The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-02

NASHVILLE is organizing law aud
order league for the suppression OF
gambling and Sunday tipping. Co
lumbia needs such an organization.
Who will take the lead in starting it
The HERALD will further the cause
in any honorable way in its power
1t would be revelation to the good
people OF this town il they cOnld see
published list OF the gamblers and
Sunday tipplers in Columbia. There
DO some who stand higher think
they stand high in the estimation OF
their fellow citizens--whO, we are
told, engage ia this nefariOus bust
ness; some Of them gambling, others
of them--through their clerks-sell-
ing whisky on Sunday, and to minors
| at that. III the Christian people will
form law aud order league, aud get
IA correct list Of these mercenary law
! breakers, the HERALD will decor
ate--Or desecrate--its columns with
( the same. Perhaps if we had fewer
! Of these mtrcenarie5 in this COmmu-
nifty, we, as people, would have bet
ter morals; and perhaps if we had
better morals, we would have more
genuine honesty and perhaps if we
mad more honesty, there would be
fewer banks TO fail; aud If we had
better morals, and more honesty and
fewer banks to fail, certainly we
would become prosperous and happy.
We do not care to give Columbia a
bad name abroad unless it will do
some good, but there are things per-
tanning to gambling, Sunday tip
pling and selling to minors, we have
heard Of, that we would not object to
telling to the proper parties at the
proper times. Let's while away the
summer hours by organizing a law
and order league. What cay you?
|
Smith, has made great start ia the
direction Of winding the frauds out
of the pension list. BY one single
construction of clause in the pen
sion laws, he saves the country fiji.
teen or twenty millions year. This
decision OF Secretary Smith is moth
ing but the honest and only honest
construction OF this particular clause
Of The pension law; and is directly
contrary to the construction put up
on it by The former Commissioner Of
Pensions, Green P. Raum. According
to the decision Of Secretary Smith
trivial ailments, even though con
tracted in the array will not entitit
an applicant to a pension. He mus
!, be disabled from doing manual labor
in order to entitle him to a pension
This is the most commendatory &C
Of the present administration since il
came into power, and 1t is to be hoped
that it will be repeated wheneve
and wherever possible.
THE "policy" of the CJmptrolleI
is not to talk, aud he requires an oatl
from the Receiy er to be like discreet
but what is the matter with the
Cashier or other acting officer of
defunct national bank? The Law
does not prevent his talking. HI
was the man, after all, in whom tn
depositOrs trusted; he received thei
p money; he loaned it out or other
, wise disposed Of it. Why should h.
L keep silence? Why should he no
@ tell the dep0sitors what he has don
with it, where it is, to whom it i
loaned, what are the cOllaterals
Why not turn on the light? 1t is tn
% duty of community, as it is that o
Jury, to believe man innocent un
til he is proven guilty, but again "
remark, why not turn on the light
> Why should the cashier not talk?
THE people in Nashville are talk
ing of giving banquet to the ma
' who shot the driver OF the dev
t wagon. So it seems that in the eye
u Of the public the un!ortunat
Z debtor has some rights left s
e against the importunate creditO
The way for a merchant not to max
bad debts is not to sell on credit.
u he takes that risk he should ais
u take the consequences. TO atteml
!" to force nau to pay by standing
J. dunning wagon in front of his hOu.
IT and ringing his door bell for an hot
u at time, is a species of blackma
u that 10 fair-minded community wi