The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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Yol.—>62 No. 39
STORE
s Furnishings
Midsummer
(SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914.
$!.«• a Yom
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July Clearance of Men’s and Youth’s Clothing
AT THE LOWEST PRICES QUOTED THIS SEASON
Comprising our entire stocks of
$25.00 to $30.00 Suite, at $17.75
$17.50 to $22.50 Suite, at $13.75
$12.50 to $15.00 Suits, at $9.75
Included are all of our finest summer suits for men and young men, in plain blue, black and gray,
as well as mixtures, checks and plaids. Coats are quarter, half, or full lined, many of the linings being
of silk; in all sixes, stout, long or short proportions. Also some very smart Norfolk suits, in sizes 33 to 40
inch chest measure. j
$5.00 and $6.00 Flannel or Serge Trousers, at $3.75
In solid colors, white or gray, also in striped effects; sizes 28 to 46 inch waist measure
Another very special offering has been arranged for today, of
Men’s Oxford Ties at $3.25 a Pair
Actual Value $5.00; in the newest approved shape, with blind eyelets,
in patent coltskin, black, tan and mahogany calfskin; weltedaoles; low
heels. ■I '
Clearance of Men'
Men’s Negligee Shirts at 95c
Values $1.50 and $1.75, soft finish, with turn-
back French or laundered cuffs, made of mercerized
madras angLgtpe doth.
' Men’s HaflBgflP Shirt, at $1.45
Values $2.00 and $2-50. of desirable extrar quality
summer fabrics. .
Men’s Silk Negligee Shirts, $3.25
Value $5.00, custom finish, in new designs and
colorings.
Men’s Pajamas jit 95c Suit .; .
, - ' * M f<-
Value $1.50, of mercerized pongee and wotfen
madras. * • .
I Men’s Washable Four>in>If|ggjg^H
.m- Scarfs at 25c Each f
Value 50c, with embroidered Tigores. ,
Also a large collection’of
Silk Scarfs, Imported Knit Scarfs .
and Bat Wing Ties at 35c Each I
i he. Upon occasion I have talked to
saloonkeepers who were my friends, ’
and I have never heard one give a
good report of his saloon. There is
no good saloon. There is no good
rattlesnake. Theie is no friendly bu-
bonic plague. There* is no cheerful
and hope-inspiring cholera. 1 he sa-
loon is more deadly in its blighting in-
11 fluence than all of the pestilence, all
of the war, all of the famine and all of
the contagion that has ever cursed
the world.
In the Saturday Evening Post for
July 11, 1914, William Allen White
contributes the leading article, entit-
led, “How Kansas Boarded the Water
Wagon.” In the course of Mr. White’s
remarks he says:
Kansas has fewer murders, fewer
hcmicidcs and fevrer accidental deaths
than any other State, and this i3 one
>f the lowest rates in the world—4.5
for each hundred thousand annually,
i The effect of the saloon with its com-
mercialization of drinking, on mur-
ders, suicides and accidents is too ob-
vious to need elaboration; but it is
interesting te note that when the sa-
loon goes the causes of, death are re-
duced. The vital statistics of the va-
rious States show that Kansas has
fewer deaths from kidney diseases
than any other State, and the relation
of whisky to kidney trouble is so well
known that this fact alone proves a
low per capita consumption of liquor.
Remember, there are 105 eounties in
Kansas. Forty-eight of these counties
did not send a prisoner to the peni-
tentiary last year 'and eighty-seven
counties did not send an insane pa-
tient to the asylums. In fourteen
counties no jury has been called in
ten years to try a criminal case. Fifty-
three counties hare empty jails.
Thirty-eight counties have empty poor-
houses and the second lowest death
rate in America is the Kansas death
-2 per 1.000.
the bank deposits in
hare increased in ten years
from bne hundred million to two hun-
dred and twenty million dollars. And
I it should be remembered that these
bank deposits are in the hands of the
| many and not the fetr; for the flnanci-
}*1 agency reports—Dun’s and Brad-
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FERGUSON SPEAKS TO CROWD OF , §
ABOUT TWELVE HUNDRED PEOPLE
Hon. James E. Ferguson, of Temple,
spoke to an audience of between 1100
and 1200 people at the Alliance Taber-
nacle last Saturday evening, in the
interest of his candidacy for the de-
mocratic nomination for governor.
He arrived here on the 1:30 Katy
and was met at the station by the
Chamber of Commerce band and a
large reception committee and quite
a procession of autos. Ho was escort-
ed to the Garrison hotel where an in-
formal reception was held and he
met a goodly number of his support-
ers; from there he went directly to
the Tabernacle.
Hon. D. Thornton, who is always
ready to speak a good word for a
stranger in our midst, (and who most
fittingly introduced the Hor.. Leopold
Morris, also a candidate for governor,
on his recent visit here) introduced
Mr. Ferguson and presented the can-
didate in a manner that pleased his
supporters highly.
Mr. Ferguson spoke for something
like an hour and a half. He ga,ve quite
a little of his personal history, tell-
ing of his early struggles; how he
worked on the railroads as a bridge
builder for a number of years, prac-
ticed law for seven years, (but quit
because, to use his exact words, “it
was too long between drinks” for him
in the law business) and for the past
twelve years he has been engaged in
the banking business and farming on
a large scale.
He presented the theory that be-
cause of his practical knowledge of
farming he is well equipped for filling
the office of governor. He stressed
his land tenant plank—the proposi-
tion to pass a law fixing the third
and fourth and halves as the maxi-
mum rent on land. He made his posi-
tion plain on the liquor question by
saying the question ought not to be
agitated 'urthef d that if he ehould
bo elected he wonld veto any and all
kinds of liquor laws that might be
passed by the legislature.
He pledged himself to a more iiber-
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a! plan of education and went on re-
T
cord as favoring a direct tax for edu-
cational purposes, if necessary. He
said he was in favor of a reasonablo
compulsory education law. He criti-
cised our State Text Book system
and said our text books arO now sub-
ject to “change every time the moon
changes.’5
He landed on Dr. Rankin and Tom
Love and disposed of them by saying
they were “two of the ugliest men God1
Almighty ever .created,” find that
when the Lord turned them loose on
earth he “wrote across their brows,
.“without recourse on me.”
He answered the charge that he
had been making a donation of $18 a ,
year to Father Heckman, a Catholic
Priest in Temple, by saying that he
gave the money to assist in maintain-
ing a worthy night school which the
Priest is conducting. In this connect-
ion he mentioned his liberality to
the protestant churches of Temple, and
finished his talk along this line by
saying that, after he had been criti-
cised for his donations to Father Heck-
man, (whom he landed as the best
man in Texas) he was sorry he had
not given the Priest more and the
protestant preachers less.
He Spoke of the penitentiary sys-
tem, and said if he was elected gov-
ernor, he would put the penitentiary
under the management of three prac^
tical farmers; that he wonld take
time to inspect the penitentiary farm
now and then, oversee the crops, size
up the mules and see whether they
had been bought right and were being
fed right. Among other things he said
he thought poison life “ought to be
made a terror,” softening this state- .
ment by saying that he believed Jj|||
according the prisoners *y’“
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candldate vef t|l^ corporations; . that
just a lew men* were responsible*
his candidacy^ and that the newspa-
(Continued on Page 8)
MANFUL FOR BALL; HE DRAWS THE
LINE; ARRAIGNS THE SALOONS
. .
I have not been impressed with the
personalities of the pending Guberna-
torial campaign. With the religions
or social environments of
tr. Ferguson the public
regtty have no concern. The campaign
is not toe of men, hut principles. Col.
for a sane, sound, sensi-
st&tesman-like policy in Tex-
as. Hr. Ferguson stands, in effefct,
for the saloon and Socialism.
* I lave no unkind word for Mr. Fer-
guson or bis .followers. My concern
as ■» citizen is wholly with the princi-
ples be advocates. Mr. Ferguson’s
piafform favors the saloon and the
confiscation of property, concedes per-
sonal liberty to saloonkeepers, but
denies personal liberty to landlord and
tenant. If hit .platform were reduced
to jthe briefest possible compass it
would be put in four words: "Easy
liquor, free land.”
Tim saloon is the deadliest blight
our civilization has ever known. The
chief plank in Mr. Ferguson’s plat-
form to that, if elected, he will veto
any legislation whatever that shall be
passed by the Legislature! affecting
the saloon. In effect this says, “The
saloon to p good thing. 1 am its
‘friend. I will allow no one to disturb
the saloons unless he walks over my
dead body.”
When a man starts out to champion
a saloon and Socialism he ought to
wear a white apron; should pin a
skull and crossbones to the lapel of
his coat and should fly two flags of
Bocialtom in one hand and the black
‘flag of death in the other.
Tbs election of a man who holds
such principles as these would be the
hardest blow that could be aimed at
prosperity and progress of
In advocating Socialism
Mr. Ferguson makes a great show of
terms the “inter-
the “trusts.”
to these
oct&fi by enlarging upon his Socialis-
tic landlord and tenant views. While
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thus ostensibly opposing the trusts he
is, in fact, the favored candidate of
the whisky trust, whicn is the most
compactly organized of any interest
that ever unfurled zhe Dlack flag and
went out on a mission of piracy and
death. In view of thesj facts I am
dtortustful of Mr. Ferguson’s opposi-
tion to the other trusts.
Some of Mr. Ferguson's supporters,
while making a very aggressive cam-
paign for hto election, show emphatic
hostility to the church and the Christi-
an ministry. Really, this is the one
great issue of the campaign. The
triumph of the saloon means the death
of the church. The success of the
barkeeper means the dethronement of
the minister. Just to the extent that
the liquor business succeeds, the
church must faiL It is not remark-
able, therefore ,that the friends of the
liquor traffic should inveigh against
the church and the ministry.
It has always been the policy of the
saloon to bulldoze the preachers. But
we have grown a new crop of preach-
era. The present generation of
preachers do not bulldoze much. Just
to the extent that any minister is
silenced by the outcry of the saloon,
he is unworthy of his high place. The
preachers, almost to a man, are op-
posing Mr. Ferguson’s candidacy and
are advocating the election of Col.
BaU.. All the barkeepers are for Mr.
Ferguson.
Mr. Ferguson is winking ms chief
appeal to the farmers. Some leaders
of the Farmers' Union are campaign-
ing for Mr. Ferguson ,and the Texas
Federation of Labor in their recent
annual session passed resolutions
against prohibition. These declara-
tions are not indices of the views,
either of the great membership of the
Farmers’ Union or of the Federation
of Labor. They only show that tem-
porarily these organizations aro bur-
dened with unwise leadership. The
farmers of Texas are not fools. Every
man who has sense enough to get in
out of the rain knows that Mr. Fergu-
son’s Socialistic appeal to the farm-
ers is not in the interest of the farm-
ing class. Here and there will be
found Socialists among the farmers,
and Socialism everywhere takes on
the same complexion, but the great
mass of our farming population is in-,
telhgent and discriminating. They
have heard the saloon advocates be-
fore, and they will not be misled to
any great extent by Mr. Ferguson’s
Socialism.
In view of Mr. Ferguson’s advocacy
of the confiscation of land, which his
landlord and tenant plan involves, I
do not wonder that a large number of
anti-prohibitionists are supporting CoL
BalL There are a great
prohibitionists who oppose the saloon
and would be glad to see a mitigation
of its ravages. There are many other
anti-prohibitionists who believe in a
safe and constructive policy in public
affairs, as witness the attitude of Post-
master General Albert Burleson. While
he fs not a prohibitionist, he is sup-
porting Col. Ball, and the same Is true
of a very large number of the anti-
prohibitionists who feel that Mr. Fer-
guson’s election will be inimical to the
best interests of our State.
I heard recently of a man who came
to Dallas recently to consult a throat
specialist The doctor looked him
over carefully and announced that he,
could find nothing the matter with the
throat, whereupon the patient said:
“Look again, doctor. Look earefully.
There is a good 500-acre black land
farm down my throat. I know it is
there, because I drank it up.” By the
same token, if the throat specialist
had Inspirational discernment, he could
see down the throats of many of these
men who are yelling for Mr. Fergus
son, not only black land farms, but
happy homes; bread and clothing of
which their families have been rob-
bed; the shoes that should have pro-
tected the feet of tiny babes, and the
ruined and blighted lives of thousands
whom their drink and dissipation have
brought to untimely graves.
Whisky selling is a bad business. Tl^p
preachers talk much about it, but
they talk from the standpoint of long-
distance observation. Every saloon-
keeper knows his saloon to bad. No-
body in the world knows it as well as
Is Now On!
Big reductions in Cloth-
ing, Shoes and Hats
This will be our bargain
month, so don’t fail to
see us if you want some-
thing to wear. You will
find the classy, up-to-date
kind, as
We make a specialty of
Men’s and Young Men’s
Wearing Apparel.
CAROTHERS BROS.
Leading Clothing Store
Wrest Side
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1914, newspaper, July 17, 1914; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth815875/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.