The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-05-28
BLOWS Thai COUNT.
Arraignment Of the Liquor Traffic
By a Judge of Experience.

For ten years Judge Norman G. Kit
trell. of Dallas. Texas, has occupied the
circuit court bench What he has wit
messed as judge has changed him from
a passive advocate of the liquor traffic
to its most implacable foe. His de-
nunciations of the making and selling of
| liquor and his criticism of the so-called
good citizens who tolerate saloons and
| find fault with those who seek to abolish
them is about as strong as anything
| found in the English language. In part
Judge Kittrell says:
Only God and the judges of the courts
know how many hearts are broken, how
many homes are darkened, how many
lives are blghted, and how many limo
cent children are made to suffer because
husbands and fathers are debauched by
liquor which the Government, in ex-
change tor money. gives men the right
+ to make and sell.
( If the evidence in even half Of the
/ divorce cases IN Texas could be publish
el, the people would be aroused to a
realization of the sorrow and suffering
brought to so many homes and lives by
/ liquor.
They would come to know that every
man who converts grain into liquor is a
foe to society humanity and to God as
/ he is.
have in the last ten years heard
enough of the fearful results Of liquor
making and liquor-drinking to almost
lead me TO believe in the doctrine of to-
tai deprayity and eternal damnation.
because nothing but total depravity
could prompt men to brew poisonous,
debauching. maddening beverage for
gain, and nothing. but eternal hell can
atone for it.
Texas needs no money which she must
get at the price of the debauchment and
EQUALIZATION of manhood. and the
suffering and sorrowing of womanhood
and children, and the wreck Of the lives
and homes of thousands of her citizens.
! Every dollar she gets from liquor is
tainted and uDholy. Compared with it
/ the thirty pieces of silver tor which an
avaricious thief and traitor sold worlds
Redeemer was consecrated coin.
| There are many for whom | entertain
the most cordial friendship who differ
from me on the liquor question. but |
can but believe that if they had heard
the distressing recitals have heard in
the last ten years, they would feel as
( do.
/ 1t is amazing to me when the iniqui-
I ties of the liquor traffic are so potent
and so fearful and it is proposed to
abolish it, that intelligent men and good
citizens will begin to talk of "sumptu-
airy laws" and personal liberty" and
constitutional rights" and lot of
other wholly irrelevant stuff, which has
no more to DO with the question logi-
cally or legally than have the inscrip-
tons on the pyramids.
Every man with intelligence enough
to understand the question and honest
enough to admit the truth when he sees
it, knows that the people have the right
in the exercise OF the police power"
to abolish the liquor traffic, and knows
too, that the highest interests of society
demand that it should be abolished, and
that every obligation of social duty de-
mands that every good citizen should
aid to bring about contamination so
| deyoutly to be wished.
| The time Will come. and come in the
/ lives of the younger generation of this
day, when fathers will tell their wonder
| ing and incredulous children that there
was time when men were allowed to
make and sell liquor as a beverage, and
the children will be 10th to believe the
story.
The world moves and grows better as
it goes.
The liquor traffic is doomed, and may
God hasten the day of its utter and IRE
trievable abolition.