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The Forrest City times., 1907-08-02
Commissioners Sale.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under IN signed, as commissioner of the Chan ! cery Court of St. Francis County, State of Arkansas, pursuant to the terms and direc- tiops Of decree of the said court made at the May term thereof. 1907. In the cause wherein w. l.. Freeman. George Durham. Jas. Gum and Robt. King were plaintiffs. and K. A. Helsby and William L. Stalon were defendants, will on
 Saturday, the 3rd Day of August, 1907 at the west door of the court house, in For rest City, St. Francis County, Arkansas, offer for sale to the highest bidder. on a credit of three months, the following described lands. lying and being situate in the County Of St. Francis, State Of Arkansas, tOwit.
 The northeast quarter of section Y. and the southwest quarter Of section i5. aii in township north, range east.
 A note with approved security will be re- quired Of the purchaser.
 Nj. W. SEA BORN. Com missioner.
 July ie 1907
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
"FLoRIDA PINE" ASKS
A QUESTION OR TWO

Editor Pensacola Journal:
In view of the importance of the
question about to be decided in ths
coming election, We beg to submit 4
few questions relative to the subject.
ID What environment do good
parents generally wish to place around
their children?
CD What constitutes a good enc
vironment-what a bad one?
6 What moral, mental or spiritual
benefit is a Saloon to the community
(4) How can it help our girls?
90 How can it help our homes?
90 Does it help widows and OF
phans?
CD How many fathers in the city
of Pensacola are today ambitious for
their sons to be saloon keepers OIL
bartenders?
90 Is it respectful, is it just, is il
right, is it chiValrous, is 1t manly. is
it noble. is it gentlemanly, to allow Sa.
looms to use as decorations the pic.
lures of women as we understand
they are used, considering the fact
that all men have mothers, wives, sis
ters or daughters?
(9) Should those who believe in
prohibition accept any benefits of rev.
enue raised through the license or
tax on intoxicating liquor?
Q0) Should they be taxed to help
pay any cost, or any expense arising
from the use or sale of the same, such
as police courts, pauperism, ETC.?
I'D If Saloons are beneficial. why
have high license;- why not encourage
them to grow in number and size?
Q2) How can drunkard's wife
make money enough TO provide him,
and the children, with a comfortable
home and plenty of nutritious food9
Q3) Are the families of those who
are frequenters of Saloons, generally
well fed, well clothed and well housed?
14) What difference is there be-
tween the families of men who spend
the most of their earnings at the
grocery and dry goods store, and those
who spend most of their earnings at
the Saloon?
C15) Why the difference?
(16) Is the Saloon a friend to-
young men and young women?
Please some one who knows kindly
give me the information requested.
LIZZIE COLEY.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
The Joint Discussion Exhibited
Weakness of the Saloon Cause

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
G. M. GENTRY REASONS
WITH BRO. BEASLEY
Bluff Springs. Sept. %.

Bluff Springs, Sept. %.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
am not going to exact much Of
your valuable space, but ! want to
reason a little with Brother Jno. Beas.
ley of Century. Now, Brother Beas-
ley, if your little town of Century was
infested with bar rooms and the other
he'll holes that draw their inspiration
from the liquor traffic you would not
want your boys and girls to grow UP
surrounded by this influence simply
because You and the other good people
of your town were in the minority.
You would welcome help from your
neighbors.
/ take it Christ meant for us TO
have the same interest in our neigh
bors home as we do in ours; the same
care for his boys and girls as we have
in OUT own. Certainly the good peo-
pie of Pensacola are our neighbors
and shall we let them still have this
curse among them TO ruin their chill
dren (and maybe ours) simply because
those who favor selling liquor in those
precincts are in the majority. Let
every one come TO their rescue and
vote for prohibition
l venture the assertion that you
nor no other good man in this county
can. on the first day Of October. 90 20
the polls and come hme and say 20
(Continued on page FIVe.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
In Favor of Temperance,
But

One of the really remarkable and
curious things about an Anti-Whiskey
campaign is the number of people who
will tell you that they are in favor
of temperance, but they are opposed
to closing UP the saloons.
It is a curious position. They are
in favor of temperance but they are
opposed to prohibiting the existence
of the greatest cause of intemperance.
Carried to its logical conclusion
this line of reasoning means that the
man who is in favor OF temperance,
but who is not in favor of abolishing
the institution that creates intemper-
ance would also be
In favor OF education, but opposed
to schools.
In favor of morals and religion, but
opposed to preachers and churches.
In favor OF clean city, but. opposed
to garbage wagons and sewers.
In favor Of protecting his home
from yellow fever, but opposed to ex-
terminating mosquitoes or establish,
ing guarantees.
In favor of pure food, but opposed
to a law prohibiting the sale of I'M
pure food.
In favor. of good government, but
opposed to good men in once or good
laws upon the statute books.
What reasonable man can place
himself in any of those positions? We
dare say that not a single individual
in the city would do so.
And yet the very logic. the irresist-
ible logic, of the position of the man
who says he is in favor of temper
ance, but is opposed 10 abolishing the
greatest cause of intemperance. will
carry him on the same line of reason
ing into any one of the positions we
have mentioned
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
INVITING CONDITIONS
FOR NEW SETTLERS

Editor Pensacola Journal:
In view of the Importance of the
subject now paramount in Pensacola
permit me a few words resulting from
observations in many parts of our
great country, covering more than
three score and ten years.
Pensacola and Escambia county, IN
deed, all Florida, is bidding for more
good citizens to come among them
assimilate and become a part of them.
First impressions are strong and
when the immigrant, stranger, trav-
eler, tourist or prospector arrives at
your majestic depot and views the
clean, Tiara.like beauties of the place
with its settings of saloons, zas clus-
tiers of diamond-like dens, tassled and
fringed with loud, foul-mouthed ne.
groes and low whites all on back
ground of dirt and novels, surely his
heart will rejoice and his tongue
speak in ecstacy as he (beholds the
Elysian scenes there spread before
him
Later as he saunters down the beau
tiful bay ciotted with the ships OF
many nations, his eyes, ears and nose
are filled with the beauteous process
of saving the city with alcohol on
South Palafox street
Will he not ask. Does this alcoholic
process make better business, better
men. better citizens? Does not the
Saloon REQUIRE more legislation, more
regulation, cost, trouble and watching
seven DAYS in the week than all legiti-
mate business put together? Why
hermit it? Does not the right to re-
strict imply the right and power to
prohibit?
'"The railroads, the manufacturers
and others are required by law to pay
and reimburse the passenger and the
empIoye for injuries and damages in
fiicted by them, Notwithstanding the
fact that it may have been purely ac-
cidental and unavoidable.
But what does the Saloonist pay
for damages knowingly inflicted men
tally. morally and physically on his
victims, their families and the COM
munity? Democracy cries out against
discrimination and special privileges.
Why this difference and diScrimina-
ton in favor of the Saloon man? The
LIQUOR dealers by their utter disregard
and spurning of law and ordinances,
by their brazen insolence and infrac-
tons first dared, then invited, the IS
sue nov before the people in this
county.
About every disreputable person,
male and female, every one engaged
in the liquor trade, every Saloonist
and bar tender, every keeper of q
dive, joint. or brandy house. every
man who beats his wife, terrifies his
children or sends them after beer, or
rents his house for Saloon Or immoral
purposes-every man of them will
vote Wet next Tuesday. The grafter's
sure and strcng ally is the quiet or
social glass. The heeier, bTiber and
libertine's headquarters is the Saloon
and like the anarchist they do their
work and plotting behind closed doors,
screens and blinds
Let every voter who loves his coun-
try, his fellow man and a clean and
prosperous city rally to the poles on
Oct. 1 and in the name of God, home
and happiness, cast his ballot against
the national and local curse, the Sa-
loon and the drink habit
j. L. YOUNG.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
The [. e. Ms -Four Cent Rste.

It strikes US that it would be good
business policy for the L. &c N rail-
road to give the three cent passenger
fare a trial on this division. If the
reduction reduced the receipts below
a point that yielded a reasonable
profit it could be restored to the pres
ent rate, and no reasonable person
would object. The only one thing
about it of which we are certain is
that it is one of the hardest things
to overcome in the endeavor to secure
immigration for this section of the
country. 1t is the common opinion
that the increase in the amount of
travel would more than balance the
less rate per mile, but this is OF
course prob1ematical. = DeFuniak
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
Prohibition to Stay in Georgia.

Whatever may have been the view
of any individual in the past upon this
subject, now that it has become a law,
it must be faithfully enforced. l go
further. While we may find that the
bill as passed requires some modifica-
ton for the purpose of perfecting it,
the general principle of preventing the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in this
state will remain upon our statute
books. hope no effort will be made
to secure legislators at the next cleo
ton who are opposed to state prohibit
t1on- If it is made Lam sure it will
be defeated.-Govern@ Hoke Smith,
of Georgia
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Run the saloons out of the south
and the race problem will be practi-
cally solved, says the enthusiastic
prohibitionist of the Pensacola Jour-
nal Let's see-what state in the
south has more race troubles than
South Garolina?-Tampa News.
Well, what state in the south is. or
has been, legally selling or consuming
more liquor than South Carolina?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

The Montgomery Advertiser is adj
vocating restriction law for the Sa-
looms of that city and predicts an I'M
pleasant and improbable anti-liquor
crusade unless more stringent laws
are made. Judging from the sentimen,
OF the people of the state at large,
this crusade is bound to come anyway.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

A French writer says that the
Anerican people owe great deal to
NE trusts" The trusts seem to think
SO too, and are not at all backward
lhout collecting the money.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

If everybody is arrested who has
been connected with the Pennsylvania
capitol graft, about everyone in public
life in that state will be included in
the list. so far as can be Judged from
this distance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

deavor to demonstrate the connection
of the latter with the Christian re-
ligion with which the opposition SC
persistently associates it.
C. u. PORTER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Is it not .time Pensacola Should be
given a depOt in place of the make
shift which now adorns East Wright
street? The travelling public is at
least eDutled to the ordinary accom-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

"A man is known by the company
he keeps, according to an old adage.
He is also known by the company
he refuses to keep.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
shsrn Ones Too

You're a queer-looking thing to
want to fight with me- said the young
bulldog. contemporary: you're not
in my class"
Perhaps not, replied the porcu-
pine, quietly, but / think 1 can give
you few points PHILADELPHIA
Press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
A Peaceful Dax

Yeast-Which day of the week do
you like best2
Crimsonbeak-Why, Friday. You
see, my wife is very superstitious, and
she never wants 70 start a fight on
that day.-Yonkers Statesman
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

The. Louisiana bears are hunting
their most secluded hiding places in
view of the fact that the president is
soon to go after them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

On next Tuesday Tampa will hold
the second of her series of elections
for bigger, better and more prosper
GUS city. Greater Tampa is the
Slogan down there now. How about
a movement for Greater Pensacola?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
People Happier and Better.

There is absolutely no question
about it; our people are UNNECESSARILY
happier andibetter off every way since
the Punishment of the saloon, and the
removal from over us of the curse OF
God Almighty mat rests upon any peo-
pie who tolerate the traffic in the stuff
that debauches youth, destroys man.
hood, incites to immortality and law
lessness, pauperizes innocent women
and children, turns fathers into fiends
and homes into hell.-W. R. Thomas,
mayor of Gainesville, and president
of the Dutton Bank.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
State Prohibition.

State Prohibition.
The movement for state prohibition
as suggested by The Ledger last week.
is taxing form and definite shape.
Governor Conner has intimated his
readiness to include the question in
his call for an extra session, and it is
believed there is no doubt of the leg
lslature enacting such a law If it is
brought up in the extra session. Pro-
h1bition is sweeping the state, where
ever it is put up to the people, as evil
denced by the vote IN the several
counties in which prohibition was yot-
ed on last week.
The citizens of Morgan county are
circulating a petition to the governor
asking him to include state Drohibi-
ton in his call for an extra SESSION.
and it is being readily signed. The
question of state prohibition is gaining
ground. There is no doubt of the
sentiment of the people of the state.
and their wishes should be needed BY
the legislature. State prohibition
shoulu be enacted into law. Prohibi-
ton in two-thirds or three-fourths of
the counties of the state is good. but
prohibition is better-and fairer.
Let's give prohibition a fair trial
let the whole state unite in this moral
movement, and let each county helm
the other to make prohibition easy of
enforcement and popular in every
home Let's a. pull together.-Bir-
mingham Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
A Raging Issue.

Prohibition is a raging issue all
over West Florida, the district which
Mr.. Lamar represents in congress and
there is an insistent cry over there
that he shall declare himself on that
issue if he wants to be reelected
and he sure do.-Live Oak Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
Can't Be Blurred.

A party wearing the opulent name
of GOldring has brought suit for
$4,000 damages against the Pensaco a
Journal because that paper said GER
tain things about Goldring as the pro-
prietor of a string of Pensacola whis-
key shops, that didn't "set well" on
that gents feelings Already much las
cerated by the plain talk and ugly
figures of the cruel prohibition cam
paign. For reply, The Journal re-
prints the alleged libelous matter and
says it can't be bluffed.-Live Oak
Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Marshal Sanders and his guardians
OF the peace, and Chief Bicker and
his brave fire lighters are well pleased
at the action of the city fathers in al.
lowing them an increase in pay and
not a man but what has declared his
intention of redoubling his efforts to
give the city of Pensacola his best
services, which will amply repay the
city for its generosity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

The sheriff at Montgomery has
reached the conclusion that the va
grants are responsible for much of
the crime in that city and county and
has wisely resolved to use plain
clothes men TO hunt them down and
put them to work. Abolish the Sa,
loon and drive out the vagrant and
crime will be reduced to a minimum.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
VOX POPUII

lowing to the pressure on the Vox
PopuIi column during the present cam
paign, The Journal is compelled to re-
fuse publication to communications ex-
ceeding 500 words in lengthy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
ALL SORTS.
Tryinu to Obey nar

Tommy-Ma, let me tie this hand
kerchief over your eyes.
Mother-What for?
Tommy-Well, you told me never tn
let you see me stealth jam again
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

medations to be found in large cities
and Pensacola is discredited by the
present inadequate depot
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
II Would Be Fine Thing. Too.

Franklin and Escambia vote on the
saloon question the same day-October
1. If both go dry there will not be
a wet" county in Florida west of
acksonville.-Tampa News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
Accumulation of Years.

Accumulation OF Years.
A tremendous flood of prohibition
literature is pouring through the
columns of the press in the several
counties in Florida in which prohibit
ton campaigns are now pending. For
the most part the saloon people seem
to take the drenching in sullen silence,
and even when they attempt reply,
they can only set up a few generali-
ties about personal liberty and the
evils of blind tigerism in futile answer
10 the vast and appalling array of in
disputable facts growing out of the
liquor traffic. These facts have been
accommodating for generations, and now
that they have become intolerable, the
people are rising in the exercise of
their inherent right to destroy the
evil behind them, or at least to min
imize it. There was a time when
saloon regulation might have post
poned the revolution indefinitely, but
the saloon keepers despised and defied
the law and made no effort to reduce
the notorious evils growing out OF
their traffic, and now it is too late
The increasing density of our popula-
tion and growing complexity of civil
ization make it simply matter of
self-preservation to put such a terri
bic force as alcohol under the ban of
law and it is idle to INVOKE theories
on the subject. An ounce of fact
counts for more than thousand
pounds OF theory. said the late Presi-
dent Garfield.-Live Oak Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
1t Is Comma.

1t Is Coming.
..ssthe time approaches for the pro-
hloltion election in the county. the
sentiment grows more favorable and
substantial. And this sentiment is not
reflected in the opinion of all classes.
The whole people have made up their
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
Successful Farming.

Columbus Mckenzie, who resides
near Lake Helen, is one of the sue
cessful farmers of Volusia county.
From thirty acres he has just harvest
ed 246 bushels of fine corn, $160
wort of fodder and hay, and from the
same piece of land sold S100 worth
of melons. Besides all this he has
the prospect for fine sweet potato and
pea crops, and in addition he has gar
den and fruit crops. Mckenzie has
made all this despite the long dry
spell we had through the winter and
spring. Farming is a good paying
business in Florida when you ga, at
it right like Mckenzie AnG such a
man should be happy, contented, and
certainly dependent.-DeLand Rec
ord
A Good Suggestion.
One way to attract immigrants to
our fair state is to fit up a car with a
variety of Florida products and place
1t Din charge of an expert advertiser
and demonstrator and Iet him tour the
eastern, northern and western states,
stepping in cities long enough to dem
onstrate to the people the possfbil-
ties of the soil of the Land of Flow
ers. -Tavares Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
Hied Himself Here.

Hied Himself Here.
Hon. Robert McNamee, the distin-
guished Tampa lawyer, has hied him
to Pensacola, where his clarion voice
will be raised in the pending campaign
there in behalf OF the suffering cause
of the open saloon which seems to be
getting the worst OF it if We may Judge
by the Pensacola papers. Editor
Mayes, of The Journal, apparently
feels new vigor in the fight for pro-
hibition since that Pensacola saloon
keeper called on him for $4,000 dam
ages for saying things about his bust
ness that didn't look well to him in
primitive Oak Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Glad of 1t.
Prohibition seems to be in THE swim
Just now, and We are glad of it,
Eufaula Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Effect of Prohibition Settled.
The question of the effect of prohi-
hilton upon the business interests of
city or community is, it seems to me.
no longer an open one. 1t has been
effectively settled and for all time by
the irrefutable logic OF facts. There is
left absolutely no ground for discus
sion. When cold, hard, uncompromiS-
ing facts speak, continuous argument
must needs hold its peace.-W. K.
Thomas, mayor of Gainesville, and
president of the Dutton Bank.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
THE GREAT NAVE
Where Ii Has Reached.

Where 1t Has Reached.
A Pensacola liquor deafer has sued
The Journal for $4,000 damages for
abiding to his FIVE saloons as dives
The prohibition fight over in Escam-
bia has reached the libel-suit stage
Tampa News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Libel Suit Generally Condemned.
Libel suits brought merely to infu-
ence public opinion in coming event
are a dishonest device and a prostitu-
ton of the machinery of the courts,
which cannot be too strongly con-
demned. The suit for damages
brought by Pensacola saloon keeper
against The Journal, of that city, be-
cause of matter published growing out
of the pending Prohibition campaign
there, is of interest to the press of
the entire state.-Live Oak Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
TaIIapoosa a Sure Shot.

ShdPcOSa sure SnOt.
against prohibition, but. the anti-sa-
loon wave has reached this section,
and just as sure as the election under
the local option law is called, just so
sure will the w-iskey business be nut
out of business in TaIlapoosa county.
Alexander Civ Outlook
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27

Can't Make 1t Right.
The sale of intoxicants is wrong
and you can't license a wrong and
make it right.-Carrollton Albanian
Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-27
THE GREAT WAVE
OF PROHIBITION


minds to try prohibiticn-and the
unanimity of the feeling is the hap
piest phase of the situation. 1t means
We will have prohibition which will
prohibit. We via have public senti-
ment behind the question SO. strong
and earnest It insures respect for
the law.
If prohibition only did one-fourth
the good its advocates believe. and
have proved it will do. crime in this
county will have been reduced TO
such an extent that the bitterest op-
ponents of the movement will concede
its benefits and endorse the enactment
of the law they now SO actively OPP
pose. The safety of the home and the
happiness of the family is the ques-
ton involved in ''whiskey or no whis-
ey.'-Birmingham Ledger.