Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-02-04 | Page 1 | Over the Veto of Patterson

OVER THE VETO 1 OF PATTERSON II I I Governor of Tennessee Makes Wakes I i ithe the Prohibition Law Nashville ashville Feb S Governor Patterson today vetoed the bill prohibiting the man manufacture manufacture manufacture of intoxicating liquors after Jan JanI I 1910 The veto message says It If this legislature shall destroy all aU the distilleries and breweries why next forbid the raising or selling of the grains or cultivation of the th grape out of which liquors are ale made Shall this or some future legislature prevent the farmer from raising or selling tobacco tob cco or the manufacture or the placing of it on the market If wo are thus started where shall we end It Is better not to make the start I 1 veto this measure First Because Its ruthlessness deprives the state of revenue without any sort of corresponding benefit Second It discriminates against a our own people In favor of the people of other states Third It destroys destros the property of the citizen without compensation Fourth F It makes a dangerous prece precedent precedent dent humiliates Tennessee and lowers the place of dignity such as It has occupied as one of the proudest and most conserva conservative conservative tive the states of the union Fifth It violates the will of the peo people people pie twice expressed at the ballot box of offends offends offends fends against their sense of justice and under the plea of civic chic righteousness sac sacrifices sacrifices sacrifices a great moral principle of govern government government government ment at the very eo altar where It should be guarded and defended The prohibition bill was passed pass cd by the senate over the governors veto this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon by b a vote ote of 20 to 12