The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-12-17
A BOUQUET FOR WATERMAN
Our Compliments to the Great
Friend of King Booze

week touched tender spot in our
good friend Colonel Waterman of
the Newport Democrat. The item
was in regard to the closing of the
saloons in Newport by Judge
Simmons. As friend Waterman
swears by booze in daytime and
dreams of it by night, he took the
item as a personal insult, and sent
up a wall as dismal as ever came
from a dungeon of death in the
Dark Ages.
In Waterman's estimation no
man can be a good citizen who has
ever, Intentionally or otherwise,
uttered single word against
booze, and if Waterman had the
power and authority to do so, he
would doubtless disfranchise all
those fanatics, " as he pleases to
term them, who oppose, in
any form, the free and untrammel-
ed reign of King Booze, even
though it were strewn with
blighted ambitions, withered
hopes, decayed morals, intellectual
degeneracy, the walls of hunger
from the pinched and uncouth
offspring of his devotees, and a
veritable river of innocent human
blood.
1t is a we'll known fact that the
doughty colonel will fight man
quicker for making disparaging
remarks about booze than he
would if you should spit in his
face. And the colonel is an un-
conquerable terror when he gets
fighting mad. When in this mood
land there being no smaller ami
mate object in sight he has been
known to pounce upon the Office
cat with the ferocitv of giant
and shake out four of its nine
lives before the Office boy could
quiet him.
In his recent eruption the
colonel so far forgot himself as to
assert that the editor of The Jour
nal drinks more booze than he
does. We know this assertion
was very humiliating to the colonel
after he cooled off, for his ability
to carry bigger jag than any
man of his size has always been a
source of a great deal of pleasure
to the colonel.
The colonel makes only two as
sertions worthy of serious notice.
He says that by high license is the
only way to control the liquor
traffic, and that The Journal is do
ing the prohibition cause more
harm than good. Then why does
the colonel kick at what The Jour
nal says about whiskey? He admits
! that he doesn't believe in prohibi-
ton. So if The Journal is hinder
ing the prohibition movement.
what's Col. Waterman bowling
forl He ought to be shouting for
JOY, instead of bowling like a
whipped cur.
The journal has never been able
to understand how a high license
can elevate the moral tone of sa-
loon. We believe that whiskey
bought from saloon paying IS, 900
year license will make man
just as drunk as whiskey bought
from saloon that only pays ST.
900 a year license. In fact, it
seems to US that there is a greater
temptation for the high-license
saloon man to adulterate his goods
so as to make a greater profit in
order to meet the larger amount
he must necessarily earn to pay
his high license. We give our IL
quor friends credit for being gen.
erous, but no man will continue to
run q business of any kind that
does not pay all its expenses and a
fair profit. So, we would like to
ask friend Waterman, who pays
the high license, who gets the ben
efits and how is the saloon made
any better or the whiskey less
dangerous, by reason of the high
license2
If whiskey is good thing, why