The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 6, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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Sept. 6, 1913.
HOME AND STATE
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W. W. Thomas
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as having the purpose to “put up
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while lawyers could not be compelled to serve on
Grand Juries, those who were serving had been
solicited to do so in view of the fact that the
affairs of the County Attorney’s office were to be
investigated. It was therefore desirable to have
on the Grand Jury some men whose knowledge
of law is accurate and whose opinions are unbiased
by personal considerations. It was shown that the
lawyers on the Grand Jury were serving in that
capacity simply as a matter of public duty.
There was evidence, also, tending to show that
for some time back Grand Juries had been framed
uj in the County Attorney’s office for the purpose
of protecting the law-breakers of the city, of
various sorts. # thus appears that sworn public
officials use the forms of law for the protection of
the very people the law makes it their duty to
bring to the bar of justice, in the interest of
society and good morals. The liquor machine
and allies has been rioting in the things that any
city must depend upon for good order, and per-
manent prosperity. The saloons have had the
whip hand in official circles in Fort Worth for
years and years, and will have until their political
power is broken. There are thousands of as good
people in Fort Worth as live anywhere, but so
far as law and order are concerned, they are
throttled by the conscienceless ard remorseless
political liquor machine, in alliance with every
other known evil, seeking to profit by the de-
bauchery of humanity.
And this is not all of it. The virus of moral
death, created in Fort Worth, diffuses itself scores
and scores of miles around the city, while the
people living outside the city limits have no right
of protest except in a State-wide movement that
will clean up the bacchanalian conditions that exist
there. Conditions in Fort Worth are true of other
saloon cities, only less aggravating. Every State
that has gone to the bad politically owes its dis-
grace to the maudlin and debauched conditions
that obtain in their cities. It is the concern of
every citizen of Texas what conditions in Texas
cities are. That saloons and allied evils are barri-
caded in these cities now, is no reason why they
should continue so, and citizerfs throughout the
State pay the expenses.
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POISONED WHISKY.
n/ ORPHINE, concentrated lye, tobacco. and
VI cayenne pepper are some of the ingredients
found,in bootleg whisky drunk in Gaines-
ville. Can you wonder at the increase of. lunacy,
and the growing of the undertaker’s business in
this bailiwick?—Gainesville Register.
Certainly not. People who pour that sort of
stuff into their tender in’ardsare fortunate if they
are spared from wrecked bodies and minds. Pois-
on taken from a whisky bottle is as poisonous as
if imbibed from a phial flaunting the red skull
and crossbones. But while lamenting the unbe-
lievable foolishness of people who buy bootleg
whisky, what shall we think of the abysmal rascals
who for the sake of a few dirty dollars sell the
infernal brew? To sell liquor adulterated with
harmful ingredients is a more heinous crime than
burglary. The burglar steals trash, but the boot-
legger who poisons his patrons, steals their brains,
their honor, their souls. He inspires suigide and
murder, rape and lynching. But the odium is not
all on the bootlegger. The distiller who is guilty
of similar wickedness, is due a similar measure
of public contempt, and the middleman of like
degree is a full member of the Satanic crew. The
bootlegger receives social ostracism and makes no
obiection. But the distiller and the middleman,
who sell poison and incite to crime for the sake
of profit, still consider themselves respectable and
entitled to the consideration of their associates
We wonder upon what grounds? To be a rich
and pompous reprobate is even worse than being,
a poor and furtive one. The bootlegger, being
usually obscure and ignorant, will probably have
a better excuse on Judgment Day than the men
who supply him with his villainous compounds.—
Dallas News.
The above, from the Gainesville Register indi-
cates a deplorably circumscribed view of the
greatest moral and financial problem that con-
fionts this country. It shows that kind of news-
paper liquor dope that makes a vast amount of
trouble in the homes of the people of this country.
Il would appear that any ordinary newspaper edit-
or would feel that he was under local obligations
to his readers and their homes, as to suggest at
least, that the poison sellers referred to should be
OUR LIQUOR GOVERNOR AGAIN IN
ACTION.
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carrying the assurance of protection from the
United States Government.
“What does the American Government now say
to them in their extremity? It says: ‘Get out of
Mexico if you can with the skin on your back, and
be thankful for that.’ Mexican bandits and Mexi-
can soldiers have said to our citizens: ‘Pay us $25,-
000 in American gold and we will let you take your
property away.’
“In lieu of this blood money they have stood
our citizens up against a wall and shot them in
cold blood. In view of the facts can an honorable
American citizen hold up his head when his Gov-
ernment is mentioned in a foreign court? When I
say that scores of American women have been out-
raged by Mexicans I speak the truth absolutely.
I personally know of such instances, in which the
victims were acquaintances of mine or my personal
friends.
“Texas has 900 miles of border on the Mexican
frontier. It has been my business to protect Texas
citizens from Mexican outrages and I have done
so by showing a firm hand on every occasion. The
difficulty has been that I never have been able
to get any satisfaction from the Federal Govern-
ment as to its policy. I got more satisfaction from
President Taft than I do from President Wilson.
“I do not want to embarrass the Wilson Admin-
istration, but the handling of the Mexican situation
is a farce. Are our citizens not entitled to the pro-
tection of the flag?”
A day or two later after President Wilson had
read his message on Mexican affairs to the Con-
gress of the United States, an Associated Press
reporter of Colorado Springs interviewed various
Governors to ascertain their views with respect to
the message, and the Associated Press dispatches
relate that Governor Colquitt of Texas remarked.
“Wilson seems to have come around to the opin-
ion of the Texas Governor when he says he and
Huerta are ar opposite poles.”
Can you beat it? Honestly, can you? Can you
point to a more superlative exhibition, of asininity
even from O. B. Colquitt? We suspect that there
are many liquor dealers in Texas, even, who put
up their money to make Colquitt Governor, who
are at least somewhat ashamed and humiliated to
read in the public prints of the country this sort of
rot emanating from one who holds a commission
as the Governor of Texas.
hunted down by officials. It would appear, also,
that a paper dependent upon public patronage
would feel some sort of obligation to denounce
liquor law-breakers. The Register does not seem
to improve with the advance of civilization.
The reply of the News puts a hot mustard plas-
ter all over Gainesville Register. It also shows
that the News is getting better, bringing itself
more into conformity with enlightened public sen-
timent, concerning the liquor evil. What it says,
is well said, and earnestly commended to the
thoughtful reading of all. It is not one whit too
severe on the parties involved in the blood-guilti-
ness of the liquor tragedy. All know that the liquor
used by licensed liquor dealers, and boo ''ggers,
whether pure or impure, is manufactured by con-
cerns that are amassing colossal fortunes out of
the woes of the people. The News’ statement of
the case would have been about complete if it had
added: Those politicians and papers that stand
for, or condone the infamies and tragedies of the
liquor business are all involved in responsibility
for its unspeakable results.
The Dallas News certainly is getting better, and
this paper hopes that it will exercise its splendid
gifts in promoting the moral welfare of the State
by pointing out those who are responsible for
adverse moral conditions, more frequently. It can
tender this State an incomparable service if it
will plant itself squarely on the proposition that
it is opposed to anything that depletes the moral
stamina of this State, wrecks its physical man
and womanhood, and loots its citizens of 50 to 60
million dollars annually, for the benefit of com-
paratively a few people. Let the News prove itself
unselfish by coming out strong for the masses
against the worst debauching agency that ever
cursed humanity.
THE FORT WORTH UPHEAVAL.
D OR DAYS, recently, Fort Worth was in an-
k other discreditable upheaval, the details of
which were partially served up to daily paper
readers. A lawyer, who is a hard and fast friend
to saloons, reflected on Judge Brown’s Court
Grand Jury, during a trial in another court,
charging, in effect, that the Grand Jury was framed
up to indict innocent men for arson in order to
relieve Rev. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of being suspected as the guilty
party. Judge Brown immediately instituted an
investigation, calling W. P. McLean, Jr., lawyer
referred to, and other men associated with him.
in one way or another, to tell what they knew
about a "frame up,” under oath. The sum of the
testimony was that somebody had said certain
things, which led defender McLean and others
of his class, to believe, they allege, that there was
a Grand Jury conspiracy to punish innocent men
in order to liberate the guilty ones. If daily
papers gave the testimony as delivered, there was
absolutely no justification for the charge made by
McLean. Summing _ up the evidence, Judge
Brown denounced the whole thing as unjustified,
malicious and disreputable.
The public has been made acquainted with the
upheavals in Fort Worth during the past several
months. It will be recalled that in the trial of
a perjury charge against Pastor Norris, the fore-
man of the Grand Jury which indicted him swore
to one thing and three members of the Grand Jury
were placed on the stand who flatly contradicted
him. The result of the trial was that Mr. Norris
was vindicated. There never was the shadow of
ground for the indictment. Later. Pastor Norris
was arraigned on an arson indictment, charging
that he set fire to the First Baptist meeting house,
and his own home. When the case was forced
to trial, the County Attorney stated that he could
not secure the attendance of the two important
witnesses, and the case was therefore dismissed.
The public understands this denouement to mean
simply that when reduced to the necessity to prove
the charge, those who formulated it could not pro-
duce the evidence. The public, also, generally
believes that both of those indictments were
framed up with the view. of discrediting Pastor
Norris, and destroying his influence in the city.
It came out in this recent investigation that the
forces of evil in Fort Worth became alarmed by
reason of the fact that an unusual Grand Jury had
been impaneled in Judge Brown’s Court. The
evidence given in the investigation shows that the
personnel of the Grand Jury was generally con-
ceded to be far above the average Grand Jury in
that city. Another thing that stirred the wrath of
evil forces was the fact that certain clean-handed
and courageous lawyers were serving on the Grand
a job” on somebody,
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Thomas, W. W. The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 6, 1913, newspaper, September 6, 1913; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569563/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.