The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 44.
LINDEN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY SO, 1919.
NO. 20.
VOTE FOR PROHI IIITIOW ON MAY 24
THE FINAL DRIVE FOR A DRY STATE.
The anti-saloon fight has been long and hard. In
Texas and in the Nation victory is in sight but the
great issue is not yet settled. o|i May 24th we will
have a chance to vote on Constitutional Prohibition
in Texas. I appeal now for a noble ttuish to the loug
drawn out battle. Many a great' victory in war has
been rtmrred by a weak finish. If the Pros will mobo-
lize all their forces and go to the polls in full strength
the moral effect will be very great and very valuable.
I consider this the reasonable service of every one of
us. Together a great army of us have borne the heat
and burden of battle till we see the ranks of the enemy
broken. Together, as good soldiers, let us press the
battle to the gates and make the finish worthy of the
cause we represent. Let there bo not one slacker in the
ranks. Yours for a great victory,
J. B. Gambrell,
among the highest in
I States.
onists have been more
The Secretary of the
EL PASO'S DRY RECORD.
Situated as it is, next to Mexico and the gateway of
the South and West, the citizen* of El Paso were for a
long time convinced that prohibition could not be a
success. Also it is the most cosmopolitan city in the
state. It has the largest percajptage of foreigners of
any city in the state, and ranks
that respect of any in the Unitei
Vet the claims of the prohibit
than met by records of the city.
Civil Service Commission of that city, Mr. Jack Henry,
has made a survey of the crimes during the months
from April 15th to October 31|ftt, 1918, when it was
dry as compared with the sunxf period iu 1917, when
it was wet. The result shows tjfte following:
During t he wet period there wj*re 8371. cases on docket.
During the dry period only 2830.
Fines assessed during the Wet period were #45,086.
Fines assessed during the dry period were $27,990.
This latter fact would indicate a more strenuous ef-
fort at law enforcement duriu$the dry period, and yet
only one third as many cases* on docket. Why uot
vote Texas constitutionally dry on May 24?
TEXAS GOING DRY.
Under the leadership of Moses God delivered the peo-
ple of Isreal out of the Egyptian bondage. Under the
leadership of our good men and women of Texas God
will deliver Ilis people out of the bondago of old rum in
Texas. More than a thousand saloons iu Texas today
are closed by virtue of our military zone law, and by
statutory prohibition. The zone law will end in Texas
with the siguing of the peace treaty in the near future,
and statutory prohibition has already been declared
unconstitutional by our Court of Criminal Appeals,and
half of the lawyers of the state expect the Supreme
Court to take the same view, and to dissolve the attor-
ney general's injunction by which he is keeping some
five hundred saloons in the state from reopening. We
can keep the lid on in Texas if we will, and our grand
state will flourish as it has never before.
We all know that the liquor traffic impoverishes
homes, assails the church, cripples the school, corrupts
the ballot, and would debuuch the government). It
lays its withering hold uppu'the youth of the laud, and
blows its foul, blighting breath upon the hopes aud as-
pirations of mankind everywhere. It shackles its vic-
tims, it enslaves fathers, bruises the hearts of mothers
and they bleed. It murders little children and robs the
world ol God's noblest gifts. It lures the innocent to
the primrose path which leads to vice and ends in ruin,
death and hell. It lays its colossal fortunes at the feet
of corrupt, power everywhere, that it may live aud that
men may die. God help the man who stands sponsor
for the liquor tralfic to see the error of his way.
We note these facts from our men who have made it
a study; That nearly all the criiuo may be traced to
alcoholic drinks. They hold it mainly responsible for
our 200,000 insane, our #50,000 feebleminded, our
100,000 blind, our 100,000 deaf and dumb, our 50,-
000 delinquents in institutions, our 100,000 pauperis,
our 150,000 prisoners and criminals. , 4
Let every patriot walk up to the ballot box on the
24th and vote for home and child, for school and
church, for civilization and'the rule of manhood.
Mrs. J. M. Fuller. .
HOW PROHIBITION RUINED NORTH DAKOTA.
Oklahoma and North Dakota are the only two stastes
of our Union born dry. North Dakota is one of the
Bone dry states, even prohibiting the sale of Near-
bear. On February 1st of this year she had 111 in
her penitentiary, or 15 to every 100,000 population,
the lowest per capita of any state in the Union. Dur-
ing the two years from July 1st, 1912, to June 30th,
1914, 292 were sent to the penitentiary; of this num-
ber 127 were non-residents, convicted of crime while
sojourning in the state.
Since July 1st, 1917, Federal Bone dry law came to
the assistance of the State Bone dry law, the peniten-
tiary population has decreased fronf 208 to 111.
Though further north than South Dakota and with a
more rigorous climate, the population increased from
1890 to 1910, 202 per cent. During the same period,
South Dakota, then wet, increased only 67 per cent.
During the 25 years of dry policy North Dakota tax
levy has increased 219 per cent, the population 246
per cent, the valuation 246 per cent, and bank depos-
its 2188 per cent, so says F. E. Packard, Stato Tax
Commissioner.
The best evidence of prosperity that prohibition
brings is well illustrated in the case of the two cities,
Fargo, of North Dakota, and Morenead, Minnesota,
just across the Red River of the North from each other.
Fargo had 32 grocery stores and no salons, Morehead
had 8 grocery stores and 28 saloons.
Let us vote Texas dry on May 21th.
WE WILL WRITE IT IN THE STATE
CONSTITUTION.
That Prohibition should be written in the State Con-
stitution, and thus give us Bure relief from the greatest
evil ever protected by license—the liquor traffic—no
one will seek to gainsay.
As a free people, we have, by the license of the liquor
traffic, been in bonduge all too long. Poverty, deep
sorrow, murder, lawlessness in a thousand different
ways, ignorance, and grave hindrances to our civiliza-
tion, too numerous to record here, are a part of the
results of the whiskey traffic.
Congress has spoken against it. A sufficient number
of Legislatures of different States have ratified the
Amendment to our Federal Constitution and our
own State Legislature recently gave us statutory pro-
hibition; and by trial, under the zone law aud statuto-
ry law, no one reasonably claims in Texas that prohi-
bition is not the greatest blessing both morally and
commercially ever given a free people.
We rest now under a court decision that statutory
prohibition is unconstitutional. The war is over and
the zone law may therefore be abrogated. The plea ou
the part of some for local self government may render
a trifle unpopular the Federal Amendment, far fetched
though this argument be, it remains for the good peo-
ple of Grand Old Texas to turn out on May 24th, by
the hundreds and thousands, and vote for the Amend-
ment to our Constitution and write Prohibition in let-
ters of gold therein, thus protecting our great State
and great pe&ple against the curso of the liquor traffic.
Let us declare by this Constitutional Amendment that
we are uo longer iu league,as a State Government,with
this monumental evil.—Casper SN Wright, Pastor First
Methodist Church, Austin, Texas.
SOME REASONS WHY.
Because 1000 wives are murdered by their husbands,
because 3000 infants are wallowed to death like swine
in a pen; because 5000 people snuff out their own lives;
because 9000 people are put to death by others; be-
cause 40,000 wives are made widows; because 60,000
girls are set adrift in the zone of shame; because 100,-
000 youths begiu criminal careers; because 100,000
people become mental wrecks; because 200,000 recruit
the pauper ranks; because 200,000 men fill premature
graves; because 1,000,000 are started iu the path of
despair, and because the liquor traffic does all this in
America every year, 1 am for expelling this detuou from
the confines of the country and building a wall so thick
and so high against his return that he will never be
able to break through, scratch under; or climb over.
I am for personal, domestic, municipal, state, federal,
statutory and cousticutional prohibition. Texas wants
this law as strong as is can be mabe. Our example will
become contagious. The gathoring power of mighty
conviction will uot subside. It is as certain as the
progress of the planets in their courses,that this relent-
less foe of all civilization is going to be expelled from
the whole earth. Texas will not fail to strike the liqu-
or legions a death blow by the overwhelming adoptiou
of the Constitutional Ameudment.—Bishop W. N. Ains-
worth, Austin, Texas.
LIQUOR TRAFFIC SHOULD BE UTTERLY
DESTROYED
I am against the saloon and the liquor traffic every'
where. I am in favor of National Prohibition. Indeed, ,
I favor Prohibition as a principle and without regard
to area or territorial limitations. 1 have always here-
tofore regarded Prohibition as a moral question aud
one that had no appropriate place in contests for poli-
tical preferment. But the pernicious activity of the li-
quor machine iu Texas and of the organized liquor as-
sociations of America in the politics of the country,
and by their efforts to dominate the politics of the
State and Nation, to elect our officers and dictate our
laws have made the liquor traffic a National issue asj
well as a State issue which cannot be ignored. This is-j
sue is at hand, and as for me 1 am ready to meet it, I'
am for Prohibition in the Precinct, County, Stat e and
Nation. Whereever the liquor evil lurks it is a m enaco
to mau, and I believe that man's Governmental agen*1
cies should be effectively employed the world over to
the end that it be utterly destroyed.^From Public Ad*|
dresses of Ex Governor T. M. Campbell. (
THE ANTIS HAVE NOT ABANDONED HOPE.
Neither State Prohibition nor National Prohibition;
will come without a struggle. Already the liqupr in-!
terests of the country have engaged the best counsel
and are fighting to the last ditch to defeat National
Prohibition, and we must not minimize the danger iu
">ur own State. War time Prohibition will eoon be
a thing of the past, and with National Prohibition
Amendments still in doubt, our only hope to protect?
Texas is to write Prohibition into our State Constitu-
tion. We must not depend ou the uncertainties of'
statutory Prohibition, war-time Prohibition," or even'}
National Amendment. We will make a mistake, too, if
we delude ourselves with the belief that all we have to
do is sit quietly by with hands folded, aud expect a
great landslide for Prohibition May 24.
The Anti - Prohibitionists of this S tate have
not abandoned hope, and right now they are working
quietly with the hope of defeating the State-wide
Amendment.—Baptist Standard.
A DAY OF TREMENDOUS IMPORTANCE.
May the 24th, a day tremendous importance to Tes-
as and It's people. In fact to the entire World. For on
this date the people of Texas will accept or reject the
amendment to our Constitution, in regard to the sale
of intoxicants in the United States. And since the great
war has been faught a successful and glorious end, the
next greatest question before our people is to make war
time prohibition, thatdid so much to help win the war,
a permanent part of our laws. There can be no possible
doubt in the minds of the people that a vast majority
of our citizens are in favor of National prohibition. For
after so long a prioiioi lime that lutoxicatiugLiquui e
were sold and we haver had the chance to see the awful
effects it has had on people, Business, Government,
Morality, Christianity, and the very existance of every
thing that we hold dear and near, the Uome. No well
meaning and thinking person could possibly give oh&
valid reason for its being sold, unless we admit that a,
personal want is a valid reason for its existance. Infact
the people who favor its sale now stand alone without
one plea for its existance. The whole world now knows
that whiskey iu its uncovered position is the greatest
Criminal and curse ever turned loose on any people.
All our Governments, National, State, Municipal and
Military, have said that in a time of great crisis when
people must be at their best, physically, mentally, and
morally it has no place in them. They reconized it ae
an enemy together with the Ilun who were trving to
destroy the freedom of the world, aud as President
Wilson said to the world all forms of Autocracy must
go, he headed the list with whiskey and all other in-
toxicants. Further argument is useless as the war has
proven that beginning with the individual and extend-
ing to the town, city, State and Nation, yes even to
the whole world, that it is bad.
The people who as I have said from a personal and
financialy reason want this demon to live, never sleep
and they are todav colling on every reservo power that
they have to come to their assistance, and we can rest
assured that every voter at their command will be on
hand and ready to cast their ballots on the 24th. But
the ouly danger is the fact that the people whri stand
for the amendment through neglect or carelessness
will fail to rise up on the 24th, as one man and go to
the polls aud cast their ballot for all that ts good and
pure. The Soldier boys lived and died, who fought for
our existence, the mother, sister, brother, father, and
Government which stands for purity, Let us wake up
stand as one aud present a united front to the enemy
making Texas set an example of Patriotism, Love,and
Liberality to all Hunmuity.
■v & L. Henderson.
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CASS COUNTY PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1919, newspaper, May 20, 1919; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340783/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.