Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1915 Page: 4 of 16
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4
Oct. 15, 1915
EDITORIAL
quest.
THE FIGHT IN LOUISIANA.
The spirit
THE TEXAS TICK.
RAISING THE STANDARD.
LUEDDE’S LOVE LETTER.
TEXAS TICK AND STATE’S RIGHTS.
else let
This we
the work go backward and suffer,
knew our friends did not want. 1
PRHIBITION DOES NOT DECREASE PROP-
ERTY VALUES.
TO THE FRIENDS OF PROHITION IN
TEXAS:
Yours very truly,
G. H. LUEDDE.
were obliged to borrow money or
HOME AND STATE
ARTHUR J. BARTON, Editor
Wet orators and wet newspapers declare that
the way to kill a town is to vote out the saloon,
that property values in any community are sure
to decrease if the brewer and the distiller are not
permitted to ply their trade in that community.
The June report of the Department of Commerce
of the United Stats regarding “estimated valua-
tion of National wealth” does not support this
argument of the wets.
According to this report the total value of
property in the New England States increased
from 1910 to 1912 52 per cent, while during the
same period the increase in the State of Maine
was 56 per cent.
The increase in property value from 1910 to
1912 through the entire United States was ill
retail liquor dealers 100,000 voters in Texas, and
as Texas only went wet by less than ten thousand
votes you can see how important a work this is.
If you haven’t but half a dozen names, let us have
them. If you have ten thousand let us have your
list. We will return your list as soon as our en-
velopes are addressed.
We have a little over a month to do all of this
work, and when you cansider the immensity of it, it
is unnecessary to urge upon you that you give it
your immediate attention. Nothing that you can
do will assist more materially or effectively in your
remaining in business than this work which we re-
Some of our Texas Congressmen voted against
submitting the Sheppard-Hobson' Resolution for
National Prohibition, because they thought it would
interfere with State’s rights. We haven’t heard
A Fort Worth paper reports the Second An-
nual Get-Together meeting of the Liquor and Malt
Dealers’ Association of the city. The report says
that the president “made an enthusiastic talk, tell-
ing of the association’s effort to raise the stand-
ard of its membership to eliminate the undesirable
element and to protect the interests of its mem-
bers,” which suggests a parable: There was in a
certain district a colony of animals known as the
skunk. A meeting was called. An association was
organized. The second annual meeting convened
and the president made an enthusiastic talk, telling
of the efforts of the association during the year to
elevate the character and quality of the perfumes
used in the family toilets of the colony.
This is a brief but very earnest word to
the friends of prohibition in Texas. The
operations of the Anti-Saloon League have
been much enlarged. The income has great-
ly increased, but is still small compared with
our needs. During the summer months we
Bell County pro’s have called an election. Their
petition contained 1,700 names. The electrion has
been set for November 13th. The great Ham-
Ramsey revival has prepared the way and there
is good hope of victory for the right. Let the
good work go on. It would not hurt if there were
several other county elections' called in the imme-
diate future. Why not Dallas? Why not Mc-
Lennan? The armies ought not to lie too long in
the trenches. An army in the trenches has never
yet won a victory.
of our people has been aroused and they
are now not only head by, but anxious for
the fray. We are planning for the great
final struggle that shall kill the dragon in
Texas. To swing out into the campaign
as we should we must clean the sheet and
balance the books. We have several times
enough due on good pledges to do this. Let
every friend of the cause who has recently
received from the Anti-Saloon League a state-
ment remit now. Do not wait; send it now,
while you think of it. “Many mickles make
a muckle.” There are many friends who
ought voluntarily to send in a good cash
offering and a pledge of so much a month
till “Kingdom come,” or until the liquor shops
are closed in Texas.
HOME AND STATE
any of them protesting against this interference
of State’s rights on the part of the Federal Gov-
ernment in coming in directly without any Con-
stitutional Amendment to help us destroy the Tex-
as tick. Why the difference? We will have to
turn these Congressmen of ours back in the Primer
of Political Science to the first lesson and teach
them the way of the Lord more perfectly. If
they are so old and “sot in their ways” or so in-
competent that they canot learn, we will have to
find some other patriotic Texans who will agree
to make the sarific and serve us in Congress. A
man who thinks it is a violation of State’s rights
for the Federal Congress to propose an Amend-
ment to the States is either uninformed and in-
competent in the affairs of State, or, being in-
formed, is wonderfully biased in his judgment.
THE ELEMENT OF RISK SMALL?
One would suppose that the conviction of five
of the defendants at Corpus Christi of the election
frauds would deter the brewers and diminish their
activities in their “educational” work during the
present poll tax season. It appears that this con-
viction is not to have so great effect as we could
wish. Evidently the brewers figure the element
of risk is small. One reads of a terrible railroad
accident, in which many persons were killed and
many others maimed, and one shrinks from railroad
travel. But when it is pointed out that an acci-
dent happens only once in a while; that many mil-
lions of people travel during the year, and only a
few are hurt; that the element of risk is very
small, one is reassured and goes on his journey.
Just so with the liquor people. They have cor-
rupted our elections so long, so regularly and so
persistently that it will probably require many
convictions to deter them. We herewith pub-
lish in full a letter just sent out to the liquor
dealers by G. H. Luedde of Waco. Luedde is the
Texas manager for the Annhauser-Busch Brewing
interests of Saint Louis. The Annhauser-Busch
interest virtually control all the brewery interest of
Texas. It would seem from this letter that the
brewers are determined to do their usual amount
of corrupt work. Let every friend of good gov-
ernment and clean ballot be on guard. Watch the
movements of the enemy. Gather every bit of
information and data possible. Furnish it to the
local officers. Put the officers on notice that they
must do their duty. It is war to the knife and
knife to the hilt between a clean ballot and good
government on the one hand and the liquor inter-
ests on the other. Incidentally, it is interesting to
note that Luedde thinks that prohibition in Texas
would mean the death of their business, even though
“prohibition doesn’t prohibit.”
A great movement is on for the eradication of
the Texas cattle tick. Some days ago we had an
aticle from the Bureau of Animal Industry at
Washington on the subject. It made three pages
of legal cap in typewritten matter. They point
out the depredations of the tick and point the way
for his destruction. It was stated that every tick
injures the health of the steer. It was declared
that it had been demonstrated that each steer loses
200 pounds of blood in his battle with the tick
by the time he is marketed and that this is en-
tirely too much loss and waste. Recently the Dal-
las News has published a series of interesting
studies by one of its best writers and has pub-
lished pictures showing depredations made by his
majesty, the tick, on the steer life of Texas. Ex-
perts from Washington are here. Dipping vats
have been provided. Armies of specialists are
mobilized. All for what? To destroy the tick
that bites the steer. The health of the steer is
about to be injured, and this will never do. Se-
riously, it is all well and good to eradicate the
tick, but why make such ado about the tick and
the health of our steers, and license the liquor
traffic that undermines the health, destroys the
property and destroys the lives of so many thou-
sands of our people? Is it true that in Texas
and in the estimation of the United States Gov-
ernment a steer is worth more than a man ? Per-
haps, if the tick would organize and pay a license
to the Government and to Texas his standing and
respectability might be improved.
As pointed out recently, Louisiana and Texas '
are the only States this side of Missouri and Ken-
tucky which licenses- the open drinking saloon. In
each of these there will be a clean up soon. The
fight is now on in earnest in Louisiana. Thomas
C. Barrett, candidate for Governor, says:
“I favor immediate extension of the prohibi-
tion unit from the parish to the Congressional Dis-
trict and providing for an election therein on the
issuance of liquor license, as demanded by the
people. I stand pledged to do all in my power
to see that the question of State-wide prohibition
is submitted to the electorate of the entire State
for decision during my term of office as Governor,
if elected. My position will be fully set forth in
my platform, now in course of preparation.”
Ruffin G. Pleasant, pro-liquor candidate for
Governor, says:
“I favor local option with the parish as a unit.
Should I be elected Governor and the Legislature
passed a State-wide prohibition bill I would veto
it. My reason will be given fully and frankly in
my platform and public speeches.”
Of course, he is for the local option laws as
they now stand—he is for them because public sen-
timent would not brook a suggestion of opposition
to them. The liquor people are for our local op-
tion laws just like a felon is for his own peniten-
tiary sentence when he gets that instead of a
hanging sentence.
Gentlemen:
I am writing you about a very important mat-
ter. I want you to regard the same as confiden-
tial, and as an urgent message for you to act
upon immediately.
As you know, the liquor business in Texas is
being assailed on all sides and is threatened to
destruction every time there is an. election in the
State. The last State-wide election in Texas was
won by the anti’s by a very small margin, due, we
think, to the fact that the anti’s were not aware
of the danger and did not vote, or were unpre-
pared with poll taxes and couldn’t vote.
If we expect to be in business longer than next
year in Texas we must see that all of our anti
friends pay their poll taxes, and to that end we
are starting a poll tax campaign among the anti’s
of Texas.
We want you to assist by sending at once—
and we mean by return mail—to the writer a list
of all parties, with their addresses, to whom you
have made shipments of beer or whiskey by
freight or express in the past year or eighteen
months. Now, don’t say this is too much work—
we know it is work, and if you have a list that re-
quires the services of a stenographer in getting
up, employ one and let me have statement of the
expense. This is important work. We ought to be
able to reach with your list and the list of the
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