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

as the heads of the family say that
the children should be governed AS
the governess of the Almighty civil
government must govern as God
would govern Can God run sa-
loon?
Fourth Civil government, says
Blackstone, must safeguard and
maintain three pillars Of civil gov
eminent, morality, religion and edu-
cation. That those make the peace,
prosperity and happiness of a com
munity Now in dealing with the Ii
quor question, it begins to dawn
upon us what they must prove their
business to be before they can ask
legal sanction or protection Have
they the proof? Does it lie with the
nature Of the saloon crime to prove
this? A man asked me why / did not
try to reform the saloon and not
knock it. ! said, don't you know
you cannot reform a skunk until
they won't stink.
Fifth: The legislature cannot
bargain away that public peace and
public health and public morals
You cannot do it yourself, much less
your agents. Those great things are
not to be bartered. We often have
the idea which is false, however,
that Legislators make laws They do
not. Does an astronomer make a
star or does he discover stars? The
same may be logically said the leg.
islator. He discovers the law Law
! is as eternal as God. God is and be
| fore you knew Him He was-so be
fore you discover law it was Their
and was right.
sixth The sixth and most vita
principle OF Blackstone law nov
shall be brought to bear upon this
traffic whatever is immoral or
tends to produce immortality or is
harmful to the public peace or pros
perity and happiness of a communi-
ty, common law must designate
male in Sc, incapable of receiving
legal sanction because wrong within
itself Now until the saloon can
prove that it is a help rather than a
hindrance to morals, to religion and
education, peace, prosperity and hap
piness of a community it cannot log
ically ask for nor expect the protec-
ton of the common law. This ques-
ton will be and must be fought out
on the basis of crime. 1t hasn't
right to live. Gentlemen, we do not
need the saloon in Texas any more
than | need bed bugs tonight for
comfort in my bed That is not an
idle statement. The bed bug is
blood sucker. He never inoculates,
gets blood into you, but takes away
from you what you have produced
The saloon is a wealth consumer;
never was nor never can be wealth
producer. 1t is the enemy of the bus
mess man, the enemy of the tax pay
er; every dollar that passes over the
saloon counter does not go over the
business mans counter in legitimate
trade 1t is the enemy of the Amerl-
can home and the enemy of the pub
lie school 1t is the enemy of the
American church. While the united
churches of Texas save one drunk
ard there are 3S7 that go down to a
drunkard's hell that we cannot save.
Then let's cut off the source of the
stream which makes our work hard
"The most foolish argument that
| have heard since | have been IN
Texas is the argument that prohlbl-
ton will not prohibit. 1t does with
the Wells-Fargo, it does with the
railroads Has Uncle Sam got less
brains and power than corporations.
Such an argument is a reflection
upon the office holders of the great
state. You admit one of the three
things: that the law is inefficient to
govern the people. or that the offl-
GERS are inefficient to do their work,
or that every good officer in the
state is poor perjured soul, Now let
us look at this argument. Blind Tug
ers and bootleggers and whisky
Joints that have a constant flow OF
humanity in and out from 80 to 100
per day They have a cheap class or
citizenship. and when intoxicated
have blab mouths and perfumed
breaths from the stuff they are TAX
ing Now we all see because OF the
grade of the people and the publici-
ty of the act, the officers are not
able to catch them in the violation
of the liquor law, they are not eff
cient enough to protect my home
from defaulters, bank robbers and
murderers. If they are able to do 1t
and don't then they are not fit to
be in office My home is unsafe If
they have perjured their souls and
stand in collision with the yiolators
of any law That argument is knock
ed into the middle of cooked hat.