Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-07-21
Liquor Forced In.

Liquor Forced In.
Liquor advocates would have
US believe that a more persis-
tent and extensive violation of
liquor prohibitory laws than of
any others is inevitable and ma
stural- that public sentiment
will not support their enforce
ment- that it it is a character
istic Of. liquor that all who drunk
it at all form such an intense
craving for intoxicants that they
just will have them law or no law,
and that those who have never
drunk will be more strongly
tempted to do so when it is out.
lawed and driven into dens and
dives. 8.
The truth IS that liquor is not
drawn into prohibition territory
for unlawful sale by the thirst of
the people for it, but it is forced
in by the liquor mans thirst for
the money it brings. All the
power, cunning and persistence
of the organized traffce is used
to intrduce it, not so much for
the immediate purpose of main
tanning or increasing consump-
ton as to discredit the law so as
to bring about it's repeal and to
manufacture evidence that it will
not prohibit, for use in other To-
calities where prohibition is
proposed. It opposes with all
it's weapons of deceit, corruption,
fraud, SANDER, intimidation and
boycott the adoption of prohibi-
ton wherever proposed whether
in precinct, county or state. If
it stopped there the case against
it would not be so bad, but should
it fail of it's success at the polls,
it does not accept the result, but
at once joins the criminal element
in that territory and backs it to
the full extent of it's power and
influence in defying the law. Ii
manufacturers and dealers out
side, were to withdraw their
support from criminal dealers
in prohibition territory, dissolve
partnership with crime, and ia
i vor the enforcement of the law
all of which it is their duty to do.
who is so ignorant as not tc
know that this would mean the
due enforcement of the law an6
the virtual end of unlawful sell
ing in such territory? But they
know they cannot afford it. They
would be thus left naked to theil
fRs~ bsr.s T ghsu a Hf 5S, @amsn Z
to toe exist long enough to becom
q gerurally known, proholeaol
r Wild spread like a prairie mr.
p a az their nefarious bushes
/ , would be doomed to swift an IN
litter extinction throughout tn
h Shall this scourge of ma a, n
t be permitted to successfully a
r, n fend itself by pleading it's ow
r lawlessness! ,o.on
y Ii is a wise and wholesen
y naxim of our law that no on
70 shall be allowed to take 'ov Ia
g taee of his own vroPf' +h ae
no t this is precisely whsG In ines 5
We liquor people claim the :, AM! liI an,
70. General the wrong. TT. e.
nd their claim to it's bethe MIGHTY
ur Contemplating tiled liauo,
NO interests and tt, should it be
ley that power is,nder that Liquor
skel any cause fcs are so pecu-
Dt sprohibiterpf enforcement, and
COST fsrly difocalities they are
able 1l in so well as other
not ens character? If the
.ci,1 laws 4lity for. all this lies
vas respmanufacturer and deal
~ witt we reward their villiany
erealing or defeating such
lth. % Have we not much great.
ave sason for widening prohibi-
W; !! territory as rapidly as Dos
no sole until we have achieved the
email and complete extinction oil
the traffic? We cannot hope to
nave an ideal enforcementaof the
law until the business is shorn |
OF it's stregth by nationwide
prohibition, but it will become
less and less difficult as prohibi-
tlol territory is extended. Who
IS s. foolish as to expect to DIES
paSa so huge, calloused and
Nvernlous a serpent by one.
d ', ID b 1t will require time
w &C upon blow, never ceas-
~ in E as there re. is a wiggle
~ 10 the, tail. We will then
md ropti1o ooroes