The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-07
THE SALOON MUST CO."

from where? From Maury County.
The temperance plank in the Dem
ocratic platform declares for the ex-
tension of the Adams law, provided
its extension is with the consent of
the people effected thereby" Who are
the people to be effected by the re-
moval of the saloons from Mt. Pleas
ant and Columbia? Certainly the peo-
pie of Maury county. When should
their consent be obtained? When their
representatives are chosen to attend
to this matter of business for them
at the next legislature.
There are some people who hold to
the theory that only qualified voters
m the towns of Columbia and Mt.
Pleasant should decide whether or not
vhiskey should be sold in these towns.
Why? II there is a plague spot in
Maury county, ought not the people
of Maury county to have the right to
wipe it out? Is it not their county?
Do they not support the town? Would
not the streets of Columbia grow up in
grass. and would not owls and bats
inhabit our business houses if it were
not for the people of Maury county?
And now, when there is a sore spot,
or two sore spots in their fair and
beautiful county, and they want to
take the surgeons knife and cut them
out, shall they be told to stop, hands
on, we, the liquor dealers of Columbia
and Mt. Pleasant have sacred rights?"
you may send men to Congress and
instruct them what TO do; you may
make platforms to govern your Gov
ernors; you may make platforms and
declare principles and instruct legis-
lative representatives upon any and
all questions until you touch our
rights the sacred right TO manufac-
ture drunkards, but there you must
stop. You live beyond the narrow con-
fines of corporate line, and you are
not effected by what we do in the
towns. True, your sons come to town
on first Mondays and circus days and
get drunk and we lock them up and
keep them in lousy jail until you pay
your hard earned money to buy them
out. but that is a small matter COM
pared to "our rights" True, you give
your boys a country education and
christian training, and send them to
Columbia, clear-eyed. clean-hearted,
hopeful and ambitious to enter the
great business school of life, and we
take them and befoul them and send
them to the drunkard's grave, or back
home to you, ragged, bedraggled and
dirty. shorn of their virtue, their man
hood and their morals; and it would
seem that you parents in the country
were effected somewhat, but still, that
is our business, and you must not
vote; you must not vote, chiefly, and
to make long story short, because
you will not vote our way"
That is the way some people in the
lows talk. But the man in the country
SAYS, that's all rot. / have boy 10
that town and his mother lays awake
of nights and wonders il the accursed
saloon has touched him with its fetid
breath. And have another boy who
must soon leave the little farm and &c
to the town; and when ! look at him
now. in his youth and innocence, and
think of those death traps waiting to
open and devour him, do not know
that / am as much effected" as much
concerned, as vitality interested in the
morals of that town and in rescuine
it from the blight of the open saloon
as any. parent in it? This splitting Of
hairs, this political sophistry, this trick
of the whiskey crowd, shall not worn
if can prevent it. We people OF the
country have quite as much right tc
send representatives to the legisla
ture to do our will. as the whiskes
rings of Columbia and Mt. Pleasant
have to send them there to do theil
wills. And as we happen to be in the
majority by some four or five to one
we propose to have our way about Il
this time. Heretofore we have kep'
at the pillow and allowed the whiskeI
politicians to so manipulate matters
s.. as to pack the nominating conven
lions. This time we will be up and do
ing and will be at the packing" l vii
talk to my neighbors about this, ant
as for our district, we will send TEN
perance delegates to that convention
Another man in the town says, WE
cannot afford to do without the reve
nue. from the whiskey business. Tit
man in the country says, whats tina
to me? l do not get any of the reVe
nue.. What ! get pay for; headache
humiliation, loss of character, jail fee
- oil None of the revenue come