The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-26
WHERE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS.

Ii is doubtless true that Gov. Pat
terson is not responsible for the sale
OF the obscene niger gin" No on'
has charged that he was. But it can
not be denied that Gov. Patterson
stands for a continuation of the legal
ized LIQUOR traffic in Tennessee. He
stands in this campaign the friend oil
that traffic with all of its revolving
features and resultant crimes.
The great Christian State of Ten
nessee has granted its license to the
dives that sell the vile gin which has
been exhibited in this campaign. Gov
Patterson would continue official sane
ton of the liquor traffic. This even
his anonymous" henchmen in Maury
county will not controvert.
While Gov. Patterson is not respon-
sible fer legalizing the liquor trattic
in Tennessee he is using all the pow
or of the administration to prevent
an outraged and decent citizenship
from outlawing this whole miserable
traffic from the State.
In this campaign Gov. Patterson has
the earnest and unqualified support
of the men who are selling this me-
farious and revolving gin. Doubtless
some of them have contributed to his
campaign. Gov. Patterson has the
enthusiastic support of the Model Ii
cense League, organized to reform"
the liquor business. The maker of
this foul product is a member of the
Model License League.
Under existing law the products OF
Levy can be shipped to any part OF
Tennessee. Any negro brute in the
State can order and have shipped to
him vile liquors to arouse the passions
and infiame the mind.
Is Gov. Patterson responsible for
this? Most assuredly. Because he
vetoed bill that would have pre-
vented the law defying, low vile smell
ing dives of Nashville and the other
cities from shipping their soul-destroy-
ing, peace annihilating rum to the
rural sections of the State.
And yet some people have the nerve
to argue that the liquor question is
local issue and should be settled by
the people most susceptible to the
corrupt influence of the traffic.
In view of the revolving exposures
of the liquor traffic; in the light of the +
fact that those who have been organ
lied to reform" the traffic are the
worst offenders against morality and
the laws of God and man, it is too
much to expect any good to come from
the legalized liquor traffic
The people of Tennessee boast that
they are a Christian people; they
boast that their civilization is the
highest yet attained by the sons OF
man and yet they legalize the liquor
traffic. When real danger confronts
the people, when their civilization is
imperilled; their women at the mercy
of the terrible scourage, is it time
for Tennesseans to discuss methods?
Senator Carmacks nomination on I
next Saturday will mean the utter ex-
tinction of the liquor traffic in Ten
nessee, the closing of every foul dive
within it's borders, the dissolution of
the partnership between the common
wealth and the demon rum. In the
face of this issue should any man :
who loves his State hesitate?
Gov. Patterson vetoed law to pro- I
tect the people of the State from the
of the low dives of Nash
vile and the other cities because he u
said the State would lose revenue. In
the man who places the dollar above
the man; revenue above civilization, e
a. worthy champion of the Home in Il
this contest?
Senator Carmack would destroy the Il
LIQUOR traffic as one would kill rattle a
snake /
Gov. Patterson would temporize. He II
would first calculate the revenue, the l
blood money that the State receives u
or it's traffic with Hell. II
This is time for Christian men and n
to lay aside all prejudice and Is
strike one .last blow at the liquor traf- n
&c.
Stop its ravages before 1t Is too b
late. Strike down the business. dis 7
,uss methods afterwards.
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