San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-03

The following Ia from former citizen
and minister of the gospel Of this place.
For want of space We are compelled to omit
q portion of his letter.
vrcronIA, TEXAS, June 18th 1884.
Ed. Free Press: For the last few months
We have taken great interest In your paper,
especially the items on the whisky subject
and have been eager for the time to come
for the voting on local option. But this
week when we unfolded your paper and
saw that the whisky men were triumphant,
and that the editor of the FREE Press was
hung in effigy, our hearts sunk within US.
o what disgrace to civilized communi-
ty! what Islander on San Marcos. that it
will have to be represented by the worst ele-
ments Of the place.
Now respected citizens Of San Marc os,
will you tolerate such q curse to longer re-
main in your town, or will you, since your
defeat, sit down and say II is no use try
ing them again, they will use the same
means to beat usP Yes, perhaps they will,
but dsd you do your duty this time ? did
you quit your work, 60 to the polls and use
your influence on the people. or did you re-
main at home and take care Of number one !?
o selfish man! think of the snares you have
made for your friends and children by your
conduct. Can you expect anything but de-
struction to your families when you give
those men license to deal out deadly poison
to themp Are you not helping them to
kill your own sons, your own fathers, and to
bring disgrace upon your honest But then
you say that's according to our law. Yes,
and according to your law you murder your
own children, you cause your dear old
mothers heart to bleed, and you help your
father to fill drunkard's grave. Oh citi-
zens, Just so sure as there is heaven you
will be eternally damned unless you do
something to rid your town of whisky and
saloon men, for Christ plainly teaches
Thou shalt not kill" and you do help to kill
your fellowmen when you issue saloon men
license to sell whisky.
Last year we remember when the small
pox broke out in Coronal Institute. The
news spread like fash, and there was not
a man in San Marcos that did not cry out
for quarantine against the place. Many
talked Of leaving. to get away out of the
reach of that dreadful disease. And
yet not one cried out away with the abomi-
nable whisky that's bringing destruction on
our town, disease ten thousand times as
bad as small pox. Actually we knew men
who would go block or two out of the way
in order to keep from going near the Insti-
tute, yet, when they reached town they
walked straight into saloon and called for
their social drink. And the next thing, what
do you think of that awful disease that's
now threatening our town. Why sir, says
the saloon man, its dreadful! intend to
move my family, and think it ought to be
be a heavy fine for any one to go near the
place. But oh they were too blinded
with the workings of the devil to see the
folly of their talk. To-day the same disease
is raging in your town, and are you afraid
to speak against it for fear Of being hung in
efigy like your editor2 He don't consider
himself disgraced by their infamous works;
the disgrace is on the other side. We
can say for him he has gained many friends
abroad by his bold speaking, for we have
heard several men of this place inquiring
who he was and wishing there were more
editors like him. His works are storing
away treasures in heaven for him, but the
works of his opponents are storing away
wrath in hell for them.
o think of it friends think Of it Will
you support what is right or will you sup
port the saloon men, and what Is destruc-
ton to your town if it be the latter you
wish to support, think of Christ and Barab
bas. X.
Persons who may at any time receive
copies of the Free Press, will please IN