The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1904-09-03

they did not interfere, and the poor
woman died in twenty minutes
another victim to the nations crime,
for the barkeeper is protected by law!
SANCTIONED BY LAwl
A dissipated farmer living near Perry, |
ILL.,, while under the influence of drink,
quarreled with his wife at the breakfast
table. January 23rd. The man became
greatly aroused, and selling revolver
fred three bullets through her head and
breast. She fell to the floor in tor
rent of blood, and the husband, who
had now become frenzied maniac,
seized sharp axe and severed the head
from the body at one stroke. He then
blew out the brains of their eight
weeks-od child, and threw its body on
the floor. He fed. and when close
pressed by his enraged neighbors, ended
his life with bullet from his pistol.
Don't talk to me about the saloon be-
ing legimate business; reason tells you
it is not. Don't tell me the blind tiger
is worse than the saloon, unless you
are a born fool! had rather have ten
blind tigers" than one Devil with both
eyes open! If the liquor dealer thinks
so much more liquor can be sold at a
"blind tiger" why then does he fight
80 hard, and spend 30 much to main
tain the open saloon, where he has to
pay large bride for the privilege of
dispensing illegal death?" can fight
blind tiger, and the law will aid me,
but the open saloon is a menace to my
whole family, and l have no redress
whatever, because the authorities are
in partnership with it. A drunkard's
wife went into a saloon in a certain
locality, and begged the dealer not to
sell her husband any more liquor. The
drink devil had entered her home, and
in her helpless condition, she came
with bleeding heart to plead for her
husband. What was the dealers an
swer? Why, he took tumbler, dipped
it in the refuse of his bar, and threw
the slop into her face. Don't that make
your blood boil? Suppose that had
been your mother? The man was
prosecuted, but he was protected by the
people who gave him his license, and
signed his petition, and it was proven
that the lady was trespassing on his
premises.
Another lady went into "doggery"
to plead for her drunken son, and was
kicked out of the door! How do you
like that? Suppose that had been your
wife, brother.
MORAL.
appeal to the intelligent people of
Jefferson and surrounding county, when
| ask: Have we not endured and suf-
fered enough from the saloon? Look
at the results of it in our midst within
the past sixty days. bloody street
duel. resulting in the death of two citi-
Gems, and leaving at least one widow
and several orphan children, if not
direct, at least the indirect result of the
doggery. the principal actor obtained
the demon making-liquor in the saloon
The tragedy occurred in or in front of a
saloon, always a good place to look for
trouble. a young man, slot by q
saloonist for little or no provoca.
ton. The shot fired by the bar.keepel
from his bar. Another harmless anG
otherwise good citizen burned out anC
dead, from the effect of liquor, bough
in the licensed saloon. Another Draw
and bloody fight occurring within tn,
last few days in our town.
Look back over the past 10 or q
years, men debauched and ruined TO
this world and the next, the legitimat,
f.uit of our fostered pet, the saloon
Widows and orphans, and poverty, ant
starvation, and kicks, and cuffs, and
bruises, and brawls, and riots, AM
death, and He'll, the natural fruit of tn,
saloon, and more, and more, and more
: to come unless we vote it out.
Can we rightfully interfere with /,
/ mans business? Yes. whenever tina
business. care not what it is, become
a public nuisance and instrument @
r death.
In the name of decency, and reason
and God Almighty, my friends, cleans
t your hands, and consciences of thi
, dirty business.
Some fellow says without thinking
will kill the town,-it will not. 1t ha
4 had ample opportunity to make tn
town, has it done it? No sir and i
payar will