The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-24
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temperance men in this town and
county have not given the question a
serious thought, looking to any practi
cal results for temperance legislation
and have not purposed in their hearts
to do a lick of work in the coming
election of delegates to the legisla-
tive convention which the committee
VIII meet here on the first Monday in
September to call. They seem to be
perfectly willing to sit with folded
hands and bemoan their condition and
wish the saloon keepers would all get
good and quit sending other people
to hell They make US tired.
In the name of God, why don't the
christion mothers and fathers of this
town and county rise up and INQUIRE
what can We do-what can do, to
help close the doors of every saloon
In Maury county?"
As DR.. Dinwiddie said in his splen-
did address Sunday evening, the open
saloon is the creature of the christian
voters of Tennessee; and unless it
is wiped out of this county by the next
legislature, it win be the creature of
the christian voters of this county.
And the chief offenders will be those
who do nothing. A do-nothing man is
a blot upon humanity and an abom.
nation in the sight of God. II any
good woman in this county is married
to do-nothing man, we sincerely and
devoutly hope and earnestly re-
quest that she take a broom stick
to him and make him a do-something
in this coming election. If be is any
account in the world his talk and in
tuence win be worth something to the
cause of temperance: If he is of no
account in the world he may fortu- )
nately take the other side and his op-
position will be worth something to
the temperance cause.
We would like, if we possibly can.
to impress upon the temperance men
and women, flor we do hope to have
the quiet, home influence of the good
women of this county In this con-
test; we would like to impress upon
their minds this: The time for effort
Is right now; thirty days from now
the fight win be over; the victory will
have been lost Or won. Don't wait
for the convention to meet, to ask
that convention to do something. Don't
wait until the day you elect the del
egates to that convention to or
ganize that convention; organize
It by electing delegates who will need
no organizing, but who, in their own
personally and character win come
organized for temperance candidates
and temperance legislation. q
And this: Do not wait until the
meets to ask them to do
and do not wait until the {
day for the election of delegates to {
elect them. Go to work now to bring {
out good men to run for delegates. :
and go to work now to helm 'ect {
these men as delegates. Don't per- 8
nit the saloon svrpathisers to bring {
out Some milk-and-cider so-called tenn l
perance man and elect him as your ,
delegate, and then be disappointed at
what he does; but be up and doing I
and bring out and elect broad-minded, /
able bodied, true and tried temperance .
democrats who win not disappoint
you.
There is already good deal of talk
about voting saloons out of Column
bia if they are voted out of Mt. Pleas
ant" and of voting saloons out of
Mt. Pleasant If they are voted out Of
Columbia" Some people seem aw- X
fully afraid Columbia will drink some Y
Of Mt. Peasants whiskey, or that Mt
Pleasant will drink some of Colum- K
bias whiskey. 1t is remarkable what Y
a terror boot-legger has for some
people, and how complacently they
view the open saloon, which sells
twenty times as much whiskey as
40 IL Tic caAOOn WuAchSy . III
wouldn't destroy man, body and
soul, about as quick as the bootleg
gers whiskey. The only difference is
one of revenue. But in the minds of
some people that is an all powerful y
Inference. We have never understood (
why If man wanted to derive trade
Dr. revenue from the whiskey business X
he did not go into the business. 1t
S quite as respectable to get revenue
,ut of It one way as the other. But, X
gaiving all that. and to harmonise all
doubts and fears as between Mt.
Pleasant and Columbia, our PROPOSE
ion is this: To wipe 1t out of both u
owns the same day; and the way, and
he only practical way to do that, is
" legislative enactment. That is to u
ay, send men to the Legislature who win y
Use their best efforts to have passed n
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