The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 18, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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January 18, 1913.
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opinion of the law.” People generally, know what
hurts their business.
NOTES FROM ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS
By J. H. GAMBRELL, Superintendent
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The Battle With the Bottle
Unearthing “blind tigers” in Jackson, Miss., some
railroad employes have come to grief; several of
them have been discharged, but the courts have
them in hand. Gov. Brewer and Anti-Saloon League
authorities co-operating, have stirred the blind
tigers in Vicksburg and Natchez, and pandemonium
reigns among the law-breakers. All those not ar-
rested are making for tall timber outside the State.
Prohibition prohibits.
For two things, destroying saloons and the en-
forcement of law, the Anti-Saloon League is the
greatest comradeship Texans have ever known.
One of the shrewdest anti lawyers in the State
said some time ago: “The Anti-Saloon League
means the death of saloons and their politicians.”
That is the intention of it.
Ex-Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee, recently stated
in a saloon speech, that a nearby town had voted
dry and was dead as the result; that he had been
there, and knew what he said was true. The au-
dience laughed and Rose was informed that the
town he named, had voted wet instead of dry.
That shows with what facility, saloon advocates
insult the truth, and those who hear them. Noth-
ing they say on the subject, can be relied on at all.
“the livery of heaven.” The doctrine of total de-
pravity is true.
Has anybody noticed anything in any pro saloon
paper in favor of taking the affairs of Texas out of
the hands of ignorant foreigners and negroes and
letting intelligence settle questions at the ballot
box? “Not on your life.” Why is it thus? Shall
besotted ignorance continue to dominate Texas
morals? These are live questions.
The last heard from, old Auntie “State Impo-
tency” was tottering along near the graveyard. It
appears to be a case where one has become so dis-
reputable that there must be self-burial, with no
ceremonies, tears, prayers, songs or flowers. In
1887, Cone Johnson, then anti, told Joe Bailey, then
pro, that his “main objection to prohibition, is that
it does prohibit, as Bailey says it does.” That is
still the objection all antis have to prohibition in
cities and country alike. Auntie “State Impotency”
is nearly gone. Let her go!
We have licensed hell. For a price, we have
given the devil permission to produce poverty,
profligacy, cruelty, wretchedness and death.—
Bishop Berry.
Newfoundland has entire prohibition, except in
the City of St. John. It has a population of about
250,000. Crimes and lesser disorders have prac-
tically disappeared, since prohibition has been adopt-
ed. So prohibition works everywhere.
News has been received that the liquor machine
employee, Rev. (?) U. G. Robinson, St. Louis,
turned up in the Chicago Federation of Churches,
with a credential signed by another erstwhile Anti-
Saloon League man, who has been discharged, and
repudiated for good reasons. As soon as discov-
ered, he was put out of the meeting, and told to
“hike.” He hiked. He and his kind have the im-
pudence of Satan himself. This is the “lewd fellow
of the baser sort,” that saloon papers quote from
as “reliable authority.” It is skunk doings all
around, among them. As long as he gets money
from the liquor machine, Robinson will serve its
interest, the best he can. He has no conscience
to bother him, while trying to serve saloons in
It will be a fine day when all prohibitionists make
up their minds' to follow the leaders of the cause.
A prominent lawyer recently said: “It is a hurt-
ful mistake to honor men with positions who are
driven to prohibition by public sentiment and want
office. Such men are unreliable, and constantly
make excuses for sacrificing the cause to accom-
plish selfish political purposes.” There is some-
thing to think about in that statement. Conscripts
don t make dependable soldiers, much less captains,
majors and generals. Good sense is worth a great
deal anywhere, in any case. Prohibitionists ought
to be wise enough to stay with the men who have
led their cause to its commanding position. These
men have no selfish purposes to serve, and have
never had.
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 rich deacon, close and stubborn, gave Dr. A.
J. Gordon, of Boston, a great deal of trouble. One
day, he handed Dr. Gordon a check for $1,000 for
missions, while tears streamed down his face.
Asked to explain, he took his pastor into an ad-
joining room, and pointed to a painting of his
beautiful dead daughter, and said: “God had to take
her from me, to get me to do my duty, which I
mean to do, from now, on.” Some time back, a
man in a prohibition county, said: “Let other peo-
ple get rid of saloons as we did. It is none of my
business about people in other counties. What
they have is their business.” A little later, his son
visited some friends, a jug of liquor was on tap, a
fight ensued, and his son was shot. Then he dis-
covered that what people in other counties do,
made business for him. “Chickens do come home
to roost.” Some people refuse to lock the stable,
until the horse is gone. Some people are selfish
till their own hearts are made to bleed. Some
people never learn the lesson that they are their
brother’s keeper, until they learn it in tears of be-
ravement, but they learn it sooner or later. Are
you waiting for the heartache, the tears, the be-
reavement, but they learn it sooner or later. Are
home in Texas is safe, as long as Texas authorizes
the sale of liquor in any county within its borders.
Why will sensible people wait for the primary les-
son of civilization to be written for them in their
own warm blood, before they learn it? Echo an-
swers why. But they learn.
Hector McPherson, the noted Scotch journalist,
says, churches are dispelling the shadow that drink
has cast over Scotland, and they will make an
end of the liquor business, if they keep up the fight.
In every section of the world the liquor business is
being routed, and preachers and churches are lead-
ing the fight everywhere. The Scotland Temper-
ance Union has the co-operation of all preachers
and churches. This explains the onward march of
the anti-liquor movement in that country, and tells
why great newspapers are supporting it. So it
ought to be in America.
There is always something new under the sun.
According to Bryan Eagle, there are fourteen
saloons in that city, and the owner of one of them,
says he wants the Legislature to get busy and re-
lieve the situation. He wants only one saloon to
each thousand, (actual count), the license put at
$1500, sure enough “daylight closing,” more rigid
laws for granting license, and stricter enforcement
of law. Great stars! That fellow must be fixing
to quit. Isn’t it a shame that Bryan, an educa-
tional center in which hundreds of young people
are gathered in schools and near which, is Texas
A. & M. College, with more than one thousand
students, should be dominated by saloons, backed
mainly, by foreigners and negroes, who can neither
read nor write? The Bryan saloon keeper is right
in saying something ought to be done, though he
does not name the right thing.
On personal grounds, Senator Culberson is
pleased with the appointment of Senator Johns-
ton. On the other hand, Hon. R. L. Henry is not
pleased, because Col. Johnston is a reactionary in
politics, and fought Wilson in Texas and in the
Baltimore convention, and is not in accord with
Wilson, or National democratic party policies. It
looks like Mr. Henry’s view is the correct one,
from a party standpoint. The great objection pro-
hibitionists have to Col. Johnston, is he stands
with the liquor machine in politics.
From Dallas’ homicide record of 1912, we infer
that a great many people have a right to attribute
the circumstances of their being alive on New
Year, to the fact that they are not citizens of Dal-
las.—Houston Post. Remarks: 1. The Dallas
murder record is largely due to saloons. 2. Sa-
loons have authority from saloon voters, who are
responsible for saloon results. 3. The same mur-
der records disgrace all other saloon cities. 4. The
murdered are counted in Dallas, while in some
other saloon cities, they are not. 5. Houston Post
is not in position to “poke fun at” Dallas, sur-
rounded with, and defending saloons, as it is. 6.
For the trial of murder cases, taxpayers of the en-
tire State foot the bills. 7. There is no justice,
sanity, nor good business sense in the whole thing.
Congressman O. W. Underwood says that offi-
cials who fail to faithfully do their duty, should be
driven from office by the people, and honest men
put in their places. He is right; the man who takes
an oath to do certain things, and deliberately re-
fuses to do them, is anything but honest. Offices
were not created for trading purposes, as some
seem to think.
Papers received from nearly every State, show
that there is a revival of moral sentiment, and a
growing demand, for law enforcement, throughout
the nation. This, naturally, is less noticeable in
saloon centers, but the movement is on, even in
those places. Already, has the election of Presi-
dent Wilson had marked effect on the currents of
thought, and when he has been inducted into office,
the effect will become more and more marked.
“Lewd fellows of the baser sort” are wondering
what will happen to them and their long time
scheming against the masses. They are likely to
find that a man, not a mere tool, “is in the saddle.”
The whole trend is to a better, nobler civilization.
The Pope at Rome, American prelates, protestants,
“big business,” the liquor machine, nor any other
sect, or class, will run the government, from now
on, but it will be conducted in the interest of hu-
manity, first of all. As has not been true, since
the civil war, the moral welfare of the masses will
be fostered and promoted, the ensuing four years.
This means that we are entering on an era of sub-
stantial, general prosperity, hitherto unknown, and
spoilsmen are to have a hard time.
Men who are so extra sound on prohibition, as
not to be sensible and practical in politics, and
those backed by evil forces in politics, are fellows
to keep shy of. For some reason, easy to guess,
both classes thoroughly dislike the Anti-Saloon
League, appearing to believe it is bothering them
in their business. More than likely they are right
about it. Forces behind the League have driven
saloons out of 175 Texas counties, without disturb-
ing the party affiliations of anybody. It looks like
the League is bothering somebody, and that is its
business. It will go on bothering people till Texas
is dry.
Within 48 hours, the Anti-Saloon League can
put definite information in the hands of 8,000 trust-
ed men living in every Texas county. It requires
$160 in stamps, to say nothing of stationery, steno-
graphic work, etc., to send a letter to each of these
men. This indicates the strength of the organiza-
tion, and the volume of business it does. No won-
der, the saloon gang hates the Anti-Saloon League.
“No man ever felt the halter draw, with good
Twenty-five years hence people will be amazed
that governments ever legalized a business that
destroying its citizens and their homes as saloons
do. The files of saloon newspapers will be read;
their owners and editors will be written down as
practical heathens, little short of cannibals. Saloon
advocates are putting a cloud over their names
every day they live that will make them repulsive
to succeeding generations. “What I have written,
I have written,” is true of other men besides Pi-
late.
The first week of the year, 1913, Dallas saloons
scored their first victim, when Mr. Long killed Mr.
Nelson, with a shot gun, at the latter’s home.
Nelson had beaten his wife horribly, went away
and wrote her a letter, saying: “I am going away
till I can break away from whiskey. Returning
to his home, with the letter in his pocket, he met
his wife’s stepfather, Mr. Long, at the gate. The kill-
ing followed, Long says, in self defense. A dead
man, a widow, an old man charged with murder, a
court trial, taxpayers of all Texas footing the bills!
Dallas saloons and saloon voters, are responsible
for the whole of it.
Tom Murphy, claiming to be a grandson of the
noted, lamented Francis Murphy, has been in Cali-
fornia as “a temperance lecturer,” making liquor
speeches. The San Pedro Pilot, a political paper,
after commending Francis Murphy strongly says
about Tom:
“But what can we say of his grandson, who,
using the name of Francis Murphy for advertising
purposes, comes to town, not to shake the hand
of the drunkard in the saloon as did his famous
grandfather, but just in the heat of a political cam-
paign to mount the platform and talk in the interest
of the men who collect the tolls over the bar? If
it be true, as has been charged, that he makes this
his business for a price, in the name of his worthy
grandfather, then there is no more despicable
human being than he, for such a man would stoop
to steal the silver from the coffin of a dear depart-
ed one.” Total depravity is a stubborn fact,
well certified to by saloon employees. The mem-
ory of their honorable and illustrious dead is no
barrier to infamous conduct. Such is the debauch-
ing power of the liquor machine.
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