The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-21
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ava biiNtI--1rhL Ol local cptlDE
would be en.inentlY uuwise AND avai
society less than nothing. L: is no
our purpose 70 advocate the adoption
Just snow, of the policy Of exclusion
1 There IS time cucugh fgr ,lat. Tfnyl
may even stand still and a0ntenpla,
results 10 other counties, and from
these Iearo prao seal wisdom. Their
Is no resistless need Tor hot haste, a
for bot punches among tic initiated
but when our excellent friend tells u
that bar-Tooms build up snl give en-
ployment 20 the people Of towns, ",
can't help asking If he ever dreanec
% town reared and inhabited b,
whisky and its victims. The relativr
degrees oi good and evil done by bar
rooms may nor be shown in Austin
where the number cf drinkers, c5m
I pared wi,h that of the whole popula
/ J:On, IS small. II, however, 81! the pa
irons Of bar-rooms and at! the bar
rooms were segregated, constituting a
separate suburb and separate popula.
'ion, with the police and constable:
and recorders required to maintain Ur.
der, ne might fad reason to differ
! from our correspondent and declare
that while whisky builds up a town
the town should be sxtirpated aad all
that It contains anerly destroyed En-
ployment may be given to many; bu.
these empjoymcnts cost industry vast
sums and make policemen and courts
necessary evils, and however much ten
ents Of bar-rOoms pay the owners of
houses, they would pay infinitely more
and taxation would be infinitely les
sened if the industry of the trade were
diverted INTO other channels. But
suppose, Instead OF gathering all the
bar-rooms of Austin on 8. single square
aad collocating socut them all the
wTe;ched homes of all the sots Of Aus
Tin, We range around these all tl.o bar
rooms Of Texes and then, in rows, tho
bowels OF the impoverished and
those reduced to haggard want and
rags aud n4kedncss and madness by
the whisky tiend. Dirty women, With
hiesred eyes reddened by grief, and
with yellow, unkempt hair and rag
sed, filthy raiment, would stand weeping
at every doorway of the mightiest
city in Texas. Half-naked children
you'd be burrowing in the sand with
starved swine end filthy dogs about
each foul, repusive domicil of drunk
enness. The men, at all hours, would
reel to and lrc, their lips babbling and
eyes dazzling, from one to another rum
hole. Fights, such as We have here
now and then, would cease to excite
remark, and the firing of pistols and
gleam of bloody knives would make
nights and days forever hideous. This
city of drunkards and of bsr-7ooms
and OF drunkards' honcs and families
and Of policemen and recorders and
balhtf', made up of all blessings" to
Nociety thus aggregaies'tf from each city |
y ( town and county of Texas, would
,onSA2s!nnG6t less than one hundred thou.
'and inhabitants. And what a verita-
Die hell it would be! Oar corrcspoa-
lent should know that this is no sketch |
of fancy. Such city does exist, and
had churches and deceucy, but the /
part of it is part of Austin. Itishd
len here beneath the shadow of schools !
'oul plague works Its way steadily |
from within to the outer surface OF SO. |
;iety. l. is progressive disease even
ls it is most deadly, and If there be
remedy in = local option" as we may
earn hereafter, there is no one, anxious
70 promote the weti-being of society
and government, who would not go
rurthest in exterminatiug an evil that
has wrought greater evils than ali the
selfish destroyers of popu-
ar liberty and all plaques that have
swept away couRtless myriads of our
race.
While these opinions are entertained
BY US and by all good citizens, and
these mighty evils growing out of the
retail trade in whisky are undenlable,
the question still remains whether
force or reason should be applied in
dealing with the calamity. If the
barkeeper may not sell by the glass,
will not the druggist or manufacturer
sell by the gallon ! And if the use of
whisky were successfully inhibited
would not OPIUM or hashoesh supplsnt
i We find that each nation has its |
peculiar sgencies for the production OF
artificial insanity and tae vender or
of whisky is no more
,ulpable than he who might deal out
'hlcral opium, cAloroform or other
In these facts il is i'm
possible to find reason for the crgBa-a-
'fra al fominsra when dealing with the
eialier OF whisky. II he did not sell
~ the drink, others would by ,he bar
el, ald since men will have whisky
hey who furnish It accept the profits
lone and evade criminaIity. More
'ver, those who sssail barkeepers or
whisky venders without stiHt, in thi.
Jew Of the facts, do-so without reason
iad there are very many who are most
,rotitsd by the trade who are most
wiling to test the value Of laws de-
igned to make temperance conpulso-
y. II olher words there is no reason
'hen iaausura;lng crusade against
whisky TO make war upon those who
iAppen at the moment 70 be its dis
riba,OTs.
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PAR NOBlLEl,l FRATRUM.
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'hio, The Generals brother, President