The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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Liquor advertisements in the
is of today are prepared with skill
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for which please give me credit for
years subscription.
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World's Temperance Sunday
By Mrs. Nannie W. Curtis
ani,2912.
pres:
AN EFFORT TO DEFEAT JUDGE
PRENDERGAST.
yUDGE PRENDERGAST is a mem-
11 ber of the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals, and he and Judge Harper
have been doing some excellent
Take Non-Tiquor Selling Papers
__By H. A. Ivy, Sherman, Texas.
St. Nicholas.
Suburban Life.
Success.
Uncle Remus’ Magazine.
Woman’s Home Companion.
World To-Day.
Woman’s Magazine.
World’s Work.
Youth’s Companion.
In this connection I should be glad
to give a complete list of daily, week-
ly and monthly Texas publications
whose columns are closed to liquor
advertisements, but at present I am
only able to make a start. I have rea-
son to believe that half the country
weeklies and smaller dailies in Texas
refuse to sell liquor through adver-
tisements in their columns. A wide
publicity of such a list of non-liquor
selling papers will greatly advance the
cause of temperance in Texas and give
a just recognition of the sacrifice of
the publications in behalf of the cause.
Let those who read this get their
local papers to reproduce the list add-
ing the names of their own paper, if
they will, and send me marked copies
of the papers, and thereby help com-
pile the list.
Non-Liquor-Advertising Texas Papers.
All religious papers of the State.
THE HOME AND STATE
A. R. Frisby, of Ferris, thus writes:
“Am, well pleased with paper andhope
you will be successful in your primar-
ies as I can not vote in them as I
might have to hold my nose in the
general election. I am a prohibition
Republican.”
You mean to renew sometime. Won’t you do it now? This is the season of
the year when we publishers need all the money that we can get, and we would
appreciate it if our friends would send us their renewals for a Christmas present.
WHY NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR TWO AND THREE YEAR OFFERS?
Liquor advertising is intended to
sell liquor. Liquor advertising in pa-
pers does sell liquor, else liquor men
would not advertise in papers. Hence
papers that publish liquor advertise-
ments sell liquor to their readers for
their liquor advertisers, and people
who take liquor-advertising papers
help such papers in their liquor sell-
ing. If you do not relish being a li-
quor seller’s helper, you should quit
taking liquor-advertising papers and
magazines, just as soon as you can
find non-liquor-advertising papers and
magazines that meet your needs.
The time is near at hand when most
families will order their magazine lit-
erature for the good year Anno Domi-
In view of the fact that many things
had been planned which it would take
both money and co-operation of forces
to accomplish, I thought I would not
be transcending right and justice if
I sent to the pastors of Texas, a re-
quest for World’s Temperance Sun-
day. If I have done something that
I should not, I sincerely beg to be ex-
cused. I know that our pastors are
besieged upon every hand, and I know,
too, that they are often so overtaxed
with duties, and over-run with circu-
lars and literature, I am not surprised
if all my letters have gone into the
waste basket, and but for the fact that
I am expected to do something, and
shall be blamed and perhaps severly
censured if I fail, I just felt that I
must beg the leniency of the editor for
this message to you, that you may un-
derstand, if I do not do all that you
think I should. Below is a copy of
a letter sent to every pastor in Texas.
Read it, and then let me give my rea-
sons for it. With this letter was sent
a “Catechism on World’s Temperance
Sunday:
“Dear Brother:
“As the 12th of November is World’s
Temperance Sunday, and that is the
living issue in Texas to-day, I’m sure
R. L. McIntyre, of Center City,
writes: “I think every citizen of Tex-
as ought to read Home and State. Af-
ter having read it any length of time
anyone can vote intelligently for our
State officers. Home and State has
a place of its own in the morals of the
State and well is it filling its mission.”
TWO YEARS FOR $1.50. THREE YEARS FOR $2.00. "Sit right down today
and send us your renewal on one of these offers. Or you can get your neighbor to
send in his subscription with yours and get them both for $1.50. Or better still get
two other friends to send in with yours and get all three subscriptions for $2.00.
Look on your label and see if your subscription has expired. The figures show
when the subscriptions expire. The first figure denotes the month and the second
the year. For instance 10-1-11 means Oct. 1, 1911.
Next year will be a history maker in Texas and as usual Home & State will be
in the forefront of the fight and if you want to keep up with the progress of the great
fight it will be necessary to have the Home & State.
WE ARE EXPECTING YOUR RENEWAL. SIGN THE BLANK BELOW.
H. M. Parker, of Alvin, renews sub-
scription to Home and State, and says:
“We feel like we can not do without
it. It is waging a valiant warfare
against whiskey.”
and ingenuity calculated to deceive,
not only the young and unsophisticat-
ed, but the very elect, into believing
that alcoholic beverages are conducive
to health and strength and long
life. Of course every intelligent per-
son at the present day knows they are
poisonous to the healthy human body,
and used even in moderate quantities
regularly, greatly shorten the lives of
the users, reduce their industrial effi-
ciency while they live, and send many
on drinking careers that end in drunk-
ards’ graves.
We take it that parents generally
will be glad to spare their children
the temptations placed before them in
these deceptive liquor advertisements,
and for their assistance I give here-
with a list of American magazines
whose columns are closed to advertise-
ments of alcoholic liquors. It is be-
lieved that from this list a substitute
can be found for almost any liquor-ad-
vertising periodical that a Texas fam-
ily needs on its reading table. If you
can find it suitable reading matter
for every member of your family, ought
you not to refuse to subscribe for pe-
riodicals that will try through cun-
ningly devised advertising to sell liq-
our to members of your faily and
to your friends who may happen to
read your magazine.
Non-Liquor Advertising Magazines.
All-Story.
American Boy.
Argosy.
Cavalier.
Century.
Circle.
Collier’s.
Country Life in America.
Current Literature.
Delineator.
Designer.
Everybody’s Magazine.
Garden Magazine.
Good Housekeeping.
Harper’s Magazine.
Harper’s Bazaar.
Housekeeper.
Household.
Housewife.
Ladies’ Home Journal.
Ladies’ World.
Literary Digest.
Living Age.
McClure’s Magazine.
Modern Priscilla.
New England Magazine.
New Idea Woman’s Magazine.
Outloook.
Railroad Man’s Magazine.
Review of Reviews.
Saturday Evening Post.
Scrap-Book.
ter unfitness of Governor Colquitt or any
of his creatures to longer hold positions
of honor and trust. Were these confes-
sions of error warranted there would be
less room for criticism, but proof to the
contrary is shown in the fact that even
after such act by C. E. Lane or his as-
sistant the court has affirmed the judg-
ment for the State, returned in the lower
court. This, mind you, by the Court of
Criminal Appeals, a tribunal certainly not
biased against the cause of anti-prohibi-
tion and which in the past has shown an
overweening regard for technicalities.”
Now from reliable source, right under
the eyes and the nose of the Governor
and his man Friday, the Tribune tells us
the exact truth. Texas is having “po-
litical peace” and an impartial adminis-
tration of State affairs with a dark-
browed vengeance. But when we remem-
ber that Oscar Budweiser Colquitt is Gov-
ernor for the time being, we have no sur-
prise coming!
id. When Judge Davidson ruled that
tribunal, things were otherwise; but we
want no backward step. With Judge
Prendergast on the bench we will have
no danger along these lines, but with him -
off of it, then the danger is upon us.
When an honest man does his duty as
this man is doing, he is entitled to the
support of all good citizens. He is a fear-
less man, with right conceptions of his
position and with a due regard for law
enforcement; and he is one of the ablest
lawyers and jurists in the State. Such a
man is worthy the confidence and support
of all people who believe in the peace and
order of society and the right administra-
tion of the Constitution and laws of the
State.
Therefore, it becomes all believers in
the strict enforcement of laws against
crime, local option laws and the Sunday
laws, to open their eyes to what is going
on and get busy. By doing our duty we
can re-elect Judge Prendergast by a hand-
some majority, and we must see to it that
it is done. We can not permit a set of
designing men to defeat a good and an
able man who is so fearlessly doing his
duty to the laws of the State and the
peace and order of society. Put the name
of Judge Prendergast in your note book
and begin at once to do your best for
him!
stop to reversing nearly every case sent
up to that tribunal by the lower courts
simply upon the ground of some trivial
technicality. They are affirming most of
the cases if zhe evidence shows that there
was a fair trial by the jury, a just inter-
pretation of the law by the court, and a
reasonable conformity to the law. They
have discontinued the practice to worship
trifles before that bench, and they are
giving criminals their just dues wherever
it is possible.
They have also upheld the Sunday law
in the case of theaters and moving pic-
ture shows, and put local authorities
where they can enforce the law against
these Sunday desecrations. They are also
upholding the local option laws in every
instance and making them more certain
of enforcement. All this does not suit
criminal and pettyfogging lawyers who
make their living by getting reversals in
the higher court by pointing out some
trifling error in the trial court.
It is currently reported that Judge W.
L. Davidson of that court is very much
perturbed over the matter, and he has
written his strongest dissenting opinion
to these Sunday law decisions and ex-
pressed himself in no uncertain terms.
work on that bench. They have put a
J. J. Baskin, of Munday, says: “I
wish every home in the State had
Home and State . It is doing a great
work for prohibition. I think every
one taking a paper containing whis-
key ads should have them discon-
tinued at once.”
As a lawyer he has become obsolete, and
he takes it very much to heart that his
opinion no longer controls the action of
that high court. He realizes that he is
only a figurehead in the proceedings of
that body, and he does not appreciate the
condition of things. It is said round and
about the capitol that he is anxious to
see some man put in the field against
Judge Prendergast and is doing in a pri-
vate way all that he can to encourage a
movement of that sort. How this is, as a
matter of fact, we do not know, but we
heard it discussed when in Austin the
other day. And rumor has it that a cer-
tain class of lawyers have already agreed
upon a certain Dallas attorney as the man
to be pitted against Judge Prendergast,
and for no other reason than that the old
regime, established by Judge Davidson,
may be re-established. And it is report-
ed that the Dallas attorney has about
agreed to make the race provided “cer-
tain designing men” will organize the
campaign for him, meet the most of the
expense and become responsible for it.
Is this true?
If so, it behooves the moral element to
understand the situation and get ready
for it. We want the court’s interpreta-
tion of the Sunday laws to stand, and we
want our local option laws to remain val-
that you wish to make it a day of
lasting good to our people. The Tex-
as Woman’s Christian Union is in this
fight till the victory is won. We took
our places in the recent campaign,
and found, as I think you no doubt
saw, that none other could quite fill
the woman’s place in that conflict. As
president of the Texas W. C. T. U. I
saw our needs and our strongholds.
The battle is to be fought again soon,
and the advice, ‘in times of peace, pre-
pare for war,’ is good. Just now we
need funds to equip our army and fur-
nish the ammunition. Every Church
should have placards, posters, leaflets,
etc., to educate daily the masses.
Every Temperance Sunday should be
filled with helps and suggestions such
as we might furnish if only we had the
means. Calls come daily for organiz-
ers to get the women and children
trained, but no funds to send them.
Now, as a bit of practical work for
prohibition, this is to ask that you
preach a temperance sermon on the
12th of November, and allow a part of
all the offering for that day, to be
sent to us to do these things. If every
Church would do that we would have
funds to push to victory, this cause,
and no one would feel the stress.
“If you will do this, just notify me,
Waco, Texas. Yours for a white map,
“MRS. NANNIE W. CURTIS.”
This letter as sent out is explanato-
ry as to general needs. Now, some
specific needs. This winter in Con-
gress we are to try for that Interstate
Commerce Law as never before. Peti-
tions must be circulated, telegrams
and letters sent from all over Texas.
It takes money to do these things.
The battleship Texas is to be chris-
tened and a Texas girl is to do it—
Miss Claudia Lyon, of Sherman. I
have been planning for petitions to
be sent from all over Texas, asking
that this battleship be christened with
water, not wine. . It takes money to
buy postage, and when I tell you that I
spent $40 for postage to send out the
above letter to the pastors, and $10 for
stationery and for writing of the let-
ters—that out of the 2500 letters sent
25 came back unclaimed, and but three
remittances, aggregating $19.25, you
will see how we stand. If I, or the
W. C. T. U. had the money to do the
work, we would gladly give our labor,
but it is almost universally a fact that
each and every W. C. T. U. member
is an active Church worker in her de-
nomination, giving all she can afford
to her Church, giving so far as she
can of her labor and money to local
W. C. T. U. work. One can under-
stand how we have been the “hewers
of wood and drawers of water.” In
addition to the postage used as above,
I was charged $15 for the temperance
programs furnished by our great Sun-
day-school leader, Marian Laurence.
This should be paid, and I shall do it.
Calls are coming for organizers, but
we have no funds for this. We ask
for dates for our speakers to present
the cause, and organize, and are often
unable to secure a church at a time
that would save us travelling ex-
penses, and must pass on, not to re-
turn, or at added expense if we go at
later date, or more convenient season.
Now, if each Church would send us
five dollars, or even one dollar, we
could circulate petitions, send litera-
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