The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-21

play Just trying to fool the people
in Kaufman, Ellis and other dry
counties What's that done for? 1t is
Just like scuttle fish; it muddies
the water so you can't find it.
Nov | want to talk some about
little Clarence Ousley Why should
not say little Clarence and little
Oscar: they are barking at me. Lit
tie Clarence has written a book. y
At this point Judge Brooks read
a copy of the Record issued in 1909,
in which Ousley was quoted as say
ing the saloon must got ought
to go"
That's what he said, declared
Judge Brooks, land yet when | SAID
the whisky interests were dominating
the politics of the state they told you
[ was resentful at the whisky inter-
ests because | did not get to be gov
ernor. | have no thought, hope or eX-
pectation of returning to public life.
| lust came here to tell you that the
saloons are riding you boot and spur
and singing the siren song of local
self government No man who FOL
lowed the matchless Lee was ldiotlc
enough to believe that he was fight
ing for local self government for the
county. He was fighting for local
self government for the state, | see
little Oscar is quoting my phrase.
said the same legislative breath
which created the county could I'M
make the county. The sovereign pow
er of the state is the enforcement OF
law And yet they come and insult
an intelligent constituency with stuff
like that. | can see the saloon man
shoYeling out the stuff and shipping
il to Ellis county and saying that he
believes in local self government.
And yet they have the audacity to
come to this county and say you are
violating the right of local self gov
eminent"
Judge Brooks said he wanted to
read something from the last fulmi-
nation of that crowd. He read
clause of an address issued some
days ago regarding the weapon of
religious terrorism, ostracism and
outlawry.
who are the terrorists in this
country, the outlaws and the fanat-
ics?'' he asked Perhaps they are
the preachers. If they are they ought
to be killed A terrorist is meaner
man than the anarchist. We had out
laws in this country in the early
days, but | never heard of them be
ing religious Probably they are the
noble christian women and the
church members of the state. Sup
pose we were to XIII all of them,
what Kind of conditions would We
have in this country? What would
we have to live for? And yet they
come here and tell you that the
whisky interest is the best thing for
the country. If we are terrorists
had rather have religious outlawry
than saloon terrorism"
Judge Brooks then read the sixth
plank of the platform adopted at
Fort Worth He asked any one in the
audience, whether pro are anti, who
endorsed that proposition to stand
up There is not an anti in Texas"
he said, who will endorse that
proposition. That's bill of indict-
ment against the christian mothers
of this state
In discussing that phase of the
question as to whether statewide
prohibition will prohibit Judge
Brooks says if it won't prohibit why
t. o,,o,,r IoorrS,.,, lvooDor &, tba c+ata
fighting it. IF they can sell more
whisky when the doggeries are
closed, he said why are they fight
ing the amendment? 1t won't prohib
it, they say Whose going to prevent
it? Little Oscar wants to close them
around about closing them up. 1t is
the duty of the governor to see that
the law will prohibit. The governor
takes the oath of office and comes
here and says the law can't be en-
forced Here's a man who tells you
that he swears to see that all the
laws are executed, and yet in the
next breath he says he can't and
won't try. Well, if he doesn't enforce
them a man will be put in there
who will. | don't want any office at
the hands of the people, but if we
adopt this amendment | promise you
on my honor as man that | will go
down to Austin and stay forty years
to fix law that viii enforce it. The
clause | will put in the law will put
the patching on little Oscar. | will
see that a law is passed that says any
man who sells whisky shall be sent
to the penitentiary for not less than
five years or any number at the dis
erection of the jury"
After referring to the number of
killings that have occurred in Dali
las since January. 1910, he implored
the voters to go to the polls and help
vote the saloons out of Dallas coun-
ty just like they did in Ellis,
But they say | have political re-
sentiment" he said Il want to read
you what Little Oscar said in Dallas
last night"
After reading Governor Colquitts
IN him hainp mad he.