The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-04-28

trail high schools for all the boys and
girls of the county established;
The highway system of the county
greatly improved; the streams better
bridged than ever before and innumer-
able new roads opened up to the great
comfort and advantage OF all the
people;
Every saloon in Maury county wiped
out of existence and the life OF the
bootlegger made more precarious prob
ably than in any other large county
of the entire state; and Maury county
has also played an honorable part in
the enactment of all temperance legis-
lation for the state;
Jury reform inaugurated SO that
now the jurors who serve in Maury
county would be an honor to any
county in the world;
Better public buildings, that stand
as a monument to a peoples progress
siveness and patriotism, constructed;
Agriculture encouraged by the en-
ployment of county demonstration
agent. ...s
The democratic party of Maury coun-
ty, rehabilitated, regenerated and
united and all alliances between its
organization and the old state liquor
democratic machine forever ended. IN
this work no one will deny that The
Herald has played an honorable and
conspicuous part.
Another reform advocated by The
Herald for many years, gives signs OF
speedy realization and that Is the
removal of the toll gates of the coun-
ty. Already the gates have been re-
moved from two roads and the predic-
ton is here made that the campaign
will soon witness complete triumph.
In these glorious achievements, and
there are others to be hereafter re-
ferred to, The Herald is proud to know
that it has been loyal, an earnest
and Jealous soldier. The night has
never been too dark nor the day too
long for it to do yoeman service. 1t
has contributed in time, in money, in
thought and in labor more to the
achievement of these splendid reforms
than any citizen of the county, because
it has always been on the watch tow.
err And 1t too has been the only
medium of publicity in the county
which has consistently, earnestly and
constantly advocated the reforms here
enumerated.
In the course of these campaigns,
some of them, especially those for the
redemption of Maury county from the
liquor traffic, many bitter things have
been said. The Herald has made enc
mics as we'll as friends. Both are a
tribute to its zeal and earnestness.
However, it has never knowingly done
any man wrong or Intentionally been
a party to any injustice. 1t has fought
for results; not for the personal adj
vancement of any man or special in
terest.
In these campaigns it has been con-
sistently and constantly opposed by
the faction that is now trying to i'm
pair it's influence. They have been
always and ever of the opposition.
While The Herald has been doing con-
structive work and those with whom
it has fought have been achieving re-
suits, this same element has been
seeking to tear down, to stay the
wheels of progress. Naturally they do
not appreciate or approve the reforms
obtained having had no part in their
achievement but having been accom-
plished in spite of their opposition.
The Herald regrets that they have
not used the same efforts, exerted the
same energy and given the same time
in an affirmative course that has been
expended in one of simple negation;
some Of them would have been valu-
able aids in the long contest But
they have deliberately chosen a differ
ent course and If now they cannot
enjoy with The Herald the contempla-
ton of the glorious results achieved
they have themselves alone to blame.
Assuredly The Herald has always well
coined recruits to It's cause.