Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-01-05
A Jug Breaking.


IN no uncertain tone against the sale of whisky,
not only by petition, but by direct vote of the
adult mole population This declaration has not
simply been made once but four times within
eight years. There is no longer any question as
to the feeling of the county 1t is opposed to the
sale of whisky by the pint, quart, jug, bottle, bar
rel, drink or in any other form. TO even intimate
that such is not the case is to disregard the most
apparent fact. Sensible, aw-abiding men should
recognize the right of a majority expression upon
this question and acquiesce honorably. Most of
them do. But there is class upon whom public
sentiment makes no impression. Whatever they
will do is right, whether sanctioned by law, good
morals or public sentiment. They are governed
by no church creed, influenced by no higher, finer
feeling than the qualification of selfish desires.
They are separated into two classes: One who sell
whisky for the money there is in it, The other
who drink it to further stimulate an already un-
quenchable thirst. The first fights the growth Of
a noble public sentiment in support of temperance
in every conceivable way, and unscrupulously in
vades communities wherein brand of dshonor
has been placed upon the traffic. and offers his
pepper, tobacco, alcohol and whisky, Mixed for
sale. Whenever he succeeds in putting his fire.
brands of death into known temperance neighbor-
hoods and is upheld in his infamous and dishonor-
able transactions by cowardly supreme court he
laughs with derision at the brave men and women
who seek by example and precept to save sons,
brothers and husbands from ruin snaps his whisky
scented fingers in their face and exclaims: ''What
are you going to do about it?' That's it, What
are you going to do about it? Last week at La
mar, in this county, a prohibition county, half
dozen disguised persons entered the express office,
secured the agent, and broke over one hundred
jugs of whisky sent to consumers by Van Buren,,
Fort Smith and Little Rock whisky houses. These
houses know that Johnson county has voted out
saloons, yet they take orders for whisky, receive
the pay and deliver the goods, through agents,
within the county. They do this holding no coun-
ty license, yet the supreme court, which bears the
flavor of ex-saoon keepers or dstillers and not Of
just interpreters Of the law, says they have the
right to do this. If so, then to vote upon this
question is to enact farce. To repeat it is to
play the fool The only remedy lies now in heroic
measures. Lamar has suffered from the ravages
of whisky scarcely difficulty occurring there that
is not brought to elimination by whisky. They
have suffered and endured and at last resorted to
the remedy that bears upon it the impress of lille
gality. But they contend with men who furnish
the mortal equipments of our penitentares and
asylums; men who hold that their business is law
full in the face of an adverse vote. 1t is battle
of morality in its sternest clothing against public
debauchery, and the word comes that the express
company will spend $4,000 to discover and prose-
cute the parties that broke to atoms the whisky
jugs at Lamar. For the transportation of these
miserable Misunderstanding jugs, the great express
company will join hands with the whisky houses