The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-21
MARYvILLE. TENN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21. 1889.
DO YOU REALLY MEAN IT7
EDITOR TIMES:

DO YOU REALLY MEAN IT?
EDITOR TINES:
In your editorial under the head
of IAN Incorporation" in the TIMES
of last week, I understood you to
favor a corporation with extended
boundaries, then to agree on the
amount of license to liquor dealers,
and fix it In the charter 80 there
can be no "variableness nor shadow
of turning" And l further under
stand your meaning in that edito-
rial, that such a charter Is the right
kind, and that Maryville should
have it. In other words, your posi-.
ton would fix high license and
place it in the charter, 80 that any
legislation as to the four mile law,
local option or prohibition that
might be had in the future could
not produce any "variableness or
shadow of turning" The liquor
dens would be a fixed institution
and fastened upon US.
From a religious standpoint l
regard the liquor traffic as sinful
and evil; from a moral standpoint
I regard 1t as grossly immoral and
debasing; from political stand
point l regard it as a blighting
curse on the body polite; from a
municipal standpoint I would re-
gard it as a calamity on our COM
munity, temptation placed under
the nose of our boys and a menace
to our schools and factories. From
all these and other reasons I would
oppose any charter that would IL
cense or protect the traffic. If the
license was million dollars a year
it would not make the traffic right,
neither would it lessen the curse
upon the community. II your boy
should become a drunkard it would
bring sorrow and misery into the
household just as much ifthe liquor
was obtained in a gilded saloon,.
paying license at one hundred dol
lars day, as if it had come from
the dark mountain recesses and
was sold free of all license.
WILL A. MCTEER.
The position OF the fIxEs med
maths snlssadpsS FxsG1lsA -
to make 1t clear. It Is on the basis
of a corporation.
First. If we have a corporation
under the State laws, we are sub
ject to have a saloon, as it is made
an incidental to corporation. And
as the people are largely asking a
corporation, and as a corporation is
needed, the question arises, how
can the saloon question be best
managed?
The TINES has looked over the
whole ground and finds that the
stronger the regulation the better
it will be for the people. We ad.
NIT the license system is wrong
but the State has granted this priv.
ilege of selling intoxicating liquors
as a beverage by taking out Ii
cense and paying for them. Now
if Maryville must have corpora
ton, is it not better to charge such
a sum as will give protection
against the low, worthless, dirty
blackguards who would flock ii
here as tools for the wholesale men
and prevent them form coming int
the county or town to do that kline
of business? Under the $1,000 Ii
cense responsible men would have
to open a saloon, as none but a re
spOnsible man could pay the fee
With this license there ought to b,
personal responsibility, etc. The
TINES favOrs this, as it il the bes
and only thing we can do; and THU
system will not change our opinion
as to the wrongfulness of license
And as it will not prevent an,
other work in favor of the highes
ground before an enlightened PEG
pie, when we are in Rome we al
compelled to be subject to Rome
4 laws. Now then we must do with
out corporation, or else have {
saloon. One carries with it thu
other. Ohio has tried free whisk.
and its destruction and death t,
her people is apparent.
MONTVALE.
The scare at MOntvale proved +