The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-11-18
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1908
MAKING FRIENDS EOR
PROHIBITION.

Should Texas go prohibition, the
whiskey and beer interests will have
nobody to blame but themselves.
Their aggressiveness and their eter-
nal desire to transgress upon the
rights of those who do not think as
they do. have turned many good
men to the cause of prohibition and
men, too, who had before been ad-
vocates of opposite principles. Good
men oppose prohibition from prin-
eiple and still have respect for the
majesty of the law, and none for its
yiolatOrs. They also have just re-
gard for public sentiment and with
them the will of the majority, ex-
pressed by ballot, is the law itself.
Such men as these are now being
driven from the ranks of the Anti
Prohibitionists by the effrOntery of
certain elements that override public
sentiment. watch for opportunities
to violate the law and evade the law
with subterfuges. In the city OF
Galveston the people. grown tired of
having their rights trampled under
foot by vicious dive-keepers who. re-
gardless of public sentiment, have in
vaded the residence portions of the
city and established their dives under
the very shadow of private homes
the people there. led by that grand
and good man. Father Kerwin, have
risen in their might and will drive
these testers on society into the limit
of their proper sphere. When that
noble Christian woman, Mrs H. NJ.
King, dedicated the townsite of the
little city of Kingsville, it was stipu-
lated in the deed that no intoxicant
should ever be sold on any of the
TOWNSHIP property This stipulation,
until recently. had been faithfully
observed since the beginning and
greatly to King%ine's advantage, for
Iaboring men there who never had
homes before in their lives, have
them now, the absence of saloons,
as they themselves admit, making it
possible for them to build homes of
their own for their wives and their
children. Being the headquarters of
the railroad, with its general Offices
and machine shops there, Kingsville
has long been a coveted field for a
certain brewery. which has looked on
it with longing and wistful eye. This
brewery has made several secret at
tempts to introduce its product into
Kingsville. but for a long time no one
had the fnsolence to override public
sentiment by handling it. Recently,
however, by persistent effort, the
brewery succeeded in finding the man
it has long been in search of. and
Kingsville now, to its regret. has a
dope" joint. BY some sort of court
ruling the dope" is not classed as
beer, although it is nothing
more nor less than mean beer,
and contains sufficient alcohol
to produce intoxication. It is d
'subterfuge" and is intended as such,
and what is worse still, the ruling of
the court before which it was tried.
IS such that it can be sold to chill
dren the same as soda-water or other
similar drinks. This dope" creates
an appetite for alcohol and this it
could not do were it free from al
coholic properties. The insult thus
offered to the people of Kingsville by
the brewery in establishing a dope"
Joint there in opposition to public
sentiment, is only one of many sim
liar instances. Il is quite probable
the agent" was sent there by the
brewery. as such d course is usually
pursued when it fails to find d local
man who is degenerate enough to
handle its dope" in direct opposi-
ton to the wishes of his home people
IN its selfish desire to sell its product
in communities where public senti-
ment is bitterly against it. and thus