Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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reford Reporter
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A Recognized Fact—That Hereford's the "Banner Town" of the Plains
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VOL. I. NO. 31
HEREFORD, DEAF SMITH COUHTY, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 20, 1901
$1.50 PER YEAR
THE CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
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Editor Vanderburgh Expresses His Views On
the Saloon Question. '1
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A FULL AND FREE DISCUSSION OF
This Important Issue Is Earnestly Desired^ Send In Your
Communications, With Your Name Signed Thereto,
and the Reporter Will Publish Them,
THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE.
Deaf Smith County Citizens Are
Asked to Condemn a Man
for Obeying the Laws.
. ,T,he people of Hereford and Deaf
Smith county should weigh the local
option question well in their minds
before casting their vote at the com-
ing election to decide that much dis-
cussed question. Let us look into
the liquor business, as a: present
' conducted in Hereford.
The present proprietor, a public-
spirited, law-abiding citizen, was an
officer of the law for many years find
bears many scars of wounds made
while an officer of the famous Texas
Rangers in the enforcement of the
laws and the bringing of offenders to
justice. He came to Hereford and
cast his lot with the town and its
people, and has spared no expense
to help make Hereford what it is
today, the "banner town'* of the
plains. He has invested his hard-
earned money in a business which is
legalized by the laws cf 'the state
and country, and has made his name
noted as a liquor dealer who lives up
to every letter of the law. On ac-
count of his policy to sell no liquor
to ' an intoxicated person, drunken-
ness is almost unknown to the citi-
zens of Hereford, and what little in-
toxication there has been, was con-
fined to people who bought their
liquor from outside dealers and upon
whom local option would have no
possible effect.
They should also bear in mind that
minors (those under ,21 years of age)
can under no circumstances obtain
liquor at Hereford's only liquor
store t that games of chance are
strictly prohibited, thus making the
house anything but a place of amuse-
ment ; and that the money paid into
the county treasury as license, ma-
terially increases the local govern-
ment's finances."
Were the liquor business in Here-
ford Conducted on anything but a
law-abiding basis, the editor of this
paper would join the local option
side of the question. But, inasmuch,
as conscientious, law-abiding liquor
dealers are few and far between, he
believes that when a town has one
such, his law-abiding qualities should
be applauded instead of condemned
—and a local option law would be a
condemnation.
Again, I say, consider the matter
wefl before you cast your vote.
F. L. VANDERBURGH.
Mr. Vanderburg Answered.
. The above article, from F. L.
Vanderburg, opens the campaign in
defense of the saloon. While we
regret to see Mr. Vanderburg es-
pouse what we consider the wrong
side of this question, we are ready
and glad to publish both sides of the
question, making this condition,how-
ever, that contributors sign their
productions. When no name is signed
the writer may be charged with
editorial.
The writer of the article referred
to calls upon us to look at the liquor
business as it exists in Hereford. In
the first place, taking for granted
that the proprietor of the Hereford
saloon is tracking the law to the let-
ter. does Mr. Vanderburg suppose
that this town, which has had such
rapid growth for the past three
years, will not asrume greater pro-
portions in the way of furnishing
hllow-hbihe now., co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
jrALL KINDS OF HARDWARE^
Call and Examine Our Line Before Purchasing.
Our Stock of Harvesting Machinery is
Full and Complete and We Can and
Will Save You Money. .
something to satisfy the enlarged
appetite for liquor that is being cul-
tivated here? Is it not a fact that
others are contemplating entering
the saloon business? And has Mr.
Vanderburgh or any one, any assur-
ance that other saloons that might
be opened would be conducted by
law abiding men? Is it any news
to the public that it is a rarity to
find' anybody but law-breakers in
the saloon business? The new
thing in the matter is for a saloon
advocate to make this acknowledg-
ment.
In the second place, the people of
Hereford are making no attempt to
convict the saloon man here of any
violation of the law, nor has the
writer ever heard of such a charge,
but they have simply asked for the
privilege of condemning the liquor
traffic, however it may be run and
to say by their votes that they will
not be a party to the crime oi entic-
ing their fellowman to squander his
money, to barter away his prospects,
his happiness, his very soul and
blight the hopes, the all, of a depen-
dent and disappointed wife and ne-
glected children. This is the issue
instead of the legality of the acts of
the. man that chances to run a shop
in Hereford.
The very fact that the saloon here
is run legally has given the busi-
ness a respectability that causes
people to drink and acquire the
drink habit that weuld not enter a
low dive. Does Mr. Vanderburgh
know of such a person?
The next point I will notice is the
fact that the saloon man has invested
"his hard earned money" in the
business here and therefore should
not be disturbed. There are other
lines of investment that are profit-
able and no doubt the man who can
run an unworthy business in a
worthy way, if such a paradox is
allowable, would surely receive his
share of patronage in a business, the
worthiness of which is unquestioned.
On this same point of investment,
have the mothers and wives of the
town any investment in their boys or
their husbands? Are these to be
considered in making up our minds
as to where considerations are justly
due? And are the mothers and
wives better pleased and entirely
satisfied if the whiskey they smell
on the breath of their son qr hus-
band as he comes home full, ia sold
by a man that sells it according to
law? Is legally sold whiskey more,
conducive of happiness in the home?
On the other hand whoever enters the
saloon business in Texas does so upon
notice of a statute guaranteeing to
citizens of any county or any small-
er political divission, the right to
say whether the business shall be
continued in their midst. Then to
Offer such an argument is puerile.
Next, as to the revenue question.
I will have some figures to present
at an early date, but will say just
here, that recently in answer to
this question in a Northern city, the
women of the town proposed to the
Anti's that they would raise hogs
and donate to make up the defic-
iency if they would only vote out
whiskey, preferring to sacrifice their
hogs rather than their boys for the
running expenses of the city govern-
ment.
We emphasize it, "Think betore
you vote."
R. p. holloway.
First-class job work is our special-
ty. Let us figure 00 your work.
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Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1901, newspaper, September 20, 1901; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142263/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.