Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-09-01

deploring any further agitation
on the whiskey question. In
that they are particularly con.
| sistent. There never was time
in the world when the evil forces
of society wanted any agitation
concerning what they We're do
ing. In the olden day the devil
greatly deplored the fact that
Jesus had come to disturbe them
before the time. The time to
agitate evil never comes with
the friends of evil.
1t is noteworthy that the same
papers which are now deploring
further agitation on a great NOR
al issue are perfectly willing to
agitate on at any length over
personal issues in politics. One
of the outstanding facts concern
ing the recent campaign is, that
for once the people were largely
lifted above personal politics and
rallied to great moral issue 1t
must be apparent to every one
that one of the efforts of the re-
cent campaign was to move the
people away from pesky person
alities in politics, thing greatly
to be desired.
Another result which is
worthy of deep consideration on
the part of all good people is the
fact that the negro vote was car
ried overwhelmingly for the sal
oOns. 1t is coming out more
and more, the specious and lying
devices employed to deceive the
negroes. The white people may
get great and important lesson,
spelt large for them in the pres
ent situation as it has now de
veloped and is developing more
and more under the investiga-
ton going on in Austin. 1t is
perfectly clear that agents
were sent out to secretly fix the
negro vote by telling them all
manner of falsehoods concerning
prohibition and the intentions
of the prohibitionists. 1t is
equally certain that not a few
white people were hood winked
by adrOit, gum shoe whiskey
agents, telling one man this was
a movement to down Joe Bailey
and another it was a movement
to boost Joe Bailey, and on and
on in the same way The lesson
is that we must carry forward
the work of education in which
we have been engaged for years.
We must carry it forward
among the negroes and among
the white people, warning them
against the insidious villanies
which have misled them in the
past.
Once when there was a great
prohibition campaign in Hines
County, Mississippi, in which
Jackson, the capitol is located,
at great rally Professor Ensley
of Alcorn University, an educa-
ted negro, made Ithis statement
and appeal to the white people.
You white people make a mis-
take with the negroes. You
leave them in the hands of the
saloon men and bad element un.
til you want them in a great NOR
al campaign like this and then
you expect them to rise to the
same moral level as yourselves.
1t was a great statement of truth
which ought to go home to US in
Texas. People are always pun.
ished for neglecting their duty.
1t is not worth while for the
white people now to expend any
great amount of temper and
time abusing the negro. Many
of them did deplorably. Their
religious leaders in the main did
heroically. If a majority of the
negroes did wretchedly it is not
worth while for us to expend our
Indignation on them, but rather
on the men who concocted the
villanies, manufactured lies and
furnished the money to buy the
negroes. There is not in Texas
today negro who is as contemp-
| tible and dangerOes and mean to
the commonwealth as the white
men who will corrupt the negro
with whisISey and buy his vote
TO perpetuate the saloon rule i'm
this state. Let US turn the edge
of the sword on the main trai-
tors to higher civilization. 1t
is impossible for a right think
ing person to have any respect
for men who will furnish money
and whiSkey and lies 20 mislead
the ignorant and weak and low
in the interest of barrooms.
| And this lesson may enfore
upon Us another lesson closely
related 10 il. We are in this
country with negroes. 1t is no
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