The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-12-24

other was brazenly the organ of thu
lawless liquor interests. Not mucl
attention was paid to the Tennes
scans declaration for prohibition. Blu
victory finally crowned its efforts
purchased at last with the blood o.
its martyr editor. Then came the
longer and even harder struggle fol
the enforcement of the law, for the
election of officers in the state in
sympathy with the new order Of
things. In every battle the Tennes
sean was in the thickest of the fray
Now that complete victory has
come; the liquor traffic outlawed and
routed its former scene of triumph
gone to serve better purposes, dedi-
Gated to the uplift instead of the de-
struction of humanity, it is exceed.
ingly appropriate that this great tenn
perance paper should have its home
in the old Southern Turf Here will
be published. we trust, for many years
to come high class journal, dedicat-
ed to the cause which will live forev-
er; the champion of the peoples
rights; the foe to all the special in
terests and the devoted advocate of
moral and civic righteousness.
Thus the house once used for the
sale of that which damns all it touch
es; which blights all over whom 1t
holds sway; that corrupts and cor
rodes all which which it comes in
contact; will be henceforth dedicated
to the education of the. youth of the
land in the horrors of drink, the home
OF journal devotedly attached to
the cause of civic righteousness and
clean government.
The Herald congratulates the Ten
nessean upon its move; it commends
1t for the good fight that it has
taught; it felicitates it upon the glo-
rious triumph of a cause that now /
enables it to dedicate to the service of
humanity the former abode of wick
edness and vice. This move marks
an epoch in the history of Tennes-
see; it is concrete evidence of the
progress that we have made. The
way has been long the night often
dark, but in the end by the grace of
Almighty God we have arrived at our
destination For all of which thanks
be to God.
In this connection it is not out OF
place to refer briefly to the conspic-
lous and honorable part that Maury !
county has played in this revolution,
FOR 1t is nothing less. After the de-
feat of Carmack for the nomination
FOR governor in 1908 the people of
this county with a faith that would
not brook disaster, sent a solid dele
cation to the legislature to write pro-
addition upon the statute books. In
he great contest of 1910 for the 70
'ention of the laws, when all about us
n Middle Tennessee our hopes were
Maury county stood like the
Did Guard and refused to surrender.
Again in 1912 when liquor made its
asst stand before the people of Ten
lessee disguised as local option"
Maury county rallied and by great
y increased majority spoke in thun-
Ter tones for prohibition. 1t likewise {
n that year refused to reward the ;
'etted darling of the liquor interests {
With its votes for the senate. Again
II the contest of this year. Luke Lea,
he founder and directing spirit of
he Tennessean received his largest {
fiddle Tennessee majority in Maury |
county. And in that second contest [
ust the other day, its people spoke in
hunder tones against M. R. Patter-
on, the author of so many of our {
woes of the past <
But out of 1t all, through great tre- I
all, in bitterness and in sorrow; in I
elf-sacrifice and in heroic devotion I
o duty, verify the people hereabouts
S do those of all the state, have their {
eward. And it is an exceeding great
ne. 1t is one for which all can now :
eturn thanks. Peace dawns; hope a
rightens; contentment reigns; the v
rayers Of mothers, those from the
weetest altar from which a petition
yer reached the throne of Grace,
ave been answered. Verify does The
Ierald now salute the Old Guard of g
faury county and in the words OF ST. 8
'aul commend them: "They have I
ought good fight; they have kept Il
he faith" +