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

lifted up by the brewers and liquor
dealers.
They tell us that the saloons bring
prosperity Did you ever pause to
consider the absurdity of such an as
sertion? The earning power of a man
sober. take it week in and week out,
is one-third greater than that of
man who is even a "moderationist"
in his drinking The citizenship of
community must earn money from
legitimate toll. Place saloons in the
town and the community is taxed
for their support. Every man con-
nected with the saloon, from the dis
tiller and brewer down to the bar
tender and porter must be pension
ed by the people who have earned
dollars from honest sources. Can
you, by any manner of reasoning,
show how that which draws from
the purse of labor even a portion of
its earnings, giving in return only
that which causes viciousness and
misery, contributes in any way to
the prosperity of the people? Go to
the saloon infested town or city and
watch these popular resorts In
the human drift that whirls round
and round in this vortex-the devils
whirlpool may be semb-
lance of prosperity, but an attempt
to analyze it makes strange revela
tions. The nickles, dimes and dollars
that find their way into the tills OF
the barkeeper is that much taken out
of the legitimate channels OF bust
ness; it is money spent for no pur-
pose except to crafty desire to
spend, and every dime or dollar thus
spent calls for more The Golfers of
the saloon man are filled with dol
lars that were earned by men who
pnrposed to feed and clothe their
mothers, wives and children, and 20
that end they would have been spent
but for the presence Of those he'll
holes which they now ask you to
help perpetuate by your vote. II
this is prosperity, then truly do the
saloons produce it,
They tell us that, by spending
money for licenses, the saloons re-
duce taxes and aid in public improve
ments. Every dollar that goes into |
he saloon is taken from the people, |
md the money paid for license comes
1ut of the pocket of the people.
t is a direct tax against the saloon
PATRONS family-those depending
lpon the labor and love of the man
or home comforts and happiness
must sacrifice that this license may
re paid The saloons, with money
hat ought to have been spent for the
wife and babies, may help pave the
streets, but that which it has given !
N return fills houses of prostitu- !
tious, starves little children, makes !
criminals OF men who but for their
Influence might be honorable, and
paVes the road to hell With the
corpses Of thousands who have gone
down in the mire that they produce.
II is the iaboring class that largely
paws the money tax of the licensed
but every home is watched |
'or victims to supply material for
he saloon immoral adjuncts ana |
argets for the pistol ball and the
-uife of the drink-craZed product |
f its traffic The saloon pays moth
contributes nothing-that it
oes not fitch from the pockets of
is patrons.
They telluls that prohibition does
ot prohibit But they have never
Jared to say that prohibition does
lot put the saloon out of business, /
md that is the whole question in
he present campaign Saloon or
10 Saloon
They talk of moderation, regula-
ion and peace" and yet when the !
legislature enacted law that would |
have closed the saloon at Z O'Clock |
in the evening thus preventing at
leas~seventy per cent of the saloon
crime and reducing the chance of
the saloon getting all the laborer's
earnings on Saturday night, COVER
nor, acting at the behest Of the liquor
interests, vetoed the law
Ellis county is the banner county
in everything else-she has pros
pered and enjoys many permanent
improvements that came in after the
saloons went out, and this great
citizenship owe it to themselves and
to the state at large to pile up a
record vote against that would-be
dictator, the saloon Great in all
else, let us show to the world that
we have hearts for those who love us
and stand ready, as true men, to
help others throw off the bondage
Of the liquor king
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