The log cabin Democrat., 1922-03-03
PRISONER WRITES
 APPEAL FOR BAIL
ADMITS MAKING LIQUOR
Alex Williams, However, Claims He Was Driven to wBreaking by
 Inability to Obtain Work.

In iail on a charge of making liquor and unable to furnish bond, Alex Williams of near Wooster, in a lengthy communication to the Log Cabin Democrat, expresses contrltlon for his crime, but justifies 1t on the ground that he could find no other means of supporting his wife and nine children, and appeals for assistance in making a bond so that he may re turn to his family His letter in part follows:
 "I am in the Faulkner county jail for having wildcat still in my pos session, and I had it in my possession for the reason of obtaining support for my wife and nine children. True enough Judge Clark continued case of wine selling until the July term of court on account of good beheavlor for me- l appreciate what the judge did for me and am sorry some of the citizens of the county blamed him for it. But I am still sorrier that when got back home there wasn't any thing for me to do to support my family only the manufacture of wild cat whiskey. l tried in vain for work If you don't believe my state ment ask H. Robinson, l.. T. Pat ton, Walter Hiett and Teen Brown ing if I did not ask them for work. Mr. Browning has been here to see me and he said: Alex, why didn't you make it more impressive; why didn't you get on your knees and tell me with tears in your eyes that you wanted to work?'
 Let it be said to the readers of the Log Cabin Democrat and the fathers and mothers that no man would like to get in his knees and cry for work. Any self-respecting or reasonable man wouldn't do it. told my wife I had rather be caught pen for stealing or to go to some man who had confidence in me and buy something from him, knowing at the time that I could rot pay for it. l It was not because I won't work that l couldn't get job and it wasn't be- cause l couldn't get credit that I had | to make whiskey; it is because my family needed support. A poor mans labor is all he has got to sustain life for himself and family and if he cans get work he must do something or else perish in hunger. I know from experience when a man sees one of his own children leave the table hungry, if he can't get work he will violate any kind of law that there is
 q am embarrassed at my circum- stances, but 1 didn't come to my fate from trifleness or laziness; I came to my hard luck through the long sui fering of my first wife and my fath- CT and the loss of one crop and all l had during their illness, and low price of cotton and a high-priced liv- Ing and a money panic ever since thelr death. I was not raised to make whiskey and it has never been my desire to do so. If my father had liv- ed l would not have been here to- day and if I had had friend that would have helped me just little I could have had living without mak- ing whiskey.
 Il have still got the burden of my family at heart, for they are at home and l am in jail. My wife when I left home was sick and the children that are large enough to help very much are girls. Cold, icy weather and exposure like this is liable to cause a death among them and the man that is able to make my bond will | hate it that he was So hard-hearted
 T will admit that tke first charge