The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-11-01
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broader, wider, greater demand from
all parts of the State for it's passage
than for any other dozen bills pending
before the body. And because Of the
great necessity for such legislation,
and because of the people by petition
have so loudly called for it, we con-
denim the official act which denied
them what they demanded and what
they had a right to have, and con-
fidentIy appeal our cause from that
veto message back again to the peo-
pie.
Whatever is wrong, has no right to
exist. God never made any evil a
necessity, nor created any necessity
for an evil thing. The Saloon is the
natural born child of the distillery
and the brewery. We may cut on
the heads Of the children as fast as
we can, but that will not stop their
breed so long as the parents live.
And we believe that the time has now
come when, having cut off the heads OF
nearly all the first born of these de-
PRAYED and Illicit parents, we should
strike deep down at the root of all the
trouble, and stop the breed.
I'VE believe that not only the safety
of the home and the protection of So
ciety demand that the manufacture OF
alcoholic drinks should be forbidden
in Tennessee, but that the best COM
mercial interests demand it. 1t
stands to reason and to common sense
that no business which robs the wife
and children and home of the bread
timer and support of that home, can
1e profitable business to the COM
munity at large. Of all the non-pay'
ing investments to the epople at large,
a .sDrunkard ManGfactory is the
worst For every brewer or distiller
or wholesale liquor dealer who grows
rich. an hundred paupers crowd our
almshouses, an hundred more sleep in
jails and penitentiaries, and an hun
dred more, cold and hungry, walk the
dark alleys in the shadows Of the
street. Every dollar of profit from
snch a business Is blood money and
has the curse of Cain upon it, be-
cause it murders men and women and
helpless little children. BY no sort
of reasoning can any legislation which
protects the manufacture or sale OF
any alcoholic drink be called legisla-
ton for the general good, or for the
greatest good to the greatest number"
Upon the contrary 1t is the most bane-
full sort of class legislation, to enrich
the few and pauperize the many.
Therefore, we declare 1t to be the
sense of this convention:
"That both the manufacture and
sale of all intoxicating drinks should
be forbidden in this State, and we
declare for the passage of laws. state
and national that will prohibit the i'm
portation or expectation of alcoholic
drinks into dry territory, or territory
wherein the sale OF such drinks In
prohibited by any state law;
And believing further that faith
without works is dead we pledge our
selves and commend to our brethren
over the State at large, that we Will
vote as we pray; that we make
patriotism and principle paramount to
party or personal preference, and that
we will give our support and our votes
to those candidates for all state and
federal offices who we believe can and
will best serve the cause of temper
ance, morality and good govern
ment, in Church in Home and State.
I'm view of these things we favor:
II. The legal abolition of every sa-
loon, distillery and brewery from Ten
nessee.
% The state and national prohibi-
ton of the jug trade.
49, The Federal withdrawal and re-
fusal of all liquor license in dry ter
ritory
"a. The vigorous enforcement Of all
temperance legislation.
So The support of only such can
didates for both State and National
offices as will heartily stand for pres
ent temperance laws and for the prin-
ciples herein enunclated."
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