The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-27

car monopoly, an interstate trans
portation monopoly whose interests
might at any time be affected by
natural legislation.
LET it be remembered further,
continued Mr.. Sheppard, that the
most powerful special interest in
Texas today, and one of the most
powerful in the United States, an in
terest fundamentally concerned with
national and state legislation, is the
liquor traffic. Jacob Wolters IS ths
hero and idol of the liqour traffic
in Texas today. Having led the fight
last year which perpetuated this ter
rible evil in Texas his election this
year TO the highest office In the peo-
pies gift would be justly regarded
traffic in the records of American
politics. Elect him, and in every
saloon in Texas. from the Rio |
Grande to the Red, glasses will
clink to his success. Elect him, and
you will say to every boy and girl !
in Texas that the road to prominence
and honor lies through the brewery
and the saloon. He tries to avoid
this issue. to say it has no bearing
but everybody in Texas knows that
but for his part in the whisky fight I.
ne would not have been mentioned
n this campaign. i,
Mr., Sheppard said that he had no I
to make of his opposi- I
ion to the liquor traffic. He said
hat he was against it because he
onsidered it the chief enemy to civ 4
lization, because it dealt in one OF 4
ne deadliest of all poisons whose 4
rowing use threatens the vitality =
nd stability of the nation, because Z
f immense economic and moral loss
entailed; because it was already =
reducing ninety per cent of the
lime. the lunacy, the vagabondage 81
the United States, because OF the d.
sarts it had broken. the ambitions I
has destroyed. because 1t was the al
ief source of the white slave trade
ID the social evil, because he re- re
rded it as the chief enemy of the to
other, the wife, the child, the de
me. He said that the LIQUOR traf- co
was especially anxious to have 70
n in the United States senate and pr
use of Representatives who wousd lal
favorably disposed in its behalf, BIZ
'ause it was enjoying enormous in
ors at the hands OF the federal the
eminent, import and excise taxes
ng so arranged that the traffic is "a
bled to make outrageous and
rmous profits.
lr. Sheppard said that he had in =
duced two bills TO prevent the In
state shipment of intoxicating IL
RS, except for personal use, the
It being along the line of the ~,
DO
ng the result of a conference OF ~
in Washington from
cry section of the Union, includ- ~,
8 governors, judges, lawyers, eler- .,
men and business men. III
Returning to the tariff question
IT. Sheppard said that as Texas was +
farming and ranchinS a
ate it would be especially interest
e to note the relation of the farm
to the tariff. He said that the O
elective tariff falls most heavily m
the farmer because it not only
bjects him to the denomination of &
but iuterferres materially
tn the sale of his products abroad
Mr.. Sheppard next took up the o
ntroversy over the taxation of GER
n raw materials of manufactura.
Mr.. Sheppard said that he believed
e true doctrine ON the subject OF NJ
g taxation OF raw materials to pc m
follows. Wherever we do not n
AXE enough of material to sup
V home manufacturers, where i'm So
,rtations must be had from abroad
such an extent as to effect home
ices. where the manufacturers Q
)st of production is thereby en- y
anced by the tariff on raw mate
al and where foreign manafactur-
rs competing with US at home and
broad get their raw material free !
4 duty, and are thug enabled 70
,aralyze the home industry and the
lome market for the raw material,
hereby injuring both home pr0dus-
ion and home manufactured, Bniess
and therefore, pro-
.ectiye duties are given The home
the duty should be
taken from the raw material IN or
der 70 make it possible TO take pio-
lection from the finished product /"
As 70 the initiative. referendum
and recall, Mr. Sheppard said that
Mr.. Wolters based hls opposltion %
this reform purely On the ground
that 1t was proposed az q substitute
for representative government. To
demonstrate this Mr.. Sheppard quot-
ed from VOTERS opening speech the
following excerpts: "These exoeD-
tions do not involve the abandon
ment OF representative government