Show TENNESSEE f The New York Commercial is much exercised exercised exer exer- r over the state of affairs in the state of oft t Tennessee It describes Tennessee as it was in inthe inthe inthe the earlier and purer days when it gave to the country three presidents and held within its g limits a grand company of statesmen when if- if the people were sober loyal filled with pride for their state etc But when the reformers Jr came and set about making the people good by statute then the population bec became me a mob the legislature a black hand organization and the masses swiftly degenerated into idiots or wild t beasts t The showing is most distressing but we I suspect the Commercial mistakes the real cause I of the trouble When the Commercial says the people were originally honest and peaceable and I sp er it instead of the last las word should have have said Eald if If full ll of genuine corn whisky The trouble 1 has all come through mixing that life exalting beverage with the compound from the trie eastern I mountains where it is said that ancient rubber boots axle grease and coal tar are arc mixed in to give tone to the product But we do not despair of Tennessee e. e Even the planets have to go through convulsion after convulsion in order to tobe tobe tobe be fitted for the support of animal life and by bythe bythe bythe the same process human beings emerge into in intellectual intellectual intellectual in- in and moral It may require require require re re- re- re quire a century or two of discipline to bring Tennessee up to the proper proper status but she will work out |