Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-29
WHICH
City Is to Make a
Choice Soon.
THE LICENSED SALOON on THE
BLIND TIGER.
SERIOUS QUESTION.
HON. C. ". BROWN ON ONE OF THE
BURNING ISSUES OF THE
He Delivers n Ringing speech Full
of sound Logic and Unnnswer-
able Arguments.
SERIOUS QUESTION.

The speech OF Hon. c. NJ Brown at
the courthouse against local option
Inns attracted great attention, and IL
produced In fun. Mr. Brown said:
was born and raised in the hottest
prohibition state In the Union, and
personally know that prohibition IL the
grandest farce and failure extant.
At the close OF one of my speeches,
IN this campaign. my opponent pro-
duced letter addressed to Warren
Collins, purpcrtinB TO be from the
Hon. Neal Dow, Of Portland, Me-, In
which the question evidently raised
by Mr.. Collins was evaded.
In substance General DOW Buld. at
our last election the Democrats came
out In their platform promising suit
able license laws. and that, as evidence
OF the regard In which prohibition was
held by the people, the state went
Overwhelmingly Republican.
Maine ~ my native state, which /
left In 1890 and when General Dow
writes down to the nqulrng people OF
Tarrnnt county, about the vote upon
prohibition. asking II 1t has been Il
success In Maine. he usoS the palpnblc
sophlstry and subtcrfugc III the Slick
politician General DOW well knows
that prohibition ~ q moral, financial
ana political farce aud evades the
question, Tor within the precincts of Ills
own city, of "a 900 Inhabitants, arc 1874
saloons running at fun blast How
else can he answer except that Maine
Is overwhelmingly Republican. when
the very life OF that party depends up
On It's ullegience to a prohibition plat
form. What an anomaly upon the
Republican party
Nearly every town and hamlet IN
oillcered by pruhi-Repuhlicans. and
they have unlimited power To enforce
the law ana yet the saloons run Wide
open, or nearly 80. and the law Is not
enforced and General DOW writes
down to our people and points to the
sweeping Republican slctory AS
demonstration OF the effectiveness,
greatness and popularity Of prohibit
ton IN Malnel That state has 1871
wide open saloons. The very men that
ran fot office ana howl for prohibition
before election, have II secretly under
stood with the saloon element that the
law VIII not be enforced, hence ncnrly
every saloonlst votes the Republican
ticket The reason is apparent He
can sell hia compounded villuinuus
drinkA for one year By simply paying
the government license OF S25 No
wonder he miNea his vote with the
good church people and temperance
men like he mixes his drinks. 1t II
truly a strange aud startling come
hlnatlon considering the vliupcrntion
the saloon man receives at thrir hands.
The motto OF the Republicans is.
You scratch my back aud t'll scratch
youru."
What q farccf what IA disgrace upon
her statute books ls the prohibition Law
" Mnluel The other prohibition states,
New hampahlre, vermont Town and
graceful plan, and We are Onltyd IL
Tarrnpt county 10 adopt thlu hldrouA
monHttpaly expelled from the womb
~ the prohl-Republican party M our
own
Crime or All kinds. Is on the Increase
IN che prohibition states The follow
ing figures are from the United states
consua reportAi The expenditure, due
10 the liquor trailo embracing court
costs, prisons and rpfurmntorlea less
receipts, police salnrlog and for charit-
able purpuaes. for Maine, ls Si.l7 por
capltn. Tor New Hampshire 81 .0S per
capita. for Vermont IS cents ncr capt
Ia fpr Iowa % cents per capita. and
for Kansas 81 ss por capita. OF course
these stntea nave no license law
our Southern states. under the n.
censc law ten Il vastly lluercnt talr.
Tor the samr Identical expenditures,
due Ia the liquor trarir, Mlsslsalnpl
loads 81 the remarkable low lrurcs oi
20 centn per capita, Alabnnn rOlloya
~ 81 cents, North Caroline at 10 ceuta
South Carolina al % cents. ArSnnaas
az No cents, Tennessee AZ 90 cenis
Georgia AZ 70 centn Texas Mt SO cents
ana Florida al N.l0. Illinois with
ChicRe1 ms n corrupt ccntpr dguros M
ut " cents, II her heavy license was
not deducted the hgurca, would he, pet
capita, nnly sfsi rho argument that
open saloons cause more crime than
the h0lf open saloons the "bllnd a.
gore" conyiNRl clubs, We hell.hhlty
ana Joints. the prescription saloons
and cold storage houses, is the mercsi
rot md hnRatclp
These figures tell hut one atartllne
story, The prohibition stntes are flnnn.
cially ana morally worse on than thu
licensed states. while some OF the Ii.
censcd states show larger eNpendi.
lures, due to the liquor tranlc, than
the prohibition states. Yet careful
comparison Of authorities shows that
the licensed rtates ate. us n whole, IN
much better financial aud moral
conditions
No unbiased and reasonable ml1t
VIII attempt to measure the u.Illt,
and effectiveness OF prohibition by cit
ing q few email towns In Texas, pro
N'ding the local option law was d
gland success In such iastlities. which
luweyen the rule ntharviss shows
We should measure the efrertivcncF,
Of prohibition by all the states whsr
eve" u has been tried, and When ",
do this we md II has been falurc
creating strife dissension, making Bill,
ter enc mleA. proetitutlns tho moral,
OF druggists and rhyslcians, MAKING
the consumer OF llduors poorer IN
purse. wreching his health drinking
We compounds, breeding liars. per
" Nhh Ni,NWh hiFulN'FS. NiolnierA OIL
The local option law by the nundtedl
and each violating Il a hundred tinei
day. aud IL n thousand forms breed
ing crime. like maggotts breed In 4
rotten carcass.
We Mud that fourteen states hny,
tried prohibition and all but Ave hnv,
repudiated II and gone back TO lleens,
law. declaring II wrong In principle
Massachusetts tried u 10 her sorrow
oil ID, Wright to gather and tahulEt I,
the number OF errests under Ave year,
OF prohibition, from 1870 10 1874 Tn,
number was 1889, Fran 1915 TO iSis
under license, the. number OF ari.as,i
favor Of license, This shows that Grim,
aud immortality Increased uadVr mo-
AMBITION and decreased under license