The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1906 Page: 6 of 12
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER.
Published Every Friday.
VbRNOR & f\BNE»Y, Proprietors,
j. E. VERflOR, Editor and Business Mgr
Sowing The Wind-
From The Houston Chronicle: ]
It looks very much as if the old
adage, “Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad” is
going to find verification at the
hands of the saloon keepers of
Texas.
It seems impossible to teach
them anything by precept or ex-
ample. They appear to think that
the world has stood still and that
public sentiment has undergone
no'change, that they[are possess-
ed of as,.rnuch gower and influ-
* erice ad ever they were, that what
'Tia§ always been must be, and
cannot be changed, and that hav-
ing always defied the popular will
and ignored the statutes, they
can without harm to themselve|
or their business continue to do so.
' . * *Ali this is as surprising as it is
true, because the saloon men are
in the main men of intelligence,
but they certainly seem to seize
upon a situation very slowly and
to most erroneously* size up a
condition.
The Chronicle has never de-
nounced them'or their business.
It has never favored the policy of
prohibition of the traffic in which
they are engaged. It believes
that so long as they obey the law
and conduct orderly houses they
should, as licensees of the state
and county, be protected, but it
just as strongly believes that they
should obey the law to the letter,
just as every other dealer is re-
quired to do. ft knows that they
are not above the law, and it has
warned them in ^kindly terms
more than once that t they are
wind, and will reap
the whirl :\ fr
The ma jority of the ^topleVof
Texas, however they may think
about prohibition and the liqfior
question generally, believe in the
supremacy of the written law
They know that if the law be ig-
nored and the will of the people
be trifled with, there, cafi be no
social sajety/ .nndHrhat anarchy
#ffF§#f^ant law. . ..
Obedience to and enforcement^
of the law is essentialiql^.pW^
lie welfare, arid in a land of lav/,
made by the people, manifestly
society or the state cannot permit
men of any class to deliberately
and with studied purpose and by
continual act set the law at defi-
ance and trample a plain, impera-
tive statute under foot.
The representatives of more
“ than three million people have
said that the public welfare de-
mands that saloons be closed on
Sunday, and have given statutory
expression to their will and direc-
tion in that regard, and the stat-
ute is so plain that even a police-
man or a chief of police or a sher-
iff or a justice of the peace can
not err concerning it, yet a few
thousand—an insignificant mi-
nority of men—have the audacity
to say, ‘‘Farmers must obey the
Sunday law, laboring men and
mechanics dare not work on Sun-
day, merchants must close their
dors, but we are above the law
and will not obey it,” and thus
are they rebels against constitut-
ed. authority, and the constabula-
ry^ force of Harris county are
their allies and fellow rebels.
Can any citzen with apprecia-
tion of the power of the people
and the interests of society, what-
ever may be his views as to Sun-
day law, look with complacency
upon or approve such defiance of
the laws of the land?
If the law is not binding on the
saloon man which requires him
to close his saloon on Sunday,
Let go or die. That’s the alternative
of the shipwrecked man with the money
bags. A great many people have a like
alternative before them. Business men
come to a point where the doctor tells
them that they must "let go or die.”
Probably he advised a sea voyage or
mountain air. There’s an obstinate
cough that won’t be shaken off. The
lungs are weak and perhaps bleeding.
There is emaciation and other symptoms
of disease, which if unskilfully or improp-
erly treated terminate in consumption.
Thousands of men and women in a like
condition have found complete healing
by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi-
cal Discovery.
"It gives me pleasure to send you this
testimonial so that some other poor sufferer
may be saved, as 1 was, by Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery,” writes Geo. A.
Thompson, of Sheldon Ave., Chatham. Out.,
Canada. "I had a cough for years, expector-
ated a great deal, and was |Sowly failing./
Was losing flesh every day. Lost in weitrht
from 150 pounds down to 328. My flesh got
soft and I had no strength. Did not say any-
thing' to any one hut made up my mind that
the end was not far off. One day my wife
was reading in the ‘Common Sense Medical
Adviser ’ about Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery, and I said, flint sounds more like
common sense than anything else that I had
heard. I at once bought a bottle of your
famous remedy and before 1 had taken half
of one bottle. I felt bettor. Took'thirteen
bottles and it made a'1 new man of rne. 1
gained sixteen pounds and never have had a
cough since. I feel splendid and give all the
credit to your medicine.”
Given away. The People’s
Corffmon Sense Medical Ad-
viser is sent free on receipt
of stamps to pay expense Of
mailing only. The book con-
tains 3008 pages, over 700 illus-
trations and several colored
plates. Send 21 one-cent
stamps for the paper-bound
book, or 31 stamps for the
cloth bound. Address Dr.
B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
t-Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets
S TasSc cure bad. foul stomach and
<e\\e.\s constipation and so help to cure
nearly every disease of man-
kind. They regulate, tone up and invigorate
Stomach, Liver and Bowels.
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burning with the zeal of crusad-
ers, aided by those who hold obe-
dience to law as more important
than opposition to prohibition,
will unite in a state election, and
there will not, in ninety days be
an open saloon from the Sabine
to the Rio Grande, from Texline
to the gulf of Mexico. As The
Chronicle has said before, “the
people are like the air, they are
never heard^until they speak in
thunder.” The law must be
obeyed or they will speak soon,
and when they speak the saloon
is doomed.
A Healing Gospel
The Rev. J C. Waiffen, pastor of the
Sharon Baptist church, Belair, Ga. says
of Electric Bitters; “It’s a Godsend to
mankind- It cured me of lame back,
stiff Joints and cojnplete physical col-
lapse. I was so weak it took me half an
hoqr to walk a mile. Two bottles of
Electric Bitters have made me so strong
I have just walked three miles in 50 min
utes and feel like walking three more.
It’s made a new man of me.” Greatest
remedy for weakness and all stomach,
liver and kidney complaints. Sold un-
der guarantee a t Burrell & Skaggs.
Price 50c.
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why should he obey any other
law? If he. is superior to one
law, why is he not superior to all
laws?
The Chronicle has before this
reasoned along these lines, and
now it means to say to the saloon
keepers of Houston and the £est
of Texas, that if they think they
can®deliberately violate the lavy
and not reap injury to them and
their business, they are surprise;
ingly mistaken. - ” ;
It asks them-if they are blind
and deaf? *7,1)0,they not sees the
sj^ns in .the heavens''? -
not hear the ever-increasing roar
of the thunder-of prohibition,, and
have they not seen the nearer ancto
deadlier flash of lightning, smiting
their fellow saloon men and their
busmgE^jll pauts.of 'gxas? y
A-'Dtfthey not know that; sine St
1887,- when, they won in the. elec ■si;
tioh, public sentiment has so
changed that if a state election
an, the prohibition question
to take place in sixty days, pro
hibition could fie^defeat^dy if at
all, only by the expenditure of
an amount of money compared
with which that spent in 1887 was
a mere bagatelle?
Are they so stupid as not to
perceive that public sentiment is
rapidly strengthening “against
them and ^their business all oyer
the United States ?* bf~
If they do not perceive these
things and continue to defy the
people, they will learn the truth
when it is too late. If they want
to avert the* absolute extinction,
they can do so only by obeying
the law as other men do. They
must recognize that they exist as
saloon men only by sufferance of
the people, who permit them to
carry on a traffic that they have
the right to suppress at will, and
the people will not always pa-
tiently abide in the presence of
contemptuous disregard of their
laws. -,gj
Thousands of citizens who do
not believe in prohibition firmly
believe in adherence to the law,
and the saloon men by disobey-
ing it increases the zeal and bit-
terness of their foes, and lessen
the number of their friends.
Unless the saloon men change
their course of conduct, ere they
are aware of what is done the
impending storm, the murmurs
of which even now are heard in
the distance will break upon
Burned To Death -
Mellie Francis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Crosier, of Dallas,
and grand-daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Townsen, was burned
to death on Friday, Februar/- 1,
at the home of her parents, a-
lighted match striking her Cloth-
ing, and the fire spreading^ so as
to cause her dgath before it could
be extinguished. J3he was burned
at 10:30 and died at 3 o’clock the
same day. She never made any
complaint of suffering. It is al-
ways hard to give our^deaf .ones
up, but doubly sounder sukh1 cir-
cumstances. May the, Father of
all comfort the father and mother
| Practical Fitting
§ of Collars, Saddles and Harness
Saves the Horse, increases his power, gives him op-
^ portunity to do more work with less strain, preserves
^ his shoulders, back and loins and saves half the life of
the animal.
I I Fit Horses
#
# with the best collars and saddles and guarantee to
^ preserve your horse from wounds, sore backs, soie
^ shoulders and to give him the power ^e ought to have
J Saddles and Harness
Hand made, made to fit, made to wear, made to be
comfortable to the horse and to give satisfaction. We
can save your horse and save you money.
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See my new line of Surries
Buggies arid Hacks.
Lampasas,
Texas
| J. H. H. BERRY,
and relatives.
I, A.
lILVELdr.
Dealer in
M. Brown,President. W. E. Williamson', Vice President
P. White, Cashier
V The- Peoples National
r!Bank of Lampasas
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'COURTESY,, -PROMPTNESS RELIABILITY
Every Officer. Director and Employe of this Dank is expected to
myim due #T | -fir——- - •
ence in the protection and promotion of the in-
ns,:
i. ^tgrost of itsVat.^..,
Proof VJinks/ ifliglar Proof Safes, Safety Deposit
Boxes.Absolute Safety and Satisfactory 'Service
If you have uot yet tried, the new.'h'ankf’'giYe us a trial.
mJlr*BfelNESS
Wagdns, Buggies;
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Windmills, Putins,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings
• Engihe Oil
Disc Plows,>
Double and Single jg
Harrows--Disc 5? Tooth
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J. 5. HORRELL,
f DENTIST.
Offic# over First National Bank
LAMPASAS. TEXAS.
DR. J. D. READ,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers |his professional services
to the people of Lampasas and
surrounding country. Residence
phone, No. 58-1; office, 47-4
ilOE E. DILDY,
/j' * * r ^ „
Physician and Surgeoii.
Office atLion Drug Store, M
Laiupasas.^gexas.-
J. D. Dorbatidt, M. D. Thos. Dorbandt, M. D
DORBANDT& DORBANDT
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
Office over Key Bros.
Phone at offices and residences
W. B. ABNEY^ ,
Attorney at Law,
Civil Practice Exqlu^v^ly,
Lampasas, Tex^s. <
Lumber
* * -We?
Jhat can be bought^ the hint! we keep in stock for our
Customers, and. we ham plenty of it, of every sizPtnd
length needed. Bouglipr Pressed, Fishings, Mould-
ings, Doors.. Windows/Blinds, Pickets, Fence already
constructed, Posts, Shingles, Cement, Brick, Lime,
Builders’ Hardware, House and Roof Paint and every-
thing, necessary to furnish you% complete House, Barn,
Shed or Pence.
It will pay you
to see us before you make your'arrangements for build
ing anything to be constructed of lumber. Estimates
furjbished and contracts made to erect your buildings, if
^you prefer that way.
Yards and office, corner., Seetitfd and Main streets.
SOUTH TEXAS
LUMBER CO.
| ' W. F. MACE, Hanager
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BWKl
J. C. Matthews.
W. H. Browning.
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BROWNING
MATTHEWS &
tilt? UlbtcUH/t3 Win k/i v/ciiiv uFua /] / i / , T
them, and the almost countless '4’ /ittOTUeyS^ at
thousands of prohibiti o n i s t s,
LampasJ
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Texas.
f p. W. ALEARD J. M. REED |>
| TO THE PUBLIC |
We have associated ourselves together to ♦
run a general Blacksmith and Woodshop.
Any and all kinds of horshocing a spe- |
ciafty with us.
ALLARD & REED |
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1906, newspaper, February 16, 1906; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889778/m1/6/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.