The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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DR. GEORGE C. RANKIN, Editor.
WALTER A. STEVENS, Manager.
Volume 10. Number 49.
DALLAS, TEXAS *MAY 1, 1909
5c Copy, $1.00 Per Year
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WHY NOT GET THE DICKIE-ROSE DEBATE
FOR TEXAS?
As announced in the beginning of the se-
ries of debates between President Dickie and
Mayor Rose on prohibition, one of these de-
bates is to be held somewhere in the South.
The place has not yet been chosen.
WHY NOT ASK FOR IT FOR TEXAS?
If you favor this, write the Home and
State, and we will get into communication
with the principals at once, and send them a
most urgent invitation to hold the Southern
debate in Texas.
Quick action is necessary.
want to hear at once from every prohibitionist
who reads this. As Mr. Hammond says, now is
“the opportune time.” Write us today and let
us get this important matter speedily arranged.
Hang on! Cling on! No matter what they say;
Push on! Sing on! Things will come your way.
Sitting down and whinning never helps a bit;
Best way to get there is by keeping up your grit
Don’t give up hoping when the ship goes down,
Grab a spar or something—just refuse to drown.
Don’t think you’re dying just because you’re hit;
Smile in face of danger and hang to your grit.
Folks die too easy—they sort of fade away;
Make a little error, and give up in dismay.
Kind of man that needed is the man with ready
wit,
To laugh at pain and trouble and keep his grit.
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An IllustratedAamily Weekly
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perors among men” of these sturdy sons of Tex-
as farmers, whose votes have hurled back the
Willacy idea from 154 counties in Texas already;
and has their slogan “no saloon” not continued
to march on through the grand old State of Tex-
as? Will the tens of thousands of good moth-
ers in Texas, some of them having boys at the
A. and M., look upon Mr. Willacy’s promise to
put the “institution in good shape” be regarded
as the statement of a man who has shown him-
self as the brewers legislative leader for years
the friend of the boys and of the young manhood
of Texas? Seated on the same platform with
Senator Willacy was Senator Brachfield, the lead-
er of the prohibition forces in the present Sen-
ate. With what calm conscience must he in
view of his' fight in the Senate against the liquor
power in the name of Texas motherhood, and
wifehood, and boyhood, and manhood, must he
have faced that audience of ruddy-cheeked,
sober young men. He had fought for'the “sub-
mission” to the people for them to say whether
the saloon should continue to do business in
this State. The proposition was the essence of
Democracy, beside being a petition in effect ’
signed by 144,000 voters and later ratified at the
polls by 150,000 majority. But when the bill was
presented to the Texas Senate it was defeated
by a minority led by and marshalled by Senator
Willacy. On that Sunday as these two Senators
looked down upon the upturned faces of the A.
and M. cadets did the conscience of one of these
men smite him as he looked backed upon his
endeavors and as he read the inmost recesses of
his own soul?
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A FIRST-CLASS PROHIBITION PAPER THE
NEED OF THE HOUR.
Dr. George C. Rankin, Editor Home and State:
Dear Dr. Rankin—It seems to me that the
above heading speaks the truth very emphati-
cally. There is not a secular daily, weekly or
semi-weekly paper of general circulation in
the State, except Home and State, published
in Texas, that we know of, that does not con-
tain whiskey advertisements in great flaring
letters. My son, 16 years of age, recently pick-
ed up the only secular weekly we take, as we
have stopped all others because of whiskey
ads and only take this one to keep posted
some on the news of the world. He asked me
why I took that paper, noting that it was full
of whiskey ads. You know, Doctor, I wish that'
we could have a paper gotten up by our own
people in which the news could be published
and that would call for no such comments as
the above. Why not establish a great Texas
paper than can come into our homes and we
will not have to blush for it? Is there not
enough wealth in the prohibition ranks to in-
corporate a company and establish such a
paper? It seems to me that the need of the
hour is such that a paper should be established,
if possible right away.
The editorial staff of the Home and State is
strong enough for a genuine first-class paper
and it also seems to be the opportune time
as the different leaders go from county to coun-
ty to organize Anti-Saloon Leagues for them
to take copies of the paper and solicit sub-
scriptions, also act as representatives for the
paper. By this means alone the question of
submission would be brought before the people
in the next two years and victory would be
doubly assured when the vote is taken. One
of our large city newspapers prints Faith, Hope
and Love in its editorial columns and over on
the other page the “finest and best distilled
whiskey” is offered in a large advertisement. •
Let this be discussed in the columns of the
Home and State and give the people a chance
to have clean reading to put before their chil-
dren. Yours for the home,
E. J. HAMMOND.
The above letter of Mr. Hammond is one of
several that the Home and State has re-
The gale of "personal privilege” 16,000 words
long swept through the Senate, at Austin, Sat-
urday just before the Sunday papers went to
press. No damage done, but the people pay
the freight.
SENATORS WILLACY AND BRACHFIELD
BEFORE THE A. AND M. CADETS.
On Sunday, April 18th, Senators Willacy and
Brachfield addressed the A. and M. cadets, there-
by fulfilling a promise to visit this important
State institution and look into its needs. That
the A. and M. should be more liberally cared for
by the Legislature there seems to be no doubt,
and we heartily endorse any action on this line.
But as this is a matter for the Legislature to
handle entirely, the Home and State wishes to
refer to another matter that the visit and
speeches of the two Senators suggest. At the
A. and M. are hundreds of young men, as Sena-
tor Willacy well says, who may be “Emperors
among men” some day. But what has Senator
Willacy been concerned with practically all of
his public life in Texas? Has he not given his
ability and his tmought to open the door to let
in the saloon into every county in Texas even
where its good citizens had voted it out? Has
he not championed the cause of the brewers and
the liquor forces in Texas in season and out of
season, and will the open saloon make "em-
UNIVERSITY BOYS AT SAN ANTONIO.
We have it on information that the bars of
San Antonio as far as noticed were crowded
with young men on San Jacinto Day, all drink-
ing shamelessly in the no screen saloons. Of
these young men not a few are said to have
been boys from Austin, students of the State
University, who had come down on the excur-
sion. Of course not all of the University boys
who came thus forgot themselves, but those
who did presented a! most deplorable scene.
Could the good fathers and mothers back home
have witnessed that spectacle there would have
been many an aching heart in Texas. But drink-
ing is only lightly regarded in San Antonio; in
fact, it is rather expected of one. No wonder,
then, the inviting bar-rooms gathered the young
men inby the score, the gilded city youth en
ticing in his sturdy country friend for just
one social glass, to leave dull care and lecture
grind behind for the nonce. Shall San Antonio
and Austin and other Texas cities continue to
debauch our college boys?
cently received. For some time there has been
a demand for a first-class paper for Texas
whose advertising columns do not exude whis-
key and beer announcements at almost every
pore. It has been suggested by several of our
correspondents, besides Mr. Hammond, that if
such a paper is to come it logically must be
built up through the Home and State. At pres-
ent the time is not ripe for a daily. The ground
has been gone over very carefully and the mat-
ter .has been gone into very thoroughly. In
this brief space the reasons can not be given,
but they are sufficient. The course decided on
was to ask the prohibitionists to rally their
full strength for the present to Home and State
and help to build it up at once into a first-class
weekly of sixteen pages, containing some four
pages of well-edited, condensed prohibition
matter, and the remainder of the paper to be
devoted to departments of general interest. To
accomplish the plan we have in mind, several
additional writers will be added to our present
staff, and we will be able to produce possibly
the best weekly paper in Texas, barring none.
We have plans that we believe will enable us
to put the Home and State into 100,000 Texas
homes, and certainly it will there prove a tre-
mendous factor in developing prohibition sen-
timent.
We have a plan worked out that will enable
us to accomplish this great work and give the
people of this State a first-class paper. We
ANOTHER WORD FROM THE PEOPLE.
To Home and State:
“I haven’t words adequate to ex-
press my gratitude and admiration
for the fight Home and State is
making for the cause of good gov-
ernment, and especially the cause
of temperance. I believe you have
the enemy on the run. God bless
you is the prayer of tens of thou-
sands of the best citizens of Texas.
We have seen many a plucky fight-
er, but Home and State beats them
all.” Yours truly,
S. A. ABBOTT.
Beaukiss, Texas.
No question is ever settled until it is settled
right. Truth must inevitably be victor over
trickery. A subterfuge may suffice for the hour,
but it cannot withstand the disclosure which is
inevitable, and the reaction of public opinion
which is certain to crush it sooner or later. The
man or men who counselled the liquor barons to
defeat submission in the 31st Legislature made
a colossal mistake. Every day now this mistake
looms higher and broader, as an oncoming tidal
wave of public opinion, which will stand for no
such treachery. The Home and State, aided by
scores of good friends, such as Mr/Abbott, has
sought to turn on the light so far as possible.
The harvest is ripening and the knowledge that
the people have been tricked by a treacherous
minority has taken deep hold on the public mind
of this State. The American believes in fair
play, no matter what his individual sentiments
may be. He asks it for himself, and he asks it
for his fellows. The Home and State honors
manhood that fights in the open , though we
may disagree as widely aS the poles. We believe
therefore, as our good friend Mr. Abbott states,
that we have “tens of thousands of the best
people of Texas” with us in this fight for the
homes of this State. The saloon must go.
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Rankin, George C. The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1909, newspaper, May 1, 1909; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569448/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.