The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-02-26
SOME BROWN SCRAPS
Reasons Given by Hon. j. l.. Brown
For Favoring County Prohibition

| VI OfOA piibS W.
And as | have some reasons,
| I'll give the same to you.
In seeking legislation,
am sure that we should
Seek such legislation
AS would do our people good.
We should seek to move the evil
That may about us stand
AS the still house is an evil,
Let us drive it from our land.
And so in order to do that present
ed House Bill No. 127 which prohibits
the manufacture, selling or giving
away of any Intoxicating liquors in
Independence county.
| Some may ask, what is your reason
for seeking county prohibition? Why
not work on broader scale and seek
state wide prohibition, which will also
give US county prohibition? My reply
is:
First, We are working for statewide
prohibition, but we do not know that
we will get it, and we do not want TO
trust too far to an uncertainty.
In the second place, we do not know
how far statewide law will reach.
1t may prohibit the sale, but not the
manufacture of whiskey. II SO, then
the distiller can arm himself with a
government license and keep the stencil
under our nose. But il House Bill
No. 127 becomes law the smoke OF
his torment can't go up inside our
county lines. So it will be better TO
have our county protected, even in a
dry state than run the risk of having
it unprotected in a wet state.
Conditions demand that our county
have such a law, even though all other
counties have whiskey Why? Be-
cause we have at Batesville the oldest
college in the state. Hundreds OF
children have been gathered IN the
Odd Fellows Orphans home; hundreds
more will gather at the Masonic Home.
A whiskey maker or vendor can not
enter either of these lodges. After the
Odd Fellow or Mason is dead, shall
their orphans be carried to and rock
cd in the shadow of a still-house?
trow not. | think the Masons, Odd
Fellows and all other good fellows
throughout the county want not only
the egg broken, but the hen that lays
the egg, drove5off the nest. II we tell
our children we do not want them
snade-bit let us not raise snakes in
our back yards. II we tell our boys
we want them to be sober, let us drive
the drunkard-makers out of our coun-
ty The temperance folks have to
fight every two years under local option
to keep whiskey down. The men in
the fore front of the battle for whiskey
are men that own and run distilries
They form the back bone OF whiskey
war? II so let US pass House Bill No.
127 which will do it.
If the majority has right to rule,
and you say it has, whiskey men ruled
when they were in the majority. They
made their whiskey and run their sa-
looms, despite the protest of the minor
ity The table has turned; the pro-
} hibition folks are in the majority at
this time. 1t is poor rule that will
, not work both ways. Let whiskey
men now reap what they one time
sowed. Let them eat the fruit of their
doings. Let them take up their beds
and walk. Yes, but you say they will
J not go out without a protest for il is
already rumored that they will send in
a petition against the bill. Doubtless
they will-we expect them to do So
we are looking for it any way.
But you can help them sing that song
And send petitions right along
That's broad and deep and high and
strong
And beat them at that game.
know it is the peoples will
) To stop the traffic that doth kill,
To move the grog-shop and the still
And we viii move the same.
4 Some petitions have come In
That's long and thick, not short
and thin.
{ Send yours along.
! Just ask these men in Arkansaw
! To stand and help me pass this law
To stop this wrong.
Yours for soberiety and good gov
3 eminent. j. L. BROWN