Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, January 31, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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January 31, 1916
HOME AND STATE
1
to
his
WILL IT HURT BUSINESS?
stitution, and that Cnogress is in
duty
bound to submit to the
“DRY’ DOWN IN BELL.
s
a court
the county
is exerting himself to
the utmost to
To the Mayor and Commissioners of Palestine.
the years 1914 and 1915 respectively:
HIS SIGN.
Aug. Sept.
(before prohibition)
(after prohibition)...
1914
1915
Total for six months, 1915
Total for six months, 1915
law enforcement league.
Every peace officer in
95
9
Oct.
15
0
18
1
13
1
Nov.
20
0
Dec.
17
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have been of material assistance
the Indian office.
Commissioner Sells concluded
July.
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Palestine Benifited by Closing Saloons
Chief of Police John T. Middleton made a report for his
department yesterday that is indeed significant and grati-
fying. It shows that under six months of prohibition Pales-
tine has been an exceedingly sober town.
Mr. Middleton’s report is as follows:
BAPTIST GENERAL CONVEN-
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE
TION, HELD AT AUSTIN
NOV. 1824, 1915.
states for ac-
Gentlemen—Below, I beg to submit report, as shown by
the police docket, of the arrests made by the police depart-
ment on chargs of drunkenness for the last six months of
are tak-
to see
that the law is enforced.
Three thousand men belong to a
CATO SELLS DETERMINED TO
STOP SALE OF INTOXICANTS-
TO INDIANS.
2. That we look forward with eagen
anticipation to the speedy and com-
plete overflow of the traffic both in
our state and nation, and that we will
give our loyal support to a statewide
prohibition election in the immediate
future of any other time.
3. That we endorse the movement
for national prohibition as ‘Contemplat-
ed in and by the Sheppard-Hobson res-
olution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, as
voted on in the House of Representa-
tives of Congress, December 22nd,
1914, and we do hereby urge upon our
Texas Senators and Representatives
in Congress to give their cordial sup-
port to this resolution, as it shall be
introduced in the Sixty-Fourth Con-
gress, with the approval of the united
temperance forces of the nation, rec-
ognizing that one of the most sacred
and inalienable rights of the states
is the right to amend the Federal Con-
sons for selling liquor became
record.
The people of Bell County ;
ing extraordinary measures
Bell County became “dry” on De-
cember 25 of last year.
Thirteen days thereafter indict-
ments by the grand jury of five per.
A little boy was walking down the
streets of a town where whiskey was
। sold when he saw the town drunkard
lying in the gutter dead drunk.
He called out the saloon keeper to
come to the front. The saloon-keeper
did so and said, “Well, what do you
want?”
The little fellow pointed to the
drunk man and said, “I just wanted
to tell you that your sign had fell
down.”
Respectfully,
JOHN T. MIDDLETON, Chief of Police.
Attest: C. O. MILLER, Clerk.
Let the drinker give me his trade and
I will increase his efficiency in mind
and body. I will not blight his man.
hood nor debauch his character. I
can establish a business that will sup-
ply the needs of the drinkers without
its being a nuisance to the public or
a burden to society.
I will conduct a business w.th the
drinkers in which they can use my
goods without the incentive to theft,
robbery, murder or anarchy. They
will not leave my place of business
wrecked in mind or body nor depraved
in character.
Give me the money spent for drink
and I will not fill the jails or courts
with my customers, charged with pet-
ty crimes and grave offenses. I will
pay taxes on all my goods without the
state having to pay out seven dol-
lars to collect one dollar; thus re-
ducing taxes and freeing the state of
the burden of the liquor revenue.
My business will not disgrace so-
ciety with poverty, crime or blood,
neither will it fill our fair land with
heartbroken widows, helpless orphan
children nor wrecked homes. If the
drinker will patronize me, I will not
weaken his will power, paralize his
dy, dethrone his reason nor re
him of his sanity. I will not send
him to the poor house in his old age,
nor consign his body to a pauper’s
grave at death, nor commit his soul
to hell in eternity.
Will it hurt business?
X. W. MORGAN.
see that there are no leaks in the
law.
It is practically unanimous senti-
ment that the fellow with a thirst must
hold it in abeyance or pull out for
some “wet’ region.
The word has gone out that “dry”
in Bell County means “dry”—a reg-
ular Sahara desert.
The saloons have gone.
Any substitute method of distribut-
ing the 'O-be-joyful" will not receive
public countenance.
The Apostle Peter charged the
faithful, “Be sober, be vigilant,” and
his admonition is just now the rule
of action in all the region known as
Bell County.—Waco Times-Herad.
tion any amendment for which there
is a general demand, as there is for
this.
4. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent by the secretaries of this Con-
vention to each of our Texas Senators
and Representatives, to the majority
and minority leaders in the Senate and
House of Representatives, to the
chairman of the committee of the Ju-
diciary, and of the Rules committee,
both in the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, and to His Excellency,
President Woodrow Wilson.
1.Resolved that we, the Baptist
General Convention of Texas, in an-
nual session assembled, representing a
constituency of more than 340,000
members, do hereby pledge our hearty
endorsement and earnest support to
the Anti-Saloon League of Texas in its
continued warfare upon the licensed
beverage liquor traffic, as waged in
its constitution, which says:
“The object of this league is the
suppression of the liquor traffic. To
this end we invite the alliance and
support of all who are in harmony with
this object, and the league pledges it-
self to avoid affiliation with any and
all political parties as such, and to
review of efforts to stop the sale of
liquor to Indians by saying:
“The sentiment of the people is
strongly with our work, regardless of
the attitude of the individual of the
question of prohibition as it is un-
derstood in white communities.”
Bell County is dry. The saloons
have closed their doors, we trust and
pray never to again be opened. In
the city of Belton, the county capi-
tal, five business houses will not open
their doors, to deal out their “wet’’
goods they have for many years in
the past.
Any act that closes five business
houses in the best location in a city
of over seven thousand population,
looks like it would hurt business,
doesn’t it? Any law made that forces
men to close out their stock in trade
in which they have thousands of dol-
lars invested, looks like it would hurt
business.
Any ordinance that goes into effect
that puts ten clerks off of a handsome
pay roll and forces them to seek other
employment, seems like it would hurt
business.
When a handsome revenue to the
city, county and state is cut off, with
nothing special to take its place—it
loks like it would hurt business.
Let us see. I am willing to make
a contract with the liquor men. If
they will give me their old customers,
insuring me that I shall receive the
amount of money from them that they
have been spending for drink, I will
agree to rent the five vacant store
buildings, paying the usual price, fill
them with “dry” goods, not “wet”
goods, such as clothing, groceries,
hardware, furniture, and many other
necessaries of life. I will employ all
idle clerks and more too, at the same
salary that other clerks receive. I
will sell my goods at no higher price
than others sell for. I will take over
the business of the drinkers without
it, injuring themselves or their fami-
lies. Give me the drinkers trade and
I will not pauperize his family or deny
his children bread. I will not fill his
wife’s eyes with tears, her heart with
misery, nor his children with fear.
Washington, D. C.—A dramatic sto-
ry of the government’s fight to stop
the sale of liquor to Indians is out-
lined by Cato Sells, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. So well have the ef-
forts of the Indian Service succeeded
he said, that the traffic virtually has
been broken up.
Not only has the government cut
the sale of liquor to Indians on reser-
vations and elsewhere, but in one in-
stance it has made a fifth of a state
dry through enforcement of a sixty-
year-old Indian treaty. Older treat-
ies are being studied now to deter-
mine if saloons in other territory part-
ly populated by Indians can be
closed.
Minnesota is the state in which a
vast area was freed of saloons by
treaty enforcement. The agreement
revived by the government is known
as the Chippewa treaty of 1885. For
many years its provisions regarding
the sale of whiskey had been forgot-
ten until one day last summer it was
discovered in the Indian Bureau here
that the convention was a perpetual
ar to the sale of intoxicants in north-
(vest Minnesota.
Indian officials determined to en-
force the treaty and began, too, the
study of similar agreements in other
states. On October 20 last an order
(vent forth that saloons in several of
the larger towns in the territory-must
close within ten days. Liquor deal-
ers refused 'to close and took the
fight into the courts, where it has just
been decided that the treaty provis-
ions still are in force.
Indian officials say the Indian him-
self first realized that alcohol was a
meance to the race and that in the
Minnesota treaty as well as in most
of the other Indian treaties the In-
dian and not the white man stipulat-
de that in oxicants should not be sold
in Indian territory.
In other parts of the country offi-
cials charged with enforcement of
Jaws against sale of whiskey to In-
dians worked through court action.
Several officers were killed.
An educational campaign against
the use of alcohol, Indian officials dis-
covered a forgotten law permitting
the government to hold up annuity
payments in regions where liquor was
within easy reach of Indians. This,
officials assert, was one of the most
fruitful methods tried. Payments
were stopped until head men of the
tribes promised co-operation and until
officers were convinced white resi-
dents in contigious territory would aid
in law enforcement.
One Indian official has declared
this touching of the white man’s
pocketbook by cutting off payments
was so effective as even to surprise
the Indian service.
Reservation officials in the South-
west have bent their energies toward
stamping out the fermentation of Tul-
apai, a native Indian liquor made from
sprouting corn. The use of Peyote
buttons, or dried cactus crowns for
making an intoxicating drink has
been checked by a Department of Ag-
riculture order prohibiting their im-
portation. Legislation has been ask-
ed to give the Indian Office large
powers over traffic in Peyote.
State legislation is declared to
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