The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-03-06
CIeYeIand Corporation.

Whether the Legislature of Tennessee
| shall arbitrarily repeal the charter in
cooperating the city of Cleveland, and
abolish it, or not, it is certain they
were not elected and sent there for that
purpose, and it is certain they will do
so contrary to the positive wish ana
| desire of fully two-thirds OIL more of
the largest taxpayers and citizens OF
Cleveland; and it is equally certain
that they will do so at the request and
to the qualification of only a very few
citizens of Cleveland, who are dissatiS-
fed with the result of the late munich
pal election. So if the Solons of the
Legislature repeal the charter, the
result is. that more than two-thirds of
all the taxpayers, and all the women
and children will have to suffer and
bear; the loss created thereby; and our
representatives in the Legislature will
deserve the condemnation of all for the
damage done to a beautiful and pros
porous little city, which has fer years
been the admiration of all strangers
and visitors, and the pride of u own
good citizens. Surely our legislature
are not so arrogant and utterly reck-
less, as to want to so far disregard the
rights of our citizens or the great body
of them, as to repeal our charter, and
utterly ruin and destroy our beautiful
and prosperous city, and thus leave our
property, and citizens and our all
without protection, and as an ineyita-
BILE result, our streets, alleys, side
walks and our property will be disre-
spected and go to waste and destruc-
ton. Why any good citizen, and
especially a church member, want our
corporation abolished, is beyond the
comprehensions of any who desire law
and order to prevail and good society
to predominant, and religion and
Christianity to be upheld and support
ed. 1t is easy to see how any one will
ling to disregard all these Permanent
Interests would be in favortof abolish
ing the charter, because they could
violate law and order with impunity,
as they will do, in case the charter is
abolished. Some say if this charter lie
abolished, that we can gote the county
court and organize under the general
incorporation act and have a very
cheap concern, and this is an erroneous
and foolish idea Of TIE Cleveland Ban
ner. The truth is, the movers of the
revolutionary who move to repeal our
charter do not want an organization Of
any kind; and if one was organized
under what is called the general law
it would be almost entirely worthless
and useless, as every organization I'M
der that law has been, and yet be just
as expensive as present one. Rome
fell by her own factions, and never
rose, and so will Cleveland, if the Leg
islature prefer to obey the behests Of a
few mad and disappointed obstruction
lists, instead of the manifest interests CT
our people. This would result in the
modification Of our citizens, oven the
downfall of their beautiful city, and
then we may bid farewell to any emf
grafton to our place. The thousands
of dollars spent upon Il city to make
it attractive aud admired will be lost
forever. How Il public newspaper of
Cleveland, whose duty it is or should
be, to elevate society, and aid to build
up the city and in every honorable way
add to its prosperity, and preserve law
and order, can advocate the repeal of
our city charter Is certainly strange.
1t should be the policy of the public
press, in a heightened way, to advocate
the preservat ton of law and order, and
to raise and elevate society, and to adj
vance prosperity, and above all, to
avoid INDUCING in such low and UNI
becoming language and billingsgate as
some newspapers sometimes do, and as
our neighbor of the Banner did in sew
eral instances in his last weeks Ban
ncr. Families do not want to, and
ought not to read, anything but high
ton cd editorials in a newspaper; and
the editor Of the HERALD forbears TO
notice some very low, unbecoming ed
i~torials in last weeks Cleveland Ban
ner, as no decent family ought to read
them, and is demoralizing to permit
them to read them. They are beautiful
specimens of low down home-spun lit
erature in the shape of editorials, and
made with regard to our city corpora
ton, in the shape Of dcrision and rid
icule; and very satisfactorily shows
what little respect that editor Of the
Banner has for law and good order,
and Christianity, aud for upholding