The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-22
LOCAL LEGISLATION.


.The fire is out and the cook has
gone home"
The Governor has signed the bill re-
mailing the charter of Columbia, and
II is all over with our friends, the
whiskey sellers. They have from now
until the first day of April to unload
their poison on their weary and heavy
laden victims. and after that they
must skiddo or carry it about in their
bootlegs.
II has been suggested by some OF
these gentry that the name OF Column
bia should be changed, and the town
called Landersvil1e, because OF the
persistent interference of a self-ap-
pointed boss" bearing in part that
name. The Herald would have blush
ed to own the name In a saloon town;
but now that the saloons are to CO.
we withdraw all objections. Shall we
call Mt. Pleasant Brownsville, Bos-
tick Station, Coopertown, Hilltop,
Warnocksburg; or what shall 1t be-
But now that the agony is over, the
next thing to consider for Columbia
or Landersville, as the case may be,
is the new charter, and that, we SUD-
NIT. should be done without any play
to the galleries, or other histories.
The new charter should be gone
over carefully, and such matters en-
bodied as will rebound to the good
morals. to the peace, happiness and
prosperity Of the people. We doubt
not there are improvements that can
be made on the old charter. Just
what they are, we do not know and
have nothing right now to suggest;
but we doubt not that a careful re-
vision of the old charter will discov-
er omissions that might be cured, and
some more or less Objectionable fea-
lures that might be eradicated.
One thing we don't want to do; we
do not want to hog" any man out OF
ONCE, like Memphis is trying to do.
to which the people have elected him.
We would not like to see Columbia
brought into disrepute by such unfair
methods.
And there is one thing we hope to
see: If any differences arise in the
discussion of this new charter, we
hope to see them settled at home. We
hope Columbia will not take any Of
its dirty linen to wash before a legis-
lative committee. And there is not
the slightest need that they should.
For in the first place, we should all
have In view the common good;
and with that in view all minor diff
ferences should be cured. And If a
formal hearing is desired by any party
or parties, that had better be before
the Senator and Representatives from
Maury; for, after all, their recommen-
dalton goes" the charter they favor
is the charter that will pass. We are
sure that neither of them have any
pet scheme to put into the new char |
ter. We are sure they have no enc
mics to punish nor friends to reward
by charter enactment. We are sure
they want to do what the people want |
them to do; simply that and nothing |
more; and If the business men will
draw charter to suit themselves, and |
agree upon it, their representatives |
will do the balance, and all without
any fuss or friction.
Nov that the long, hard battle to
rid our town of the Saloon is ended |
'1et us have peace" Let old almost |
ties be buried, and IL they can be, for !
gotten Let us look forward and up |
ward. Upward with praise and |
to good God who has ,
led us up from and out of the dark
wilderness where the Saloon held its
carnival of crime, and its debauchess |
murdered all that is finest and best in
their lives and in the lives Of those
who loved them; out Of this wilder
ness of darkness and doubt into the
promised land. pregnant with Hope
and bright with Prospect for all that
Is good for Society, good for the
good for the State. good for
the Home, good for the Individual.