The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-11-24

to act and upon which you have 1
rig bit to know my views. there is the
question involved In what is known a
the Hepburn DoIliver bill. This bill
simply proposes that when intoxicating
liquors are brought from one State int
another they shall become subject Il
the police laws of that State. l favor
and from the beginning have favored
the passage of that bill. favor it al
Democrat, believing In State!
rights and local self gOveInment-be
lieving that every state should be su
preme in the exercise of its proper pc
lice powers within Its own borders
favor it also because 1t gives to every
State the right to regulate. land restrain
the liquor traffic in accordance with
its own judgment of the public needs.
1t is not my purpose tonight TO dea
with the liquor question except as il
comes within the sphere of my duties
as Senat
but l cannot helD saying that the
activity of tae saloon In politics is a
question of interest to every man who
holds or seeks public office. So far
as am concerned 1 am weary of a
condition of things where the man
whose business it is to make the laws
must hold his office by consent of the
man whose business it is to break the
laws. / am weary of the insolent and
dictatorial spirit which so largely pei
vades the saloon business of this State;
of It's open alliance with vice, its
open contempt of law; its assumption
that the right to sell VIII sky in accord
ance with law carrie with it the
right to sell whisky in violation of
law; that the license to run a saloon
carries with 1t the license to run
gambling house and tiaunt its black
banner in the very face of innocence.
puIlty and public decency. 1t seems
that l have given mortal otfense to
some of these gentlemen because have
publicly SAID that the man who runs
h saloon has no mole right to violate
the law than the man VINO inns a bar
bar shop.
SALOON OPPOSITION.
Zone of my competitor chief lieu
tenants not long since said to a friend
Of mine that [ would surely be defeated
because the saloons of the State were
solidly arrayed against me. | only
wish to remark that If they accomplish
that result they Will at the same time
give me plenty to DO to keep me from
O:ooding over my defeat. Ii they de
Feat me for the senate 1t shall be my
next ambition to be handed down to
history as the last man who was ever
ietested for Office ny the saloon power
If I tennessee.
n H.
nope to have the pleasure of paving
he way tor effective legislation In re-
lalf of temperance by helping to enact
nto law the Hepburn DoIliver bill.
''Laules ana gentlemen, a question
yhicn has of late years been growing
n Importance is that of how fer the |
FEDERAL Government can or should 90 |
u exercising the power of restraint or
ontIol over the great corporations
which play 81 large a part In the
economic development of our country.
The great fact of recent years has |
'een the tendency toward concentra-
ion and the aggregation of capital in
'reat industrial enterprises. In so far
8 this increasing tendency to indus
rial cooperation, to the union of
neIgies for the purpose of increased
Effectiveness, is a part of the progress
t the world. II Is not oaly vain but
ssentlallv wrong to oppose it. 1t it
ut the play OF that spirit or mutual
clip and mutual Qependence upon
1hIch the structure OF society rests,
nd whether 1t appears In the form OF
primitive log rolling, quilting bee,
partnership or corporation, it is
he vltal4z.ng principle of all human
rogress.
etained you too long. There are
ther questions, questions of tariff,
-usts, currency, which | have often
before the people, and upon
hich my views are known.
my political fortunes are given into
our hands to be dealt with in accord
nee with your own sense of right and
lstice. Ii have been 80 fortunate as
} merit a renewal of your trust
nd confidence, snail seek
} testify my appre n.6l1n by
eyoting myself with renewed zeal and
to what | shall conceive to
8 your best and highest interests.
'hatever may be your verdict | shall
ave the CONSCIOUSNESS that according TO
y own fights 1 have served you with
sal and falthfulnees.
WELFARE OF People
"If | know my own heart there has
aver neeu an nour when did not con
ded my own political fortunes as dust
! Cns balance when weighed against
lie welfare Of the people and the honor
I'D safety Of the Republic. When my
she's have mingled with the common
lsG aud my name and m mory have
ri ,heu from the minds Of men your
,sterity and mine Will be struggling
itn the problems of government which
. have bequeathed to them Let us
solve that We will transmit to Our
ms the blessings of liberty as full and
arfect as we received them from our
res.
But if you feel that | have deservep
'ur repre- ba ton; If as Democrat |
ave shown too much zeal for the prin-
Piles of the Democratic party; if as
ouTheIner | have loved tle South not
lsely but too Well; if as a white man |
we felt too much pride in the blood of
y race; If as rennessean | have b. en-
o SLOW to crook the pregnant hinges of
q knee, that thrift mig hit follow faS
g; If for all these and other faults |
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