The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 19, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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• THE HOME AND-STATE- 3^
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June 19, 1909.
work—practical
and
Of the folder by'
others emulate it.
o
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Total
573
274
Last week we reported that Abilene
W. C. T. U. had
“Why
Totals
259
58
This was an error either of
Decrease in 1909, 77 per cent.
January
February
March ..
April . . .
January
February
March . .
April . ..
1908
57
55
89
58
1909
52
54
68
100
Suit has begun in Oklahoma to stop
all railway companies from the trans-
portation of intoxicating liquors.
1909
17
18
21
22
Decrease in 1909, 52 per cent.
The arrests for drunkenness are as
follows:
As the official organ of the Anti-Saloon League The Home and
State will devote large space to keeping the people in touch with
headquarters in this fight for State-Wide prohibition.
1908
147
119
.156
.151
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
DEPARTMENT
distributed 150 leaf-
State-Wide Prohibi-
lets on
tion?"
Rallies will be held this week at
Thornton on the 17th, Gainesville on
the 19th, and Groesbeck on the 21st
for organization purposes, and Lime-
stone and Cooke counties will soon
join the galaxy of white counties.
“right” to govern himself. The Gov.
is withal a very courteous disputant.
We expect to have several thousand
copies of the “Saloon and the School
Boy,” published last week, printed in
tract form for free distribution. Send
at once for as many as you can judi-
ciously distribute among the voters.
A copy of this leaflet and of the other
one on “Why State-Wide Prohibition?”
in the hands of your anti neighbor,
will make a pro of him if he is a rea-
sonable man. Send for what you can
properly use of both of them. Remem-
ber that we are at heavy expense in
printing and distributing these, and if
possible enclose a dollar bill, or more,
to help us. However send for the
leaflets anyway.
Several more counties in Indiana
and Ohio have lately gone dry. The
antis have succeeded in holding a
few in the wet columa. These two
States are nearly entirely dry now ex-
cept in the larger cities.
ZANESVILLE (OHIO) POLICE
RECORDS.
The total number of arrests in
Zanesville for the first four months
of 1909, without saloons, compared
with the first four months of 1908, with
saloons, as-' shown by the record of
Police Clerk Jones, follows:
on our bill boards.”
Amarillo dispatches reported in the
Dallas News of June 10 over one mil-
lion 'dollars of improvements, just
completed, under construction or cer-
tainties for the immediate future.
Amarillo is another prohibition town
where the only poor thing is the argu-
ment of the anti-prohibitionist.
TRAGEDY IN SALOON.
San Antonio Lawyers Fight and One
Is Shot.
San Antonio, June 12.—(Special.)—
Olive Shook, a lawyer, and brother to
County Judge Snook, was shot in the
forehead to-night about 8:20 o’clock,
by Julius Norton, another lawyer, in
a fight. No hope for his life is enter-
tained.
Fifteen minutes before when Shook
entered the saloon, he greeted Norton,
shaking his hand and inviting him to
take a drink. The trouble originally
arose between the bartender, Fred
Tolle, and Shook, upon the former re-
fusing to drink anything stronger than
mineral water when invited to join in
the round of drinks.
The shots were fired while Shook
and Norton were clubbing each other
over the head with their pistols. They
had fought their way to the middle of
the sidewalk with the saloonkeeper
and a lawyer trying to separate them.
Shook was using a 38-caliber pistol
while Norton had an automatic. Both
guns were found later in the street,
clotted with blood.
Shook was taken to a local infirm-
ary and operated upon and Norton
was placed in the county jail where
his bruises upon the head were attend-
ed to by a physician.
This needs no comment. God help
the people of San Antonio to get rid
of an institution that can estrange
friends and produce murder in fifteen
minutes. If the saloon is no longer
content that its patrons shall drink
mineral water, but, proposes to force
them to drink liquor it’s time even for
San Antonio to wake up.
We call attention to the excellent
statements from Lamar county in this
issue. That county will certainly go
dry. Let our readers who live in wet
counties show this issue to their anti
neighbors and have these articles
printed in their local papers.
Berclair, in Goliad county, has
voted dry by 39 majority. That’s good
work in a needed spot.
The editor of this department had
a joint discussion with Ex-Lient. Gov.
George C. Pendleton, at Ogleby, Cory-
ell County last week. He is a very
astute champion of the anti-prohibi-
tion propoganda, and yet he could
think of nothing to say in defense of
the saloon. He gloried in the fact
that his boy never took a drink in
his life and never entered a saloon.
He advised the young men and the
old never to take a drink, saying “The
man who never takes a drink never
gets drunk.” And yet he was there
to advise them to put the drunkard
factories back in their county. He
deplored what he termed the tyrrany
over the many for the protection of
the few, declaring that there were
not 100 men in Coryell County who
would ever get drunk, but seemed
rather non-plussed when it was sug-
gested in reply that this splendid re-
sult was brought about by nearly five
years of prohibition. The Governor
bases his argument almost solely on
the personal liberty plea, and his ar-
guments are as specious as they are
ancient, and as false as either. He
would deprive the community of the
right of self-defense, rather than de-
prive the individual of the fancied
According to a Chicago (Ill.) news-
paper dispatch to the New York
World, a famous bit of Lincoln wit
has been put in eclipse by a story told
by Gen. O. O. Howard to the Sunday-
Evening Club and Grand Army vetef-
ans. He told of sleeping in the same
room with Gen. U. S. Grant at Bridge-
port, Ala., in war time. A whisky
flask was hanging on the wall, and
Gen. Howard said he apologized to his
superior officer. “I never use it my-
self,” said he. “This whisky probably
was left here by a soldier.” “Neither
do I use it,” Gen. Grant replied, “and
what is more, I am sorry that any man
in the army does.” When Lincoln was
bombarded with stories that Grant was
addicted to the use of whisky, he
asked for the brand and suggested that
some be sent to the other generals.
This was at the time Gens. Lee and
Longstreet beat Gens. Pope and How-
ard at Manassas and drove them under
the defenses of Washington.
the writer or printer. The statement
intended was that Amarillo had dis-
tributed 1500 copies of this tract. Mrs.
W. D. Twitchell is the efficient presi-
dent of that union and has a royal
band of helpers. However we be-
lieve the Abilene prohibition ladies
are capable of carrying out just as
commendable an enterprise, and look
to hear from them right away.
Mrs. Twitchell says of the Stainless
flag posters: “Your flag posters are
well calculated to do the greatest
possible good. We have found four of
them and hung in public places. The
others we posted on white cardboard
and hung them in the park and the
store windows. We will put them also
In the recent Freestone County
election, Sterling P. Strong, Cone
Johnson, Judge Dashiel, and Arthur
W. Jones' aided the splendid local tal-
ent in the fight. Of the local speak-
ers Rev. R. W. Adams and Rev. Evans,
of Teague,-and Rev. E. M. Myers, of
Fairfield, and Editor Lee Satterwhite,
were active. There were other minis-
ters and laymen who took active part
whose names do not occur to us at
present.
In the recent local option elections
the pros have considerable encourage-
ment. Smith, Comanche and Coryell,
dry counties, all went dry again, Co-
manche and Coryell counties by large-
ly increased majorities, and Smith by
a larger ratio of the total vote.
Dallam, Wharton and Freestone
counties, wet counties, went for sa-
loons again, but by smaller majorities
than in past elections.
We have gained by carrying Alice
in Nueces county, which has been a
saloon town, and also Berclair in Go-
lt is a curious fact that while the
anti speakers insist that they are not
defending the saloon, but battling for
freedom and personal liberty, that
they never discover that this liberty
is in jeopardy until the question of
putting saloons out of a county comes
up. They have little conception and
no appreciation of liberty unless it is
associated with red liquor. As an evi-
dence that this is the real character-
istic of the anti-prohibitionist we call
attention again to the fact that when
the Lee amendments providing for
high license and forbidding drinking
on the premises came up in the house
they were opposed by practically
every anti member, ana although they
passed the house were defeated by
the antis in the senate. Personal lib-
erty was not at stake, but the saloon
was. The citizen could still exercise
his liberty and get his liquor, but the
saloon as an institution would have
suffered. Hence the antis flew’ to the
defense of the saloon at once. Do
not be deceived. The saloon—the
liquor traffic—is the issue, and with-
out it the “personal liberty” plea
would not be heard of once a year.
liad county. Cotulla remained wet by
12 votes. Rock Springs, in Edwards
county, also voted to remain wet, but
also by a smaller majority. The ma-
jorities for the prohibitionists are, in
round numbers, 950 in Smith, 800 in
Comanche, 650 in Coryell, and 150 in
Alice. The majorities for antis are 14
in Dallam, 242 in Freestone, 24 in
Rock Springs and 450 in Wharton.
Thus we have made gains all along
the line. The antis have called for
elections in the counties where - they
had the greatest hopes. They have
fallen back in each one. Let us take
courage and press the battle.
As Superintendent of the Publicity
Bureau the editor of this department
receives a great many letters each
week asking for statistics giving num-
ber of deaths from the liquor traffic
each year, or the total amount spent
for liquor each year, or any of the
score of other similar questions. I
am glad to note this wide interest, and
always take pleasure in giving an im-
mediate reply, but call attention to
the fact that the Home and State has
published over and over these things.
They are somewhere in almost every
issue. Let me urge you, read the
paper carefully and then file, or if you
prefer, clip and put in a scrap book.
You will want to make a prohibition
speech before this campaign is over,
and you will then regret that you
have not saved all these things. An-
other thing. The Anti-Saloon League
year book which costs but 35 cents is
a veritable mine of prohibition facts.
Send to Anti-Saloon League, 404
North Texas Bldg, Dallas, Stamps
are acceptable.
Jesse P. Sewell is out on another
tour in the San Angelo District, and
will have something to report soon.
Rev. Chas. W. Crooke, our efficient
Assistant Superintendennt, has re-
turned from his second tour of the
Northern States with Rev. George
R. Stewart, and reports many hot
campaigns and several glorious victo-
ries. He will be in the office regu-
larly from now on.
Lamar county has been plunged
into a perfectly senseless and alto-
gether needless prohibition election
by the antis. Lamar county has twice
declared for prohibition by large and
increasing majorities. Her best citi-
zens are satisfied. Crime has been
greatly reduced. Drunkenness has
become almost a thing or the past.
Business has improved. Taxes have
been reduced. Paris and Lamar coun-
ty have greatly benefltea under the
reign of prohibition, and now for the
liquor men, and a lot of shiftless
neer-do-wells and negroes, misled by
a handful of high-toned fellows who
have some spite to wreak or some
ax to grind, some house to rent or
some friend to serve, to plunge the
county into this needless, shameless,
senseless campaign is an outrage.
They are planning to put 130 or 140
saloons in Paris alone, and announce
that it is for the moral and financial
benefit of the city. Bosh! The high-
est ambition or aspiration of which
they are capable is to debauch their
town for money, or ponder to a low
and depraved appetite. Little they
know or care for the morals or real
welfare of Paris or Lamar county.
Sterling P. Strong spent part of
last week in Coryell county, speaking
at Coperas Cove and Gatesville. The
latter part of the week he went to
San Antonio. The tent meetings have
begun there and hundreds of people
are nightly listening to Rev. G. W.
Eichelberger and other speakers de-
nounce the infamies of the saloon and
tell of the benefits of prohibition. If
we get a. fair count in San Antonio
the next vote there will show evi-
dence of this seed sowing. Such a
crusade should be begun in every
large city of the State. It’s this that
makes our cause grow. Let commit-
tees in each city plan something of
the kind.
The practice of the United States
Government of selling at auction
liquor confiscated in the raids of its
officers is abominable, and brings to
the cheek of honest American man-
hood a blush of shame. It is not only
seized upon by liquor men as a justifi-
cation of their nefarious traffic, but in
its parsimonious and pickayunish
character belittles our big- country.
That’s great
direct. Let
County Attorney Dwight L. Lewel-
ling has entered suit against 59 sa-
loons for forfeiture of penalties on
bonds to the aggregate of $30,000 for
violation of the screen law. Lewelling
is made of the right stuff. Here’s
hoping he will turn the trick and
“turn the rascals out.”
Arthur W. Jones she says: “The
leaflet “Why State-Wide Prohibition?”
is the most able presentation of the
situation that we have seen. The ar-
guments are all clear, concise and
conclusive, and cover- the whole
ground.”
-Let others send for these leaflets
and start them on their errand of
good.
ANTI-8ALOON LEAGUE OF TEXAS.
Officers:
sterline P. Strong.....................Superintendent
C. W. .....................Assistant Superintendent
Arthur W. Jones.............Editor
Field workers for the Anti-Saloon
League are requested to send in week-
ly reports for publication.
Let the friends of Statewide prohi-
bition see to it that Home and State
is well circulated everywhere.
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