El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-23
FATHER MURPHY ON
STATEWIDE QUESTION
Makes Spirited Address at
Prohibition Rally on
Monday Night.

There was another prohibition rally
in Ell Paso Monday night. It was held
! at the Crawford theater, which was
comfortably filled, and the chief speak
! er of the evening was Rev. father Pat
rick J. Murphy, a Catholic priest of
Dalhart, Texas, who poured some hot
shot into the ants.
Former congressman Thomas II.
Ball, who addressed meeting Sunday
afternoon, repeated his address Mon
dav night, adding a few exhortations
to the voters TO get out and work. His
was the first address of the evening.
Atlas Jones, a local attorney, intro
duced him and when he had finished
his address he himself introduced
father Murphy.
The latter began by telling the audi
ence that he had seen his own blood
on the streets in Henrietta shed by a
bartender because he had said the sa-
loon men were saloonmen merely for
the money that was in it. This, he
said, accounted to a great degree for
his taking the stump in the cause of
prohibition.
81 am tired" he said, "of hearing
men say, well. we can control the solid
Catholic vote in Texas for anti prohi-
bition, and I am going to do all in my
power to swing those 50,000Nyotes the
other way. Men who stand highest in
the Catholic hierarchy and clergy are
opposed TO the saloon.
There are 1000 saloons in Texas and
$50. 900 homes It is to be the saloon.
against the home and vice versa.
There are 5000 prostitutes in Texas and
one-half of this number supports
man There are 10000 crooks in Texas
not in Jail, and they will all vote S,e
anti ticket. There will be $4,000 votes
controlled by the saloons altogether,
through the saloons and their slush
fund.
aT have friends in the saloon bust
ness. but thank God almighty no rela-
tives ] am Al years of age have been
a Catholic priest for Is years and have
preached prohibition in 26 states.
lived eight years as a priest in New
York and was located for a time at
st. Mary's cathedral in San Francisco.
between Chinatown and the tenderloin.
and I could make your blood run cold
with facts about things that have oc-
Cured in the saloons there
Some say there is good saloon.
You might as well try to have a well
trained rattlesnake or a respectable
hell.
Or Lincoln, in Texas, points out
through the bible that Noah got drunk.
That was many, many years ago. But
he argues that you should give one
half your money to the saloons, and he
is a doctor. I have never been able to
determine whether it is divinity, corn
or horse.
Every saloon in Texas makes five
drunkards a year that is 90 900 in the
state You make 500 a year in this
city
IT would like to talk all night just
to keep from going to Beaumont. but
there is one redeeming feature about
Beaumont, it is close to Houston.
Il believe the saloon is all right in
its place but its place is in hell.
Down in Fort Worth they are go
ing to have an anti rally. They will
have barrels of ice water in the streets,
for the horses.
up in our little village. God help
me when they hear I called it vii
lage we have a man. in fact the cen
sus says we have 500, though we
thought we had 1000, there is one man
who owns a hotel and leases it, the
man who is running 1t taking the
lease on condition that the owner
keeps away from it. He said If we
have prohibition up there he is going
to move and ! told him that was one
reason we want it When you get
fellow like that. put a match at one
ear and blow through the other. If the
match goes out you know it is time to
stop talking.
Down at that Fort Worth rally they
are going TO have long list OF speak
ers headed by the man who was, what
is the name of that man who was ac-
cidentally electer governor2 Web.
never mind, 1 shall not mention any
names. but they will all be honora-
bic men, just like julius Caesars
friends.
ION July %, the home is going to be
lined up against the saloon. Now look
to it that you support your constitu-
ehts."
Rev. ]. ]. Bullen, pastor of Houston
Square Baptist church, rendered a vo-
cal solo on prohibition before the
speaking began.