The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-01-17
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
wHIsKEY TRAFFIC.

At Pittsburg. Pa, Wednesday.
drunken man went home and murdere
his wife and children. No reason 70
it; the man was simply crazy drunk
Let's start at the other end of the story
A church member and professed chris
tian votes for whiskey bloat-or. wha
is just as bad-a contemplate sneal
put up by the whiskey ring. for tn,
lie yislature: that manor rather tina
oolnterfeit of a man, makes a Law
licensing the sale of liquor; a third
man, for money consideration,
prostitutes his house for the sale OF
liquor; fourth man. knowing full
well the effect of the mad dening drug
upon the brain of man. and the moral
wrong he is doing. stiles the still small
voice of his conscience, and for the
money there is in it putteth the temp
tation before his weaker brother. and
as long as he has dime to lay upon
the counter ''holdeth the bottle to his
lips and maketh him drunken also. !"
Crazed by the poisonous drug, the
drunken man goes home and murders
his family. Is he the only man re-
sponsible for his mad and wicked deed ?
Would he have done it without the
whiskeys Would the whiskey have
been sold without the laws Would
the law have been made if the voters
had been true to themselves. their
country and their Goda
Now is the time for the voter
to think on these things. Men
in office have influence By virtue
of their office, they have influence
The constables and magistrates,
are a power. The sheriff and
trustee and register and court clerks,
are power. The democratic execu-
tive committee is power. The cleo
tion commissioners are power. The |
machinery" of the party is great
political power. The whiskey men
know these things, and to man,
almost, they vote and work accordingly. !
They work and labor and do their |
level best, in season and out of season,
to get control of the county court and
the county offices and the county COM
mittee. They are at work now. They
study elections as closely as stock
broker studies the market. They are
not many. They are few compared
with those who are against them.
Their strength lies in their ZEAL their
their cohesiveness. All
they want to know is ''who is our
nan - and ''our man theirs you
gets their vote. 1t does
lot matter who he is, or what he offers
or.
Now the men who oppose the liquor
raffic ought to act with the same COM
non sense They ought to unite on
heir men for every office. They have
he power and ought to control the
democratic party in this county, They
ught to control the machinery of the
'arty and all the offices in the gift of
he party. Aspiring politicians should
e taught to know, that the support
{ the liquor men is weight too heavy
0 carry. They should likewise be
aught to know that they nave moth I
ng to fear by wearing temperance {
adge or making temperance record.
There is disposition upon the part l
some good people to stay out Of the I
rimary. That is as foolish thing as t.
ley can do. 1t is exactly what the r
quor men want them to do. The Il
ope of the temperance cause in Ten II
essee is in the Democratic party. The
ope of temperance legislation is from
le Democratic party. And if we tt
lust look to the Democratic party for Il
nr help, it follows as matter of n
purse that we must participate in its g
-imaries choose its candidates and W
lape its policies.
Let us not be laggards in the inn u
,rtant work that is upon u.s. Let us
vt judge men by 'their large pro :.
,ssions and their little deeds - Let "
judge them rather by the records "
ey have made and by the company III
ey keep. And let us vote against LII
II dearest friend if his views run oil
unter to ours upon this liquor ques- W
IN. Let us stay in the party and 20
ntrol it. Lets vote in the primary, w
d vote all together, and vote for the
an whose election and administration
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