The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-19


man who pays the biggest license
will have the privilege of being the
| biggest pOlecat in town. Now, yoIr
can't affect the liquor business of the
city by putting up the license. 1t
| would mean ten per cent. more dam
nation to the young men of the city
on account of richer furnishings and
better attractions than the more IN
prententious saloon. Lily fingered
gentlemen bar keepers are much
worse than the dirty fingered saloon
men of the lower class grOg shop.
| would as soon try to make an eagle
out of a buZZard as to try to reform
the saloons. You can't reform them
for there is no reform in them, and
woe unto the city that believes that
they can make such reform.
Mr.. GoIdstuker.
Il notice my friend 'Goldrigger' has
a remedy. Just take the man made a
drunkard by the saloon keeper, send
him to hospital, cure him and then
let the prohibitionists take him, get
him job and look after his future
| welfare! Now, if ever there was a
bran new idea on the face of the earth,
this is one. Really, he ought to have
he hasn't got the price, some of you
! lawyers ought to do it free, for 1t is
brilliant suggestion But supposing
the man doesn't stay reformed? The
rat traps are still here, and they will
probably do their best to get him
again. But l am glad our friend
'Goldrigger' agrees with US on one sub
iect: He is opposed to drunkenness
Now, l am, bitterly opposed to
| drunkenness, but { never yet have
damned or. abused the unfortunate vic
tim of drink. My heart goes oU to
those poor fellows. 1 have no I'M
kind feeling of scorn for this unfor-
| tunate class, but for the man whose
business it Is to take fellow man
and make a drunkard of him, have
no sympathy with that mans bust
ness. Behind the liquor dealer, be-
| hind the council, behind everything
/ the check of this widespread ruin of
| the men and women OF today lies
with you men before me tonight 1t
Is in your power to make the city as
pure as the waters of your beautiful
bay.
They say that if you drive liquor
out of Pensacola, it will come from
somewhere else. Well, it will soon
| have to come from a good long dis
! lance, if you can get it at all, for,
as / said last night, other states OF
| the south are about TO take the same
step which you are to take, and the
whiskey men will be forced to go fur
| Their and further toward the north,
until they are finally driven from the
country, never to return
Tenontafion
"'The temptation of surroundings
makes men drink to excess. II the
social aspect of drinking could be
abolished, there would be little need
of prohibition, for there would be
little demand for liquor. Dry cities
can get LIQUOR from other wet cities,
| but statistics show that only one
tenth as many people drink liquor in
dry cities as in wet cities. ..
| Now, as to blind tigers. You have
tigers today-forty wide open, wild
eyed. unclaimed tigers in your midst.
The entire forty Of them are hunting
for YOU and your boy They have
eyes to see you, and are sooner or
later going to get your boys. With
| the blind tiger it is different 1t is
blind. 1t conceals itself. and no ad-
!
youth Of our land. There is no need
of city being afraid of anything that
is blind. The law protects the wide
open eyed tigers in your city today,
but is forever bounding the blind am
mails. and unless the owners of these
blind tigers are careful, they will fird
themselves cracking rocks for the
county.
Blind Tigers.
And again, blind tigers don't breed
trouble. You never hear of fights or
murders at a blind tiger. In the past
year. thirty-six blind tigers have been
| found in your community, IN spite of
the fact that there have been so
many open tigers
Il am going to leave your city to-
night, but when | come here again I
! hope to find a town as clean as the
bosom of your beautiful bay. | wa
| to see you manifest some of the ST
/ OF the men of the SOS. Those
never thought of the dollars
| shouldered their muskets q
| their duty as their cOnvic
/ them to believe was the
! hope to see that same
rifice shown in this gre
you are making 70
want you people OF
aside ali thoughts r- s.
God helping you. r-. Hs
men CT the SOS .. .H e.s
| the honor and Il
and children nd
when you nenI
gate, YOU -s y that
you did ne city
dry am ANIMATION