The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-21
JUDGE BROOKS
On PROHIBITION
Former Candidate for Governor
Speaks in Favor Of the
Amendment
CRIT|C|sEs THE GOVERNOR
He Says II the Amendment Carries
The Law Can Be Enforced.
Heard by Large
Crowd.

That Judge M. NJ. Brooks of Dali
las, formerly a member of the court
of criminal appeals, will be a candi-
date for either the lower house of
the legislature or the senate in the
event the prohibition constitutional
amendment is adopted Saturday was
indicated in his speech here yester-
day afternoon in behalf of that
measure. He made the declaration
to that cffect while discussing the
question of law enforcement and the
execution of the amendment if adop-
ted lie said when a Governor took
the oath of office he swore to en-
force every law in the state Yet, f"
he said, little Oscar says he cant
and won't try to enforce the state
| wide prohibition law
In answer to this Judge Brooks
said he did not want any office, but
| ne would promise on his honor as
man that if the amendment was
adopted he would go to Austin and
stay forty years to fix law that
will enforce the amendment
Judge Brooks spoke in the district
court room to about eight hundred
or one thousand people The Juven-
lie Band furnished music while the
crowd was assembling. Judge Brooks
was introduced by Hon G. c. Groce
of the WaXahachie bar When the
speaker arose to begin his address
he was literally applauded and while
he was speaking there was frequent
applause
He said words were totally made
quate to express his feelings of the
houndless debt of gratitude he owed
| the people of Ellis county. When he
b retired to private life some month.
ago. he said he did not know then
that another exigency would arise to
demand that he take an active pa
before the people. but now he was
out using his voice against little Os
! car and trying to keep him from
running the country.
He referred to the band playing
Dixie" and said the people who
conscientiously listen to that song
cannot fail to hear the cries of the
widows and orphans.
He said when he first ran for gov
ernor there was no discussion in ia
yor of statewide prohibition. He
thought the best results would flow
from local option, but he said he had
no love for the saloon He said when
| he entered the race again in 1910 he
uttered the same sentiment He said
| he retired to private life because his
views did not conform to the views
| Of the prohibitionists,a neither to the
| whisky interests He said the man
who doesn't know that the whisky
interests supported little Oscar
| doesn't know that the war is over.
And yet" he said, "Colquitt got
up here yesterday and said the sa-
looms did not support him. But when
the campaign of 1910 began | heard
the murmurings of the whisky in
terests and saw that they were lin
ing up for little Oscar The one re
greet of my life is that | ever uttered
thought that could be endorsed by
the saloons The whisky interests
have ceased to be a portion in the
commerce of this commonwealth
and have become its political dicta-
tor. | used to think | would rather
have one saloon than a dozen blind
tigers but | was wrong | had rather
have forty blind tigers than one lit
tie regulated doggery. The men who
have saloon licenses have an organi-
cation of something like 1000 to de-
| 10 of tbfe y
and control its political affairs,
Little Clarence Ousley says this
is absurd Little Clarence, | under
stand, used to teach a Sunday school
in this town He posed as moralist
and ran for an office along that line.
He said the great Methodist church
would scarcely recognize st. Paul II
he was living today He says there
are only ten thousand engaged in
the LIQUOR business in Texas. The
comptroller's statement shows that
there are $500 odd saloons. Say
there are 1000, for the sake of ar
gument. There are at least twenty
men employed around or surround
ing each place Twenty times 1000
Is 10000. They have that many vo-
ters to start with. All the voters in
the democratic party do not vote in
the primary election Cut off ten
from the 10000 and you have TO-
600 voters who are ready to vote for
anything you people in Ellis county
do not want In the city of Dallas
the records of Col. Hunt show that
there are $50 internal revenue Ii
ccnses for Dallas. The tax collector S
books show 21S saloons have bought
licenses from the state. Take 2lS
from $50 and you have 1872 blind Ii
gers in Dallas
why, | have been informed by a