The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-19
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desire, but don't ask me to fur
nish both the barb and the
victim.
Dealing wiGh the last PROPOSE
ton, that of money spent in
Waxahaohie by country people
who are drawn there by the
courts, and in cases caused by
liquor; this strikes me as the
most unworthy reason I
them all. You claim that each
precinct ia sufficient unto itself
and that each one should be left
alone TO manage its own local af-
fairs without let or hindrance
from the others. | will grant
you are correct when your reas.
oning is applied to the outlying
precincts in their relation to each
other; but in the case Of the
county capital the conditions are
different. Every taxpayer in
Ellis County has a share in the
County Institutions and is en-
titled TO a voice in their man.
agement. | own as many brick
in Waxahachie courthouse as
does any one OF you. /, is not
only my privilege, but my urgent
/ duty 10 take any legal steps with
/ in my power to reduce the num-
Der OF criminal cases on the
docket Of my county court. The
larger share of the expense
comes out OF the pockets of peo-
pie who do not live in Waxa.
| hachie precinct The larger mum
Der victims of legal prosecutions
/ growing out Of liquor and iiqIor
traffic is furnished by outside
| precincts. Therefore, gentle
men, your stand that it is the
/ business and concern at Waxa-
hachie people whether or no
! liquor Is sold there is not we'll
taken.
The fast that there are only
three precincts in the entire
county which license saloons,
instead OF being argument in ia
yor of allo wing those 10 do 50, is
evidence per Sc that conditions
throughout the county are not
uniform and that the most rig
idly enforced prohibitive laws
are ineffective in the precincts
Immediately surrounding those
three. "a their boys have the
prescribed commodity within
easy reach. II we country peo-
pie never had occasion to visit
Waxahachie, il our boys might
be kept away from the alluring
snares of your rum seliers-if
these conditions prevailed, then
we might grant the reasonable
ness Il your plea to be let alone
TO manage your own affairs. But
you cannot evade nor controvert
the plain statement that your af-
fairs are our affairs.
II you can advance one logi-
cal, humane or moral reason why
we should permit you to offer Ii
quor for sale to our boys in our
county seat-one reason why we
should neglect precaution to
protect our wives and daughters
from insult at the hands Of
drunken brawlers on the streets
OF our county capital-one rea-
son why we should furnish the
money to keep in motion the
wheels OF justice against offend
ers crazed by rum--if you will
furnish one OF these reasons
which will pass muster before
novice in logic, then, gentle
men, | will gladly vote to allow
you to run my affairs and those
OF my county, but not until then.
+ You ask me TO leave you alone
to manage your own affairs. You
say we already have prohi bitlon
| because we want it. and ask Us
to assist you in getting what you
want.
had you set US the example Ut
Observation-Disclosures which you now
ask at our hands, your request
would have had a better flavor.
} But do you remember the stock
law election Of some two years
ago. Can you recall the fact
that in no part OF Ellis county
was stock law wanted except
in Naxahachie and Ennis, where
} stock laws were already in force ?
Do you know that ii was the
vote of those two precincts that
forced upon the farmers OF the
county law now condemned
throughout large portion OF the
county and one which has been
the cause OF untold strife be-
tween neigbors?
Ii you are not aware OF these
facts, gentlemen, go to our
courthouse and examine the rec
ords and you may then be able
to grasp the fact that your re-