Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, January 31, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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HOME AND STATE
January 31, 1916
A Confession of a Northeast Texas Moonshiner
(R. R. Gilstrap, Naples, Texas.)
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Naturally when I was put in jail ev-
ery one offered their assistance in ef-
fecting my release. After my bond of
S1,000 was made, my oldest brother
boarded the train to bring the bond to
Jefferson to be approved by the U.
S. Commissioner Singleton which was
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that bears this distinction of being
true-blue will under no circumstan-
ces divulge anything that might in-
After awhile he calls to me and asks i
if I am asleep. I told him that I had ■
been. He then asked me if I had beon I
associate with the gambler, the coun-
terfitter, the bank robber, the thief,
in fact every crook that is on the mar-
ket. If there be any one who reads i
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sleeping any while in jail. I told him I gotten gain shall not stand. As for
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Tucson, Ariz.—Prohibition is bring-
ing prosperity to Arizona, according
to Thomas K. Marshall, a prominent
resident of Tucson, in a book which he
has just issued relating to the first
six months of prohibition in the state.
Here is a summary of prohibition’s
results in Arizona, according to Mr.
Marshall:
The efficiency of labor has been in-
creased, according to cattlemen, sheep-
men, lumber men, officials of mining
companies, contractors, labor dele-
gates and hotel men.
Crime has decreased 87.3 per cent.
Drunkenness has decreased 85 per
cent.
Arrests for violation of the prohibi-
tion law numbered 199.
Officers throughout the state are
making efforts to stop the sale of
liouor.
Bank deposits increased $2,931,204,
showing what part of the money for-
merly spent for liquor has gone.
Registration at University of Ari-
zona increased 56 per cent; increase
in school attendance throughout state
almost 2,000.
Increase in savings accounts, based
on September figures, was $387,262.
—that you have got to tell lies and
you can rest assured that your nerve
will be tested to the top notch from
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SAYS PROHIBITION ENRICHES
ARIZONA.
time after midnight. So my brother,
having not slept any since he heard
of my trouble was, of course, tired
and sleepy, so he suggested getting a
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approved by him very readily. So I
was granted my freedom under bond
until October, 1913. to avvear at reg-
ular session of court to be held under
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saying is among the crooks, you are I bed until train time. We got a bed.
this that is calculating in the future the Honorable Gordon Russel. But
to get in the booze business you may after I had got out of jail. Brother and
bear this in mind, and that is this I had to wait over for the T. P. train
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true-blue. This saying is recognized r dropped to sleep and left him awake,
by the crooks to mean that the man
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my part, I am convinced that this say-
ing is true. Now good people, I have
repented of all my sins, and I expect
by the help of God live as a gentle-
man, as I was born to be. I am
through; I have quit.
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I was born in Omaha, Morris Coun-
ty, Texas, August 8, 1884, which
makes me thirty-one years old. I was
reared by a prayerful mother and my
father is a law abiding, moral citizen.
My mother died when I was twelve
years old, so like many other boys
without a mother to advise them what
to do, I got on the crooked side of life.
However. I joined the Baptist Church,
at Omaha, Texas, when I was 14 years
old and lived a fairly good Christian
up until I was twenty years old. Some
thing near this time I began to drift
from bad to worse. On the 14th of
February, 1908, I purchased a 25-gal-
lon still from one of my neighbors and
from that date up until of the fall of
1914, I made about 3,000 gallons of
whiskey which of course made men
drunk. Caused (naturally so) many
family rows.
Now, friends, I know that there are
people who can’t see what a man that
claims to have any conscience and
any degree of intelligence at all would
stoop to do this kind of dirty work.
You will be surprised to know I can't
give any explanation that would be
of interest to any one except that is
due to keeping bad company, and,
sooner or later, will bring any man to
sorrow and trouble. I will say for
an excuse for my going into the moon-
shining business was from a financial
standpoint.
Now, if a man could make whiskey
without sinning otherwise, it would
not be so bad. But you have got to
The pubticity department of
the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers’ Association at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, is wasting a good
deal of time, stamps and liter-
ature' on pro editors in Texas,
The literature may also be go-
ing to other individuals. As for
our part it goes immediately to
the waste basket.—Echo, Gil-
more.
time to time, and as you become
known to the bunch, betters as the
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I had. To this he looked as though a
red-hot iron had been applied to his
consciene. And I will never forget
what he then said: “I don’t see how
you could sleep under all of this trou-
ble.’’ And then he said, “As for my
sleeping, I haven’t slept any since I
heard of you being in this mess.” The
point I want to make clear is this:
That a violator of the law will get so
familiar with his mean work that he
becomes so hardened that his troubles
dont bother him as much as it does
his friends. He is so used to doing
wrong that his concience is soon sear-
ed. I don’t care how brave a man is
when he realizes that the better class
of people have got him spotted as a
crook and the law too is after him it
will make him shake with fear and
this is the critical moment when
many a man has made a great mis-
take. For instance, he knows that he
has violated the law and to fall into
the hands of officers means punish-
ment. Instead of quitting doing what
he is doing, he braces up and tries to
make himself feel that he ought to be
a privilege character, and he is per-
fectly justified in doing what he wants
to do, so about the next thing he
will do is to arm himself. He will
soon find himself shooting at targets
so as to be a good shot whenever call-
ed upon so you see he is taking step
by step toward killing any person who
is interferring with his business. Now
this is from my own experience that.
I speak. Now, young man, there isn’t
any money in violating the law. In
the first place the best people lose
confidence in you and at this point,
you realize this, so your conscience
begins to hurt you and first thing you
know you think that everybody is
down on you. Now, I am going to
close my confession by trying to show
to the public as I see it that there
isn’t anything but sorrow, trouble and
destruction in violating the law'. I
will say that I never made any money
at it but to the reverse. You know,
friends, that the Bible says that ill-
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flict punishment on any crook. Now,
young man, when you get to where
the gang thinks you are true blue you
are in the middle of a bad fix, be-
cause you will have propositions pre-
sented before you every day and
some of these propositions will mean
crime. I will say just here, from ex-
perience that the propositions that
are put before you at first will seem
outrageous but you will yield to sin
step by step, until these things seem
as a mere joke. Now young man,
take advice from a man that has suf-
fered from his own folly when you
find yourself thinking that you ought
to harbor any practice that is a viola-
tion of civil law or the law of God
you are starting on the same route
that I have traveled for seven years,
which has caused me much trouble
and above all, shame and disgrace to
my family’s name. Did you ever stop
to think that when you are arrested
and put in jail for some crime that
you have committed that not only you
suffer but your loved ones suffer
equally as bad? I remember in Sep-
tember, 1913, I was arrested for mak-
ing whiskey and put in Federal ja l
at Jefferson, Texas.
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Barton, Arthur J. Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, January 31, 1916, newspaper, January 31, 1916; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1586007/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.