The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

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longer young viii live 70 see re sa-
loon completely outlawed in every
State Of this Union ysa. dare pre-
dict that they will live 10 see the time
when there viii not be a single COM
munity where saloons win exist
Some time ago read an article
from a leading official organ Of the
liquor dealers in the United States.
This article said that the movement
against saloons was no longer led by
visionary enthusiasts, but that all over
the country men Of affairs were enlist
ing in the war against the open sa-
loon. It said that the men who re-
fused to abide by the law were the
men who were responsible for this
condition, and that if they did not
mend their ways. they would be to-
ts.iy eliminated from the country
This warning would have been wiser
if 1t had been earlier. but at any time
1t would have been. of no avail, for, my
countrymen, in the bright lexicon of
the saloon there is no such word as
reform. Wherever the saloon exists
or has existed it has been an open ally !
to all that was obnoxious or demon
alizing in the community. 1t has been |
open and defiant to all law, to all
order and to honest government I
There is no place in the State where
the saloon is still permitted to exist
that it does not operate in willful VIC
lation of every law made for it's reg
ulation and reform. 1t has every
where openly proclaimed that it will
fight. For some time, every effort
had been made to reform the saloon
and had failed; but when the saloon
openly proclaimed that 1t would not
listen to the warning, it challenged
the manhood and womanhood of Ten
nessee to fight for its complete des-
truction.
Has No Defender. .
My countrymen, there is not a
man who now defends the saloon as
a factor of prosperity within ITSELF
no man anywhere pretends that it
adds prosperity, better citizens, hap
pier homes and more wholesome laws.
Il have never heard of many hon
est men who opposed temperance leg
islation. Some of these were against :
the abolition of the saloon because the
States revenue would be impaired
MY countrymen, / confess that l can
not believe that there is a man who '
would make revenue for the State
out of the hard-earned labor of its
men, the innocence of its children and
he happiness of its homes. Tonnes
see is a great and prosperous State,
1ut it could not afford to make rev. u
snue out of the blood of her people, .
Ne are too intelligent to believe that :
he abolition of the saloon means the
destruction of any community. | have
'een amazed to find intelligent men in 4
whose minds this opinion had found
odgment. And yet, when have asked
nen how the abolition of the saloon
you'd injure the prosperity of the
community, how the agricultural in
erests would be affected, have never :,
ound a man but who said the saloon :,
TaS an enemy. My friends, IL the sa- -
,on were removed from every COM :.
lunity in Tennessee, the mills would :,
ontinue to issue forth their products, a.
he agricultural interests would con- n,
que to prosper and the cattle upon 10
lie >thousand hills would not cease to
ring forth after their kind. o.,
Some time ago had occasion to ba
axe inquiry for the purpose of get RI
ng statistical information with re- die
,ect to industrial conditions in this ras
ty. | applied to the organizations of nrf
oosters.' They gave me information AMI
'out its progress, its wonderful
owth in the manufacturing world, -
! schools, and it's churches, but not VI
e word was said about Nashvillels
looms"
II Bacchus Holds Sway.
Mr.. Carmack here carried the audi
ce into an imaginary world, where L
cry man was drunkard, and spoke VIII
the uselesSneSS of their lives the kitt
Eruption OF their Government and and
; destruction of their. homes. He vici
owed the unhappy state of mind suit
ich would exist and the lack of de- cat
ton, and spiritual submission which thin
uld possess every man in that con- plat
ion. =
Hell was made" continued Mr..
rmack "for the snecia1 accommodate