Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-14


! No one will conte nd that the saloon IL al
| outgrowth of intelligence or morality; n,
! one will contend that the saloon Is tbs
standard by which We should be meas
ured; that the saloon directly or indi.
| rectly tends to lift man nearer to Goo
| no one will claim, and that its whole in
! fluence is ruin, and that it had its origin
| in ignorance and ayarice no one car
| deny. There is no reason why salooI
should exist on Texas soil. In the Nortt
and East when the people can be got tC
listen, this prejudice 1 have spoken OF
will disappear; but the trouble Is to gel
them to listen. A bright light is break
ing though, and it looms up graudly in
the future.
There are not go many of us, but
would rather do battle IN company with
few who are thoroughly baptised with
the spirit of right and die with them in
the good cause, than be with the thou
sands who have to be interviewed every
fifteen minutes in order to know where
they stand, and whether they are for the
Lord or for the devil.
We are here to stay like Joshua, who
walked around the walls of Jericho until
they crumbled as he took possession of
the city. We are rldiculed by the sa-
loon buns and the corner loafers who say
that we are fanatics, old maid and
Sunday-school teachers, and as we go
marching on around the walls
of whisky jericho they will
keep it up until the walls crumble, the
citidel capitulates and victory Is ours.
Then these Alexander Smarts, or Smart
Alecs, will say, al told you so; 1 knew
it was bound to comet" and even the
newspapers will say that they saw the
cracks long before the wall fell
The speaker referred to the fact that
there was prohibition in the Indian Ter
ritory upheld by both the Indian and the
United States law, and said that if the
government did this to protect the In
dian, 1t should do likewise to protect the
white boy. If it is good for the Indian,
tits good for the white man. There is a
Prohibition belt running from Dakota TO
the Rio Grande, and it will in time be
extended to the gulf by Texas joining in.
The opposition to it has for its founda-
ton falsehood and Misrepresentation let
the truth be told and the opposition
would fall to pieces.
The speaker referred to the Maine
liquor law and to the state where such
brainy men and Blaine came from. "I
have no i'll feeling against Mr..
Blaine because he beat me for presi-
dent" he said, che was a brainy man
and prohibition must be good when in q
state where such men as he are raised
prohibition is made part OF the consti-
tuition. -
For some time the speaker talked of
Tomlinson, the man sent out by the
liquor men from Kansas to
speak against prohibition in the
East and show that prohibition
in Kansas was failure. sHe handled
TomIinson without gloves, and read him
a message promulgated by the governor
of Kansas tending to refute all the state
ments made by Tomlinson.
"High license or low license is posi-
tive sin against God, and should be made
a crime against the law. Up North we
used to talk about you people down here
holding slaves; but tell you that our
government is to-day in partnership with
a slavery ten thousand times wore than
the slavery of the negro. You people
fed and clothed your slaves; and once
heard of STAKEHOLDER being fined $1,000
for neglect of one of his slaves-but there
is no punishment for the saloon
mans neglect of humanity. Your
slavery did not stand between
the soul of the slave and God, but the
liquor traffic does; it robs him of all that
is noble and damns him forever. Saloon
men are as pure as the place they keep,
the place is as pure as the law that per-
mits it, and the law is as pure and as
good as the church deacon who votes for
the men who make such laws. The sa-
loon is just as good as the government
that legalizes it. and every saloon man1s.
Thank God, belong to party in which
there are no rum-sellers.
Seventy-five thousand human beings |
are sacrificed to rum every year. Where |
10 these victims come from2 They do |
not come from the ladies who are total
abstainersl Not from the moderate
1rinkersl They must come from the |
habitual drunkards like myself, Gran |
ill and the rest of US on the stage here |
Except the reporters. When the 49, |
700 have gone down the ranks of habit |
lal drunkards must be recruited to sup !
ply the victims as thew are recruited from
drinkersI The moderate drink |
srs from the total abstaiuers. Can il be |
hat the mothers are here for nothing |
,lse than to bear fruit for the demands |
If the rumseller? License, high or low,
8 shame and sin against humanityl'l
4 government that legaliZes a business
hat robs men OF their manhood and |
makes murderers of them does not de-
erve the support of patriot. When
ihurcbes stand as firm against saloons as
he saloons stand against the church, /
he saloon and not the church will have
o go. Backbone is needed, morality is
leeded, and-yes, little religion is
leeded in politics. want to inject some
nto Them"
GATHERING THE sNEws OF WAR.
At the conclusion of Governor st.
ohm IS speech Crandn came to the front
gain and made q talk for money for
ampsign purposes, and succeeded in
citing about $3.50 subscribed. Among
he subscriptions were the following:
h. G. Damon of Corsica, 500; udge
of Mexia, 500; E. C. Heath
I Rockwell, $50; Mrs. Acheson of Dem
ION, Ssn; R. c. Burlescn, Waco, S25; Ed
,ogers, Hillsooro, SIS; =. Headington
dallas, SIS; 8. P. Blessing, Dallas, SIS;
F.. B. CranhlI, Waco, SIS; J. G.. ALI
IN, Dallas, SIS; e. L. Dohoney, Paris,
%. Quite number contributed $40
nd IS and hat collection of about SIS
ras taken up. Those with the hats
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