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TherewarcBOODLE!!BLOOD-MONEY !!!murdeifGaineIt cannot any longer be successfully deTIi t%nied the rum manufacturing interests ofhave distributed aWilt;the northern states22.mine of wealth to repel the advance ofprohibition in Texas. It i lt;blood-money, hairefhich has been cruelly wrung from thosewho proved too weak to resist the tempting alluiements that are set as suaresince.vear-tViseto catch them. Every dollar of it is stained with the blood of murdered men; with fromthe tears of widows and orphans; spattered with the rum-sotted brains of crazywerebail.men; corroded with the gall from the , , brokeu hearts of frenzied wives and moth- b ers, who hide from the shame of besotted Look husbands, sons aud brothers, in the as)- to Dlt; lums of our country. This money loaded {q ^ down witn all its sad and fearful memoi this i ex-nd is[’ lOWi no-whengramries of wrecked lives andruiued souls hasbeen shoveled into the bank vaults of thisr connfair Zand of ours to buy advocates forKing Alcohol. To L»e sure, those who are V anthus hired to oppose prohibition will not J]tell you, wheu they ask your vote, that it is a matter of dollars anil cents with them.eigh-them) himibak-andOh no, they kuow too well that the greatachenlightened conscience of Texas could nothavesight nor the touchbe influenced by theDof this ill-gotten wealth, hot and slimy from the vapid vapor of northern murderand maniac-making mills. Oh no, thty HZ ask your vote under various plausibletell vou thatidendefeSspretexts. They will notyouthe peopletheir heroic appeals made to1to preserve their personal liberty is insti-p ro fcbe- gated by a concealed hope to appropriateoplc a $500 check which is already lying in thebank vaults for them as soon as the victo- a HCulairy for rum is won. Dear reader, we arenon-' uot making groundless assertions, We K^er‘ have been reliably ,nformed, and have no8UCCtomatsdoubt of its truthfulness, that the bauk at Montague has received Si,000 to he divi- ■ theded equalZv between two lawyers of that beg;antown, whom it is not necessary to name in this article, but whom many of ourandB.theofreaders wil/ readily guess. Our authori-/Om- I tv for this statement we do not thiuk canDevspecreadily be questioned, and now the question confronts us, as voters of Wise county, has two very ordinary lawyers in Montague county been bountifully boo-dleized to the extent of a round $1,000,Deca-iste.marasonenentandnowwheand a twain of gifted orators from tur’s bar been left to pick a meatless bone?. look so to asensible “man up a tree.” souably be supposed that such ordinarywill becir-SUITks d e cMay be so, but it doesn’ti acoIt cannot rea-takiibit-ledturniutelZigeuce in Montague county,unerted aud the talent of WisiTo be sure the com- andres ithegotso reat such a discount.mon voter is uot expected to receive any of this blood-mouev—be is expected toto tMiohi-havegive uu “houest? vote” for “personal lib-aud these lawyers, if vou vote aserty,Ithey direct, will pocket the rum gotten $1,000 checks. True they do meet a blua-ap-de-Thtsedtering striker now and then, wiio are “onitspromise him for his blow andandto their lit lcgame, dollarshasten or twentybeenbluster, but it all depends at last upon the j wafe honest voters, who may be beguiled withhothe pictured pomp and show, rhetoric aud subtle argument that Bacchus’ wealth soU the voters of Wisedentinsolencv-idroitly buys. WMimcouuty be deceived aud cast their votesit ^ against the entreaties of sisters, of moth- ehaer« and of wives? Acainst the betterany-orfeeling of their own conscience? Against the cries of the heart-broken, whose dear friends have been murdered by the drunk-audrSv_i tenen ageMts of King Alcohol? If they stop to think we know they will not. WiiatVOUsionhas party fealty to do with this momeut- 11 Otm-ous question? Cannot a man lay asiueIllOuneehis party prejudice and his party hateTh80long enough to cast this one vote for God, his country aud his home? You are be-:rilth I ing told daily, and often by men whosebreath is bilious with the fumes ofe ofconwifI *rot-aud the dl'Cgut,” that the intelligent ladies educated miuistrv of our laud and counwitt.try shall be scourged back aud hands offiti Gil this question. These are God’s ministers■the ministration of heaven. Will you f()hearthoin or will you hear the rum makers’ ministers For the sake of your homes and your sous and daughters, yourlared I firesides and your neighbors, for once exercise your much talked persoua/ liberty and vote to pulverize the rum power.col*loonof aV,
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Decatur Wise County Messenger
Decatur, Texas, US
Sat, Jul 30, 1887
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