San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-29
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.
Written for the LIGHT.

The prohibition craze has broken
out in North Texas, and Sam Jones
is to be imported into Dallas to
carry that county for prohibition.
Experience demonstrates that
prohibition does not prohibit, that
it does not stop, or lessen the con-
sumption of liquor. That has been
the history Of prohibition in every
state, county and town, that has
tried it.
Prohibition puts an end to the
open sale of liquor, under legisla-
tive safe guards, and substitutes
in its place clandessine sale OF 1t.
That is all that prohibition does.
Punish those who are drunk in
public, and appoint guardians to
manage and control the property
Of habitual drunkards, but don't
punish sober men, who use liquor
in moderation.
There are double the number Of
men and women addicted to NOR
phine and cocaine that are drunk
ards, and the use Of morphine and
cocaine to excess, is more deleteri-
Gus to both body and mind than
the use of liquor.
Why do not the hysterical and
spasmodical reformers prohibit the
sale Of morphine and cocaine by
the druggists 1t was recently
stated by a Dallas newspaper that
there were 1850 men and women in
the city Of Dallas, who used NOR
phine and cocaine to excess. There
are not half as many drunkards in
that city, though the Trinity water
is so very bad as to compel men to
use other beverages.
Hysterical reformers should re-
member and act upon the
advice given by Christ, "Phy-
stefan heal myself" They
may not drink to excess, but many
Of these hysterical reformers are
addicted to vices every way as bad
as drunkenness, they lie, swindle,
cheat, back bite and SANDER.
Drunkenness is an unmixed and
gigantic evil. No body defends
it, nobody approves OF it. But the
proper way to deal with this evil is
is to punish public drunken
ness, to disfranchise habitual
drunkards-to forbid their con-
tracing marriage and to deprive
them of the custody and control OF
their property and Of their child
rem.
Treat the slaves of morphine and
cocaine in the same way, for they
richly deserve it. They belong to
the rich class. Many Of them are
Doric columns and Corinthian pill
lars Of society.
II every one would attend to his
own business, the world would be
happier and more peaceful.
If every man would first reform
himself, by casting off his own
vices, there would be few reformers
and prohibitionists to pose before
the public.
j. B. Hindry is as hard to locate
and get hold Of as the proverbial
flea of the Irishman.
Houston is now in fair way to
improve. 1t has discovered that
it's tough element has too much ell
bow room.
Although those who dance must
pay the fiddler, the fiddler would
do we'll to collect his money in adj
vance, as dancers seldom possess
much cash.
A man who is without settled
aim in life resembles ship that is
without a rudder.
Occupation and work is the best
antidote for trouble and grief.
The industrious man, who has
been accustomed to work, is made
miserable, by enforced idleness,
but the tramp hates work and es-
teens idleness as the greatest Of
all blessings and enjoyments.
The loafer is stationary tramp
while the tramp is a loafer in loco
motion. They are chips off the
same block.
The prospect of having a fair in
San Antonio has melted into the
air. Air will float a balloon, but
fairs can be floated only by money.
Frank Shepardson, an engineer
on the Southern Pacific R'V, who