i VOLUME IV.
J TEMPERANCE COLUMN. $
What is the only argument (?)
k or excuse for legalizing the sale
1 of intoxicants ? That it pays;
I the revenue it brings. But the
ggjf/f Virtue would do the same!
* ■ y If money,is all to be considered,
will these revenue-loving friends
advocate th<\ letter ?
Everyb't ^M^its the whisky
f ^business ~i7jvil. If the state
ij is to go into the former catholic
f tt‘ practice of selling the right (?)
\ to sin, then why not put a price
\ on all kinds of sin and license a
^ man to do whatever he pleases,
and just have lots of revenue ?
Nay! ye license people, don’t
throw up your hands in horror !
If it’s right to license one evil,
then any other sin may be justi
fied upon the very same.basis.
v Why make a “pet pig” of this
particular sin of drunkenness any
way? Is the man who sells it
elevated thereby? Is the man
who patronizes him? Is the man
who voted him the privilege?
Is anybody elevated in any sense
It by the traffic? Not unless it
leads him so deep into sin that
same law-power that justi
fietUkCbusiness elevates the un
fortunate wretch to the scaffold
for his crime.
But does it really “pay”? Is
I a town really benefitted by this
1 curse? Why is Newport $20,000
| in debt after having saloons for
ft twenty years? Who can name a
ft \ -ase on the criminal docket of
ftL, tne.city or county that whisky
WF didn't figure in the transaction?
|| You <ian, you say. Which one?
K How many? What percent?
J, No town or city can be bene
F fitted by the revenue from the
I saloon business, I care not how
you figure and theorize. God in
heaven rules and He says: “Woe
to him that buildeth a town with
blood, and establisheth a city by
.iniquity. ’ ’ When has blood been
ihed in Newport with no whisky
>ack of it ? Very rarely indeed.
But does it “pay”? Ask the
ife and mother of the man who
gfied in a drunken debauch, and
®OUj!iote the reply ! Look at his neg
lf ected, half-clad, bruised-faced
Cla-*5bildrenf and ask yourself “does
Brake that noble young man,
Be pride of the home. Follow
^■m to Newport, to the bar for a
Hkocial glass” with a friend, and
Hatch the effect. See him as,
^pzed under this draught of
Hi, he dashes along the high
way, Overriding cows or anything
Hi tap way, until hurled into
leath I Look at the broken
home Jtrcle and bleeding hearts,
i and as! yourself “does it pay?”
l.|v If the lie of revenue can make
H \ you anllrer yes, then God pit.v
IKr you.
Hi Who can name a young man
y who made his first visit to the
“dives of sin” without being
i first emboldened by the accursed
cup?
f Please point out the young
man that is more in demand foi
places of trust because he fre
quents the bar. He never was
born.
Had you ever noticed the con
tempt with which all good peo
ple (and the bad, too, as to that)
regard the saloon visiting church
member? If the saloon is *e
proper place to go, then take
j your wives and daughters' along
s with you. If it is not, then keej
away yourself.
Would a young man marry the
woman who would go to the bai
and drink? No ! Would he be
caught upon the streets TTitI
such a girl ! No indeed! Then,
girls, wake up, and tone up, anc
X the acquaintance of any anc
. i ,
i all who go where they would tot ;
a’low you to go. Demand tkt
he be as much of a man as e
demands you to be a woman, t j
is both fair and safe. Make 1 a 1
be a man—or retire.
Maine is a prohibition st 2
and has 217 convicts per 1,0( -
000 population. California, ;
great wine state, has 1,698 c<ik <•
victs per 1,000,000 population a
More than six times as manjl^
Truly “Wine is a mocker.” Prom
20:1. Comment is‘useless.
man that can’t see that—poor!
fellow ! He’s gone ! Never fail'
to vote against license.
OVER A MILLION
ARKANSAS BALES.
Estimate Placed Upon This Year’s
Cotton Production In This
State.
Little Rock, July 20. —The state
of Arkansas will produce 1,100,
000 bales of cotton this year, ac
cording to estimates made by
Secretary Geo. R. Brown of the
Little Rock board of trade, from
information obtained from the
cotton-growing sections of the
state. The production would
have reached a million and a
quarter bales, it is estimated, if
the recent overflow had not
killed out a large part of the
cotton in the lowlands along the
river.
Secretary Brown received an
inquiry from Theodore H. Price,
a New York cotton broker, in
regard to the conditions in this
state, and in reply he made the
following report:
“With 100 as the standard of
normal development, 90 is the
present condition. There will be
produced in this county five
thousand bales less than last
year, due to the Arkansas river
overflow. The state will produce
one hundred thousand bales more
than last year, and but for the
Arkansas river overflow the
state’s crop would have been one
and a quarter million bales. The
crop is neither earlier nor later
than last year, being about the
same. The number of bales on
hand in this county is about
8,200.”
Cotton men in this city now
estimate that the production of
cotton in the United States this
year will reach 10,750,000 bale's,
an increase of nearly a million
bales over last year’s production.
The estimates of the crop during
the past two years, however,
have proved too high, although
year before last the estimate was
’only about 100,000 bales above
the actual figures shown in the
report of the census bureau.
Last year the total crop in the
i United States was 9,851,129
; bales, according to the census
report, and the estimates made
early in the season were 10,150,
000 bales. The crop the year be
fore was 10,630,945 bales, while
the estimate was 10,728,000 bales.
“There is no question of great
er national importance in my
mind,” said Mr. Brown, “than
the cotton crop question this
year. The conditions have be
' come such that a short cotton
! crop has an influence upon all
1 lines of business in the country.
jWhenit is considered that the
: south itself now consumes about
i two million bales of cotton each
. year it can be seen what the de
' mand for cotton will'be in the
! entire country this year. There
, is little doubt that under the
.! present conditions prices will
remain high during the coming
year. ’ ’._
Ironbrew and “Affricolor” de
livered anywhere in city; 75c
. case. Diamond C Bottling Works.
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ITRICKLAND SHOT
BY CARELESS BOY.
’riends Were In Wagon Return
ing Home When Revolver
Was Discharged.
Batesville, July 19. — Walter
itrickland, a young man living
bout twelve miles from Bates
ille, was shot and instantly
illed by Fred Southard about
wo miles from town late vesterJ
ed the prize ball givep by Mr.
land Mrs. Gibson at the opera
| house Tuesday eveningl A prize
was to have been give® to the
couple considered the most grace
ful dancers of the walta^but for
some reason the prizes ^ere not
awarded. ^
NOTICE.
To every member* f § Pecan
Camp, No. 3, W. 0. W.; i There
will be a strictly business meet
ing held Thursday eveniijg >at8
o’clock,“July 21, and as it "ia im
portant to you to know whjft.this
Camp is,doing, it is hopedth»t
one ahd all of you bapresdht. \
L. B. Harris, Qj-j
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“The extreme heat, close eonfinemen
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■ to suffer with nervousness and msom
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