Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-11-22
SOME CANDID ON
A DELICATE QUESTION.

The .Jonesboro Herald aud Tribune,
.bn only one of our exchanges which
seems to oppose the abolition or town
charters for the purpose of securing the
IN neft of the four-mile law, rants m
siderably in a recent issue because the
peoplc of Winchester abolished their
charter. If the people of our town can
stand it, it does seem that the editor Oh
n A. paper could allow such a move here
g.. little while. at least, without so
mueh ponsensical and g%ratuitous advice.
This alI-vise and egotistical writer
.iso seyeriy criticiscs Judge Carthal, OF
RrnvnsviTe. under whose charge TO the
rand iury the physicians of that town
1cre indicted ON the charge of Illegally
xiyine prescriptions for whisky.
In reply to this extract from the
winchester News, we have mere
" to say that we did not, know
-shat the Winchester charter bad
, been abolished, and only to9k the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ofs1ed to
make a few general remarks for
Che public good. In no sense are
we opposed to real temperance
but we are opposed to the men
who attempt to force a purely So
cial question into politics and to
Che schemes by which they are en-
deavoring to supplant social and
moral Influences with legislation
and legislative tricks.
The four-mile prohibition is
itself q fraud and a trick. The act
was a good one, as intended to
apply only to country schools and
colleges. 1t was against the inS
terests of country schools and in,
iurious to the peace of society that
small liquor establishments should
be permitted to exist near schools
outside the towns for the reason
that there could be no legal Sd
pervision to keep such dealers as
might be disposed to evade and
defy the law from selling to mi
nors. This was the intention OF
the fathers of the act. and the un-
Outstanding OF the people with e
gard to its scope. Had they then
known that it was prohibition on
= large scale in disguise their
disspproval would have been SO
plainly expressed that it would
have been repealed at the follow
ing session.
There was specific provision
made in the act that it should not
amply to Incorporated towns, but
unhapplIy for them the opponents
Of prohibition did not ~foresee that
the immense responsibility of the
prohibition people would enable
them to command the legislature
and secure the repeal of char
tiers. This, however, they did,
and without any legal resort to
obtain the sense of each towns
population their charters yer
sbolished and prohibition I'M
posed on them
Thus the act has no. even the
merits of local option. Prohibits
tion was enacted without %consult>
ing the people, and as If to defy
them, they gre told that it must
be BY a two-thirds Sote only that
they can assert their rights and
restore their charters.
AS for the Brownsville matter,
Judge Carthal has come to his
senses and practically taken backs
water. The case in which he holds
that an indictment would be suss
Gained. is one that would never oc-
cof. and could not be established
.xeu il it should occur, No. doc
tors private practice is subject to
f,aai supervision, aud there is only
.na ease in which he is amenable
the law; outside OF this one
ease no jury in the state would
.onvict a doctor of criminal maj
,,octice. He can write as many
prescriptions as he p@leases' and
Be guilty of no cfft nse- IL Is oh,y
necessary that he should "r,'e
.hem without COLLISION win t"e
s~-noc;ss, who sells on them, and II
e cav pe held il any event II