The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-16

No Gil lSlIdH man nad right to stand
: by and see a fellow man do himself
an injury. No man had right to de
bauch himself He thus robbed So
ciety of his citizenship, his family of
: support and himself of his manhood.
No man had right to engage in any
persuit that was an injury to his com
munity, and no good people had
right to submit to an institution in
furious to public morals or health or
the betterment of society That no
man had right to spread contagious
diseases over a community, and No
man had right to spread crime and
poverty.
The t-eory of government tbs that all
laws sAO4.d be for the greatest good
for the greatest number and no man
had right to violate that law. To
engage in anything or to consent to
or aid and albeit in anything detri
mental to the general good is a great
wrong. In SO far as any citizen fails
to discountenance, to oppose any
thing detrimental to society or to the
home, just so far does he fail in his
high obligation as a citizen.
He said vice was a coward a brag-
CART, pretender Of greater strength
than it possessed. When met by or
ganized virtue it invariably was rout-
ed. The recent political history liz
New York ? iadelphia, Ohio. Mary
! land and CtlCY states had demonstrate
ed beyond a cavil of a doubt that the
people have been worked up all over
the country for this cause and the
day of the CRATER as woll as the day
OF the saloon was numbered. When
the fight is made for good govern
ment, good people pronounced the
doom of these evils.
Coming down to the immediate
matters of interest to the people of
this congregation and the good peo-
pie of this community he said the
next Legislature could put the saloons
out of Columbia if they would. That
the people, could bring this about if
they would, and that if they failed to
do so, they would have no one to
| blame but themselves He said there
were a number of ways by which a
man could. sell himself Some sold
their talent to great corporations and
assisted these corporations in their
impositions on the people. Others
sold themselves for Office and barter
ed away their manhood, their indie
j pendence for an empty honor. Others
sold themselves for profit. The man
who refuses TO take part in the fight
for civic righteousness in Tennessee
and in Maury County between the
Home and the Saloon (for fear it viii
hurt his business) has sold his fran
chise just the same as the man who
received direct bride money, and in
coward. The man, who allows him
self to become so preoccupied and so
| engrossed in his business, that he can
not give some of his time, thought
and influence to this great effort to
purify politics in the State of its most
, corrupting influence and society of its
most baneful enemy, sells himself and
not only himself but the future of his
children for just what he gets out of
his business.
He said he despised the man wh9
was too cowardly to express his opiR-
ion publicly when any great moral
question came up, or was too greedy
and selfish to sacrifice something Of
his time and business to a great cause
like this.
That there are only twelve cOun-
ties out of ninety-six in Tennessee
which rest under the curse Of the
open saloon. And he believed the
next Legislature will make it possible
for these twelve counties to enjoy the
same immunity as the other eighty
four counties. He warned the people
against the danger of over-confidence
ard of new converts to the temper
ance cause and said only tried and
true men should be sent to the Leg
islature. That the new converts
might prove dangerous experiment
That he looked with askance upon
those politicians who had never de-
clared themselves till this great pop
ular wave threw them to the surface
He prophecied that in twenty-five
years there would not be legalized
saloon in the United States. That
civic righteousness is the great ques-
tion of today That the saloon b n
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