Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1908 Page: 2 of 16
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April 2, 1908.
Born—To our Uncle Sam November emulate the famous “Thomson’s colt” black and shaded seem to have the
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ST. PAUL’S M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, HOUSTON, TEXAS, REV. GEO. S. SEXTON, PASTOR.
All this speaks well for this section Willacy should be assured that State
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other in their efforts to cater to the
wants of the thirsty from the white
regions all round.
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Bowie, Cooke and Wichita, as long as
they retain their present complexion,
a gift of Providence—if they recognize
such a being—for their special benefit
Verily, it seems that where nature
has done her best for mankind, and
God has been so good as to bounti-
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He had come but a little way. Just
below were the mists of Error. and
in the fight, we must claim pre-emi- no more through the meadows and
nence for our own Advocate. With its marshes of Error. For yonder over
Statewide circulation, its high stand- tle mountain of Human Endeavor lies
ard o ethics its utter fearlessness and the land of Perfect Things.” So the
e so id, substantial character of its sleeper awoke with a great resolve in
reader wife ot er paper in the State his heart. And he said, “The mountain
in the teldsucha power for good is stony and steep and nigh. But chere
still* str on thathas been.and is 13 only one. And 1 sha1 seale it and
- - - ’ iant editor has show unto all men the way that leads
For the
meanderings of Pied River until it
reaches the 100th meridian in Chil-
dress County, a distance of about 350
miles, we count twelve counties, three
of which are shaded and nine white.
A fine showing this is for Texas, but
the whisky guzzlers across in Okla-
homa will consider the counties of
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by the way, contains much of the fin- won. Mr. Willacy, the champion of clear until it echoes from every hill side to die. He looked behind him
est country in the State, on which no the antis, recently said: “It is patent and valley, every town and hamlet in but darkness covered his steps and
printer’s ink has been spilled. Di- to all familiar with the situation in the grand old State, “Down with the no trace of his life’s' work remained
rectly east of this block we find two Texas that State prohibition is inevi- saloon! On with the fight!” ” " '
tiers of counties running north and table unless the causes making for Grand Okla
south—nine in all—of similar color, prohibition are removed.” Then Mr. ’_____‘ _______
of the State. And we may here re- prohibition
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view of the great achievement and the
good example she has set to the world,
we think it would not be immodest to
suggest to the suber-minded of other
States that they take off their hats
and yell to the full capacity of their
lungs, “Hurrah for Oklahoma!’'
But, as in the enforcement of law
and in the progress of civilization, a
State is affected more or less by her
environments, we study with interest
the map in black and white published
in the Advocate of November 28.
Let us begin with Bowie County, the
northeast county of Texas, and fol-
low the border line of that State and
Oklahoma. As the line follows the
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mark that the people of these counties causes making for prohibition” can There was a man who lived in the there stood before him once more
are practically white and American- not be removed until the saloon is re- land of crror and his days were full the messenger, sent from the source
fully supply us with nature’s pure born. moed — course,th e,.8reat guardian of trouble. He often suffered through of all light and power and knowledge
beverage, the old adversary has bus- Let us now take a trip across the Ice 1 L 4. 5 mean, or his his own mistakes and the mistakes of And he cried “Ah messenger' The
ied himself with furnishing another State from east to west. We will start " ifef ao th r 1 th1S 8ht, others; was often brought to grief by saddest part of my failure lies not in
beverage that never quenched a thirst in at the center of Newton and go Iu,,c.°A8 mSucuduo - • 1S the his own sins and the sins of others, the bitterness of wasted toil but in
or added to health or happiness. We through Jasper and Tyler Counties, 1 ° Paye .4 nd crimgna.s, as Always with him were the trials, dis- the fact that mankind can never reach
can easily imagine what a rushing all of which are white, and thence due ^indS„„d appointments and delusions that go to the land of Perfect Things.” But the
business the towns in Bowie, Cooke west until we reach the Pecos River, jegMomLou,, 4,5 victims to the make up life in the land of Error. And messenger replied, “There is no fail,
and Wichita will do with the patron- then follow said river northwest to the InH L, ,cauSeS Wi this man felt in his heart an unrest, ure for him who foils. Listen'” And
age of Oklahoma added to that of the line of New Mexico again. Here we eianduthe.moalemanand g00d a discontent. Intuition told him that the dying man heard on the mountain
thirsty of their own side. Then, if have on the north a little more than ostirensuirrespesttye ofCh urch, creed, somewhere was the land of Perfect above him, the hard quick ring of
the people of the country precincts half the State, exclusive of the Pan- nrs Pot/ 4 ahiiation, wilconsiderit Things, but where, he could not tell, steel on stone. Said the messenger
along the river in these counties will handle. Judging the map to be cor- fare against ^tMs cufese relentless.war- For always, as he wandered to and “It is the men’who follow Artseter'
allow it, new dives will be found all rect,or nearly so, we have less than ti1 tLe result is its ontheta8eun fro, his way was hidden by the gloomy The steps over which you toiled with
along the line and business boom un- twenty counties upon which the print- throw. P 5 shadows o. Error, and each day of toil labor and pain, they have passed with
til there will be as many little hells er expended his ink, with only three ‘ found him no nearer the land of Per- flying feet. They have begun L. ",1
as there were along the line of Indian of them pure black. But alas! a few +An ong. 1 2 that have worked 1ect Things. But one night as he lay where you have left it, and tlmv shall
Territory prior to Oklahoma becoming of the most populous have their prin- tog ing ngsabout 1 he present in troubled sleep there stood before drive it onward and upward from sh 1
a State. Lower down the river the cipal towns still cursed with the rum faults an d the brilliant promise of him a wonderful figure. Ana he cried age. And the time shall enageo
bridges will be worn slick and the hole, notably Dallas and Fort Worth, ‘ ' ’’ enea than ,.n ne ave ‘Ah, wondrous Being! Who art thou? the last shadow shall be passed hen
■ferries will do a land office business, the two leading cities of North Texas, prens R is oter the educator offehe From whence cornest thou? And what last step cut in the mountain ’ and
of Saturdays especially; and further and Waco styled the Athens of Tex- masses anS ey theed be oothe is thy mission? ” Said the figure, “I man shall throw dowi his pitu
up, in the regions of Wichita, the as Furtherwestaopa lipenwithithe upon to advocate the righesomening am a messenger sent from rhe source toil and enter into the land of Perfect
quicksand in the fords will be packed ."n cities, we nnu nalo Pinto heav- which can not be said of the great of all light and power and knowledge. Things."
as hard as a brick, and when old Red ily shaded on account, we presume, of dailies. Of course, there are excep- -And I am come to guide thee unco it is a long trail that leads from the
get on a boom our thirsty topers will its nauseous mineral water. Still fur- tions in both cases. But as a leader the land of Perfect Things. Wander depth of human depravity up unto the
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is being constantly demonstrate I ap- an-m
pears at once; that is, that in this Aisi
enligntened age, where the saloon
power is given tun swing, it soon A
works its own downfall. s 6
Twenty-one years is a long, long
time foi’the antis to wait for an eh.->
tion to reinstate the saloon—much
longer than they have to wait in sss
Texas at present—and the sober, law-
abiding citizen, which has a handsome asddmbdeee
majority, will have a fine chance to agB—ids.
prove the efficiency of prohibition. The 22aEL-wsprema.
old toper who does not die or move
out before the expiration of that time ““8---"
will have a fair chance to reform and • —----EE
become a man again. If the law is -zg*Es‛mm
wisely enforced (and we believe it g A '
will be), tne coming generation of , g
boys will be forced to grow up sober mad
and without having acquired a taste pa58k
for alcoholic stimulants; and, from
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sonage, of robust constitution, inde- mediate scope of country. The little ing up white, and Brazoria and Mata- himand acknowledge him as their thei he went th^sbepo ne moun
pendent in sentiment and with Wis town of Higgins, in Lipscomb County, gorda, the only two white counties champion, and leader. . , 1aXUwas forced4seepat.last
dom far beyond her years. What it being the nearest Texas town to ye washed by the salt water. There are And why should not the Advocate _ eqhupWard
took Alabama eighty eight years, scribe; that is where his neighbors also Hidalgo and Zapata, reaching to ituencybear a conspic- r- nasnid some of Ut hetoils
Maine sixty years, more or less, and who believed in “revenue” on election the Rio Grande, which, by their color, s Part 1. .effort to free their - _ Hkpa some of the mists of Fr’
George one hundred and thirty-one, to day must now go to get it. Again, seem to be clean. There is also a State freomthethtralldomof the sa and gained the t^
learn, Oklahoma knew at her begin- leaving Lipscomb, the northeast cor- group further up, consisting of seven ’• Methe is s of God, it could , 8 1 S °P.o, em in- '
ning; namely, that the whisky traf- ner county of the Panhandle, we go counties, Edwards, Bandera, Uvalde, remain, neutra1.jnthestrugsle or al ta fen Buthen of the from its
fic is not a necessity, but a curse to 150 miles west along the Oklahoma Zavalla, Dimmitt, Frio and Atascosa, „ . , , God and ' 1 ni6in ea of the.land0 P
a civilized people. And, having the line, we reach Dallam, in the north- that seem to have cleansed them- manuEver.since John.W esley and range after ranze
courage of her convictions, she pro- west corner of which is also of sable selves from the poisonous stuff. And Georg . hit fiel prenche 1, the new of stony m • seened o
ceeded at once to sit down on thein- hue. And so we have followed the further up along the line, reaching gosPelatothesirstc an m reaci..upward and onarl forever,
fernal traffic with a thud that goes line and find that many of the Texas down to the Mexican line, is anothei American civilization as well as in And there the . st some of his
sounding throughout all her sister border counties have adapted them- white spot, hemmed in by El Paso, Ainrcansciizaton naJs of the aith, forgot his brigh es dreams, and
States and continues to literally “as- selves to our convenience (?). But Reeves, Pecos and Presidio, all black CVr Wherever Methodism has the feltno more the fierce 30 o.one who
tenish the nations.” perhaps there may be some elections as the ace ot spades, and shady old cNieryereMstnhodIsmshaspe fights and wins. But he felt tha: he
At the same stroke ot “Ted’s” tren- by and by. Brewster, which looks like an oasis in nimnetustlahrerusds5 he checked could no 80 baek now. Black, as
chant pen that made her a State five But let us go back down in Texas, the desert of sin. With this little AI th, lawless or cried down bv the midnight were the shadows behind
hundred and sixty saloons and two Dear old Texas! She was the home county we finish our study in black enemies of good government It could hint. Something bade him toil on.
breweries were put out of commis- of this writer for over twenty years, and white. But before leaving her, not De otherwise for a loval Methodist And he had a great desire in his heart,
sion. Two thousand and five hundred and he will always remember her peo- we feel like taking off our headgear must be a good citizen, and a good cit- had this man, and a great love. And
employes of the same lost their jobs, pie with pleasure and have her wel- and, with some of the enthusiasm of izen will ever be ready to do his part h1s prayer as he toiled on the moun-
This means, according to the conserv- fare at heart. And there are about the many now old, grizzled heroes of for the suppression of an acknowi lain again was ‘Not for myself alone,
ative estimate of one of their craft 200,000 others in our new State hailing the early sixties, utter three rousing edged evil, good Lord, but the men who follow
that $22,400 a day or $3,690,000 a year from that favored clime, not all of cheers for Jeff Davis. She does her- Therefore let the fighting forces o” after me."
that was going to produce drunkards, whom, by any means, have “bowed the self as much honor as she reflects the 297 300 ’ Methodists of°Texas be He was an old man now. His dim
make widows, orphans, criminals and knee to Baal.” credit upon the name of the hero of found eler in tLe thickest of the strife eyes saw no longer the towering
paupers, debauch our citizenship and Following the meridian south from Lie ‘ Lost Cause,” which she bears. They should not only seek the fore- crests above him, his worn pick hard-
murder character, will be turned into Wheeler to Jones County, then going Yes, Texas is doing herself credit, front of the battle, but, like Caesar’s ly dented the rock before him. For
the legitimate channels of trade. west to the line of New Mexico, we and her sober citizens should be con- Tenth Legion, they’should demand the days and weeks he must toil at a single
it would seem strange to some that find a block of thirty counties, with gratulated. Keep up the fight, breth- right to lead the charge. step. And the time finally came when
■with the heterogeneous mass that goes an area of 2 7,000 square miles, which, ren, and ere long the battle will be Then let the slogan ring out loud and he lay down on the cold mountain
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Rankin, George C. Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1908, newspaper, April 2, 1908; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1586270/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.