Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-11

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commit of the House on the Hobsan
resoluts the fact was brought out that
a compsnv AT Kansas City. known AZ the
"kentu#h Distillcrs' Distributing rm-
pany fsss offered In send Ia the kcly
liquor sr-plc Of Dwight. Illinois. a
mailing h~t of 50.00O names" In m;.k
ing the sfcr they wrote. Our custom
ers are s@ur prospective patients
The II -ald confesscs 10 a fcelin. II
incredusi when il first read this U'st
amazins statement. Gan it bc possible
that ms engaged in The liquor business
could : Ear forget their OWL interests
as TO ses@e such a statement In she
world u hardly looks reasonable.
Our r.~somcrs become our ccstoms RS.
We thisA we can locate about fifty th'n
sand 0. s.cm who either need Your min
istratigg now or will need them bef,rc
long" tiis vas virtually what they
said. Wat n fatal thing 10 say. What
a cyni41 heartlcSs. brutal thing Ia say.
Did TIC, say it, After pondcring The
matters sr a while. we must concliap
that t'*f@ is nothing essentially imprpb-
able liz ne theory that they said il.
One N ihe bitter experiences of human
kind ii ne disastrous effect of intoxi
Giants a. only upon the people who ns
them lsss on the people who sell them:
and az <tween the retail dealers and
the wLt. sale dealers there j. more hope
for the f~etailcr in time and in eternity
han "a he wholesaler. The retailer j.
in the - annuity and Of il and has some
relation more or less intimate with the
commuasiy a. a community and with his
indiyidafl customers. ~ !, rule he i
not II ~.isious in his ~intrntions toward
his ne.a ssbors. MANY y.ncruis and good
impulse may easily lac in and Of his re
lations sith his ~neighbors. With mcs
engage In the Wholesale trade the per
sonal u lment does not largely enter. can
not erirr The business with Thorn is
largely IN abstraction. 1t is conducted
az a lksiness whereby noncy il 10 lc
made. she mcnev is the sole considcra
ton. ms H. not saving that any man
enters .ae business in any form solcly
for berss,olent motives. lat the demoral
ization hat resides in the use of intoxi-
cants hats the Wholesaler sooner and
hits HI harder morally than il hits
any o~Dgseisc connected with il. Ii is not
hard 'p'gucss how il was with that dis.
tillers concern. Ii il moi improbable
that their statement ia the Dwight IIeo
pie was strictly ia the line uf business.
II is nos improbable that they wished Ia
sell tbai mailing list 10 the Krrly onrc
institute. business scin. business. II
PERHAPS had mol occurred to them that
behind She kccly institute and beneath
il were i olives not entirely explained on
pccuniaFy grounds: that some keen per.
copt,or ~ a great human need: soon
honest fish In mitigate a. far as pos
slblc S1-te great evil: some hope that il
might b possible 10 let some of heavens
sunshilt into sorrow darkcned hores.
might - back Of the discovery If the
cure ans back of the conduct of the in
stitu' II perhaps had o occurred 10
them lea outside oof all business affairs
Of the isn.titutc: from the hearts of pro.
pic WIS., tad M concern with tie curr as
an in's tmcnt: from every state in the
Amcri".rs union: from every town in
the Used States and Canaua: from
thousst Of churches aIrl countless
homes = . PRAYERS II peeps bon tiod
hears 80 whom Hr loves. rssplc who
hit e $'ly hand, without s~ath pr
douhtEaaS 20 M invoking aa>4ings AID
victo 81 the work If II X ely nssi.
tute. f&Hlndccd the t,ropositana as Scaal
ing III the distillcrs vas c offer =
sell O. mailing list their l.oAfiost aa<
perhe3 t. this rurpaTt a. thev Aral~r
stood "a We are hoth in tn sans bnat.
We - the drunkards. You cntc
them, yhen You can. Liquor is tee
sourcS 81 profit for ~ and for yoa. We
should &c able Ia do business to.cthr4t"
II tlss shall appear 60 bc the trAc
basis = the proposition the awful &c
moraligation ot the business coull not
be bet I r ILLUSTRATED in a million vca,s.
Perhaps however. the motive was lif
fercnt. Perhaps they really wishos ihlt
some If those 5e.ooD victims rrirh, ~
saved, aud that MAS the beginning airl
end of %. matter as Ia them. Let rs
assume. N the ab>cnrc If further proof.
that the noblcr motive VA the true 10.
tive Tat assumption will not tcal Ia
make Thoughtful mci in love wiid the
bushes as a businc :. Fifty tholsand
custom =, for the keely cure list n III
ere lie sr house alo,r i q rctty hcs,y
bill foI he nation.
Qni,i now, oUhand wiihsni a ne