Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918 Page: 63
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BOB SHULER'S FREE LANCE
about. F One man turned loose by that grand jury
was indicted in another county (dry) and sent up
for fifty years. Thus the dry county got the credit.
You see these wet counties take care of crime just
like they do in -South Africa.
LIBERTY HAS BEEN SUSPENDED. What a
calamity! Who ever dreamed that in the .land of
the free Liberty would be suspended. But Liberty
was a booze sheet, published in San Antonio, Texas,
for the protection and advancement of the open
saloon in the State of the Lone Star The fact is
that even San Antonio is becoming too sober for
Liberty to make a living in those diggings. A paper
like Liberty can't grow and thrive where they fire
the chief of police and the police judge for consort-
ing with vice. San Antonio once was a fertile field
for papers like Liberty. K. Lamity Bonner's Har-
poon', seeing disaster coming her way in Austin,
moved to that damp oasis of South Texas for a new
lease on life, and now to think that these booze pub-
lications must go out of business or move on-and
there's no place left to move.
F. E. SELLERS, of Fort Worth, journeyed to Mar-
shall, Texas, a few days ago and fatally wounded
Clifford Gerard, shooting him through the jail bars,
behind which the young man was incarcerated for
having lured the fifteen year old daughter of Sellers
away from home on the pretext that he was going
to marry her. It seems that, Gerard took the girl
to Dallas and from there to Terrell where a mock
ceremony was performed, after which they adjourned
to a hotel as man and wife. We do not justify the
father's action in shooting the young man through
the prison bars and yet we have not one spark of
sympathy in our heart for the young fellow That
kind of human buzzard is better off in a quiet grave-
yard than abroad on our streets. In the meantime
it would be well for some of our simple-headed girls
to be taken in hand by their parents and cared forin their homes. The ordinary 15-year-old girl, edu-
cated in the picture show and raised on the streets
hasn't enough sense to know a marriage ceremony
from a cantata program. A good many men might
save themselves the expense of buying cartridges by
giving their girls the benefit of a real home training.
THE NATIONAL BAPTIST UNION-REVIEW, a
newspaper published at Nashville by the colored
Baptists of the South, gives the public to under-
stand that the negroes are not at all pleased with
the treatment accorded them in the South. That
paper says: "We are nQt pleased with the social
status, not pleased with the economic share, not
pleased with the civic allowances extended us." I
have always been the friend of the colored people
and have not failed to fight their battles with every
opportunity, but I wish to say to the National Bap-
tist Union-Review that I know a remedy. If the
negro race will learn to save what it makes instead
of waste; if that race will teach its women chastity
and that the white scalawag that meets a yellow
girl in a back alley is a thousand miles beneath her
in moral character and social worth - if that race
will kick the grafters from leadership and give real
men the reins, if that race will cease to prate about
a "social status'' and be willing to work, if taiat
race will stick to the best white people instead of
selling out to the brewers and the devil, there will
not be much need of such newspaper editorials in
the very near future. Races have ever been what
they have made themselves.
MR. McGREGOR, MADE NOTORIOUS, IF NOT
FAMOUS, IN TEXAS by the Big Brewery Books,
has made one of those famously sly and winkingly
sure statements, so peculiar to that gentleman, anent
the possibility of a called session of the Legislature.
He affirms most knowingly that there will be no
called session. Mr. McGregor knows the heart of
the brewers in the matter, but dust how that gentle-_ s!'Uh111 iI1 1!l l!tlII !III l!iD1llhIIIIIlIElIIIIII lI I
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Shuler, Robert P. (Robert Pierce), 1880-. Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918, periodical, February 1918; Paris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1146842/m1/15/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library.