The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-21
VOX POPULI
Mr.. TRoPUc IN REPLY
TO Mr.. SINDORF'S REPLY

HOnSdCOld, aug.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
Replying to my esteemed critic, Mr..
]. w Sindorf, in Sundays Journal.
| submit that not since creation s
dawn-when the stars first sang to-
gether in unisen-w+hen the first gold
en- beams darted- across the sapphire
skies and gilded the filray clouds, and
all nature seemed ;mbued with the
charms of paradise on that eventful
morn, has an argument so rich N re-
seareh-so -resplendent with legal
and literary lore, been advanced in
any cause as the one employed IN
the assault uDOn my article III your
issue of the 14th inst, by the match
less Sinaorf the literary hermit,
wrapped in the solitude of his own
of rectitude.
After announcing my article as the
text of his discourse, he abandons it
Immediately after its announcement,
and begins to thread the labyrinth of
time and look with retrospective view
down the long vista of years to the
time when at the tender age of seven
his bOyish sensibilitfes received a
shock from which he has evidently
not yet recovered, when he Witnessed
drunken bum pawn a stolen whip
for more fuel to add to the fame that
had already consumed his conception
of rectitude.
But, strangely enough, this distin.
guished writer leaves us in doubt as
to whether the whiskey was procured
from an open saloon, blind tiger, a
grocery store, or fellow in dry"
town who had got a supply for his
own use. 1t seems evident that this
! hOrrid picture has weighed heavily
upon our Caesars mind, for it appears
to be the only instance of the evil
Of drink that has made any impress
SiO non his mind from the age OF
seven up to and including the time of
the publication of his literary digest,
and because Of this untCward act of
many years ago. he feels impelled
to seek the transfer of some sixty
thousand dollars now paid by the
whiskey dealers. to the unsuspecting
tax payers taxes.
Further on, he again leaves us IN
doubt, for he says he has been
through prohibition campaigns before.
but fails to state with what results.
He then proceeds to make a genera,
survey of the horizon, and, among his
field notes we next find the one in
which he records the fact that Mr..
Tropuc seems to have had quite an
experience with blind tigers. while
he has never come in contact with
one, and has therefore saved his
bacon. The observation Of the
cause that produces the blind tiger and
the results that flow therefrom, have
been more extensive in Mr.. Tropuc's
experience than actual transactions
with the tiger" but by his own adj
mission, who is in position to better
describe or intelligently direct atten-
uon to conditions imposed by prohi-
o1tIon, the man with observation and
experience or the one with neither?
Again, the distinguished writer de-
Hvers himself thus: The object
which Mr.. Tropuc has in showing up
this blind tiger business is to show
that law to prohibit only makes
matters worse" Right yen are. my
reverend brother Unless the state
enact and enforce a law prohibiting
the sa}e, manufacture or entry of in
toxicants into the state, the law pro-
hfbiting the sale of them in counties
will only insure the illegal sale OF
them IN each and every dry county
in the state.
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