The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1904-10-08
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The w. G. T. U. will meet
Thursday Oct. 18th at the Presby-
terrain church. Time 3 O'Clock.
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"Old Maid" of Anxious, kindly
sent us an article for our column
this week.
Editor w. G. 7. U. Column-In the in
terest of the prohibition cause please
let me add my mite:
On the 9th inst what did Jefferson
say she wanted? The anti prohibitionist
said they voted for the best interest of
the town. That the hell holes they pro-
posed to keep there, was money to them.
But, alas! alas! 1t doesn't take proph-
ct, or seer to predict the result of the
election if it holds good, and az it now
stands, ten or twelve dirty, degrading
saloons in a town of less than 5000 in
habitants. My dear friends what kind
of reputation is that. Tell me is that
at all sui cable? Will that, spread abroad
bring emigration of the better class to
our county? Nay, verify, for upright
men, thinking men, would far sooner
move into district infected with chol-
era, yellow fever or any other fatal
plague than expose their families to the
soul and body destroying saloon, and
it's pernicious influences. Fathers, and
mothers, it is your sons on whom the
curse will fall. For your dollars, will
be given to you sodden and besotted
wrecks of humanity whom you will have
to own as creatures of your own flesh
and blood. Your pure and innocent
girls will become the wives of drunken
husbands; your grand children will sue
coed to heritage of want and misery
all the direct result of the vote you cast
cast Sept. 9Th, 1904. Do you like the
responsibility? No, of course you do
not, and you dodge about trying to shirk
it by saying prohibition wont prohibit.
Poor. lame excuse. Does any law en-
tirely prohibit crime? Admitting that
it does not. shall we therefore say there
should be no law against theft or
murder. Alb! the enforcers of our laws
must indeed be weak. pittable creatures
to allow such imputations against their
efficiency, but surely to some extent 1t
does prohibit. Do away with the
saloon and yet most of the old drink
soaked wrecks may drink as much as
ever. So be it. Their nobler instincts
have all been been destroyed by the
demon of intemperance, their higher
aspirations dwarfed and they first led
to ruin by your enticing saloons will
most likely 60 on down until at last
they will fill the drunkards grave your
ill-directed policy has opened for them
But for Gods sake, and the sake of our
country's future. Let us save the
boys, wipe out the saloon and the VIC
tory is ours. How can man look into
the face of his innocent boy and then
go to the polls and vote to keep the
saloon to tempt him to evil and degra-
dalton. Can he hear him repeat the
prayer, LEAD US not into temptation
but deliver us from evil" and then go
and help place the vilest snare ever in
augurated by The Prince of Darkness
right in that boys pathway.
One will say oh, the whiskey men
rent houses from me and / can't afford
to let him go: Another will say their
high license help to keep our town, and
we need the money, we'll keep the
saloon man and he and his senior part
ner, the Devil, will soon own your boys
soul. You won't get any rent there ex-
cept a harvest of woe for yourself and
broken hearted mother. Your wife,
whom you promised to cherish and
protect, yet instead have given hel
drunken sons to call her mother. Oh
my w. @. T. U. Sisters, let us not give
up the fight. Though defeated once
let US only work harder, and make
common cause against the worst enc
my that woman has. Think how you
would feel to see that bright boy, fo
whom you from his infancy have enter
tanned such high hopes of brillian
future stagger in night after night anC
fall down at your feet in beastly intoxi
cation. You can't deny that such hal
} been the case right there in your town
Some of the most talented and brillian
young men that Texas has ever pro
duced were raised there and there to-
were overcome by temptations of tn
saloon and whose bright and allurinl
: prospects were forever blotted out sole
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