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Texas Submissionists Will Not "Submit”
The returns are not yet all in, so the ptpers say,
but the indications point to the defeat of the meas-
And the Fight
Will Go
Right On.
cratic Convention and Legislature to declare by
party plank and constitutional amendment for
a statewide election on prohibition. Let no
one suppose that this means a final defeat
for state prohibition in the present campaign
in Texas. It means only temporary reverse that
will bring the real prohibition forces thoroughly to
their senses and keep them from submitting again
to the clever trickery of the liquor men which com
passed the present defeat of Submission. And it
was a clever trick indeed.
The prohibition democrats petitioned the Demo
cratic Executive Committee for just one thing—to
put on the ticket two clauses. “For Submission,’’
and “Against Submission.’’ That was all that was
needed on the ticket. That was the only question
at stake. But the liquor men know that with the
issue clearly stated they would be hopelessly beaten.
So, for the sake of complicating the ticket and be
fuddling the masses, the great majority of whom
had long been fighting for “local option,” in turn
ing one hundred and fifty counties dry, these slick
liquor men induced the executive committee to place
also on the ticket two more clauses, “For Local
Option,” and “Against Local Option,” with some
little supplementary phrase about perfecting the law.
Now those two last clauses had no more business
on that ticket than the devil has business in heaven.
But the trick worked all right. Thousands of good
but thoughtless men who were grateful for the par
tial victories which local option bad given them,
said: “We cannot vote against local option—it
has brought us so much good.”
And the territory was so wide and the campaign
so short that Sterling P. Strong, H. A. Ivey, B.
F. Riley and their valiant helpers did not have time
to get the issues of the campaign (dearly defined. 01
course all of the liquor men were against submission,
for they openly declared that it was the first step to
ward state prohibition. But the small majority in
ore known in Texas as “Submis
sion.” This simply means that
the Democratic party at the pri
mary elections on July 25 failed
to instruct the next State Demo-
The Golden Age for August 6, 1908,
Catching the Crowd—A Preacher's Tact
We heard of an old darky once who, when ques
tioned concerning his charge of a dollar and a half
for killing and dressing a calf, re
“ Short Sermons plied: “Boss, I charge fifty cents
on Cool Subjects for de work and a dollar for de
For Hot 4 know how.’ ” No man needs to
Weather.” “know how” more than a preacher
in a large city where there are
thousands of non-church-going people.
Os course we grant, we heartily believe, that the
“mainest thing,” as Sam Jones used to say, is to
preach the old-fashioned gospel with consuming zeal
and power; but after all, there is a place for tact
in letting the masses know that something is going
to happen. Dr. W. L. Pickard of Savannah covered
the ground when he said: “No man is to be ex
cused for not catching his crowd. I am deter
mined to have my crowd if I have to stand on my
head.”
Now, nobody ever heard of William L. Pickard’s
having to do a thing like that. He “doesn’t have
to.” The people come and stay. Dr. J. L. White,
for a dozen years in Macon, Ga., and now in
Greensboro, N. C., used to say: “Benches are
poor listeners —they do not respond to the gospel.
I must have a crowd if I have to advertise for it.
And when they come, I’ll give them the gospel be
fore they leave.”
Sam Jones won thousands by his wit and platform
mastery and then broke their hearts through the
power of God —leading them to conviction
for sin and conversion from sin. Len G.
Broughton shocks the conservative brethren
by the announcement of startling themes for blis
tering preludes, but before the more than three
thousand who crowd the Tabernacle in Atlanta go
away, they have been led to a. vision of the cross
and many have put their saving faith in the spotless
Son of God.
We gladly give honor to whom honor is due in
commending the widely effective work being done
by Collier’s Weekly in behalf of
Sledge Hammer temperance and prohibition. This
Blows great paper does not claim to bp
For Temperance, out and out for prohibition, but
it stands for national decency,
fairness and truth, and that naturally makes it give
the unbiased facts concerning the issues and progress
of the victorious campaign against the liq lor traf
fic. The current number of Collier’s says:
An “Address to the Business Men of Amer
ica” is issued by the National Model License
League of Liquor Manufacturers and Dealers.
Here are some sentences:
“The time has arrived for every business
man to consider the fact that in many sections
of the country the people are running amuck
and that the life of the Republic is at stake. Not
only is our Republic in danger from loss of per
sonal liberty and financial strength, but the
sanity of the people is threatened.”
If the prohibition movement goes on, what
awful things will come!
“You will see the destruction of $3,000,000
worth of property invested in the liquor busi
ness and collateral trades. You will see more
than one million men and women thrown out ot
employment. You will see thousands of firms go
to the wall, and you will see a nation panic
stricken and on the verge of starvation.”
favor of the liquor forces shows a marvelous growth
of sentiment since state prohibition was defeated
twenty-one years ago by one hundred thousand ma
jority. The prohibition leaders are aroused as never
before, and there will be no let up in the fight.
The confederated liquor dealers of America will
pour millions of dollars, if necessary, into Texas
Collier ’s Wholesome Work.
These reflections have come afresh as the result
of seeing a little card passed among the people in
the hustling oil, lumber and rice city of Beaumont,
Texas. On one side you find the picture of the
pretty church building and the following words:
“At the First Baptist Church—Short Sermons on
Cool Subjects for the Hot Weather.”
On the other side the following subjects: “Songs
in the Night”; “A Cool Drink from the Old Well”;
“The Shade of a Palm Tree”; “A Mountain Cap
ped with Snow”; “A Picnic on the Lake.”
Now, those subjects make one think of a shower
bath in August. The careless crowds who go to
church just occasionally will go to hear such sub
jects if they will go anywhere. But if Caleb A-
Ridley did no more than to announce a catchy theme
for an entertaining “lecturette, ” we would enter
a strong demurrer, but while the multitudes gather
to hear a man who can keep them awake, they go
down from the mount having seen above all things
the supreme need of the hardened yet hungering
soul —the blessed Redeemer of men.
Paul who “caught men with guile” anjd who be
lieved in being “all things to all men that he might
by all means save some,” was undoubtedly a preach
er of tact.
What kind of announcement he would have made
in The Ephesus Daily Breeze we have no way just
now of ascertaining, but we do know that he creat
ed “a breeze” —indeed, a cyclone, in the Ephesian
city, while here and there he was charged with
“turning the world upside down.”
If a man can only lose sight of a selfish reputa
tion, and do all his striking, startling stunts for
the supreme purpose of catching the crowd that he
may win them for God, then we lift our hat to that
man with the “know how” — who knows how to
draw and then to bless!
Dear, dear, this starvation is very bad. One
particularly interesting sentence is this:
“You will see law defied and treated with
contempt.’’
We are not here arguing for prohibition.
The wisdom of it is in every spot upon the
earth dependent upon the temper and the edu
cation of the people. Mr. Taft’s views upon
this subject, although circulated by the Pro
hibitionists to injure him, are, in fact, credi
table to his clear intelligence and to his
straightforward frankness. Laws can not be
enforced which are not by a large majority
deemed necessary and desired. Nevertheless,
the demands of modern industry are driving
the world toward temperance. The education
of the people is driving them that way. Med
icine is turning against alcohol with emphasis.
The economic loss from direct waste of all
the money spent on drink, huge as it is, is as
nothing compared to the loss in steadiness
and efficiency. The attempt of the brewers
and distillers to make out that their business
contributes to prosperity is grotesque. The
business men of America know too much to
do more than smile at an argument so absurd.
Such sane, solid blows in a journal read as widely
as Collier’s are making business men sit up and
think and thus winning thousands to the ranks of
those who are simply “Prohibitionists for business
reasons. ’ ’
for corrupting’ voters and legislators. That vast
empire will not be given up without a desperate
struggle. It is a battle to the death. The Legions
of Light and the Legions of Darkness are drawn
up in battle array. And as sure as God is back oi
the coming sun, the Legions of Light shall conquer
and Texas shall soon be free.
