Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-07-21
Liquor Forced In.

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Liquor advocates would have
US believe that a more persis-
tent and extensive violation of
liquor prohibitory laws than of
any others is inevitable and ma
tural- that public sentiment
will not support their enforce
ment- that it it is a character
istic Of liquor that all who drunk
it at all form such an intense
craving for intoxicants that they
just will have them law Or no law,
and that those who have never
drunk will be more strongly
tempted to do so when it is out
,lawed and driven into dens and
dives. s.
The truth IS that liquor is not
drawn into prohibition territory
for unlawful sale by the thirst of
the people for it, but it is forced
in by the liquor mans thirst for
the money it brings. All the
power, cunning and persistence
of the organized trafice is used
to intrduce it, not so much for
the immediate purpose of main
tanning or increasing consump-
ton as to discredit the law so as
to bring about it's repeal and to
manufacture evidence that il will
not prohibit, for use in other To-
calities where prohibition is
proposed. It opposes with all
it's weapons of deceit, corruption,
fraud, SANDER, intimidation and
boycott the adoption of prohibi-
ton wherever proposed whether
in precinct, county or state. If
it stopped there the case against
it would not be so bad, but should
it fail of it's success at the polls,
it does not accept the result, but
at once joins the criminal element
in that territory and backs it to
the full extent of it's power and
influence in defying the law. If
manufacturers and dealers out
side, we're to withdraw their
support from criminal dealers
in prohibition territory, dissolve
partnership with crime, and IA
vor the enforcement of the law,
all of which it is their duty to do.
who is so ignorant as not to
know that this would mean the
due enforcement of the law and
the virtual end of unlawful sell
ing in such territory? But they
know they cannot afford it. They
would be thus left naked to their
enemies e%en bsS,,a T Ehsu a Hs 5yg,e @amsnt
| to exist long enough to become 3!o
\ gerurally known, prohioltaiol
n Wild spread like a prairie mr.
, va their nefarious business
4 would be doomed to swift am
! utter extinction throughout th
; nation. ,n1,in,
q Small UlllS oCo"AS IL J.
+ he permitted to successfully az
n fend itself by pleading its ow
r lawlessness? o,oson,
, ma.yim of our law that no ON
- s sha1l be allowed to take 'ov van
9 taoe of his own vro1pe' lie lie
70 this this is precisely VIII. 1;oS ines s.
We LIQUOR people claim the :. mt a't AM u
s of do do W. And the more flag tron ane
%, % a general the wrong, IT. s'fongel
nd their claim to it's bethe miobtn
ur Contemplatingt1ized liauosy
10, power of the Gay in whia
no interests and tt, should if be
lev that power isDnder that liquor
Ike any cause fcs are so pecu-
3t prohibiterpf enforcement, and
cost Early dimocalities they are
aha my ms so well as other
not emf character? If the
cia1 laws llity for. all this lies
xaS respmanufacturer and deal
VIII we reward their villiany
erealing or defeating such |
th. % Have we not much. great
I'VE Eason for widening prohibi-
W; Z territory as rapidly as pos
10 sole until we have achieved the
+ and complete extinction of
the traffic? We cannot hope to
have an ideal enforcementGof the|
raw until the business is sforn
of it's stregth by nationwide
prohibition, but it will become
less and less difficult as prohibi-
tlol territory is extended. Who
IS $ foolish as to expect to DIES
paa so huge, calloused and +
Nvenc1ous serpent by one.
d S, va h, 1t will require time ]
W. 90 70 upon blow, never ceas- j
= IN 8 as there is a wiggle
W. the, tail. We will then
~ ~ bellSd reptile across a
ny tne show to insure refresh
dit n1igfout !, of prosperity
AZ land. II
u Hos ION, Tea M. DUNCAN.