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Show VETOES Tennessee's Governor for the Manufacture - of Intoxicants Nashville, Feb. 3. Governor Patterson Patter-son today veioed the bill prohibiting the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors liq-uors after January 1, 1'JIO. The. veto .message Fays: "If this legislature shall destroy all the distilleries and breweries, why cannot the next forbid the raising or selling of the grains or cultivation of the grape, out of which llqufrs aro made? "Shall this or some future legislature legisla-ture prevent the farmer from raisin? or selling tobacco or the manuracture or the placing of it on the market? "If we are thus started, where shall we end? It is better not to make tne start. j "I veto this measure: l "First Because its ruthles6ness de-! de-! prives the state of revenue without any sort of corresponding benefit. "Second It discriminates against our own people iu favor of the people ! of otho states. ' "Third It destroys the property ot the citizen without compensation. "Fourth It makes a dangerous precedent, pre-cedent, humiliates Tennessee and lowers low-ers the place of dignity such as It has occupied as one of the proudest and most conservative states of the union. un-ion. "Fifth It violates the will or tho people twice expressed at the ballot box, offends against their sense of Justice, Jus-tice, and under the plea or civic righteousness, right-eousness, sacrifices a great moral principle of government at the very J altar where it should be guarded and defended." j It Is a foregone conclusion that the j bill will be passed over the governor's veto. The prohibition bill was passed by. the senate over the governor's veto this afternoon by a vote of 20 to 12. |