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HOME AND STATE
January 11,1913.
more harm than
loon counties into prohibition counties.
Asking your pardon again, I will
chine
men,
NOTES FROM ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS
By J. H. GAMBRELL, Superintendent
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NEW YORK CITY’S LIQUOR BILL.
New York spends $365,000,000 a year—$1,000,000
a day—for drink.
It equals nearly four times the annual gold pro-
duction—$100,000,000.
It is six times the annual silver production— $60 •
000,000.
It is more than half the total assets of all the
building and loan associations in the country—
$600,000,000.
The city's drink money would pay twice over the
salaries of all the public school teachers in the
country.
There is one saloon for every thirty families
—Ex.
It does attend to it.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS.
R. C. Dial, Greenville, Dallas District; Rev.
Atticus Webb, Fort Worth, Fort Worth-Abi-
lene District; Rev. W. C. Dunn, Houston,
Houston District; Rev. J. M. Hamby, Center
Point, San Antonio District; Rev. C. F. Annis
Brownwood District.
a fool rascal. The liquor ma-
net er uses blockheads, but always smart
to catch blockheads. The question about
In the recent Los Angeles County, Cal., local
option election, 3655 voted for saloons and 12,532
voted against saloons, in country precincts, 3% to
1. Wonder why they didn't make it unanimous?
Doomsday is coming to saloons everywhere.
* * *
If prohibition is not enforced anywhere, the
remedy is to “repeal” officials, not the good law.
The sharpest knife will not cut by itself. Get that
" pint” and hold on to it. A good law and bad of-
ficials don’t work together, and the law is not to
blame.
The Battle With the Bottle B
any man seeking a position is, what is he, what
does he stand for? Better not be too smart, and be
right morally, than to be very smart, and wrong
morally. Smartness is not everything, nor the
main thing, by a great deal.
* * *
If anything has ever been demonstrated, that
thing is that a saloon is a political club in which
schemes are devised to control local officials and
State politics. Salookeepers and their comrades
know that saloons can not prosper and obey the
law. They, therefore, feel compelled to dominate
and control the official and political life of their
communities and State. Their business depends
upon such control. It is foolish to complain of
“saloons meddling in politics.” They always have
done it, and will do it as long as they exist. The
only way to prevent saloons dominating politics is
to end saloons. That is as sure as that two and
two make four.
not appear how antis, that talk much about “local
self-government,” could get around such a propo-
sition, without giving the lie to what they have
been saying. Such a bill would not involve inter-
state commerce, and would keep liquor dealers
outside from doing what 174 counties have refused
to allow any of their own citizens to do. Let the
thing be done, because justice demands it.
* * *
A friend writes that a certain pastor (?) gave as
a reason for not opposing saloons: “Several sa-
loonkeepers belong to my church and contribute
to its treasury, and I must not destroy my influence
as their spiritual adviser.” That is tomfoolery gone
to seed. What is a “spiritual adviser,” condoning
sin and spiritual death, worth? People are not
saved in sin, but by getting them out of sin. A
pastor that don’t know that much, is a religious
idiot. Those contributions to church funds, con-
stitute “a covenant with hell.”
* * *
Writing about a well known political limber-
jack, a man says: “He is a rabid anti, and will go
to the Legislature as our representative, obtaining
the office by deceit and every other dishonorable
way.” That raises again the question, is it any
more honorable to steal votes than it is to steal
money or property? Another question: how long
ought deception and lying to get office be tolerated
in Texas politics? When will honorable citizens
put the brand of infamy on political deceivers and
liars? The branding iron of contempt ought to
be applied from now on, as long as needed.
* * *
Some people seem unable to understand that
when a man is morally wrong, the shrewder he is,
the more dangerous he is. If he is suave, and has
some good qualities, his power for evil is all the
greater. One reason the devil gives people so
much trouble, is, he is smart. A smart rascal does
* * *
“Granger, Tex.—I have to ask your pardon for
waiting so long in sending this money. The dear
one who promised to pay it, was called to his re-
ward, and I have just not found it convenient to
following. March 4th—two months—a prohibition
sun will rise in the Senate, and the darkened moon
will set forever. Things could be worse, bad as
they are. Col. Johnston is just what the things
he stands for have made him. Other States have
had vacancies in the Senate, for longer than two
months. The honor is an empty one all around. In
fine, it is a burlesque on Texas.
* * *
The last heard from the prohibition majority in
West Virginia was upward of 97,000, and still
climbing. Sensible men at the head or “big busi-
ness interests” worked like Trojans to help kill
the liquor dragon and get it out of the way of their
enterprises. Big day's work that was.
* * *
If 1913 is made memorable by the activity of
prohibitionists, in educational and organization
work, throughout wet and dry territory alike, it will
make another memorable year, in the banishment
of saloons in the near future. Prohibitionists need
to face the fact that they have the whole ques-
tion, how long will saloons blight Texas, in their
own hands, and they can not escape corresponding
responsibility. The Anti-Saloon League manage-
ment is pressing the work to redeem Texas. Let no
comrade anywhere “lay down on the job.” Liquor
machine forces are secretly active 365 days in the
year, election or no election. If the League had
one dollar for ever fifty dollars that will be spent
for political purposes this year by the liquor ma-
chines, there would be a canvass of every county
for prohibition and the enforcement of law. This
would produce marvelous results abiding through
all the years to come.
* * *
THE SITUATION—What will be the results of
the election two years hence, will depend upon the
educational work done by prohibitionists, between
now and then. A “jumped up” campaign is a losing
campaign for prohibition. The smoke of the last
campaign had not passed away, when saloon forces
began work, in their peculiar, secret way, framing
up things for the next contest, and they will stay
at it steadily, till the fight ends. Their business
is to fool voters, and the business of prohibitionists
is to enlighten them. It is constant work against
constant work. The one as dark as midnight, as
secret as lodge business, the other as light as day,
and as open as church services. Everlastingly at
it, is the only way to rout saloon forces. The
prohibition movement was originated in and flowed
out from, the churches with pastors as leaders.
These forces, with their moral allies, must keep
their hands on the movement, and press it to a
clean finish. Failure here would be suicidal. The
masses regard preachers and churches as safer lead-
ers than saloon papers and politicians, in any cause
they espouse, because they know they act on con-
science and are unselfish in seeking to enthrone hu-
manity above the greed of the commercialized spirit
promoted by saloons and saloon politics. Constant
work against constant work will win; nothing else
will.
* * *
Papers said when President-elect Wilson held
up his finger and said in his recent New York
speech: “The man who starts a panic in this coun-
try, will be hung as high as Haman,” etc., it sent
cold chills up and down the spines of big financiers.
For the information of the saloon gang, it stated
that the Bible tells about a gentleman named Ha-
man, who was hung on a gallows he built to hang
another man on. The new President is apt in fig-
ures of speech and facts.
* * *
It ought to be put up to the Legislature, to pass
a law prohibiting the shipment of liquors from sa-
* * *
During a recent Mississippi court, the Judge fined
and put in jail a deputy Sheriff, city Marshal and
Magistrate for grafting blind-tigerists, and refusing
to enforce the prohibition law. That kind of pro-
cedure is very discouraging to lawbreakers in gen-
eral. Prohibition prohibits.
* * *
Christian Commonwealth, Madisonville, advises
that the way to kill a moth, is to “hit it on the
head with a hammer.” How large a hammer, about
the size of the brain of a man who thinks saloons
are good things and help legitimate business? That
is a mighty little hammer, you know.
* * *
Secretary McVeagh of the Treasury has abol-
ished the common towel on trains, waiting rooms,
steamships, etc. It will soon be so everybody will
have to carry his own toothpick and tooth brush,
and not borrow. Is this a free country? Oh, yes,
negroes and white folks still drink out of the same
saloon glasses. There is some “personal liberty”
left about in spots. Later, all the spots will be
rubbed out. Then?
* * *
Judge Paul Celia, Texarkana, has refused to
grant saloon license in Miller county, Arkansas,
in which half of Texarkana is located, though a
majority petitioned for license. He assigned his
reasons in this statement: “Saloons are morally
indefensible, and a majority of the white people are
opposed to the traffic.” There can be no appeal,
and the matter is settled on the right principle.
Congratulations to Texarkana citizens, both sides.
* * *
“Barrels and Bottles,” liquor organ, is gloating
over the attacks prohibition party people make on
the Anti-Saloon League. Saloonkeepers and brew-
ers are doing the same thing. This is strange com-
pany for prohibitionists to keep, and it will never
result in closing a single saloon. That is certain.
The smash-everything-and-pick-up-the-pieces poli-
cy has never won anything among thinking people
except contempt, and ridicule among consorts.
* * *
Some men appear to think that they can help
damn people, by supporting saloons, and a priest
will keep them out of hell, but they will discover
their mistake when they wake up in “the lake of
fire and brimstone.” The priest that fools men
about the matter will be there also. None but God
can forgive the sin of killing people by supporting
saloons, and he forgives only when there is re-
pentance and repudiation of saloons. The priest
is not in it. -
Some time back the government of Sweden
closed saloons during a great strike. Since the
Consolidated Brewing Company, the largest in the
country failed. The president stated that during
the strike drinkers found out that they are better
off, every way, without beer, and had quit for
good. This precipitated the failure, the stockhold-
ers receiving only 25 per cent on paid capital. Thus
is the business of bugjuice venders and grave dig-
gers being swatted all the world over. Press the
fight, o ye patriotic Texans!
* * *
Saturday, Dec. 28th, last, China, Nome and
Amelia, Jefferson county, voted “dry” by 22 ma-
jority. This is another prohibition victory. The
country where Americans contioi is against sa-
loons. Only saloon cities, where virtue and every-
thing is subordinated to greed, are for saloons.
From these saloon cities humanity and its homes
are being exploited in spite of “local self-govern-
ment. Shall Texas dominate its cities, or shall
its cities control Texas? It will be one or the
other.
* * *
A NEWSY LETTER.
( ONROE, Texas, Dec. 30, 1912.—Well, our
“A election is over, and we won the county by
nearly a hundred majority; the antis are in
tears, and the saloons in mourning. Carried over
half the boxes of the county, and the country vote
was grand for the pros. One box sent in 13 votes,
12 pros. Another, 12 votes, all pros.
We wish to thank the Anti-Saloon League for
the literature sent us, as we feel confident that
half our battle was won when we succeeded in
getting reading matter before the voters.
I am sending you by prepaid express, a bundle
of placards, etc., which we had left over. Please take
them and turn them over to some county commit-
tee for use in another pro election.
Tell Home and State the news, and have it pub-
lished there. Jeff McLemore will read it in the
Home and State.
With best wishes.
try to do better for the dearest cause on earth. We
hope we will soon see the day when our dear State
will be free from the rum curse, and that it will help
by its good example, to run the saloons off the
face of the earth. T hen each mother can feel that
her children will not be tempted every time they
get out of her sight. “On with the battle.”—Mrs. P.
L. Stanley. (A good example that many, having
pledges, ought to at once follow, and help bring
in the longed-for day.)
* * *
Senator Bailey resigned Jan. 3rd., and Governor
Colquitt appointed Col. R. M. Johnston his suc-
cessor. The appointment is no surprise, and doubt-
less rests on three grounds: 1. The liquor interest
and allies demanded it. 2. The appointee is a
“dyed in the wool” reactionary in politics. 3. Ex-
Senator Bailey wanted him to rattle around in the
vacancy created by himself. Why, all are left to
guess. It is a case of sunset, with a clouded moon
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