The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-14
ITO YOUR TENTS, OH ISRAEL"

The County Democratic Executiv
Committee have put it square up t
the Democratic white voters of Maur,
County. Are You for or Against tn
Saloon?" They not only recognize
that as the paramount issue in thi
county, but in the State; and as such
that there may be due consideration
of the question" they invite the spec
lal attention of the people to it. AND
then, to their credit, they go a steI
further, and commend strong tenn
perance plank to be put in the plat
form; and last, but by no means least
the nomination of men, whose private
lives and public records are an earnest
of their good faith IN carrying out
such legislation"
Saloon, or No Saloon" that is the
question. 1t is not a question of pro
hibition or no prohibition; or of high
license or low license; or of dram
drinking or total abstinence. 1t is the
Saloon question. The Saloon that will
not obey any law, must be denied the
protection of the law. The Saloon,
that undertakes to dictate every of
flcer in the State, from Governor down
to Constable, must be run out of bus
mess in order to get it out of politics.
The Saloon, which antagonizes the
Church and Home and Society and
State; the reviler of religion and de-
filer of virtue; the seducer of private
character and corrupter of public NOR
ais; the wrecker of manhood and man.
ufacturer of drunkards; the murderer
of men and women; the destroyer of
happy homes; the breeder of poverty,
vice and crime: this red-eyed, foul
breathed, hydra-headed, supremely sell
fish monster. the open Saloon" that
is the issue; are you for it or against
it? There is no splitting of hairs;
there is no halfway ground; you may
like some other plan better; you
might have preferred to have seen the
question come up in different shape;
but all the same the issue is made;
time and the people have made it;
and it is up to YOU in just this form,
Saloon, or No Saloon" now what
will you do with it?
We shall address ourselves to those
who are opposed to the Saloon; those
who are for it have long since parted
company with the Herald. 1t has been
a long fight. Through hope deferred
that hath ofttimes made the heart
sick. the temperance people have been
long suffering, patient in adversely,
and persevering. Old prejudices and
customs had to be uprooted, overcome
or combatted. Then the timid cow
ardice of time-serving politicians
stood long in the way. But now the
star is in the heavens and
the rosy dawn of brighter day gilds
the eastern sky, and the end of the
long, hard struggle, strewn with brok-
en- hearts and wrecked lives and ruin
I'd homes, is in sight; the one enemy
yet to conquer or overcome, is the
Lethargy of our friends.
Men and Women Of Maury County, |
will you be up and doing or will you ;
sleep the fatal sleep Of death while j
Iuty calls? What can you do? You
IAN work and talk; you can preach {
md exhort; you can be up and doing, 6
or every man and every woman has I
ome influence with somebody; and {
hat influence. whether it. be much or '
title, should be given freely now and r
Without the asking. It is that the
ause needs now; the voluntary SER
ice of it's friends. &c
The important work for every man
D do, is at his own dsor, as it were;
] his own district. And that work is =
/ the selection of delegates to the
ominating convention to meet in Co. y
lmbia on the 9Th day of October o
hese delegates must be chosen on u
the 9th day of October; and .
le hour of work before that day,is u
orth a life time of repining after
lat day. Go to work right now to !,
loose delegates for your district. =,
nd take nothing for granted; and do :.
It be overly credulous. Do not take
for granted that this man, or that
an, or any man will be right; ask NJ
m IL he is right And do not stop
nply with any man saying he is a "
emperance man." 1t is SO popular "
be temperance man, these days, N
at all the politicians are crowding e
10 the band wagon. What kind of I'd
temperance man is he? If he wants N
run as a delegate in your district, y
u have right to know; If he is y
lair, square man. he will not object "