Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-28
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In his rounds yesterday a Gazette
| reporter met Mr. Winfield Scott, who
has just returned from Brownwood,
and In answer to the question, What
| do you think Of the local option ques-
/ tlon?" Mr. Scott said:
II can't say enough on the subject.
| Why, II Is sheer nonsense to talk about
! prohibition for town the size OF Fort
| Worth, with such place as Dallas
so close at hand. 1t would simply ruin
Fort Worth.
I'VE need every dollar we can get to
! help pay for the new court house, and
| these men In the liquor business are
| willing to help US pay for it, Why
cut on that revenue. when 1t would re-
suit in no good to the city?
Local option would drive out capt.
! tai and demoralize business here to a
| wonderful extent. Capitalists do not
care TO put their money in a local
option town. They find II doesn't
! pay. l know what 1 am talking about.
| have $4,000 invested down here in
| brentwood. which, until local option
went into effect, was one Of the lveli-
| est. most thriving places in the state.
| Now ii is a dead town Every thing
| was progressing aplendidly there until
| sam Jones came along and told the
| people all they needed was local option.
| and they voted for IL there, but when
| he came back and saw its effect. he
told them they were fools for adopting
! II. they had killed their own town.
mo, sir; 1 don't want any more In
vestments Of that kind. / have plans
| already made for the investment Of
| $500 900 more in this city, but am wait
| Ing to see the result OF this fight. If
| local option goes into effect / shall not
/ invest another dollar In Fort Worth.
You can't say too much about the
! evll effects II would bring about should
II be adopted IN Tarrant county"
j. q. Loving, secretary Of the Cat
! tie Raisers association Of Texas. said;
| The cattlemen ms a rule are broad
| gagged. liberty loving and progressive
men, consequently are anti-prohibiton-
! lists. They don't wish to curtail the
liberties Of others as TO what they
shall eat or drink; neither do they
| want to he intcrfered with as regards
their liberties In that respect. Fort
| Worth Is the cattle mems town as long
! AS he can come here and enjoy himself
as in the past. Should prohibition be
adopted. i'm my opinion the cattle mems
visits to the city will not be 10 fire.
| quent nor their stays so long; after
| spending several months on their
| ranches, they naturally like to 20 to
Fort Worth and rest, and the majority
OF them Ike n little refreshments. while
| rccuperating from their labors. The
name OF a prohibition town sounds dun
to the average cattle man. and he
don't want TO stop there to spend his
| leisure time"
j. l.. Pennington. general live stock
agent for the Santa Fe, said:
This local option movement IL en-
tlrely out OF season and M advised
Should it be successful It will result In
immeasurablc Injury, both to the city
ana tile surrounding country. Trade
IL bad enough and taxes high enonpb
now, without having everything thrown
into a. turmoil by this fanatical n, owe
ment."
WHOLESALERS VIEWS.
MT Paul Waples; | am opposed to
local option under all circumstances
ana conditions. for two very cogent
reasons; FIRST, that | am firm be-
lever that moral Advancement has
never In the history OF the void re-
suited from coercive measures and
must necessarily rest upon higher
grounds than legal enactment in order
to be permanent and stable. second
u II We're otherwise. then the eNpe-
rlence OF the past teaches us beyond n
doubt that prohibitory laws, even when
enacted are futile and fail to accom-
push the end sought, and that drink
lnE ana lntemperance are not mate
flally lessened by the enactment Of
such laws This ground, however
has been gone over innumerable times
and presume that you wish my views
as a business man upon the effects
mat the adoption OF local option would
| y.
aside, therefore, the moral features
OF the matter, offer II as my opinion
that II would be an exceedingly unfor-
tunate stop for the business Interests
OF Tarrant county, and especially for
the city OF Fort Worth. 10 attemnt
the adoption of local option nj mis-
time. In the first place, not only the
county, but the entire state, has been
Kept In state OF political agitation
almost uninterruptedly for the past
IeM Years, 10 me detriment OF the es-
sental interests OF all the people. nnd
1t is high time that they were given
a rest from all agitation, and wers
allowed to devote their undivided time
10 the prosecution OF their business and
the development OF their essential in
terests. In other words, for the nast
three years the whole country mac
been passing into an era OF changed
conditions. and are Just now reachins
smooth sailing. and II business ins
terests are allowed to be undisturhad
we VIII soon be back to even greater
prosperity than that Immediately nre.
: ceding the recent panic, The afgect
upon the city OF Fort Worth wonid he
, extremely disastrous. for while il would
n no. s,Sp tne sa'e or me consumption
eiteets, at the same time IL would de-
, | pfiNe the city OF the much needed ra,,-
enue. by reason OF the loss Of ths n
. cense heretofore paid by those in the
: ! liquor traihc. Again, let The nnrai
feature Of Il be what it NAV il ls 80,
l ertheless an lnoontrovertibie faet M,
/, L Fort Worth should adopt local on
I ton when surrounding towns had ny,
adopted the law a large nunbsr ~
people from the surrounding country
who would otherwise come IN u, w,
Worth to do their trading pnuia ~.
1 tainly go 10 Dallas or elsewheTe ~,
reason OF that fact and that fact alonSs
! wish to put myself on record a..
being In favor OF all moraliaing in.
fiuenees Of whatever nature he, ~. ~
stated before, 10 not believe mar as ~
+, measures can be brought about Nv sn "n
ereion. and " our friends who ~. 49,
; tating local option will themseivss ~
a man, let liquor alone, and VIII no ~
: only direct their energies 10 tha ny
forcefnent OF the lava ALREADY, IL ~
2 feet. but also teach others nv e.
sept ana example to shun intempesapn,ees nc,