The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-03-06
ADVICE TO LEGISLATORS.

ADVICE TO LEGISLATORS.
The country press is closer to the
hearts of the people, and has fewer
axes to grind. than the city press. Inc
iobber. the specialist, the class repre-
sentative all too often speaks through
the columns of the metropolitan
daily; while the country weekly az
rule, is the organ Of the people.
n ia interesting therefore, and OF
paramount importance to the legis-
jators to note the advice OF the
"country press" about things in gen
eral For their benefit, therefore, we
append the following:
Southern Standard: THE present
Legislature is going rather swift on
expenses and appropriations. Better
let that State Fair business go by for
nj least two more years yet. Ihat
$40, 600 year will benefit the farmers
more in the school fund than 1t wouio
IN q horse race. And the same au-
thority also says: ''Whiskey advocates
are industriously circulating reports
that voting out saloons has ruined
the business in McMinnville. and that
town is dead or dying All such
reports are absolutely false. We assert
that the volume of business transacted
by McMlnnvllle during 1909. the flrst
wear without saloons, was the largest
in it's history, and we defy any one to
produce the figures to prove the con-
trary."
And upon still another important
subject the Standard comments as
follows: "We submit to the people OF
Warren county for discussion during
the next two years the question OF
reducing the number of civil districts
in the county to six or less The ball
has started to rolling and this will be
the next reform movement to sweep
over the State. Warren county should
not be laggard In the race. Enough
money could be saved by this change
TO nav a considerable part OF the IN
terest on turnpike bonds. More pixies
and fewer Magistrates would wonder
fully improve Warren county.
Marshall Gazette: ''Of course 1t
would be nice thing for some people
to have a State Fair, and 1t would also
be a nice thing to have an elegant
Governor g mansion and to have the
building and big display at
Worlds Fair at st. Louis. but now
MANY of our citizens have all they
would like to have, or even what they
really need2 When we get able we
will have all these Things, but let's
wait until that time arrives. .
Tullahoma Guardian: HAD WIN.
Mckinley lived, the negro question
would not have arisen to plague and
poster the public mind on the eve o.
the next presidential election. After
Roosevelt and his following have dis
covered the worthlessness of the aues-
ion as vote catcher, the negro will
he left where he was at first-wlth his
white neighbors as his best friends,
ready to render ali deserved assist
ance.'
Fayetteville Observer: 1.-The fire
insurance companies in Tennessee last
YEAR TOOK risks to the amount OF
$l62, 259, 974.; On this amount they
collected 80, TAO, 500 in premiums and
paid 1883, 1874 IN losses. The. loss
shows fraction over 80 per cent. Of
the premiums received. 1t costs about
8b per cent. to do business, which
hows the companies did very we'll in
Tennessee the past twelve months ="
Fayetteville Observer: 1.-THE legis-
lature. up to the time Of its taking
recess, did not act very much like
an economical body. Too many APP
propriations were TALKED Of and the
expense of running the state after its
work Is done, is going to be too
great. The people that elected the
senators and representatives, are anx-
ious that they be as economical as
possible 80 there can be larger re-
duction in the state debt this year
than last. The large majority Of the
voters would like to have the pro-
posed appropriation to the state fair.
as we'll a. several other appropria.
atoms, dropped for the present. Stop
until we are out Of debt. or at least
until the fifteen millions are reduced
several millions I"