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TYLER M. PEEPLES, Propriet'r
VOL XV.
TEMPERANCE ISSUE.
Mr. Editor :—I am a stranger
to your readers, having never ap
peared in the colums of the Her
ald but with your permission I de
sire to say a few things on the
whiskey subject, as the minds of
th people o Gwinnett, ere being
some what exorcieed on that subs
ject just now.
RISHTTS.
lu'every section where prohibit
tion has become a matter for pub*
lic consideration, the question of
the privtale the citizen
has been raised by the friend of
the traffic, and used against prohi
bition under the pretecss that it
is an infringmenl to their rightful
and lawful pursuits, Ist As to (he
lawfulness of the prosit that is the
‘lie question to be settled by the
Legal voters of the county on
April the 10th 1885 2nd As to
the rigbtfillness of the making,
buying, selling or using intoxicat
ing spirits we laydown the follow
iug proposition that under our
condition and laws guaranteing
equal rights to all men, no man
lms a right either legally rt r mors
ally to interfere with the business
of any other man, unless his busi
ness is of a hurtful nature either
to the temporal or spiritual inter
est the community or some part
of the individuals : n the communi
ty in which such business is loca
ted. Gut on the other hand every
man not only has the right but it
is a dufy lie owes to himself, to
his wife and children, to his neigh
bor, 10 the weak and de r enslcss
ones, to his county and 10 his
God, to use all honorable means,
i o put down every uuflineae that
carries with it tbe probable hurt
of community or individuals. We
think ihe whiskey dealers blind
more liberty or privilege with
lights. A man Las a privalege or
liberty to do a great many times
ir. which there can no rights ex»
ic,t,. Such as murder or theft. A
man has a privalige but no right
to slay his fellow man only such
rights as occur to him through the
circumstances under which be does
the slayirg. If what wo have
above stated be true then the
question of rights must be settled
by a consideration of the business
itself. Is it entirely harmless te
both individuals and communities
We think not tut ou the contrary
it is hurlful to both. But the
friend of the traffic say it w'l! not
hurt you if you let it alone. To
his we answer, that is what we
want done. We aim to let it alone
and want every one else to do the
same. But will it do me any good
if I don’t let it alone. Y'ou an
swer me. It cannot do me any
good. Thin as the whiskey itself
is indifferent we caunot judg6 it by
the fruit it beam. But the fruit
of the business as well a 3 the use
of spirits is very detnmedtal to
society and to individual members
of society iherefore it follow thai
it is the duty of every man desir
iig the general good of li 8 fellow
man to do all in nis power to put
i/ down. Cau any man with a
heart beating for the prosperity
of the laud, be idle or indifferent
wuile this question is being settled
by his county i You cannot dedge
the responsioiliiy by staying from
tne polls, whiskey is now sold in
your county it requires a majority
of the votes cast to stop the sale if
if you arc absent from the polls on
tbe temh of April yon consent to
the continuation of tbe traffic.
Rally to (because of good gov
eminent and put down this evil.
Take this temptaiion from before
your young men. Save your son
from druekardness end raise up a
geneiatiou of young met in tbe
land, under the reformed laws nnd
they will call you blessed.
WHISKEY A SOURCE OF REVENUE*
The opponents of prohibition
cluim we ought to continue the
traffic because it yields to the
uuder high license a con
aiderable revenue and thus ligh
j tens the burden of the people by
, mnkinr their taxes less. Oil how
the people mnsi love money that
can be thus easily bought. I say
that in thus doing every man who
pays tux in the county ieeeive 8
p»rt of the profit of the whiskey
trade. For instant a man pays
taxes to the amount of \eu dollars
but bv liscemng a number of bar
rooms in the country,his taxes are
reduced to eight. He has receiv
ed ‘wo dollars profi' from the sale
of whiskey thus every tax payer
becomes a whisky dealer.
But while the above is true aDd
ought to impress itself on every
voter. Yet iu another sense, whis
key d w. not lighten the burden of
the tax payer but increase! it by
a/ least 30 per cent. The crirns
nal business of the state grows
either direc ly or it direct out of
the use and sale of whiskey; men
have to leave their business as
witnesses, as Jurors etc., and the
county tie.isury impoverished to
keep up the courts while the
courts are trying cases that had
then oragin in the whisky traffic
cosr OF INTOXICATING DRINK.
The report of the various sections
show that in 1879 there were
153.6 18 ietailed licensed saloon
and 4,497 wholesale liquor bouses
in the United States. There were
283 G brewries, and nearly five
thousand distilleries. Making a
ioial of 162.000. Now if W 6 al
low three persons to be employed
in each. 480,000, now it is fair
that the whiskey business in one
way tend# to the building of the
best interest of the county, in fact
they buiid up no interest at aii
save the sefish interest of those
owning the I us : ncs3. But it's a
known fact that it has a disregard
ing influence on the whi L coun
try. Hence their labor is not pure
ly lost but worse inters as an agent
for every possible evil, now there
are 480000 men and women ems
ployed in waste labor, this count
ed at 50 cents per day will amount
to 243,000 dollars wor,h of labor
wasted daily in this nation these
hands, could earn as much it
some other employment that would
add to the prosperity of our coun
try. Bui if left idle there would
ba no less bread-struff made than
there is, in every sense they arc
non-producers. Reports show
that 341.040,990 gallons of fer
mented liquor. Manufactured in
1878, this sold at a cost of 10 cents
per pint to consumer it will amount
to $272,832790 of brandy whisky
and o her distilled spirits, there
were in the same year 389,023,-
080 gallons, now if the consumer
pay $3 per gallon for it will some
up in round number $1,168,871,*
040.
Now add to the above amounts,
the loss time of men attracted to
the saloon, and member engaged
in ilicit distillers and the ildct. dis
tilled spirits made and drunk and
we arrive at the startling cc Delu
sion that this business is costing
this country double the cost of
breads: uff. Besides all this it is
the source of more grief depravity
and poverty than all other agen
cies combined. I could continue
acre these ihoughfs and figures
but I rear I have already said more
than you will give space to, in you*'
worthy Journal.
J. L* Lotd
PROHIBITION AOAIN.
Mb. Editob The voters of the
county will soon be called upon to
cast their hallo a for, or against
prohibition. They wi'l be asked
to decide beiween morality and
imorality : education and ignor
ance : religion and vice ; and be
tween the way ihat leads to pro
gress and improvemen t and that
which will uiimately lead to de
cline and fall.
Reader, which will you take ?
I ask you iu the name of all
suffering humanity, to think well
upon tnis question before casting
your vote.
I cauld tell you of the thous
ands that die annually from the
effects of strong drink. I could
tell you of the countless numbers
that fill our prisons, asylums and
opban houses, but the questior is
limi eu down to Gwinnett county
and I ask you to calmly servey
the scenes around you—in your
community and tee if you can see
any evil that strong drink is caus
ing.
Do you any yourself 1
\ little you say for your health !
Couldn't you do with out it ? Yes
bu* its my right and I intend to
drink it if I want it. The doctors
OUR OWN SECTION WU LABOR FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT
LAWRENCEVILLE. GA. APRIL 7 1885.
can get up something else for your
would only agree to give up whis
key. And besides that it coat
you a considerable amount of
merer. But its my right to drink
and i am going to drink, if l wan’
to do so.
This, my readers is the only
reason a ruaffcan give for, drink#
mg. Get up rdv other excuse if
you can.
Now whats the use for a man to
exercise Lis light merely because
“he has the right”—when th« ex
ercise of that right always leaves
him in a worse- condition than be
fore he exercises that right. It
takes his money ; it takes his
health; destroys his mind and
places him on a level with the
brute creation.
That looks to me just like the
man who cut off bis neck to spite
his face.
/?u'. I suppose tba* is one wav
a man has of showing of! his ined
p ndence.
Another argument is that if you
let whiskey tdone it will let you
alone
What a mistaken id ea ! Read
the papers and see if whiskey will
let you alone. Did it let
Mrs. Beck and her fair
young sister uionc ? Did it let
young Swafford alone?
Kind reade-, does it let you
alone ? Study well before you
-ay yes.
St does cot l«t me alone, and I
do not know how any kind of in#
t„x oaung I'qUui's taste. On the
contrary I believe that it is the
cause of my being poverty and
obscurity to day. Perhaps, your
neighbor drinks and spreads all
his money for whiskey and ils ir
rparable accomplishments. But
that does not interfere with ycu
any. By and by his wife and
children will have to have food
and they'll be apt to go their
neighbor to get if, or, else they
will never to be put on /he'couns
try for support, but still that
don’t huri yon, as you don’t have
to pay any tax.
You can 1 ava no good schools
no goed churches and you can
have no gooa meetings of any
kind on account of drunkedness
consequently our community
must always be behind in educa
cation, religion and morals, but
tbit hurts nobody but the that
drink—-—“So they say.”
Oh, you moderate dram drinker !
have you ever thought what influ
ence you have in the sprad and
extern of drunkenness.
Your influence iu inducing
young men to take to the wine cup
is greater chan that of any one
else even greater t an that of the
barkeeper or the regular drunks
ard.
Why is this ? Simply because
you are a model man iu your co
•uanity. The young meu will fol
low you because you never get
drunk,theywill not imitate tbe sot,
it is not nice to get drunk, but
they will take oue dram a day like
you, and everybody must admit
that there are a great many per
sons that cannot control their ap
petite for whiskey after once drink
ing it, so you see where your in
fluence ends. You must admit
what I say about your influence,
and you must admit that you have
some influence, for
‘Every one, poor and humble,
Has a mission to fulfil,
Every hand though small and
feeble,
Can work some good or ill.”
The Heaven forbid that any of
us should ever use our influence
in behalf of what injurious to all
leneficialto move.
A few words now to the young
men. i/ave you ever thought wnat
responsibilities a few years will
throw upon you.
Every office and position relat
ing to them, now held by those
in control of the government of
this great Republic must soon fall
into the hands of ihe young meu
of America.
Georgia, too, must soon fall in
to the hands of her rising sons
Gwinnett will be called on to do
her part. Aonng men will you
be prepared to take the places of
your fathers !
Some may, and no doubt will
be prepared, but many I fear will
be rendered almost worthless by
the use of stroDg drink, unless
von take the right view of things
and wisely vote for Prohibition.
Aid, again, young men, you
each, no doub', expect to carry
some fair maiden to your home,
to light it up with the bright
smiles, as joyfel as the sunbeams
of Heaven itself, you no doubt
intend to qmt drinking if you
drink uoav, and never common ’e
it if you do no l dribk, but let mo
tell yon that others who have
thought the same have fallen into
. the sea «f temptation, and have
been hulled by its rough waves
against the harriers of destruction.
Your s .fest plan is to avoid
temptation by removing the ternp
‘er and placing the strong shack
les of prohibition around him.
1 attack no man I would not
take any man's rights from him.
j I only shj as the Apostle said:
“Come lot us reason togethei.
I will frill not count she cost
of your whiskey, dear reader
please count it yourself, bringing
in all the coets, remembering that
“small leaks sink a ship."
I wil 1 not say you must save
this money you spend for whiskey
and spend it, for a nobler pur
pose, that of educating, clothing
and feeding your children, but I
will ask you in as respectful man
ner as I can. if you in jour sober
moments, do not think it would
be better spend it in that way.
I do not ask you to vote to cur
tail your rights as a citizen, I on
ly ask you to voie for prohibition
to rescue the rights of yourself
ai.d family against tyrauy t j King
Alchol ol
Tou have denied yourself and
family many blessings in order to
be able to secure this “Great Ty
rant. Alcohol ; now please rise
with the determination to depose
him.
Listen for once, to tne pleading
of the poverty stricken and half
naked children of oui county;
listen for once, to the peti
tions of the good honsewifes,
whose husbands has mis-treated
tin m wlieu under the influence of
whiskey ; listen for once to the
prayers of the good mothers, as
they pray fervently, for an assur
anca that their sons will not be
come drunkards and their daugh
ters the wives of drunken hus
bands ; listen for once, to these
and go the polls and cast your
ballots on the 10th day of April
a brightei sun will shine upon old
Gwinnett. And then with a con
scienioueness of having done right
we can almost be as happy as /hey
who in the far distant past re
joiced, “when the morning stars
sang together and the - sons of
God shouted for joy.”
Wileston L. Brand,
WHISK Id vs, WHISKY.
Centerville, Ga., March 27tli
1885 —On April the tenth the
people of Gwinnett County will
have the opportunity of sayitg
whether liquor shall be retailed in
/he conutv or not, under the Pool
bill, (as it is called) the bill is be
ing discussed generally all over
the county, and there set ms lo be
a portion of the people /hat the
bill does not suit, (we are sensible
of the fact that there could be no
bill pa-sed suppressing the sale
of liquors that would bo approved
by all Ihe people of the county.)
I wish here to note some of the ob
jections urged by those who op
po-e the bill.
Il is argued jy the extremest
that the people have no right to
interfere with the business, and
they say that people have a right
to do what they please with that
| which is /heir own, and the law
should be sile.it, is not /he inten
tion of the law to prohibi/ what is
j wrong, doeb not the law say you
; shall not carry concealed weapons,
j Has not tbe law the same right
to say you shall not buy and sell
a thing which works harm as lo
■ say you shall not carry a thing of
your own in your pocket.
Does not the law say to the bar
keepers you must close your bar
on election days, has it not the
same right to say you shall not
open at aH.
/t is uiged by one class tha>
j prohibition does not prohibit, well
l why do they oppose /he adoption
of the law, and why do liquor men
hi general oppose prohibition, the
testimony of all place- where it
has l-een tried is against them
and it is o lr opinion the good peo
ple of t/winneit will euforcoitif it
is adopted. It will probably lie
violated in some ease*, so is the
law forbidding murder, theft and
othei crimes, and does net any
reasonable man think these 'aws
ought to be rebealed because they
are violated,
There is some who say they had
rather moke a clean sweep of 7t,
and they don't like foi it to be
put in the hands of three druggist.
The la,v does not say there shall
De three nor even on , hut says
the Grand Juiy may recommend
not moro,tlmii three and the law
js very tigh/ on those men, and we
douot whether there is a man .hat
will take the responsibilty for the
profit which if sold as required by
the act will 1 he small
All of these objections are raised
simply to dodge the real issue, some
people if it is a little
too i. uch for them to vote straight
out for whiskey and they wunt to
lind some objections to the law or
bill (so they can dodge the issue.)
The e is a few who say they don't
want to vole it out, for they can
not got a diam when they want it.
Well we have re-peel for those
however we differ in our judge
ment, because they are making a
square fight.
The real issue is whiskey or no
whiskey, aud we have not found a
sing’e man who has heretofore been
straighiout for prohibition, who
opposes tl is bill the thing for the
voters to look’at, is will it lessen
crime, wid there be less money
spent for liquor, will not the boys
of our land be more apt lo make
sober men without the bar room
than with it, will it not lessen
our court expenses, will it not stop
a great many other vices which
are associated with the bar room
and which it takes wniskey to
nerve a man before lie can commit.
Fathers vote for prohibition,
mothers urge the men to vote for
it, your sons are not safe, and may
//« who rules the destinies of the
people streuginen those who
,ie in the right in this cause.
Frank.
READ .4ND HAND TO OTHERS
The rum /raffic is a moral not a
politicai issue. / am astonished
to find men in almost every locali
ty iu our land voting to license
this damnable curse of rum sell
in "—meu whose names are upon
the church books, thereby profess
ing to be folfowers of the meek and
lowly Jesus. These same profess
ors go to Ihe sanctuary and say
“Our Father which art iu Heaven,
hallowed be thy name,” and they
go to their respective voting places
and vo'e hat his name may not be
hallowed; for, by licensing the
devils work shop, they are most as
suredly hallowing the name of sa
tan.
The next ssDtirce they utter is
“T 1 y Kingdom Come,” and then
go to the polls and vote that il
shall not come, thereby assist ng
the devil to establish his kingdom.
Oh such consistency!
AgaiD, “Thy will bo done on
earth as it is in HeaveD,’ and vole
that hie will shall not be done; for
is it God s will, instead of attract
ing youns men into reading-rooms
prayer meetings, social and relig
ious gatherings and other places
which tend to elevate humanity
socially* religiously and iuiellect
ualy, we shall assist in licensing
these hell-traps which lure the un
suspecting boys away and drag
them down unt ; l they bring dis
grace upon their friends, and they
themselves fill drunkard’s graves.
And father, does any sane per'
sol harbor the thought that there
are saloons aud gambling hells in
Heaven/ Some say “what an ab
sured question!” That’s true, but
is it as absurvd as to pray Alrnigh
ty God tha' His w : ll may be done
on earth as it is in Heaven, and
then go straight lo tbe polls and
vote 'o still fur: her extend the
devils kiagdoD? “Give us this
day our daily bread.” Tbe above
sentence is uttered by high license
chris/ians wiibon/ stopping to con
ider that it means all, and not
JOHN T. WIKSON. ,Tn , Publisher
just the peisons uttering it, for wt
see t mm rise up and vote to licen
se the very business ihut take
food from the tuoufhs aud raiment
from the backs of poor families of
those addicted to rum,
And last, hut not least, we hear
them say, “And lead us not into
temptation, but diliver us from
evil,’ Who in the name of all t hat
is just and holy. (Jan feelingly
utter these words, and then go
and vote that the most dangerous
temptation on God's foot stool
shall be placed in every villiage
m on every hill lop in the land
from die evils ot which we cannot
pesotally expect to he roleived as
they exist in oui midst? Oh in
consistent man! How long shall
these things be? Let every true
citizen of G winuett County of
whatever political parly rise up aud
assist in our noble effort to put
down this giant evil by going to
the voting places of your respect
tion districts on ilia l()|h day of
April and vote for prohibition.
We won Id ask our friend Mr
Hopkins to read a little more care
ful that hook that beseems to have
as a guide in his opositiou to the
bill that it now before die people
of Gwinnett in that same Bo«k he
will find it written, Woe unto the
man tbut, giieth his neighbor drit k
that putteih the bottle to his
mouth and makcdi him drunken
also.
The responsibility is taken from
the County Commissioncs and
plaoed upor. the legal vo ers of
the county and the man who by
his newspaper articles his influence
or his vote appears prohibition is
morally us guilty as the man tlnu
stands behind the bar and yores
the accursed stuff into his glass
for his neighbor to drink.
Woe unto tLe mau lint gives
his influence <o support a t -affic
that he s brought so much misery,
poverty and deuth upon a land us
the rum uaffic-
REMININISCES.
Editor Herald I have two
objects iu view, in the following
communication. First, to endorse
what Mt. W. lias said of the cold
Sa urday of 1835. vlml add one oc
curence that made an indelible
impression upon my mind, [I was
a boy of a 5 years of age,] Mr
Eli/ha Betts, who was the owner
and gave the name to the old
Warsaw Ferry, on the Chatraho
chee river, had a very faithful jld
fervent Phil, who was Ferryman
He accidentally fell into the river,
his friends pulled him out, and
carried Lira to his cabin, about
two hundred feet from the banks,
removed his clothing, wraped him
up in blankets before a log heap
tire, administered whiskey very
freely. Altei a considerable
lengih of time, with a great diffi
cul'y the circuit! ion was restored.
Many of us thought him dead.
He often remarked, afterward,
th it he had been dead ; that he
died without a pain but when he
returned to conseiousnes, was
ven painful. In less than ten
minutes after his clothes was re
moved, they would stand a/one.
Ah travel was s/opped on that,
day. Second, our memories are
so treacherous and nearly every
cold day you hear some one re
mark. isn’t this the coldest weath
er y u ever saw, or the hotest or
the rainiest. If you would stop
and think back for one month
you have seen many of lie same
sort. In 1851, I was younger than
lam now, my mother, though
life is enjoy the present wc can
not tell .what tosmorrow m*y
bring, our Christian eugagemen's
commenced at the going out of
the year 1850 and the coming iu
of 1851 and looked from six to
eight weeks tbe longest contiu
| nous cold I have any lecollection
The earth was covered with
snow sleet and ice. and continued
up to about March. Ist. No farm
work or work of any kind could
be done. That, summer nearly
every fauniy in six cr eight miles
next of Chattahoochee where
there was soou for forty
or fifty and paid our compliment
to Mr. //cury and Isaac Strickland.
My father and others you ought
to see the surprise of those old
gentlemen having no notice only
the arrival of the crowd. There
OUR
•ion T>EPA RL HKNT
IS COMPLETE.
ALL ORDERS FOR
NEATLY AND
PROMPTLY execu
ted,
in thß I‘ost Office at Law
reiioeviJle, <ia., as second class mall
mutter.
NO 3
were good old times when people
were honest. Tbelaich was on
the outside and every one wel
r timed to the hospitalities of the
host and hostess, bad no
railroads, which is tbe forerunner
first of dissipation tnese extravas
gut ces and costly poverty to nine
tenth'of* the popu’ation. At the
opening of spring, it was ihougfit
that the wheal crop was entirely
killed out and wheu the year left
fields lock as clean as a yard,
scratch down an inch
or two you will iind.t plenty of
green sprigs and as soon ts mild
w eather set in it came out and
growed rapidly, and ihe fieest
wheat crop that year in my reoo
lection. It was a cool pleasant
summer, In harvesting the banc a
woie their coats all day and not
two warm. This was the only
year I ever saw that all crops
were good. Corn, wheat, Gate
c oiton potatoes peas and all kinds
Fruit abundant, May wehava as
repretetion of the year. 1851. As
it was never more needed,
H. W. 11.
A MORMON STORY.
A Mormon bishop told a friend
of the editor of a Salt Lake of this,
a few days age, that lie had suffer
«d with the blues all day, because
of something one of hi-.daughters
had said to him. When asked to
explain, he sat'd :
“You kpow my daughter Mary,
the eldest child of my second wife ?
She is about the age of Lizzie,
who is the daughter of my first
wife. Well this morning I was
going with Mary over to Lizzie's
mother's when she suddenly said :
“Father, I wish I was Lizzie."
“I asked her why, and reminded
her that she was quite as bright
and prelty as Tizzie.
“It.« not that, she said; Lizzie's
mother i» your first wife.”
“We did not spank again all the
way, and I have had she blues
ever since.”
This a true story all but the
names.
DO YOU KNOW HIM ?
There was a man In our town
aulhe was wonderous. for when
lie marked Lis prices down h«
then did advertise,
And when he saw his trade in
crease, wish all his might and
main, he marked still lower every
price advertised again.
And wheu he advertised again,
his rivals stamped and tore, to see
folks rise wi h might and main
to patronise that store.
And while they sal 'u solitude,
and saw him custom in that man
behind the couoter stood ard
raked the shekels in.
And whenne raked the shekels
iu and saw his fortune rising, he
took a goodly lot (J “tin,’’ and
kept on adverrising.
Each day a genuine sum hVd
seek, and demonstrate full plain,
the more one pays for printers
ink the greater is his'gain.—-Sara
toga Eeagle.
A IT AND WISDOM.
There are many pit-falls in a
peach-orchard
The four sei/soa —Bir'b, Court
ship, Marriage end Divorce.
The bill collector's work is al •
ways dun before he gets his pay.
Every dog has his day. souse of
th< m want the night 100.
The young man who gets smit
ten with a girl often getß mitten
too.
During a cyc’one the people are
sure there is something in the
wind.
She : “What are yon thinking
of?” He: ‘ A'othing. ’ She :
‘Egotist!’ 1
Why are ladies good sailors?
Because they make good mates and
can always command a smack.
A mustard man says that he has
not made his fortnrne out of mus
tard enten.bm out of mustard wast
ed on plates-
V man never realizes how little
his word is worth till he receives
a black eye and attempts to ex
plain how he came by it.
When a mau has a business that
dosen’t pay he usually begins to
look around for a partner to sbars
his losses with him.