The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-02
A Qaeer Disease.


In Salina In Kansas they have q
population, all told, OF $500 souls.
For the month Of August the drug
stores sold 1900 bottles of whisky,
and some Of tho bottles were immense
ones, we are told. In Texas were
such disease as this prevailing, one
requiring such remedy and in such
quantities, we would be flying from
the state in immense crowds. The
people would regard the state as
plague-stricke en-, and leave 1t OH every |
fast train going over its borders in /
any direction. Let us see: that is
nearly six bottles to the inhabitant,
little, big, old and young, man, woman
aud child. Now, Kansas Is aprohi-
bition state. This is one of the states
held up as moral guide for Texas
on the subject of prohibition. I'll
prohibition has that OBJECT every
where, we know good prohibitionists
here and elsewhere who would pray
to be protected from the plague. II
is not on record that human nature
is of higher grade in Texas than in
Kansas. If prohibition prevailed in
Texas, Waco, with her $4,000 popula-
ton, would sell good many bottles
OF whisky. Any body can make the
calculation on the above basis. Bot
tied whisky goes into more out-of-
the-way places tlian when 1t Is in any
other shape. 1t is portable. flexible
and comeatable AT all times and
under all circumstances. There
is more delirium in bottled
whisky than in that which
one gets in glass or out of a barrel.
A bottle will be hidden under tie
pillow or in pocket of any dimcn-
sions, aud nobody but the proprietor
win be the wiser. But glass or n
keg of whisky must be treated with
far more iormality, and neither is 20
easily come at. But we are treating
a disease, or at least we are cropping
in the dark for its nature, the nature
of a malady which requires nearly six
bottles of whisky a month for old
aud young, man aud woman. Han &
a bunch of grapes just out of reach,
and that is the bunch we esteem the
sweetest and most luscious on the
vine. So il Is when Kansas said her
people should not drink whisky, that
was the fluid they reached for. That
was the unattainable good they were
determined to have. If they could
not be served by professional bar
keeper in a salo on they did the next
best thing-went for aphysician aud
found the desired beverageiu drug
store. 1t was ever thus, and thus il
will ever be. A full-grown Ameri-
eau citizen, in the possession of his
every faculty, and with desire for
the ardent, will get over obstacles to
its qualification as readily az he'll roll
of log, and that Is called one of the
slickest things we do, ms nation.
There is one thug connected will
this matter, however, which cal
not be treated with ievity, ant
1t is the incentive to unfrankness
the premium 1t pays to untruthful
ness. 1t is jibe at honest straight
forwardness, for man to run an Of
tensible drug store, whose real bust
ness is liquor dealing. 1t is an exam
pie of untruthfulness In man VIII
goes to physician, claiming to b
i'll, who only wants bottle of wills
Ky, and in the same way II Ia dis
honest and untruthful for physicia
to write q prescription for whisky
when he knows his patient is NO
sick. II is the inception of aa era Q
common lying which will do more t
lower the morals of community 1
one year, than the open, unrestraine
dealing in whisky can or has bee
able to do in ten years, with all III
side dishes, relishes and condimeni
of sin added.
We beg the prohlbitionists of TIE,
as, the great mass of whom we kno'
to be honest, earnest and patriot
men-to pause and think. Ask then
selves II there are not crimes again
law and society, as bad as whiske
| drinking and selling. Or, toput it !
/ another way, which is worse, to blu
! drink of whisky straight from th
, dealer without subterfuge or doubl
1 dealing, or, to buy it from druggii
with certificate from a physical
which all the three parties to tn
: transaction know to be falsely apple
4 for, falsely given and falsely filed. I'll
$ whisky is drank all the same, an
its drinking has all the evil effects
would have III twere drank overa ba
! and we have the added misery in r,
fiecting that three false men were ei
gagged In IL and three double-breaste
lies had been told In the transaction
This is one Of the propositions "
would have our prohibition friend
TO chew on and digest before I'll
next effort is made to force local OF
ton ia any county In Texas.
FARMERS bringing cotton to Wac