The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-17

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crumbliug under their feet These
men force me to doubt what they
say. for when they claim that they
have turned the back OF their hand
to the liquor traffic cannot believe
them when they wind MP by saying
they will vote to keep the saloons
in Texas. A man s conduct aud acts
speak louder than words. | believe
practically every man in Texas who
votes against the amendment votes
TO give the right hand of fellowship
to the saloon business. IL is now
quite common for some of the antis
to make great professions that they
have no love for the liquor traffic
They ought to quit their foolishness
They ought not to talk one way and
vote another ! used to be one or
them and | was not ashamed of ii. /
was in the campaign of 1897. | was
making speeches on the anti side
tAen. | don't know whether ! came
TO Ellis county or not for | acted
fool in so many of them What was
| the fight in 1887? Who heard any
thing about this tomfoolery they call
local self government and that you
! couldn't enforce the law?
Mr.. Johnson said in the campaign
of 1887 the people believed then
rights would be infringed upon by
the adoption OF the amendment, The
amendment was opposed everywhere
by men who thought they had a right
TO eat and drink anything they
pleased They were opposed to pro-
hibition in the precincts, cities
towns and counties, Liquor was not
an issue in that campaign, he said !
eve told the truth then, he |
said. and did not lie about it. We /
did not say then that local prohibit |
ton was all right and that it was
democratic.
Mr.. Johnson then said that in this
campaign liquor is the only issue, II
is a question of whether the saloons
shall be perpetuated or driven out
of the state He said if a majority OF
the precincts in a county can abolish
the saloons a majority in the state
can take the saloons away from you
Go to Fort Worth. he said
where they held their spree and il
YOU can find anything in their plat
,orm about sumptuary law ! will eat
t. If you can find anything about
personal liberty | will take back
water The only thing they said was
hat local prohibition in 1877 coun-
lies was all right"
He said that in 1887 the men who
took the lead in the campaign
against the amendment did not be
long to the liquor traffic What's |
the matter now" he asked The
wholesale liquor houses, the brewer
les. the liquor trust have got charge
of this campaign in Texas Those
bucks in st. Louis and Cincinnati
picked out the state and county |
chairmen. You ants didn't have |
anything to do with that. They wrote !
the platform and they have been
debating the speeches which have
been delivered all over the state This
is liquor campaign, You antis have
Just been used as paw to pull tn
chestnuts out of the fire.
He said he felt sorry for those OF |
his old crowd who have not quit |
the ants. No respectable anti, he |
said, belongs to that gang They are |
doing themselves an injustice when |
they let the ballots use them to per
petuate the saloon.
1T used to be, he said, that the
man who was engaged in the saloon
business owned the place and owned
the license, but the breweries own
them now. They pay the license, own
the lease on the building and carry
the key to the cash register, That's
the gang that is running this cam
paign in Texas and who are asking
YOU to stand by them on principle
Mr.. Johnson at this poin. said he
had another statement to make that
might sound harsh but II was tenn
pered with the truth. i have not got
an arrow" he said "to shoot at the
saloon man but what | have got one
| to shoot at the man who votes to put
him there | want you negroes to
| hear that" he said turning to a
group near the speakers stand. Ac7
| cordng to all the rules of law and
| logic the man who instigates an0th-
| er man to do a thing that is wrong
is just as guilty The bible says a
| drunkard cannot go TO heaven
| don't believe the man who makes
| drunkards has any more chance to