The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1895-01-05
PROHIBITION FOR SHREVEPORT.
A Citizen Thinks Our Parish Should Follow
Monroe, Mnden and Other Places
and Vote Liquor Out
10 The Progress:

Shreveport may feel justly plou'' $
of the splendid moral tone OF the Y
press, every proprietor being not @
only moral, but friend of religion. g
No where in all the land is the press !
more Jealous in the advocacy OF pro- ,
hibition and reform. And there I
never was abetertime for promoting +
the former by pressing the litter than !
to-day. 1t is FOR you, gentlemen OF 1
the press, more than all Others. to :
saw whether this naturally favored
city shall occupy place in the front
or rear rank, in the grand trlumphal
march Of reform already in motion
throughout the length and breadth
Of this wonderful country.
On every street corner we hear
dull times" discussed, every man, no
matter how uniformed he may be
having pet prescription for the
dread malady, and why may we not
advance our theory? The temper
ance crusade is all ablaze. 1t is the
question Of the hour" and has come
to stay. Every man and woman
must take a firm, decided stand.
..If the Lord be God, serve him; If
Baal, serve him"
With neither the ability nor the IN
, clination to repeat threadbare tenn
perance lecture from moral stand
, point, the writer begs to Insist that
y the LIQUOR traffic must go" as busl-
J. ness necessity, 1t is too expensive
b u luxury for these hard times. Tue
n grocery merchants tell us that the
t. wage Garner receives barely enough
l. to supply himself and family ", with
T the absolute necessities OF life. Ihel
10 why throw away the amount charged
7 for liquor? While the retail hquo'
trade is in the main, cash, yet the re
tail merchant making advances
generally compelled to carry over
on account of general merchandise a
amount at least equal to that paid 10
n liouor. We talk about the scarclt
its of money. Is it matter OF surpr1s
ad that such scarcity exists, when {
it's least half of the value OF the IN
its mepse cotton crop Of our loved soutl
rs: land has been already expended II
nd whisky and beer? The proceeds
i'd this nefarious traffic passes throus
ov- the retail dealer to the wholesa
if liouor merchant, thence into the pI
are tboric Golfers of the millionaire dist
the Ter or brewer,furnishing him with t
Of means to corrupt and debauch almt
AN every Legislative body in this grf
ate. country, from Congress to to
Ibor council. -" .......l.
Let Many timld people tell us it is
q Of possible to suppress this trade.
Il "a course, no great object wss,sver
ssed complished, no great end e g
this achieved, without an effort. ~, -
the A few months ago the city of NJ
roe was considered an impregns
&. stronghold Of saloons. How is 1t
day? By the God-like mandate ,
, the a brave people, determined to be
sran- the demon is consigned, we trust
stion an eternal grave. Now has the
hose cent election killed Monroe? n
nem- the results already evident: Wi
) the less than one week more than
But hundred letters Of inquiry have
Orld'' received from home-seekers, and {
. and talists looking for Investments
pets, thew are coming. They are no 10
each afraid of a rule Of anarchy, sup
:. A duced by the lawless, goddess ly
inter- er's rope, always tied by some
when ardly benchman whose little
Far and less heart IS invariably fire
down moan whisky. the assassin's da
Cen the murderer's little gun, or tn
cendiary's torch. With the 81
y and march of temperance and pro
make these infamies have passed ava,
would magnificent boom is setting
lack Monroe and in Ouachita parish.
of &C good people are net only talkin
vast working, building factories.
nually houses and churches.
o re"- If Shreveport would retail
prestige as the Queen City 9
To dis. Southwest" she must be VI
% cus- doing. The wonderful work at
> from roe was ,naugurated by one
for the man. Now have we not in 5
.millian port hundreds of good men an
women, who will organize then
into Gidson's band and wage