Show presidents sons As the question of temperance is id u agitating gi tating oar iowa communities it would be profitable and interesting Inter cating to proven irai ant to your readers a parallel or rather contrast of the be cases of two young men now residents roBi ileata of we been ticul cit city y the first is 11 orie obe whose name I 1 will not mention inen liou because nothing compliment ury of him van uan t oth fally be said and I 1 As an ull all correspondents and journalists are truthful i must endeavor eo leaver to follow the rules 0 so o followed fol lowel loviel by our or profession he is iii a man of forty years of age A k nun mile of ilae due naturally but w with I 1 th it a countenance now uon fearfully blot blotched obed anil and crim crimsoned liy by many mady puts lions when ho he wail u boy he ha pealed to la the tha white house and aad was the alio envied of alt all hn his playmates ite he baars boars the numo name of ono one of the of the united li tates and bil resembles his hia ills relative rola tivo in many particulars ue he grow grew into manhood tho the idea that lifo life was wad a pathway strewn with A roses and od that but because ot 0 tho the it loraine he by bore lo he should livo live in 14 rt is land with milk kallanj and honey leaving labor to beings inferior to him bim sell wine anil and women woodil him bini on to tho the wasting of time herlth and happl noa mama until lie he boonma became usable to pay for the abo former or to prove attractive to the latter tho the past live 11 TO years he be has lived the life of a looter loafer and a 11 beat baat 11 la in this city and aj is a boro bore to oil all who are so BO an to still acknowledge him as an just at thu the beginning besin of his bla injo inde manhood lie bu will was orphaned by the sudden budden death of his bla noble cabla father when ho he waa opening the worlds book c of f life lif lie ho was deprived of u tho the tion anil alii aid of that father whose lova lava I 1 and 11 d knowledge could coald hire have so no well wall taught him to tarn its ita leaves and ami lourn learn I 1 was wan in ia harveys restaurant last evening enjoying a such as all scribble rs are accustomed to who rely upon the goulas genius of the pen for when my attention was attracted t by a gentle top tap on 00 the arm fina and I 1 turned to behold mr beaming upon irta with a fiendish flond smile oralle of famil faill larity and requesting tho the loan of ton tan con t a of course it wai tor for whisky and acil of it would never be ro lauded and being a stickler for turn tom perance as ai well as ai a pronounced 0 opponent of vagrancy 1 hit his modest reque request tit was wan refused reta aed thinking of the a olour c or renco this morning I 1 bald not n at help belp contrasting him with another gottle man whom I 1 recently had tho the honor of meeting and yon are now rotting gotting the result of uy my redactions this latter gentleman played in the white ile nee when ho he was gr owing growing into man manhood hood and tho the envied of all his fellows bat ho he eschewed the use of stimulants an aud d sought bought only which was wai lot true and good ile early met knew loved and married a young lady who was waa the tha embodiment of all the pal grades ot at christianity and bod rare poro truo true womanhood but bat lo lie was waa temperate bobor and wise ile HB rejected not but sought the court tet sel of the wise who and good and aad they wore were with him always to ald aid and direct ile iia lad had the assistance of hla his fathers fat herd most trusted truB teil counsellor and followed well the tha words ot of wisdom which oame from that good mau man today to day he be is ia our able and upright secretary of war and no hainan mania ia amer lea ioa lias has a better batter to succeed to to tha presidency in n 1885 than T lincoln young radio ailt tho the two lives liva model your own upon either one you may doom deem best beat and you yon livo ia not t only 1 the word of an old man b but the h braur n r acco of all the wise in this world that upon your choice of the tha two depends your our is or condemnation in this li life fe rags rd I 1 cam ol of the question quei tiou AI t a 11 future existence well has mr lincoln buckled him 1 bolt and well may he be proul of tho the life ife lie he has haa led well may this nation rejoice that he ha had baa proven BO a son fon of lis ills noble lather father and well nell rany luay that grand old republican jimes james herlan herian flat of mount pleasant iowa have an dionest pride in the part lie he hw hits cakon in bel helping ing the nation to much A manly man fide ahi eis ton son in i law robert T lincoln of 0 illinois washington cor car albia albi union |