Fletcher's State Rights Farming. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936 Page: 1 of 16
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FLETCHER DAVIS,
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class matter June 24, iy22, at the Postoffice at Hondo,
Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
One Year, 50c; Three Years, $1.00
Single copies, 5c.
VOL. XIV.
HONDO, TEXAS, MAY 1, 1936.
No. 10.
OFF-HAND OBSERVATIONS
By Our Staff Contributor
R. R. CLARIDGE.
A PLEA FOR TOLERANCE
With Comments by
THE EDITOR.
On most questions, extremes are
rarely ever right. The liquor ques-
tion is a typical example. The old
saloon, a hangout for the disreputable
element in a community, was bad
enough, and I always opposed it; but
we managed to keep the boys and
girls out of it. There was no boot-
legging, except in rare cases, in re-
mote sections, for the reason that
the saloon men, paying license to sell,
helped the officers to hunt down the
illicit maker.
I believed that package sale under
heavy license—and have never chang-
ed my belief—was the better middle
policy, and as ‘‘drinkin’ licker” came
to be more plentiful, and cost a lot
more tham when Gen. Sul. Ross
bought a barrel of corn whiskey for
two bits a gallon, so old the hoops
were rotting off the barrel, the more
plentiful it got and the more it cost,
the more trouble it made.
When it got too blanked bad, the
good women and the preachers start-
ed a move in the direction of the
other extreme; and as they were gen-
erally on the right side of things,
while afraid of the outcome, I voted
with them for the 18th amendment.
Well, you see what we got; though I
am afraid the good women and the
preachers are too blessed good to
know how bad it is, with the boys and
girls in the speakeasies up to their
necks, to say nothing of other things
satisfactory to satan; with the boys
carrying flasks in their hip ipockets,
and I guess the gills would if some
of them wore clothes enough to make
room for the pockets
those on relief arc eligible 1‘or the
relief jobs. When they get hungry
enough, something is liable to hap-
pen almost over night. What? The
Lord knows.
And now that the other extreme is
getting too blanked bad, the country
seems ripe for another change, with
the ultra prohibs striving for making
something to drink a forgotten thing,
and the other extremists prizing up
for a return to the old saloon. I am
wondering if they will have sense
enough to meet half way, and effect
a compromise on the safety valve.
Really, drunkeness has been consid-
ered a joke too long, by too many.
Instead of being a joke, it is a
tragedy for the reason that a drunk-
en person, for the time being, is in-
sane. More might be said on the
subject, but unless our readers should
be interested, the foregoing is enough
for one dose.
This nation right now is facing a
most dangerous situation and one
that many seem to be unaware of.
Certainly the Neck and Belly Trust
are unaware that there are five peo-
ple on the verge of relief to every
one who accepted a handout by the
Government, and are so imbued by
the spirit of American indendence,
that they try to keep to the extent
possble, from even their neighbors.
But under the PWA monstrosity, only
I have been calling attention to the
fact that the major oil companies and
the big independents have oil pro-
duction tied up, starving transpor-
tation and everything and jvarybody,
while importing slave-made oil by the
millions of barrels, because they can
net cheaper than they can produce
it by free American labor. But the
people are waking up at last.
Salmon, Texas.
As a Democrat I object to the
tone of the article by Fred W. Davis
called The Problem of Preserving
Our Personal Liberty. I anv.60 years
old and I have only known three
Democratic Presidents in my life-
time, Cleveland, Wilson, and Roose-
velt. All the rest were Republicans.
It seems to me Frankin Roosevelt
compares favorably with all I rem-
ember. He and his wife are the first
executive couple ever in the White
House that bothered their heads
about the common people. Of course
they make mistakes, who doesn’t?
But the thing to remember is, they
are trying. Did you ever before hear
“Big Jim,” once owned by the late
Will Rogers, is the biggest steer in
the world, weighing 3,100 pounds.
Rogers raised Jim from a calf, then
sold him and gave the proceeds to the
Salvation Army. His present owners
will display him at the lexat* Centen-
nial Exposition, opening in Dallas
June 6, and turn over the admission
profits to the Salvation Army’s Home
for Boys and Girls at Lytten, Cal.,
long a favorite of Rogers.
The Banker and Timid Preachers
Being the Personal Opinions of
DR. P. A. SPAIN.
If you were to start out and ques-
tion every man and woman they
would tell you they believed in a
Government that helps the people
to be happy and prosperous. Well,
the people in general are not that
way now. What’s the matter? Af-
ter telling you all that, one of our
local leading preachers has just said
to the world through the press: “I do
not think a minister should discuss
economic problems. This ist a ques-
tion for bankers and other business
men. to solve. I am willing to fol-
low their leadership.”
What a shirk! What a statement
for a man who claims to be commis-
sioned of God to instruct the world
in a moral way! That is the reason
his Church members are so ignorant
about financial matters. That is the
reason that financial grafters are
running the Government, and are
taking away from the people their
land and homes, and are paying only
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of a President refuse to go to his
Inaugural Ball because he was busy
trying to do something about a
nation of failing banks! Did you ever
know of any President’s wife, going
here, there, and everywhere, to in-
vestigate conditions reported to her
as unbearable. And getting something
done about it, too? If you think
Roosevelt isn’t a good President
think of Hoover, sitting tight hold-
ing on to his own wad, while the
nation went to pot around him. Some-
one had to do something, and God
raised up Franklin Roosevelt in the
crisis. If he made mistakes they will
be rectified in time. He has made
more good plays than bad anyway.
Now 1 am as loyal to our Constitu-
tion as anyone, hut it is foolish to
think it infalliahle. It has to be
amended sometimes. A bunch of
people wanted Prohibition, and they
got it. Another bunch of people
wanted Repeal anti they got it. it
the Townsend people get majority
enough, that may be tried. There
are too many people on government
pay rolls, that is true. But it is
not true that every good Democrat
can wangle a jol>—I can’t. The
thing to do is to instruct our Sena-
tors and Representatives to light
beareaucraey—the legislature as well
as judicial is a limit on the executive.
But--considering that the Demo-
cratic party has only had three
Presidents in 60 yens, J say be loyal
to your President. Take a birdseye
view and don’t let minor mistakes
misleud you. Roosevelt isn’t trying
to upset the constitution: he is try-
ing to help the common people. May-
be he don’t know as much about
them as we do, but consider what he
knows that we don’t.
Mrs. Grace Fret2,
Uniontown, Kan.
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Because the right to speak out is
the best safeguard to our liberty, we
give space to the foregoing criticism.
In all respect to our correspondent,
we must say that she falls into the
all too common error of mistaking
the party’s creature for the princi-
ples for which that creature is sup-
posed to stand but which, alas, in the
three instances she cites, he has flag-
rantly repudiated and flouted.
To deserve loyalty our President
should set the pace by loyalty to
his platform promises and loyalty
to his party’s principles and tradi-
tions.
Neither of our last three Democrat-
ic Presidents have measured up to
this standard, and to that failure the
present incumbent has added a show
of intolerance to criticism until even
his running mate has admitted over
his own signature the uselessness of
offering suggestions.
To deserve loyalty a man must
prove his own loyalty; intolerance of
the counsel of friends is the first
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Davis, Fletcher. Fletcher's State Rights Farming. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936, newspaper, May 1, 1936; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth555393/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.