San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29
Bob Greenfellow Tackles the Sunday
Law Fanatics.

: The study of the worlds history
reveals the fact that there were at
! all times set of religious fanatics.
who made it their task to convert
this, by no means pleasant, exist
| ence into life of still more bitter
ness. With very few exceptions
| these religious fanatics are unedu-
Gated, heartless and dOmineering
individuals, brought up in way of
One-sided mediocrity, not knowing
anything of the world or its pro-
gressiVe ways.
Our Sunday and prohibition law
fanatics in San Antonio belong to
this same class. BY means of vio-
lence they want to force an ObnOX-
iOus law, hated by the majority of
the people, upon this community,
and why? Sometime past | asked
one of these fanatics regarding this
| matter, his answer was: "The law
must be enforced because it is on
the statutes of the state, and if it
was on the same statutes that the
whole population of San Antonio
must stand on their heads in front
of the courthouse every Sunday
morning, that law should be en-
| forced alsOw
Isn't this ridiculous? Can any
one discourse with such men? Ger
tainly not! AS our Texans are
| known to me, if their representa-
tiVeS would enact such law, they
would surely send them to the
lunatic asylum. This is character
iStic of our American citizen that
he has the manhood and dareS to
criticize the act of his representa-
tives of a law-giving bOdy,and that
he opposes the enforcement of an
obnoxious law.
Did these gentlemen, who make
the attemps to enforce the Sun
to add prohibition to the same, did
they ever ask themselves, what the
consequences of their acts would
be to our city? Did they ever give
the subject thought and enquired
upon what San Antonio really
SubsistS and lives" Certainly not,
for mental force and argyll
ment is not one of the
cOmpOnents of these gentlemen
| Nearly everything we need here
in San Antonio for food and
rainment is brought from afar.
Where does the money come from:
| We have no manufactures,
we have no visible resources. But
whence come these manifestations
sands which we have to send off
every year in order to obtain food
and clothing?
One part to these hundred thou
sands is supplied by transients,
not the Sunday law fanatic stran-
gers for they are stingy against
| their own church even, no, it is the
| liberal minded and cosmopolitan
class of 5 trangers, who come here
and spent their money freely, and
who continually from such a high
regard for the old Alamo city, with
all her fault, her saloons and free
sundays, that they conclude to re-
| main and have increased the pop
uIatiOn OF our little Alamo city
within fifteen years by an addition
of forty thousand people.
But by far the greatest part to
these hundred thousands are fur
nished us by our brcweries, saloons,
varie ties, etc.
The stOckmcn, cotton planters,
cowboys, etc, who spend a jOyless
| life on their ranches and farms,
come here to seek pleasure and
SDpndtheir earnings in short order.
Discharged soldiers, who have
served at some of the frontier posts,
come here and in few days spend
! their five years savings in our
city. Old and young of Kerrville,
CcntrepOint, BOUrne, New Braun
felS, Spguin, etc, all save money,
and when they have accumulated
sufficient they come to San An
tonic to have their fun and pay for
| it. All the little towns and viii
lagos surrounding San Antonio
pay thousands of dollars monthly
| to our breweries for beer.
Who is the beneficiary of all this
mOney?-It would be ridiculous to
think or say, that all this money
would remain in the hands of the
breweries, the saloons or varieties.
Certainly not. After all their en-
ployees have received their salaries,
they in return pay the butchers,
bakers, shOemakers, tailOrs, mer-
chants etc, these support their
families and may have some
thing left to invest in real estate
and build houses: and thus the