doctor Prescribe Alcoholics ?” I write this in all kindness. It has no personal reference. I wish to answer the question w r hich is often in the minds of good people. They sometimes feel it their duty to criti cise physicians for prescribing alco holics far their patients. This may or it may not be the thing for them to do. London, and all England has been greatly excited for several months over the out-spoken advocacy of the moderate use of alcohol, by Dr. J. Martiner Granville. He says: “Ab stinence all the world over, and in all ages, has taken, and still takes the back-bone out of man, and leaves him a limp, invertibrate animal witli pulpy brain, a feeble intelligence, and a will which lacks the power to assert its authority over the instincts and pro pensities it was mad-: to control.” It has not been long since this theory was hurled at the world by the great Russian psycologist Tolstoi: “Alcohol and tobacco are the agents made use of By the inherently devilish will of man and of humanity to murder in self the voice of con science and of God, and thus indi rectly to license the unrestrained domination of iuately evil appetites and desires.’’ The opinions of the world hang be tween these two extreme views of the great whisky and prohibition ques tion which is agitating the whole civi lized world. The position taken by Dr. Granville is an outrageously and positively un truthful statement, and the theory of Tolstoi is a preposterous exageration. We cannot afford to speak lightly of any thing which has any bearing on the horrible sin of intemperance. The physician should never loose sight of his probable influence when he is giving alcoholics to his patients; but there is another fearful and awful responsibility which rests upon bis shoulders : saving the lives of his pa tients. There is much in the old adage: “What has always, everywhere and by all, been believed, must be true.’’ Physicians have not a shadow of doubt about the efficacy and thera peutic value of alcoholics administer ed with judgement and discrimina tion. If they have an eye single to their patient’s good they will certain ly continue so to advise their use. We could give some idea of the conditions in diseases when they are necessary, but it is not proper to do so This question must be decided by the physician, - and the physician alone, in each individual case. I venture this much of an explana tion of the action of alcohol in and on the parts of the human body: When alcohol is taken into the stomach it is taken up, without digestion or chemi cal change, into the b'ood and is soon carried to every nerve, muscle and gland of the body. Here it under goes oxidation; it is just as complete ly burned up as it is when burned in a lamp. In this way it is of inestima ble value, as a medicine ; because in the shock of injury or collaps of dis ease the vital forces are paralyzed, and if alcohol had to be digested be fore it could act as a stimulant and a food, it would lie in the stomaches and be entirely useless. Alcohol as a food belongs to the class of force and heat producing foods. It is in the same class with sugar starch and the fats. They are all burned up in the body in just the same way. They keep up the heat and supply the force in the body. Now, I do not wish to be misunder stood. lam out and out opposed to the use of alcoholics as a beverage and as a medicine except in critical cases. H. P. Quillian. Exchange: Stealing horses is as bad as selling whisky, yet that is not a political issue. When the horse thieves form into state and national associa tions; when they establish newspapers, have a paid attorney at Washington and powerful lobbies at every state capital, then it will be a political question.—Demorest Times. One important fact is too much disregarded by certain statesmen of both political parties just at present. There has never been a time when the country would cease to exist be cause of the death of a single citizen. There have, however, been times when the nation eould attend funer als more frequently without regret ting the cost. In a nation of 65,000,- 000 one man does not weigh as much as he appears to when standing on the scales created by his own self esteem. —Farmer’s Wife. An honest man in politics gits all fired lonesome sometimes.—Ex. Hollingsworth Itrcvits. The school at this place is steadily coming to the front. Professors Ayers and Shelton have all they can do. If the school should get much larger an assistant will have to be employed. That married man referred to by Ajex in a former issue of Thk Ga zette is still in attendance. He says the day of foolishness is over with him. He does not regret but one thing in the past, and that is he did not have an opportunity in early lift) to secure an education. We think he is right. He is not a pioneer in this line, as some seem to think. Other married men have gone to school. Two of the boys went sparking a few nights ago, and from reports the boys did not meet with a very cor dial welcome. The boys, feeling rather uncomfortable at such mist*- rious conduct, made bold to inquire tbe cause, when the young ladies frankly informed them that Messrs. Paul and Bud were preferred. Since that time one of the boys named Ims been making good use of his populari ty, but tbe other seems to have in curred the young ladies' displeasure, as the lucky fellow had another part ner a few nights ago. The other fel low’s girl told him that the lucky boi had engaged her sister’s company during this session of school, and her sister thought that by that time such an impression would be mado that a change in her name might be sug gested. John Furgersou is the handsomest boy in school. Be careful, John. Mr. T. N. Brs wer wore spike toed shoes last Friday week. Guess he wants to go somewhere with . Madam Rumor says that a certain young man in this neighborhood will soon form an alliauce with one of the fair sex hereabouts. Guess it’s so. We've seen some entransing smiles passed. The college here is to turn out some illustrious men. We have two students who will take up the prac tice of medicine, one or two who will study law, some who want to make book keepers, one will enter the min istry, while several others will lead professional lives. The Gazette is very popular among the students. On Wednes day there is a rush for it. Rilla. Keep This For Keference. First—The national banking sys tem is simply an intermediary loan bureau, through which t’nc govern ment loans to the people, such money being furnished to the banks at cost of issue and loaned by them to the people at an exorbitant rate of inter est. Second—The national banks and other banking institutions claim “loans and discounts” amounting to five billions of dollars. As there is only five hundred millions of money in the hands of the people, exclusive of bank reserves and enonn hordes, this shows nine dollars of bank credits to one of actual money. Third—The financial statements of the national banks show that their capital, surplus and undivided profits are included in the item, “loans and HOMER. BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: MARCH 9, 1892. discounts” so their solvency depends upon their ability to realize upon loans secured by chattel and personal se curity. Fourth—The vast sum of five bill ions is loaned at an average rate of not less than ten per -cent, thus in volving an interest charge to the peo ple of five hundred millions dollars por annum. Fifth—lf the people eould loan their own credit direct to themselves at two per cent, thoy could, with the same money they now pav as interes. wipe out the interest-bearing “nation al debt” in about two years. Reasoning from other premises, the people have discovered: First—lnterest, enters into all bus iness calculation and is a factor in de termining all prices. The current, prevalent rate of interest is the basis of computation of all profits and value, including land and investment secur ities. Socond—lnterest represents tbe earnings of capital or money. The net annual increase in national wealth or “residual increment,” represents both the earnings of capiial and the net wages of labor. Third—lf the rate of interest equals the per cent of net ennual in crease in national wealth, capital ab sorbs the total net product of the na tion while labor gets nothing. Fourth—lf the rate of interest is in excess of the rate per cent of net annual increase in the national wealth such excess must be paid out of the wealth possessed by labor at the beginning of the year. Fifth—These laws are facts, coup led with the high rate of interest pre valent during the past twenty years, account for the absorption by a few individuals of the thirty billions of wealth created during that time and the billions possessed by labor at the commencement of such period. Sixth -Laws against usury are ab solutely powerless to correct this de plorable state of affairs. Profoundly impressed with the fearful significance of these facts of grave portent, the people rouud out their motenary demand as follows: “And such notes, when demanded by the people, shall be loaned to them at not more than two per cent per annum upon non-perishable products, as indicted in the subtreasury plan, and also upon real estate with proper limitation upon the quantity of land and amount of money.”—Public Opinion. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar In Boston. The past wefk has been one of un usual interest to the men and women who have the deepest interests of the nation at heart. It has had two re markable meetings, the first a gath ering of ministers on Monday noon, which was addressed by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Indiana. A large audience besides the clergy assembled to hear the renowned speaker. She made ari earnest plea for the further enfraebisement of women, as the wo men of Kansas had clearly proven bow quickly the political leaders who are unprincipled and their followers can be out voted, if true women are allowed a voice in politics. The argument that the colored wo men and the Irish would be infiuenc ed to vote for bad men was clearly proven to be false, bv the fact the col ored women of Kansas were found to be true as steel, and in scarcely one instance wero they to be bought. Since women had been made mayors the city government had greatly im proved. Mrs. Gougar then went on to show that the hope of many that prohibition would ultimately be gained through the republican party was groundless, as the party was steadily retrograding and thoroughly in league with the saloon. Is there a man here, she asked, who has any hope of closing the saloon through the republican party? Cries of No! No! and one voice “yes.” “Who said yes” asked Mrs. Gougar, and up rose T. C. Evans of Jamaica Plain, and began to question the lady where upon she produced unanswera ble facts to prove that even Mi'. Fas- set, of New York, whom Mr. Evans declared to be defeated by the Third party men, owed his nomination to the liquor dealers who upheld him. In reply to Dudley,s arrainment of the Young Men’s Prohibition Club for allowing men who were not strict ly temperate to vote, sbe said if the republicans drew the line thus sti'ictly they would be without a president, vice president and secretary of state. It lias been a matter of much com- that Mr. Dudley, of alt others, shou’d oppose receiving votes of men who have been cursed by the saloon. Sirs. Gougar proved herself amply ably to answer every question that was put to her, and won the admira tion of her womanly d'gnity and per fect self possession under the most trying circumstances. AVe regret that any reporter should have ma ligned her, as did some of the re porters of daily papers, from whom we expect truthful, fair treatment of speakers.—Woman’s Yoice. Jny Gould’s Prayer. “Our father who art in England, Rothohild ho thy name, thy financial Kingdom oome to America, thy will be done in the United States as it is in England. Give us this day our bonds in gold, but not in silver or we’ll kick, give us plenty of laboring men’s votes to keep monopoly in power and its friends in office. Wo kotow, our father we have done many things that were wrong; wo have rob bed the honest poor and brought dis tress to many a door. Wo know it was wrong to refund the bonds and make them payable in coin, we know it was wrong to dem onitise silver, we know it was wrong to water railroad stock, but thou knowest we make money. Now, our father, thou knowest we are above polities. It is the same to us whether democrats or rrpubiicans lor thou kn. west we are able to sway all political jobs in our favor. Lead us not in the way of strikers, but deliver us from the bands of the insane Knights of Labor and the Farmers Alliance. Thus, shall we have the kingdom, bonds, interest, power, and gold until the republic shall end. Amen.” Turner’s Eman cipator. The Right Spirit. At an official meeting of the new First Methodist Church, this city, we are told that the question of letting our little German congregation occu py the house for tlieir service came up, when Mr. T. T. Hillman said in words to this effect: “Certainly, let them have the use of the building. The First Methodist Church cannot now, or ever, afford not to welcome the poor to all its accommodations, and privileges.” This language is worthy of the man who gave $30,000 to rear this noble structure to tho ser vice of God; and tho action by which the building was placed at the service of our German brethren is worthy of the noble men who compose the offi cial board of that Church. We once heard a story of a fisher man caught an eel. In spite of all he could do the ell escaped, and as it went into the water he said, “Go darn ye, we don’t love eels nohow.” That’s about what the Alliance will say to Col. Livingston at St. Louis on the 2‘2d. Sound Sense. Mr. Editor:—There is a great deal of talk in the country and in the towns about hard times, and what Is to be dono about it, and what is the cause. I shall not try to point out all the causes, hut try to give what in my opinion is one of the troubles, and perhapif one among the greatest, and that is, W3 farmers failed to make the farm self-sustaining. We plant cotton, to buy our corn, flour, meal and mules with, and that as a gener al thing, too, before the crop is made, payingthe time prices, which is from2f) to 60 per cent higher than cash prices, besides giving a mortgage on all we have got to secure the debt, and when ! the fall comes and we offer our cot ton for sale, the cry is an overwhelm ing crop made, overproduction, and down goes the price, and you have got to sell it, not for what the cotton costs 3-011 to grow it,much a profit, but what your supply dealer sees fit to give you for it. You have nothing to do in fix ing the price of it, but your dealer does that at whatever he sees proper to allow you for it. And if he allows enough for it to balance the debt, you feel safe then for the next twelve months, for you thiuk he will run you again, so you can plant another big crop,of cotton the next season. So it has been going on and on, one year after another, until last, year. You paid your supply dealer for corn on time |l.lO per bushel, flour $8 por barrel, meat from 10 to 11 cents per pound, and when your cotton was ready for the market the price had tumbled to tho lowest figure in 40 years. And with these prices it was impossible for you to balance your debt with the supply dealer, and thereby you have entangled him and brought him into trouble. And now my brother farmers, if you will shut ono eye and half-way open the other, you may see a very serious cause of our present troubles if not the main one. There are other troubles, but we will not take space and time to mention them. Now, what are you going to do about it in 1892? Are you going to go again for cotton and guano to make it with to the exclusion of raising your own supplies only to become deeper and deeper involved in debt and bankruptcy at the end of lt>92? You answer you are obliged to plant cotton again this year, for your suppy dealer will not furnish you un less you promise him bo much cotton in the fall. Let mo say to you, brother fanner, don’t rely too much on that excuse. Your supply dealer, sees to his regret he has relied too much on cotton for supples already furnished, ai)(j he, perhaps would he as glad to make a change as you would. Go to him now, if your cotton did not balance your supply debt, and offer the balance in corn, wheat or meat, and see if he don't allow you the highest market value for it. I ima gine nine out of ten, if not all of them would he glad to accopt such an offer. But suppose he would not furnish you again this year (if hu could) unless you promise him cot ton for it, and you go on and make another 8,000,000 hale crop, and realize sor 0 cents per pound for it, how much better off will you be than you are now? You are obliged to ad mit that you will be no better, hut worse. Tlieu when do you expect to turn from your bankrupt course? you would have been better off last fall had you not planted a seed of cotton last year —for all the cotton that sold for less than 8 cents per pound, be cause it cost that, if not more, for every pound raised, bought corn at sl.lO per bushel, flour at §8 per bar rel, to say nothing of the mules —and every cent under 8 cents a pound you received for your cooton was a clear loss. Hence you can plainly see that you are that much worse off than if you had not planted that cotton at all. With these things as plain as the nose on a. man’s face, is it not time to about face and try some other plan'? If you have to buy your supplies again this year on time, you had bet ter plant no cotton at all, but rent land and plant grain enough to sappy you for the next year, which you can do and not he employed more than half your time, and then work at day la bor the proceeds of that you can pay for your supplies and perhaps have something over to apply to the debt that you did not finish paying your supply dealer for last year. The time is now upon us when necessity com pels us to make a change, and we will never he in a better condition to make it than now, for the longer wo persist in raising cotton to buy our sup plies, the worse will become our con dition and the less prepared we will be to make the change. I am fully convinced that the time is at hand for all the farmers to cur tail their acreage in not less than 25 SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. per cent, and do not buy a single pound of guano to go under that. By doing that, with an average crop year there will be obout 5,000,000 bales made in the cotton states, and we will get 15 cents- per pound for it, with in guano debts to pay in the fall and 1 y ; uttiug the ether fourth of luiuls in grain and grass we will have corn in our cribs, meat in our dairies and grasses in our barns to supply all demands for 1893, and we will be independent again. M’e are compelled to quit the uso of guanos at even last year's prices and the present price of cotton. And I doubt its being as cheap this season as last from the facts that sulphuric acid (a very important ingredient in all s'an dard fertilizers) will bi higher, owing to the advanced price of sulphur in somo of the foreign countries, which was sold last season at 16 cents a pound but has now advanced to 30 cents per pound. But suppose that you get it at the same prices ns last, year. Can we afford to use it at present prices of cotton? I answer, we can not. With guano at twenty-seven dollars a ton and cotton at cents per pound it will lake 415 pounds of lint cotton to pay for a ton, and if we use it like we did last season and another big crop is made, and then what of the old crop that will be left over, it is very probable the price will tumble to 5 cents per pound next fall and then what will he our condition with perhaps a large portion of our supplies to buy for the next year? At these figures the cotton that would bo required to pay for the guano would nearly supply the manufacturer and there would be no demand at all for the overplus. Now, brother farmers, with these figures and facts open to your eyes, will not all join in with me and say that we will curtail'our cotton crop at least 25 per cent, using not a pound of guano under our cotton and if we are compel fed to uslS it at all put tlifft under our grain and grasses, and let us make the farm self-sustaining if possible, and get out of our present troubles and once more become inde pendent, prosperous and happy. And in conclusion let me tell you that you may look for the causes and troubles of the hard times that are upon us now, but there is no way to ever get out of them until we quit raising so much cotton and raise more grain, grasses and stock, and make our farms self sustaining. A Farmer. Life is not merely passing through the world with a fair measure of com forts, with enough bread for hunger, with enough clothes to keep us warm. Life means growth into the image of Christ himself, into strength into well rounded character, into disciplined manhood and womanhood, into the blessed peace of God. But the peace into which ho guides us is victory over all the trials, a quietness and confidence which no external circum stances can break. —J. R. Miller. The work of tunneling fivo miles through the main range of the Rocky Mountains for railway and wholesale gold and silver mining purposes goes on day and night, and this without state or govern ment aid. More than 6,000 feet ot the distance is already driven and twenty five veins of gold and sil ver ore already mossed. The Den ver, Apex & Western Railroad to connect Denver with Salt Lake ( ity at a saving of 250 miles of distance by using this tunnel, has agreed for its use for twenty years, anil to pay one dollar for each passenger and fifty cents per ton for each ton of freight taken through it. The largo illustrated 22-page pamphlet sent to all who send two cents therefore to Mark M. Pomeroy. General Manager, Room 4!i, PuUizer lluiding, New York City, is wonderfully interesting, instructive and suggestive reading matter, telling as it does what men are now doing day and night, where they are working more than 2,000 feet perpendicularly below the sur face of Mount Kelso. Nearly 5,000 men women and chrilden are now fi nancially interested as owners of tho Atlantic Pacific Karihvay Tunnel niK 1 all tho properties of the Company.