The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-01
THE HAND OF SALOON
IN THE COMMITTEE

save himself" Close the traps around
the boy and ne will look after him.
SELF
The Doctor told a pointed story OF
what whiskey had done to one boy at
the Institute and he appealed to the
men of Roswell to remove the curse
hanging over their sons.
Speaking directly to the mothers in
the audience he depicted the coming
home of the husband with whiskey-
tainted breath and what it meant to
them. Bat there is something worse
than that te tear the heart-strings of
mothers heart and that is to have
daughter marry a drunkard. We
must protect Our daughters as we'll
as our sons.
Speaking on the prohibiting of the
sale of liquor, DIR. Mayes referred to
the sale of nOrphine. This drug is
guarded by the law, and that law is
strictly enforced. So with the sale of
liquor. 1t can be similarly prohibited
by law and that law enforced.
The speaker painted word-pict-
ure. In the background he would put
the heart-broken mothers, the jails.
the penitentiaries, the murders and
the rapes, and the cause of it all tle
Saloon
Winding up ais talk the speaker
painted another picture, this time of
a hoy leaving the Institute in citizens
clothes, within six weeks of gradua-
tion. Expelled. Whiskey.
Think of what your boy may be
| oat f0 nd ir-1
marry.
After a solo by Mr.. Elliott, "Wiz
ard" Hall, the "Sears-Roebuck-Mo
gomery Ward man" took up the re-
mainder of the evening. and showed
that imported talent is often very
effective.
In scathing terms he denounced the
Insult to the women in the filthy sheet
appearing on tne streets yesterday,
and remarked that when a crowd
commits suicide il is always trag-
edy and so that newspaper" was a
tragedy.
This is a critical tine in the .lis-
tory of Roswell. Any fool can abuse,
and it is a sure sign that he has no
case. We .lave the case and with the
votes and will smother the liquor
traffic on April 5th.
Facts are facts" and Mr.. Hall
proceeded to give a few facts. There
are states dry today, and the great
Democratic states of the great South
are leading, and none of them are on
the verge of bankruptcy. On the con-
trary business was never SO good.
Twenty-Five hundred, or to be exact,
2,441 counties are dry: 1881 towns
and cities are dry, and last year 322
carloads of saloon fixtures were ship
ped back to the brewers of Milwau-
kee.
A few years ago Kansas was plast
cred with mortgages and now That
state has 80 much money it don't
/ know what to do with it.
More homes are owned by the peo-
Pile of Maine than in the state of To-
wa.
| There is one Jail in New Mexico
without a prisoner, the Jail in the dry
town of Portales.
| Prohibition of the whiskey traffic
means prosperity.
! The fellows on the other side say
the No-license and prohibition people
are not "thoughtful." Bryan is a
thoughtful man; the 131 college pres
idents who are fighting for prohibi-
ton are thougatful men: the mothers
| of Roswell are thoughtful women. and,
said the speaker, this morning saw
some thougntful women" and he then
paid a high compliment to uae ladies
of Roswell
Thoughtful people" Frances E.
Willard was a thoughtful women.
He did not propose to gloat over
the enemy, but he gloried in the vic
tory we are winning.
This audience is composed of
Thoughtful people,
He believes in the cure of diseases.
said the speaker, but prevention is
better and that is what we propose