Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-27

1t perpetrates, that humanity stands
ashast at the eDuImii y, aud CRIES aloud
for remedy. From every quarter the
cry Gomez, Whist shal We do to be
saved" fsom the evils of intemper,
aDce.
commend this subject to your care
full consideration. earnestly invoking
your philaD thropy, moderation, firm
ness and wisdom.
RAILROAD FREIGHTs.
It is ma ter of frequea. complaint
that our rail- DAD companies, in their
charges for transpot laton of freight.
are accu> 1med to making III Just dis.
examinations in favor ofthro' gh freight
20 the great injury and OPPRESSION of
our people VINO may be interested in
local freights. Should these complaints
prove t. be we'll founded, some pro-
vision. SHOULD be Promptly made by
law which will protect the interests of
our own cit zens. do not regard the
interests OF our private citizens and of
our railroad companies a. necessarily
antagonistic, but rather, that there is
com immunity Of Interest between them.
The best advantage of each is t, be
| found in building up and developing
the resources of the country. HAIRY
or iIl-advised legislation upon subject
at once so grave aud complicated as
this should bs carefully avoided, and
the subject should receive at your
hands the patient CONSIDERATION which
its importance demands. -
PTBLIC ROADS
Your attention is called to the impor-
lance of some more adequate provision for
keeping up our public highways. CUR
present system is lamentably def ient, and
utterly falls to meet the wants of the cOun-
try. During large part OF the year travel
and transportation through many parts of
cur State are effected with & eat difficulty,
and al times almost entirely suspended IN
consequence of the almost impossible co1>
dition of our roads. The farmer who has
| produce for market is compelled to keep It
| at home, thereby losing the opportuni y of
| placing it on favorable markeG, or else he
] must incur an enormous expense in its
| transportation. In either case the result is
| that the proceeds of his year of anxious toll
| by which he had hoped to better the con
| dlton of those dependent upon him are, to
use homely expression. "sunk in the
| mud" The prospective Immigrant who
sees the condition of our highways from
| October to May leaves our State to select
| home elsewhere. The disadvantages of our
!
| of our people. to say nothing Of their COM
fort and convenience, are simply incalcu-
| liable. Good roads are public benefit.
| They enhance the value Of property of
every description, and swell the tide of
general pros erity. All cit z8ns partske
1 of these benefits, and nonresident owners
of property in our State receive their pro-
portion through the general enhan cement
of values. 1t Is, therefore, but common JUS
tice that all property and persons who en-
Joy the benefits should contribute a fair
| and just proportion of the expense neces-
saray for the maintenance of good roads.
| Your grave consideration of this subject is
earnestly invoked
FISH.
The propagation and pr lection Of food
fishes IN our state is a public interest of nc
small importan g, and l recommend the
| subj ect to your serious attention. Ihero Ii
now No general Nv on our statute cooks
for the protection during spawning seaeor
of this prolific source of supply OF human
food. Year after year wautOn destruc
tion has been pracuced until, in many o.
. onr streams, food fishes have become al
most extinct. The United States Fist
Commission, under the able management
, of DR.. Spencer L. Baird, supplemented by
commissioners appotl ted by our own ant
other States is now seeking TO stock all GU
streams with such varieties as are most de
; slrable for human food. Ma1ife.tly al,
efforts in this direction are useless unles
; there should be ample provision for the
/ protection. A law for this purpose shoulC
be general, not partial
: PUBLIC HEALTH.
=, recommend revision of the law estab
fishing State board of health. In m,
opinion it's powers should be extended AM
more clearly defined. A health office
! ~ e. /,
r State, who should be subordinate to tn
= State board. The board thus constitute
, | should be made to serve as q bureau or vi
q tai sta istiC5. In this way we would nav,
not only systematic effort for the conserva
ton of the public health, but would fror
: year to year accumulate vast sores Of sta
: tistical information of great practical au
i scientific value.
Il MOB VIOLENCE,
r There is, regret to say disposition i
some portions of our State to resort
;, mob violence for the punishment of partie
: supposed to have perpetrated crimes OF t.
more Hagrant Character. Thrice aiTead
- during my brief occupancy of the execu
tive office l have been called upon b
- Judges of our circuit courts to furns
e military protection for persons charge
e with crimes, and in the custody of the Law
Ia These calls were made by Judge Contrel
If at Lebanon, Judge. Stark, at springfield
ana Judge Williams, at Winchester.
nave in each case, as promptly as possibl
u succeeded in furn ishlng the required assis
Il ance anu | wish here to return my q
e. acknowledgements to Capt Martin, of tt
o "Howard Reserves" al Lebenon, and
D, CAPTAINS Reyer and e ,stman, of the ''Po
al ter Rifles and Rock City Guards"
j. Nashville, and to the officers and men
II their several companies, f, 7 the prUmp
"a ness and alacrity with which they ha'
f voluntarily responded to every call of tt
% executive. Such conduct upon the part
i citizen soidiery of Tennessee deserves tt
highest commendatiun.
- The majesty Of the Law must be mai
"a tanned, and every citizen must be protec
o in the enjoyment of all Ms legat right
IL Especially must these exhibitions Of me-
OF violence be suppressed. To fail in this
n to fail in the first duty of governme1
Sc The prev alonce Of mob Ia w at once swee
b. away every security for property, liner
Mt and life. l shall exercise every prerog
of tive of my office for the maintenance
no law and order everywhere with the be
mr. ders of the Stale [ cali your most sero
- ~ attention to this subject, and suggs
70 for your consideration the importance
IL providing some more efficient means
the suppression of mob violence than a
now provided by law. But after all, n
- Judgment no permanent security agaiT
~ the lawlessness of an infuriated mob will
hs found until some of the leaders, at lea
IL have been made to appreciate the maj IS
40 of the law and to realize the certainty al
in severity of its punishments. and to this 81
e. l INVOKE the active corporation OF
tn the peaeeable, law"abidlng private cltlze
O. with all the peace officers of the State.