The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-28
tALE'S GENEROUS GAUGE.
r MEASURES ALL MEN FAIRLY,
rujust Condemnation Often Visited Upon
Liquor Dealers by Shrewd Senti-
mentalists Playing Prohibi-
ton Philanthropists.

DALLAS, May 3d. Editor HERALD, j.
I am just in receipt Of letter FROM a
riend who urges his strong claims for
emperance and pictures il a dramatic
lyle all the known crimes and horrors
Il this world and charges the same to
lquor, and 30 earnest are his appeals
nat one who knows him not would
hink he was liz earnest, But the con-
luding part OF his letter diapels that
dea when he says: Those few Grief
remarks were made In the interest OF a
lemperaI ce meeting and Tor which |
ecelved S25, and after tho thing was
yer spent the same among those who
[ so wrongfully abused, end promised
myself never again TO support move
nent knew to be wrong. But the
emperarce sidei Is by far the easiest
side 20 argue on and oEe which com.
hands sympathy and eager listners,
or you know when feliw looks
around and secs the young and old men
and women of all ages, he Judges hie
audience in accordance with The topic
hat has brought them cut, and then
urn loose with little eloquence, "re-
gardless of actual iacts," and pictgrc
some poor mother with her beautiful
laughter at her side, with that care
worm expression on 5heir faces
Dnly known TO those who
are intense glffererg, waiting
he return Of som3 beloved father or
son who is a drunKard, or perhaps some
Door old haggaTd woman who laws in
he corner OF seine hut dying with
hunger, while the husband is st the
Dar-room spending the last cent ior
rink" All theeo things excite sym
pashy, and will, when pleaded properly,
iraw an occasional tear from some one
n your audience, and of course when
his Is done your point Ia carried and
your speech has produced the effect "for
which IL was inteuded.n Ills like q
scene once saw in n theatre in a west
3rn city. lt WIS a thrilling play where
beautiful daughter Of a drunkard had
been accused Of numbering her father,
and as there was no money or evidence
or the defense, the beautiful girl was
sentenced to be boheaded, and when
5verything was ready for the execution
and the victim led forth, "Lhe sympathy
If tie audience had reached tho highest
Ditch, and many were shedding Tears.
Two cowboys occupying front seats, not
sccustOmed TO these Kind OF hCL0iOus
)lays' mistook the act for real aud,
mounting the stage with pistol ia hand,
irove the supposed exocuUoner from
he stage imagine then the oondl-
ion Of the audience after the veil OF the
imposed reality WIS taken of. From
ears to tumultuOus laughter; and is this
not so with temperance lectures, "who
paint up some poor subject and parade
him before the people" uutil sympathias
IRE aroused and tears begin TO flow?
But when the veil is lifted and exposed
0 the radiant light Of truth, this strange
story OF fiction fades away into insig-
1iticance. OF all men engaged in busi-
ess the liquor men are abused above
III others Everything that happens is
aid at the door OF the man who sells
lquor. Yet he buys and sells his mer-
'handise tho same as the man who
makes the accusations, and donates
more TO the support Of charitable insti.
utions than all those who try to check
md destroy his buHlness. Let US then
xamine the evidence closely and see
I'll there is in II, and submit the case to
he jury whether the man whe makes
. brute OF himself shall be condemned or
ne man who manufactures and offers
or sale legitimate merchandise, and
ids, by taxes, to the support OF his
'ountry and by his liberal donations 10
he support Of Christian charity.
GALE.