The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-29

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been aware of the fact. / knew some
three or four of them were, but as an
Organization l felt sure had not had
their support. / further wrote that
even il they had been my friends,
and while l had appreciated their
vote, did not propose to become their
special piece of property or chattel be-
cause of the fact" (Great applause).
]. Only One Side.
There is but one side to this great
question before us. Bob McNamee
says there are two kinds of Prohibi-
tionists, those who drink and those
who don't. He says that those who
drink should not vote the prohibition
ticket. But / say that the man who
drinks is the one above all others to
vote the county Dry. If there is one
fellow under the shining canopy OF
heaven who ought to vote for Prohi-
bition, it is the fellow who can't re-
| sist the temptation to occasionally
! take drink. If there is one fellow
/ in this question that deserves SYM
pathy, it is the drinking man. Ninety
nine men out of every hundred who
drink moderately want to quit 1T
| They are suffering with a disease,
which is as pronounced as yellow fever
or any other disease
A Dangerous Man.
The moderate drinker, who boasts
that he can take drink, or let it
alone at his pleasure, is a most dan
/ gerous man in the city of Pensacola.
/ He does more harm than the poor
fellow who gets dead drunk and falls
! in the gutter as a living example of
! the evils of liquor drinking The mod
crate drinker shows only the respect
able side of the question, while the
! drunkard is an object lesson for the
youth of our land
When you vote at the polls next
Tuesday, you are either voting tc
make beggars or vagabonds or else
gentlemen out of your boys. Which
shall 1t be- Some of your men are
saying that the adjustment of the
saloon will ruin business. Some men
had rather put dollar in their pocket
! than to save the soul of and make a
gentleman CT your boy. A dollar in
the scale against manhood and Vir-
tue! Are you going to sell the youth
OF Escambia for few dollars? That
is the trouble all over this country,
the people have gone mad over the
dollars
Mr.. Clark then took occasion to
read temperance poem taken from
the Chicago Post, entitled THE South
Is Going Dry witch the readers of
The Journal will doubtless remember
as being published in this paper at the
time of the victory of the Prohibition
lists in Georgia few weeks ago. Con
tinuing, Mr.. Clark said:
What is the great question which
is before US? 1t is not whether man
. shall be allowed to drink, or where
he shall drink, or what he shall drink,
but it is Shall we retain the open
saloon" The answer is Not Some
men refuse to follow their own con.
; victions in an election of this kind
The man who believes that Prohibi
. ton is right and yet votes against it
is just as successfully and completely
bribed as IS the man who comes up
and hanGs him a dollar for his vote
Who Wants SaIoons7
Now. who are in favor Of the
saloons? Those in favor are the saloon
keepers, the men who rent the lOca
ton TO the keeper, a few poor devils
whose souls have been distorted by
drink, one or two wise gentlemen who
say it will ruin the town to lose the
saioOn,and there you have the whole
crop.
Does the open saloon build up q
). community, Wei, for an answer l viii
: refer you to Apala chicola. l was over
there a short time ago and found the
town exactly rs l did twenty years
ago. ASK the people there and they
viii tell you that they have the same
= population they had twenty years ago
They have eight saloons building uI
the town. There is not single build
ing in the course of construction to
day. IL Spite OF the new railroad which
recently entered the city, and which
was expected 10 do wonders for the
town. There are vacant buildings
everywhere For a contrast, take my
> little tnwE Of G9Ipesvi,ic The con'ii
3 tons there were recently given by
Mayor w. II. Thomas in the columns
CO The Journal. and hey showed just
exactly what the little town is doing
ia the way of progress
THE whislley business is legal, but
it is not legitimate. as is that of the
butcher, the grocer OF the clothier
The business IS bad and there is moi
good thing 20 be said about 1t, II
causes real eetate values to derreci
ate and is a dts1rim an1 to the better
business elements Of the city. Does
= the Saloon better the morals of the
community? Don't you want your boys
to grow up to be better men than you
are? The Saloon is closely connected
with the religious sentiment of the
: city A man going to new commu
! nifty to live will make inquiries about
tie schools and religious tone of the
/ place before he decides to settle The
Saloon can certainly not be called an
All Bosh.
They say that there is not less
: crime without the Influence OF the Sa
/ Icon. That is all bosh. The saloon
, is the breeding place of one-half OF
the crime of this country.
why do the Saloons have TO pay
i higher license than the other bust
| ness institutions IF your city? Sim