The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-14

NnlAky, WINE ana peer IN lhe Guy
limits, is in favor of the continu
ance. With this the only issue ;
maj )rity Of the voters of Waco art
opposed to local option. Bat the
Waco saloon men will net let thi'
be the only issue. They wilfully
and deliberately make the Issue
themselves, and it is law and order,
arrayed against la yessnes, and d..
order.
Take the saloons on Austin street
or example. Over half Of them
ron gambling houses in connection
Nth their saloons. This is openly
done in the daytime AMI in the
aight-time, aud has been thu
notorious state of things for Elk
years past. Now all the hqnor
dea ers do not play into the bands
of the gamblers, bu- those that d.
not are blamed A. much as those
that do, and the whoe fraternity
are laheled with the sins of the
vicious half.
Now this writer will be just, and
say that the iii ers of the Law a;e
responsible fer this burden that the
respectable portion bear, and VIII
boar when the cash comes. 1t
W II d seem ,hlt s}lo n men, bu~i-
nsss mn vita half an eye, could
see the hanl Writing on the wa -
That by continually viola ing the
law, ard atliiatng, HON log lting
ana spo,iatirg with glmb'ersi b.
far the most vicious elemeot. in So
c.ety, the Liquor dealers are
writing history with which the
aamuoiiion wagons of the l2cal
option forces VIII be loaded when
the battle comes off
The liz Tor business is losing
friends every day. Every father
and there are legions of them, an
they are vigilant now, alert q a
working VINO has a son Who re
quents the gambling lis, although
he may be bitterly opposed 20 local
option on principle, VIII vote 70
1t knowing that the closed sal ,on
means dead gambling house
Whisky trail.c can and will thrive
apart from gambling, but gambling
cannot exist without whisky. Every
wife who has a husband who pa'r9-
nz faro or monte will take a hand
for local option, and every mother
those darling spends his earn.
lngs at The crap table or the "keno
dive" lately established on Austin |
avenue, 'For Boys OaIy," viii
take hand, and when brought face
TO face with the issue 900 saloons"
which means $40 gambling dens,"
the very suckers who play and
pike" off their earnings, relying on
the adage "out Of ght, out Of
IN Ia will lend their support sud
cast their ballots TO shut up your
blsin' IS
Did any of you inagire a year
ago that Hubbard City, Hilsporo
and San Marcos would fall into the
local option column? ANY Of Us
would have bet our last dol.ar on
living AID dying wet.
But TIE gamblers and law breakers
aud sympathetic official calves
seized upon he' plethorlc whisky
tea aud sucked her dry.
DID you ever consider how infn.
tely absurd the gamblers and law
ess saloon men appear in the eyes
Of reasonable human beings when
-hey attempt to dictate to com.
nunity y no shall be its public ser
wants and who shall administer its
government and execute its laws?
What would saloon men think if
he hundred tramps snd va. ra Is,
arrested during the burst of off si~l {
irtaons mitigation in our city i'm
nedately subsequent to the mnsder
IT Mr.. Lipsaiz, should say hat
Cart Moore or Brinkerhotf shall not
'e mayor of Waco, that it woald
Interfere with their business? And
'et the statutes of the state and Of r
he city declare that all gamblers
re Migrants" irrespective of their
wealth or poverty, or whether they Il
wear overcoats or linen busters. {
And the 200 ga nblers in Waco y
ave officially notified one of these /
entlemen that he should not be /.