The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-20
ANARCHY APPROVED.

Nashville cannot be otherwise than
discouraging to the forces of good
government the country over. In
that campaign the lines between law
and older. deCency and good govern
ment on the one hand and crime and
vice, anarchy and lawlessness on the
other, were clearly drawn. A similar
issue has never been more clean cut
and clear to the voters. And there is
no earthly explanation for the result
save hat The people OF Nashville pre-
fer anarchy and lawlessness and a
reign Of vice and crime and all Of
their attendant evils to a government
of decency and the protection of the
law.
This is 4 sad reflection on the peo-
ple of Nashville but they have delib-
erately invited It. They could have
escaped the odium of misrule but
they would not do so. They nave
seemingly decided to follow the gam
blers and the dive keepers and the
lswless of all classes and they must
Aoide the consequences.
1t is shocking to the moral sense
o. the entire nation and serious re-
lection upon popular government
that the people of great city, an ed
vocational center too, should deliber
ately follow the most depraved forces
of society and scorn the united APP
peals of the united protestant church
of Almighty God.
There is much work to be done in
Nashville. We should hesitate to
send all OF our funds to the foreign
missionary fields when right here at
our door we have such fostering sore
upon the body polite In the recent
contest every preacher of the word of
God, save a nameless three, appealed
to the people to vote for decency, for
the home, for the protection of virtue
and the suppression Of vice. And
yet the election results show Tat a
good majority of the citizens closed
their ears to those appeals and shut
their eyes to conditions that are an
affront to cur civilization and chal-
lenge to Christianity.
Nashville will probably have a car
nival of crime. 1t will sink further
into the depths of degradation. It's
people will blush deeper with shame
and humiliation. 1t must reap the
harvest of what 1t has sown.
There is nothing truer in holy writ
than the statement tat "As We SOW,
that the statement that CAS- We SOW
so also shall We reap" Nashville
has sown to the winds and it must
reap the whirlwind. 1t has given Of
dcial approval to crime and has IL
censed corruption and vice. No man
can rely upon the law for protection.
It will be sham and mockery from /
this time forward.
The capital city OF the State has
chosen to lend its ear to the siren !
voice OF the procurer, the gambler,
the dive keeper, the CRATER and in
Ihort all of the allied forces Of pelf
Ind vice rather than to the moral, ed /,
ncational and religious leaders Of the
The result 10 discourag-
ing. 1t discounts Republican institu-
lions and it makes our boosted intel
dgence a by word and a reproach.
It is foul blot upon the escutcheon
Il the State.
There is not an intelligent being in
he State of Tennessee who IL famil-
mr. with conditions in Nashville who
believes 70, an instant that the law
Afford any protection to human life
% 1t IL now and will be administer
ID in that city and county. II the
ife of any CT the reform leaders of
The city should be taken tonight by
tho assassin LID one believes that
punishment; wou;d be melted out to
tho guilty or that any serious effort
10 eonyic: Noull be made. For where
pice and crime are unchecked and Of
.cially co,.nivea al anarchy obtains.
Every moral law on the statute hooks
cannot be be Gefed and spat upon
with impunity by the chosen cxccli-
lives without surely inviting anarchy.
Although defeated that heroic band
Of devoted leaders who made this
great fight for moral and civic re- /,
demption are deserving of the high
est praise Their crusade against
official vice can we'll be compared to
that made by the crusaders who fol-
lowed Gergcry and Richard the lion
hearted. Although beaten they =.