The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-17

The latest | hear on the streets
today on the prohibition question is
the injustice of putting men out OF
a job Sixteen saloons in a town put
% per cent of their constituency out
of job annually by drink. Should
the sixteen saloons ruin and destroy
100 good men, or shall they be put
out of job?
"The papers stated last week that
in a saloon in Texas two men got
into a fight; one was intoxicated and
shot the other man Here are two
men out OF job, and one Of them
has to be supported by the taXpay-
ers, but prohibition don't put men
out of job, but changes them to
better one If it can be shown that
saloon keeper has neither morals
nor business qualifications to do
anything else but to damn society
he ought to lose his job
Il believe, gentlemen, that the
state is sovereign and alone capable
of handling the problem. The child
shall not be asked to be better than
the father Second, local option is
local prohibition authorized by the
state, The father then orders the
child to be good; all the more rea-
son the old dad should. Third, our
unselfish blood money is constantly
called out against too easy mercen-
airy money Is it fair and right that
a certain per cent of the people
should thus have to suffer and sac
| rifiee? The state recognizes the
question as properly statewide be
cause of submission to the state a
large, not the county or precinct
! The state issues all the license. Tn
| liquor dealers bond is made to the
state. The offenders and violators
are punished by the state and state
officers handle the business, logic
ally the business belongs to the old
dad
Il was asked the other day to give
one good reason why | am such d
strong prohibitionist, and leave SEN
timental. death-bed stories and pref
udice arguments out of the question.
| said to the man, 4 can give you
fifty if you have anywhere to put
them | fight them because of their
| fight them because of
their arrogance. the most arrogant
thing that ever fastened its fangs on
a human life | fight them because
of their hypocrisy. | fight them be
cause of their cant and craft. fight
10 f,f
| fight them for their
avirice and greed Ii will make mon
ey of the blood and sacrifice of my
boy. | fight them for the DONNA
ton of politics. 1t has grown to be a
great political machine and resorts
to the lowest means of accomplish
ing its end | fight them because OF
the corrupting influence in city gov
eminent, from the governor down
to tie town council. 1t dictates the
policy | fight them for their inces-
SAINT effort to debauch the suffrage
OF our country They will buy men
at a dollar a head, and like boast
ing proud yulture on dead carcass
it flaps its wings over the Wreckage
caused | iissnt them for the rowaras
they make of public Officers, until
today it is worth about all a man is
worth to get a political job. He sells
his honor and perfumes his soul to
the liquor interests, and you know
it | fight them for the utter disre-
gard of law They do not know the
lps They do not expect to keep it.
[ fight the saloon for the load it
straps to the laboring mans back,
the palsied hands it gives to genius,
the paralysis it gives to the toiler-
God bless the man who carries the
dinner bucket-he is the man that
makes the country and God bless
him am his friend.
AT the conclusion of DR. Bulgin's
address a collection was taken and
the money sent to Judge A w, Wal
ker of Fort Worth to be used In
prosecuting the campaign in North
Texas until election day.