The southern sentinel., 1907-06-21
The Crop Outlook.

The Crop 0u took.
1t is the opinion of those who
have witnessed the conditions ex-
isting in this section that even
with the most favorable conditions
from now on, only about a half
crop can be made on the lands of
this section, and that only high
prices will save the farmers from
experiencing the most stringent
times OF recent years. The out
look is considered most unfavor-
able at best and the fields of all
kinds are reported to be covered
with water or run over with grass.
Baton Rouge Truth.
You cant tell q woman's age
after she takes HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. Her complexion
is fine. She is round, plump and
handsome; in fact she is young
again. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
Phoenix Drug Co.
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Driving Out the Bucket Shops.
According to the cotton man
on the New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat, who has been waglng war
on the bucket shop evil in the
South, each and every locality
may drive the gambling concerns
out by merely applying the police
power against violators of munic-
ipal and state laws. He says:
While the legislatures of the
Southern States have been strug-
Cling with the bucket shop evil
and getting tangled up by the
counsel of men who do not know
the difference between a bucket
shop and a cotton exchange, the
people of the little town of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, have apparent
ly solved the problem of pro-
hibition in the simplest manRa1
possible. Recently, two cen5I
of that prosperous agricultural
district sued q bucket shop there
for moneys due them, and the
bucket shop proprietor entered
rs q defense the assertion that
since these balances arose from
purely gambling, transactions
they could not be recovered by
recourse to the law! The PLAIN
tiffs lost their case, but the peo-
pie of the town were not slow to
recognize the significant turn the
affair had taken. BY his own
confession, the bucket shop pro-
prietor was guilty of conducting
q purely gambling concern, there
fore was in violation of the law.
Before that the people did not
know wherein such places diff
fered from a legitimate brokerage
house, but after the case came
up there was no doubt in their
minds that bucket shop should
have no place among them. Con-
sequently the local constabuIary
was soon called in to close them
up.
Every cotton growing state has
at one time or another enacted
stringent anti-gambling laws, and
each and every municipality Is
similarly protected. Therefore
there is lot town in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee,
Texas or Arkansas that can not
get rid of the bucket shops
through the application of-the i
police law Just Ms the Jackson
Vile folk have done.
Not long ss5, in order to pro-
tect the legitimate broker as well
Is tbs public from the bucket
shop evil, the New Orleans Cot
Ton Exchange started vigorous
campaign against these unlawful
concerns in New Orleans and
elsewhere by applying for an
Injunction restraining them from
stealing and posting cotton
quotations. Eventually
The exchange will win its fight,
but the bucket shops have lots of
money and there will be long
delays. We're tie people of each
to take q hand all bucket
shops would be driven out long
before the Cotton Exchange
suits come up for a hearing on
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