The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1912-09-05
WELL
BEFORE VOTING
RESPONSIBILITY IS GREAT
FAULKNER HAS ATTENTION OF
WHOLE STATE AND SHOULD
LINE UP ON RIGHT SIDE.

Fellow Voters of Faulkner county:
Ponder well before casting your
ballot next Monday. Our political re-
sponsibility has never been greater in
this county than in the forthcoming
, election. All Arkansas is watching
. US. Our county is the educational
center Of gravity of the state, at
. tracing hundreds of youths and
!, thousands Of dollars to our schools.
The supporters of our schools expect
clean citizenship in Faulkner coun-
ty. They are weighing us in the bal
ances. Let us not be found wanting
Townships of Faulkner, all eyes are
turned toward you. 1t is being re-
ported widely now that Cypress, Cal
ifornia, Benton, and number of 9TH
er townships will cast nearly every
vote for statewide These townships
will be highly praised for their high
type of citizenship. Are you of other
townships willing to be behind in
your vote for this great cause? If
not. bestir yourselves until election
day is over and see that your people
vote right.
Churches, you are being watched.
1t is said that every Protestant
preacher but one in Arkansas, and
nearly every white Protestant church
member is for statewide That rep
resents twenty-eight per cent of the
vote in the state. A church or
church member lined up with the sa
loon is stumbling block to good gov
eminent and to Righteousness.
Lodges, you are being watched. Be
careful how you cast your ballots in
this election and vote for the good of
the order
Voter, you are being measured by
your vote just as sure as corn is meas
ured by the bushel cotton by the
pound, and the producing land by the
acre. Years hence, your children,
grandchildren, and neighbors will
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vote next Monday. Let it be with
pride.
But" you say, II am honest
do not believe in statewide 1t would
not prohibit. believe in local op-
ton"
Granted that you are honest, per-
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told you this? 1t was Leo Rattle
shaker, in the employ of the National
Brewers Association, run by the
Whiskey Trust, the greatest trust in
the world. Rattlesnaker was on the
streets of Conway last Saturday, talk
ing to men of countenance like his
own. He knows whom to approach.
His face betrays his heart. Did you
see the kind of people he sought?
Did you see good men shy around
him? Do you want to be classed with
him and Joe Lyons? Look into the
sources of this information against
statewide. Voter, the whiskey men
of Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and
New York are pouring money into
Arkansas by the thousands to catch
ignorant voters with this argument"
Why are they doing this? Because
statewide Injuries their business.
They know it. In the statewide states
there is just one twenty-ffth as much
whiskey sold and used as in the open
saloon states. The Brewers Associ-
alton has published these government
statistic as true. That is why they
are spending their money to defeat
statewide
But Tennessee" The writer was
in Tennessee week ago and was told
by a travelling man of Chicago, for
merly business man of Memphis
that when Memphis had licensed sa-
looms there were five hundred blind
tigers in the city. They do not claim
greater number now. Memphis is
bad but not as bad as under the Ii
censed saloon. Hundreds of other
towns in the state are prospecting
greatly without saloons One of the
writer's neighbors of Martin, Tenn
essee, in saloon days was a poor, rag
ged drunkard, with dirty, ragged
children. Today, his barn for his
COW and horse is better than his resi-
dence in saloon days. Then he had
no COW nor horse. And he has an ell
egant home, and it is paid for and
respectable children. Would you not
like to help such people in Little
Rock, Fort Smith, Helena and Pine
Bluff?
But | heard a lawyer say" Yes,