Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-23
Two STATEMENTS.

ernOr Hooper as follows:
''If any gang was ever beaten TO a
puln il was tue organization In the
( present legislature alleged to be regu-
lar democratic. They Rave put in
nipe and one-half months tgnting
the law enforcement measures, which
/ recommended to the legislature,
and. with every advantage IN their
/ favor, have fiually been scattered,
crushed and overwhelmed.
Tonight the hired liquor lobbyists
and CITY vunmen have vanished from
Capitol aiIi. and the hillbillies are the
monarchs Of all they survey.
,N1he peoule of Tennessee have been
granted the right TO go into the courts
with civil lawsuits and exterminate
the lawlaSs saloon. They will no long
ar he compelled to sit with folded
hands and suppressed Indignation
while faitaless public officials refuse
e. enforce the criminal laws.
The shipment of liqnor from one
county 10 another has been forbidden
and tne federal Webb law has been
made effective by prohibiting the ship
ment Of liquor into the state.
ZOE course, we realize that the en-
forcement Of these laws will be mind
cred as much as possible and that the
courts will have to pass on them, but
ultimately law and order will prevail:
lin Kansas there are thousands OF
meu more than 80 years old VINO never
saw an open saloon. The boys that
are being born. in Tennessee now will
never see one,
II regret that the removal bill did
not pass. 1t was designated to author
ize the courts to remove city and cUun-
ty officials who prove unfaithful to
the people in the discharge of their
duties The servant should not be
greater than his master. 1t is Just as
necessary to puniss tho law violating
official by putting him out of office as
it is to punish the lawbreaking .citi-
zen by putting him out of the bust
ness declared to be public NUS
ance.
The people may yet find the need
either of the Interchange of Judges or
of laws making the governor the
chief executive in fact as we'll as in
name.
1.-THE prolonged struggle over these
law enforcement measures, serious as
it was for nearly tan months, wound
up in farce comedy The most sub
servient tools of toe liquor interests in
the entire legislature, when they had
vainly exhausted every resource to de-
feat the bills, made grand rush for
the band wagon and voted for the
measures. Having worn out their
lungs shouting 'hypocrit' at the sup
porters of these bills, they showed
themselves to be the most shameless
hypocrits and political fakirs by vot-
ing for them.
"As a matter of fact, the bills had
exactly the required number of votes
to rass them in each house-50 in the
house and Il in the senate. Ii we had
ever lost one of these votes in either
house the bills would have been de-
feated. OF the 80 in the lower house,
A we're independent democrats and re-
publicaus and 6 regulars. OF the II
In toe senate. II were republicans and
INDEPENDENT democrats and regulars.
Every other vote beyond this was
bandwagon' vote. 1t is true few
1ther regulars had been powerfully
shaken by the great mass meetings
over the state, and were almost per-
,uadei or rather driven.
w
light and began to look with eager
syes unon the bandwagon, they decid
u to tlko up TIE hated bills, adopt
hem AS tneir own and swear they
lad always been for them. They
naie advances to the Independents, and
re came the best joke of the session
Tue independents and republicans held
conference and unanimously instruct
4 4 &c 10 ieA bnx
liars into the bandWagon, let them i'll
roduce the bills and toot tae horns.
"And now, although the law en-
orcement bills that passed are in ev-
ny substantial particular the same
0ey had fought for ten months, all of
snddeu the bills have become 'ragu-
ar democratic bills
tThis reminds me of the story /
nee heard of an Irish saloonkeeper
ho lived upstairs over his saloon.
)ne morning early before the proprie-
D went down his bartender yelled up
he stairs "Shall l trust Mike Flana-
an for glass of beer''"' The Irish
ian responded with the question:
Has Moike already drunk the beer''
he answer came: yes, and the
roprietor yelled down: well, then
rust him
"Baving decided that the bills were
Ding to pass anyhow, the regulars de-
:den just to let them pass. -
In great contrast to this is the state
lent accredited to T. M Gilmore,
resident of the Model License League
{ Kentucky Mr.. Gilmore's idea is
nat prohibitionists are jubilating
,ithout any cause, having passed
ONE laws, which, according to Mr.
Iilmors, will break down tho very
1iug they have been striving after
or so many years. Mr.. Gilmore's
lea is veIy strange one and in an
rdinary man would show clouded
1tsllect:
"The prohibitionists can be depend
] upou always to take good care of
ia consumer and to see that his sup
ly of liquor is not cut off.
"All of the turmoil in Tennessee re-
llting in the passage of these anti
,ipping laws in behalf of prohibition
rat 20 not prohibit is only another
i lance Of the mountain and the
louse or of the King of France march
lg up the hill and marching down
gain.
1.-The prohibition agitation has
aused bloodshed, has baen creative of