Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-12
MRS. M'CU|CAN
TALKS OF EVILS
HOT SCRINGS DELEGATE TO W.
c. T. e. CONVENTION REVIEWS
LANLESSNESS.
LAUDS THE GOVERNOR
SAYS Hot Springs Now Has Fearless
Officers and Law Is En-.
forced.
III
In an address before the state con-

eis
In an address before the state con.
IGNITION Of the Woman's Christian
temperance Union i'll this city yester-
day morning, Mrs William McGuigan
OF Hot Springs, wife of the famous
Umbrella Bill McGuigan, who is
one of he reform leaders in the Val
cy Of Yapors, declared that Prohibi
tioD would win in Arkansas and that
Ia" lessness il Hot Springs had at last
come to an end. She paid a high tri-
butte to Governor Donaghey and his
appointees in Garland county and as
serted that the women, If they will,
can eliminate the lawless element i'll
politics. She said that the women
Of Arkansas do not want to vote, but
I taSt they can use their personal in
f1uence to greater advantage than if
t'iss went to the polls: Mrs. McGui-
7-in said:
The twin evils, liquor selling and
gambling go hand in hand. There is
no gambling house that has rot its
bar attachments and few saloons
ware calds and d ce are not a part
O. the equipment.
There are probably more luxur-
ious appointed gambling houses in Hot
Springs than in almost any other
place in America. There are string
ent laws against gambling in almost
-s!ery state in the Union. 1t is cas-
fef TO suppress gambling than it is to
: y press the sale of liquor which is
licensed by the government
Hot Springs is an exceptiona;
Place. 1t has from it's infancy been
} . g mbler's paradise and for very
any years has been unlawfully
: urning what the ywere pleased to
y. II the Monte Carlo of America. with
the bar room accessories usually
found in such places. How many hun
dreds, aye thousands of men C.. n trace
their downfall to these malignant in
fluences? How many hundreds, aye
thousands of women, who were once
happy wives and mothers, have drain.
.tLe cup of shame and sorrow to the
liter dregs.
For years Hot Springs has defied
the law. Most of her Officials were
IN tn I,
I Sc conditions and if perchance 4
good men got in from time to
le their hands were tied, so they
could do but little to improve mat
ers. Our governors and the govern
ment have in the past paid little at
tention to these conditions which of
ten resulted in bloodshed and anarchy
but 10. light appesrs on the horizon;
mighty wave of reform sweeps ov-
er our land; prohibition follows in its
wake; gambling is driven before the
tide and perishes in the deep waters.
Why should Hot Springs be exempt
from this reform? They say, Gus
tom becomes law and we have no
right to deny the wishes of the ma
jority of the people. Now If the ma.
lority Of the people are eriminsls,
which deny. should they be allowed
to defy the laws Of God and man?
Should they be allowed to rob the WIS.,
1torss who come to us, seeking 70
health? Should they, I ask, be al
lowed to rob the visitors of their sub
Itance and their honor and send them
hdne mere wrecks of manhood and II.
many cases having become degraAe.,
smselves they are ready to prev up-
on thei rfellowman?
suppose such a spectacle as A
candidate for mayor, coming out in
the Gaily papers and openly advocat-
sEg an open town and then being elect
xobas no parallel in the twentieth
century.
we returned from prolonged visit
to California, on the 9Th day Of Octo-
Der; apparently there was no vestig,
Of light Up dispel the darkness. With
2 goed osecuting attorney and good
circuit Slge. We seemed as badly Oft
as ever Neither sheriff nor depu.-
les would execute orders to close TIE
gambling houses
Then came the State Fair and as
i was held at Oaklawn. which IL sit
uated within the dry, district il was