Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-03-28
MURDER MILLS.
Written for Jimplecute by A. b II

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Saloon Keeper. If you will let
me put a mill on your land, Mr..
Citizen, | will help you pay your
taxes, pave your streets and help
build your school houses.
Citizen. Don't you have taxes
to pay?
Saloon keeper,-Yes, more
than any one else and a large IL
cense besides.
Citizen. Well, where do you
get so much money to pay all
these things?
S. K.-From my customers.
Citizen-They must be very
rich.
S. K.-No; they are the work
ing men, day laborers, mechan-
les, clerks, politicians, merch-
ants and sometimes boys and
girls and often rich people, but
they don't stay rich long after
being customers of mine.
Citizen-What kind of mill is
it? What kind of raw material
do you grind up and what do
you manufacture?
S. Kit is a murder mill, and
we grind up men and boys and
girls and sometimes women.
We manufacture tramDS, burg
lars, gamblers, drunhards, har-
lots and murderers. We fill the
hospitals, the poorhouses, lunatic
asylums and theNpenitentiaries.
CitiZen-Have you no cons
cience or soul about bringing on
all this misery?
S. K.-No; we are a trust,
monopoly. Did you ever hear of
a trust having a soul? We are
the largest and richest trus in
the world and have great power;
we own billions of dollars and
billions of property. We man
ipulate the politicians, and make
the republican party think they
are the power; but we manage
them, and-the democrats, too.
Citizen-How do you do that?
S. K.-Why, we get up a scare
about the tariff or some other
bugaboo, and make the people
believe that is running the coun-
try, when really it is the whisky
trust that makes living expenses
so dear. So much grain is used
or beer and whisky, and so
much of the peoples money is
paid for that which contains no
nourishment, but causes the inn
bibers to become lazy, quarrel
some and destructive. The ma
tons wealth is poured into the
Golfers of the brewers, so much
so that the wife of one of them,
in California a few months ago,
seated upon throne ard cover
ed with gold and diamonds, was
crowned queen of the world.
Citizen. DO not the good men
of the country protest against
all this wickedness?
S. K.-Yes; many OF them
make temperance speeches; we
do not mind that; we make tenn
perance speeches ourselves; the
preachers declaim against us,
but we laugh az them and tell
them to preach the gospel and
keep out Of politics" Most PEG
pie are too busy making a living
to spend much time on the whiS-
ky trust. Once in a while we
strike a politician that we cannot
buy or manipulate, when we re
port his case to his satanic maj
esty, and he puts sickness upon
him or gets him out of the way
IN some manner. And sometimes
we have to use drastic measures
as we are doing with that prea-
cher in Fort Worth. We tell the
people that temperance or pro
hlbitlon has nothing to do with
politics; that our candidate is
good man and needs the ffiOce,
and we never allow two of our
men To divide the vote, while the
pros often get defeated by two
of them running for same Office.
We have our man in the gov
ernor's chair and are filling the
other offices with our men i'm
this state, and are running this
country--and don't you forget
it, we have the men and the mon
ely, and are grinding up this
country 10 suit ourselves.
Citizen How a ooutthe women:
do they not protest against the
grinding of their husbands aud
boys
:. h Now, YOU have struck
our hardest proposition; il IS
not because Of their better iudg
ment or knowledge, but they
have a kind of intuition. they
seem ga sense danger from
saloon, aud tight as with much
power. That's the reason We
fight women suffrage; n they get
20 voting, un'esS We can work
~ rabbit foot oIn~hem some 9th
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