The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-10
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| lug that var Was great means oT
| advancing the human race i}c said
| be- thought there we're other kinds OF
I wars thai were better than shoot mas
| people with guns There are COM
flicts which are the means OF al
sanccment 90 the people and we
| have one of those conflicts now lie
! said he wanted 80 get into our minds
what Il Is all about What Is IL that
Is calling the people of Texas from
one end Of the state 70 the other to
come 20 meetings like these he
said that stated definitely and strip
ped of all yerbiage and eeneralities
IL is a question of whether Texas
shall stay IN the saloon business OF
go out Of the saloon business That
is the whole Of IT, he declared The
issue is sought to be cvaded by men
on the other side Many things have
entered into the campaign to divert
attention from the real issue He
said We were not voting on the
Methodism Of our active governor
We are not TO decide the standino of
any man in the church We are not
to decide whether the church and
the state are to be united lie said
they were separated by the federal
constitution He said the issue to be
decided was the separation OF the
saloon from the state. When this is
done We will have a better situation
| in Texas He said we we're not vot-
| ing on anybody's chance for office
| There is just one great proposition
| before the people and that is to set
tie the status of barrooms In Texas
The whole question, according t
| democratic doctrine, has beer
| thrown back to the people to vote
| on and we Will vote on that one
| question. y
DR.. Gambreil then devoted some
time to discussion of the lineup Of
the forces He said they were for
the barroom or against the barroom.
He said we were not to vote on the
right of man to drink whisky
Some persons, he said, were greatly
troubled because if the amendment
carried the women would not have
any whisky to cook WITH. He refer
red to the letter that was sent to
preachers all over Texas advising
them to quit preaching prohibition
from their pulpits and said the let
ter was signed by name that peo~
Pile don know anything about he
| said that the amendment provides
| that after a certain date there shall
be no liquor sold except for three
| things, medicinal, scientific and sa
ramentaL The provision doesn't say
ANYTHING about drinking. He said
! law was not made to make man
/ good man that is not the question
| What we are trying to do, he said,
is to keep some people from making
| a man bad by law,
DR.. Gambrell then answered some
! Of the reasons urged by the antls
why the amendment should be de-
/ feated He said the leaders on the
/ other side objected TO having the
question fairly stated as to who they
we're. He said Jake Wolters ought
4 not to object to the people knowing
that for several years he had been
/, the paid agent of the liquor inter
ests. He said it ought to be UNDER
stood that we are not only fighting
the whole liquor power OF Texas, but
Of the United States as we'll Every
saloon man, every brewer and every
paid agent of the liquor Interests
were lined up in one supreme effort
to save the bar rooms in Texas. lie
said one reason urged Why the
amendment should not carry was
that it would throw about 2a,0ot
men now engaged in the saloon bust
ness out of employment He said
they ask you TO continue the bar
rooms so these $4,000 men can have
places in them to debauch the man.
hood of Texas, He said another req
| son urged was that it would destroy
| about one hundred million dollars
| worth of property. DR. Gambrel
| said 1t would not destroy any prop
erty. He said there was big brew
| cry in Dallas and IT could be turned
| into a soap factory and he though
| Dallas needed a good deal of soal
| Just about now.
He said they also made the piea
/ | that Texas would lose about 81 800,
| 600 IN revenue. He said that TO
/ every dollar paid to the state by TIL
II saloons fifty dollars went Into thei