The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-15
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.
An S2enaw Lady Reader who
Volunteers Some Sug-
geStiOns.

ia the Evan,iaer.
SUMMIT, Ogemaw Co., Mich. - AS
you think over your list OF subscribers
and know that am not among them,
you may be intereste to know inst how
a lady of Michigan became even cores
| pOndIngly acquainted with your paper.
| Well, will tell you. a great tall six
! footer, as large OF heart rs of body, by
the name of VIM Wrigglesworth, mar
| ried my daughter and moved to Texas,
/ Crawford county, and he sent me pa
( per. [ Judge he takes it, as his name,
in printed slip, is upon it. But this is
not what ] had upon my mind in writing
to you. [ was looking over the paper
closely to see If their names might be
mentioned, or any reference to them,
so | read advertisements and all, and |
re d, among others, where the choicest
and best of liquors were to be bought,
and there was not word to indicate that
this business would do its patrons harm,
any more than the merchants or grocer
II seemed TO stand on an. equal footing
with all other branches of business so
literally advertised in your columns.
But reading on, | came presently to an
article headed "a Sad Downfall"
guessed at once what had wrought it,
but read it through. Aud as [ read, as
we so often do, of these heart breaking,
soul-sickening, soul and body destroy
ing scenes of ruin, of men and their fam
lies, through this terrible traffic, [ came
at last to the close of the article where
the writer said, He is undeserving of
sympathy" And thought, Oh! consis-
tency, consistency, would that man
could find some place for thee in this
terrible traffic, that might III some way
harmonic these two the respectable
business and its disrespected patrons
Can you give me any light upon the sub
iect? If so, l shall be pleased To read it
III your columns at an early date. If
not out of order, please publish this
From the heart and pen of
Mrs. WM. WOODS.
The lady, DO doubt, means with heart !
and soul all she says, and we are glad to !
know tat she read the paper through, !
for II furnished food for reflection. Why |
she should arraign us for permitting
liquor men the use of our columns to an |
nounce their business We do not exactly |
see, except that We are in Texas, where, |
DIS preached in the north, We all do !
wrong and are going bowling hell /
wards Papers from all parts of Michi- !
gan reach Us frequently, some of them |
from around the home of the lady who .
writes u.s. and We notice that their col |
umns are full OF Detroit, Buffalo, Chi
cago and other wholesale whisky house
advertisements, ana the retail dealer has .
the privilege of announcing that he sets
up hot spiced rum, 'juleps," "toddies,"
etc, Just the Same Hs III Texas. NO /
doubt if the lady had a block of build
lngs, her agent would have one or
more rented to saloon men, and if she
had property to sell she would take a
whisky man 5 cash as quick as that of any
other. To be frank with the lady,
if she wants 10 know why
We admit that class of advertising to
our columns, and why the papers around
her home DO the same thing, we will say
because it Is business. We sell adver-
Using space to the saloon man lust the
same as the dry goods man sells him
coat, the shoe man las shoes or the
hOuse-fumIshIng store sells him stove
lie buys stove to walm his patrons and
the man who sells him the stove IN order
10 keep his business going is Just as
guilty as We who give him the privilege
Of advertising where he does business.
Our advertising space is for sale, and j
because a man makes a statement III the +
paper IN reference 10 his whisky is no
more reason that We endorse his goods 5
n traffic than that we endorse the goods :
If the dry goods or hardware man who /
idvertises with us. The lady takes {
,ains in referring TO the article in the
examiner to say we remarked the man
vas "undeserving of sympathy" The
TtIcle referred to was an account of the |
ndlng CT a man and his wife IN the Fra !
Ter building in East Waco in very :.
estItute circumstances, the man with -
9th feet off This appeared under the
cad Of objects OF Pity" in our issue
f December IS, and subsequently,
hen letter was received from rela- o
YES OF the man, stating why ne came (
be IN that condition, an article under
ne head of "Ensiaved by Whisky" APP
cared, but IN neither of them did we
iy, or even intimate, that he was "un- 4
of sympathy' On the con-
AIRY, We asked that assistance be ex-
ended him and his faithful wife, and
ppealed, as we have several times Il
nee, to the christian people of
Taco in their behalf The lady, who of
)urse Is both honest and jealous. mis- O,
Understands III one instance, and mis- e,
ates III the other. We detest as much HI
any one seeing a man make a beast of o,
imself in drinking, eating or any other ct
ay, but We are not the appointed regu- 7
tors of the manufacture and sale of
hisky. 1t Is recognized as an article ~,
commerce, and its legitimate manu- u
lcture and sale is protected by the gov
hence we do no more than
ncle Sam when We accept the whisky Of
ans money for our advertisements. We o.
We space to Mrs. Woods letter because cl
le requests it, and also to remark that in AZ
er zeal she draws on her imagination 70
hen she says We pronounced any poor,
fortunate person undeserving of SYM
lthy. Those who fall into the habit of
e man in question are already cursed, in
id III their misfortune il is the extreme IA
'poslte OF charity to heap more live 81
ais upon them. pf