The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 19, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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A
OMETAT
DALLAS, TEXAS, JUNE 19th, 1909
5c Copy, $1 Per Year
A Gideon’s band is needed now—
A band of men who will not bow
To men corrupt with strong drink’s sway;
A band like this will win the day.
God does not wait for multitudes—
He uses those whom men count “crudes;”
He’ll give the victory to the few ■
(As true as steel) who dare go through.
Let all pull together now, and reach a thousand
names on our “Honor Roll” by July 4th. Every-
body now.
ARE YOU THE MAN?
By Wm. K. Fisher.
Are you the man to strike the blow.
And help strong drink to overthrow?
This fight is on and must be won
By man and man each counting one.
I
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An Illustrated Family Weekly
nukce - - ‘,2’, c.
We earnestly endorse Senator J. G. Wallacy’s
proposition that the wives and children of con-
victs should receive the earnings of said con-
victs, above the cost of keeping.—Petty Enter-
prise.
This is right; but did Senator Willacy ever
think that if he did not champion that great evil
“drink” there would not be so many convicts?
there will create a sensation, and we venture that
his speech will create a bigger sensation. Hall
carries corosive sublimate around with him when
he treats the liquor question; and when he opens-
up a can of it and empties its contents promis-
cuously over the saloon element there is squirm-
ing in their ranks. They had a taste of him last
July, but they will get a full dose of him when
he goes back especially on that mission. But we
are glad to report an improvement in the pub-
lic sentiment of San Antonio. We have some no-
ble spirits over there and they are at work.
THE CHALLENGE FROM THE LIQUOR CO-
HORTS.
Mr. Jake Wolters, chairman of the Anti-Prohi-
bition Campaign Committee, has given out this
statement:
“We are going into every legislative district
in the State and elect Representatives who will
obey the instructions of their constituents, and
the prohibitionists will find when they come to
the test next time that they have less strength
than they had in the Legislature that has just
adjourned.”
This is a challenge direct to the Anti-Saloon
people of this State, and if they continue to sit
supinely by as some are now doing, with the
daily press of the State practically wholly within
the control of the liquorites, the Hon. Mr. Wolt-
ers is going to prove himself a prophet.
We are making the mistake of our lives in
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wives and children if he and his side would join
with the temperance people and drive whiskey
out of Texas.—Jefferson Jimplecute. -
Nor would that pitiful case to which the Hous-
ton Post recently called attention be possible.
This poor, demented woman would not have to
spend her unhappy hours among the criminals in
Houston’s jail were not our State insane asylums
overflowed with the demented wrecks of alcohol.
The State penitentiary at Rusk, but for alcohol-
ism ,as the inciting cause of crime, would, ac-
cording to a report in the Houston Post, contain
only 20 per cent of its present inmates. Senator
Willacy is very solicitous about these poor
devils supporting their families after they have
been put in stripes and can no longer contribute
to the support of the liquor traffic that brought
them there, for ::prohibition does prohibit” inside
the penitentiary walls. Yet Senator Willacy led the
Senate minority that found it necessary to bolt
the Democratic platform in order to prevent
the people from voting on the liquor question and
say by their ballots whether our State peniten-
tiary should continue to be filled almost wholly
by criminals made so by alcohol and the in-
The greatest number are in the pen by commit- i
ting deeds while drunk or under the influence of
liquor. There would not be so many helpless j
thinking that now we have the Anti-Saloon
League we will turn the whole matter over to
them and we will just rest on our oars. This
view if not speedily changed is going to bring
us again to defeat.
The Anti-Prohibition Committee in every leg-
islative district is said to be now picking their
man. Doubtless he will in msot districts have
been a pro, but will “abide by instructions,” ac-
cording to a previous “understanding.”
Shall the pros of the State let the next Legis-
ture turn down submission as did the last? Shall
the Democracy of this State be spit upon and
spurned by the Brewers’ Association? Shall, the
6000 saloons and fourteen breweries completely
dominate the politics of Texas?
Do not for a moment lose sight of the fact
that the liquor element is on “trial for its life”
and is thoroughly aroused and desperate and its
agents are keenly wide-awake.
We can meet them at Phillipi and beat them
for good and all. But not single handed. Every
pro must get on the firing line, and begin aggres-
sive work now.
THE WORK IN SAN ANTONIO.
We spent a day or so in San Antonio last week
and addressed a large audience on the “Prohibi-
tion” question. Rev. G. W. Eichelberger, Super-
intendent of the Anti-Saloon work for that sec- ■
tion of the State, and his co-workers, are con-
ducting a campaign of education. They have
secured a large tent and they are pitching it for
a week at a time in the different portions of the
city, where they have nightly speakings. We
were down there to fill an engagement in this
tent work. We found Dr. Eichelberger bringing
things to pass in that saloon-ridden city. He has
associated with him a large number of earnest
workers, and they are impressing the prohibition
thought upon the public sentiment of the city.
On last Friday night we had a most enthusiastic
meeting, and it lasted far into the night. We
treated the liquor question with a great deal of
vigor and it aroused a responsiveness that rather
surprised us. The fact is public sentiment is
gaining ground down that way, and people are no
longer afraid to speak out their thoughts on the
saloon question. In the years gone by the sa-
loon element had things their own way, and they
are dominating things now; but of late these evil
institutions are beginning to open their eyes and
see visions. They make some pretense toward
keeping the Sunday law. It is only a pretense,
but this is an improvement over former doings in
this line. They are also making these places
less conspicuous as gambling resorts. The act is
Governor Campbell taught them a few things
when he called their officials down and declined
to sign their certificates of elections until they
promised to.’ enforce the law.
But the saloons of San Antonio are far from an-
gelic. They still hate the restraints of the law,
and they regard it as an invasion of their rights
to be required to put on a little outward decency.
They have so long run the affairs of the city and
they have so long trampled its laws under’their
feet that they wince considerable under the ef-
fect to appear to be good. The city is run by sa-
loon sentiment. It elects the local administra-
tion and the county administration as well. The
officials have a great deal more regard for sa-
loon favor than for the favor of the better class
of people. They seem to think that they- must
stand in with the saloon people in order to hold
themselves securely in the political swim. But
they are now beginning to sit up and take notes.
They are hearing slightly from the other class of
people. The tent prohibition revival is exciting
some attention. The daily papers are giving ac-
counts of some of the speeches, a thing not prac-
ticed a year or so ago. The Express and the
Light, the morning and the afternoon papers,
gave much space to our visit. They reported the
speech rather at length, and the Express con-
tained a lengthy interview with us on the prohi-
bition and other questions. In fact, things are
moving, even in San Antonio. The people are
becoming bolder in their opposition to the sa-
loon, and the manner in which the saloon busi-
ness is conducted. New people from other por-
tions of the State and from other States are lo-
cating in that city, and they are adding to the
moral strength of the community. And the Anti-
Saloon League people are bolder and more ag-
gressive in their opposition to the saloon. Its
iniquities are being attacked with fierceness. The
Church people with their pastors are speaking
out on the subject. They are bearding the lion
in his den, and while he growls with ominous
voice, yet he does not have the same terror for
the people he once had in that city. That Demo-
cratic Convention last July in San Antonio open-
ed the eyes of the liquor and beer gang. The
speech that R. W. Hall made at the close of the
convention burned to the bone and the wounds
have not yet healed. He put some red-hot truth
on to them and it still lingers. The League is
going to have him back there in one of those tent
meetings at an early day, and his appearance
BY JULY THE FOURTH.
You read in last week’s issue of Home and
State that as soon as our “Honor Roll” reached
one thousand names, averaging ten subscriptions
each, we will begin printing you a 16 page weekly.
Why not let the readers of Home and’ State rally
altogether now and make the one thousand names
on our “Honor Roll”’ by July 4th? This is just
two weeks from to-day. Read the poem publish-
ed on this page to-day, and decide to be ONE at
least who will do your part. Take your copy of
Home and State and go out among your friends,
and explain to them what Home and State is
endeavoring to do for the homes of Texas, and
that you want them to read it until January 1st.
Any one who wants to help us reach the one thou-
’ sand mark can get up a club with the greatest
ease. Dr. Hancock, the old war horse of Paris,
Texas, sends in a club of ten to-day, saying, “I
got them in a few moments, and will send more.”
A great many have sent good clubs this week, and
the complete list will appear next week. One
good friend has sent three different lists, amount-
ing in all to nearly fifty names. If our friends in
every county will take hold of pushing the circu-
lation of Home and State and let us devote our
time to getting out a better and larger paper, we
can serve you as never before.
The Dallas Evening Times Herald makes a
mess out of its “record-straighting” business
once in a while, it did in the Smith county local
option election. When we corrected it last week,
the Times Herald refused to be comforted, and’
referred to us as the “official organ of the Church-
in-action-politicians." But when you come to
think about it the Times Herald represents the
“bar-room-in-action politicians,” and it necessa-
rily has to adjust its record to suit the gang it
represents. When did the Times Herald ever
put itself on the right side of any moral propoi-
tion? It represents a constituency that will not
permit it to refer even to decent gentlemen ex-
cept as those “pious gentlemen.” The Times
Herald would like to be fair, and it would like
to treat its opponents with becoming courtesy,
but it is tied to its idols, “the bar-rooms-in-ac-
tion, and it cannot do otherwise. Aside from
this fault, the Times Herald is a newsy paper,
whose editorial columns are never filled with ar-
guments, but bright paragraphds. Hence when
it tries to keep the “record straight” on local op-
tion or any other moral question, it sadly strays
from the truth. But the Times Herald has to do
this, and we presume that it cannot help it.
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