St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-07-06
IN REPLY.


links as it does. From the happy |
land of blind tigers, where the ex-
hilarating plnetop can be had free
from the meddlesome pure food
comes an echo of the
influences of the ''cheap
and with reasoning ca
paclty only equaled by its typo
graphical appearance, it proceeds
to bewail that all the moral ele-
ment was embodied in the high
license advocates, and the rag tag
and. bobtaiI constituency Of the
Regular Democratic Party, with
its large majority, was an emulsion
of immortality and colruptness,
with antichurch procllyitles.
How long it will take the News
to discover that We are living IN
Democratic country, where the will
of the majority rules, Is problem
unsoIved; but it might as we'll
learn now as later that we are of
government "by the people and Tor
the people. y
The News knows we'll enough
that It's interest IL politics lies in
the patronage 1t would receive as
the organ of a successful party
The whisky license never troubled
the News, and all this cant about
It's high moral plane is mere sub
terfuge.
The charge of D. A. Self
that the FARMER is owned and con-
trolIed by saloon men is not only
untrue, but shows the statement
was made without any attempt to
ascertain it's truthfulness, and with
a bitterness of feeling that Is illus
trative the refining effects of pro
h1bltion and religious training
upon some minds.
The News 1.-THE high license or
GAM has been carrying three times
the number of saloon ads, but not
half the amount of other kinds Of
advertising that the FARMER has.
Place the two papers side by side
and compare them.
That d. A. Self, should have
written such communication indi-
Gates his fitness 10 have lived in
| the times when witches were
burned and opinions antagonlstlc
to the church in power were wins
pered In fear and trepidatloD.
/ Merely being member of a
/ church does not make man moral
nor good citizen. Some of the
biggest rascals nnhung would moi
taste drop of liquor, and con-
verselY the only two men under
the influence of 1ntoxrcants at thu
polls last June were high llcens'
men.
Now, Mr.. Selpb, We presume, j
strictly prohibitionlst, and &C
cordlng to his reasoning eyerybod
who Is not a prohibltionist elthe
belongs to the immoral element o
is nincompoop ldiot-this In &C
9 cordance with his ''black an
!, white, saloon-and-c church" argu
ment; and to the same categor
i must be relegated every man VIII
voted the high license ticket, fc
q 1T was especially denied at the
o meetings and from the p'atforl
{ that the high license peopl
: wished to be interpreted as favol
d Ing prohibition. They wante
g high license, they asserted, to oil
tain money to improve Coyingtor
! The dives that they claimed e.
: listed would be the ones that coul
e afford to pay the high license; an
e IN fact the particular one again
= which the hue and cry was raise
was approached by high llceni
h man with the proposition that j
proprietor should vote the hie
o license ticket for that very reason
1t is not proven that high llcenl
. would accomplish what is elaine
e for it, either as producer of rev
]; nue. or as a successful means I
!; subduing the evil tendencies I
! the hayward portion Of the con
; munlty. In fact, conditions in OF
!? sister parish Of Washington a
o not such as to incline US to the b
IS lief that the change would be ben
. fetal. Stringent laws governing IL
conduct of places where lntox
e Giants are sold and a strict enforc
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