Ardmore Sunday May 24 1908.
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Ikursioiis
QUESTION OF PROHIBITION
IT'S CONDITION IN LOUISIANA
(My (k'orBo V I'ock fortnor kovit- or the happlneaa of Ita people. Why
nor of Wlacotialn who Ih traveling In thero Is not 11 pariah In tho atato
tho HOtith atndyltiK tlio iirohlhltlon hut la largely txipulatcit hy tho do-
diicHtlmi for Tho Ardmorolto nnd tho 1 aciuulantH of the old French and
Milwaukee) Sentinel.)
New Orleana .May 2.1. I never
land In New Orlcuna and walk olonK
Canal direct without hliiahltiK no you
1 could touch a match to my fare nnd
I It would flaro up ntt though you had
I touched It to a red hot atovo lid.
I It wan on Canal street In this city
1 that I first dlagraced myaelf and
nearly ruined our beloved country. In
ISC. I I was Htatloucd with my regl
nielli at Baton ItotiKc as a aerKeant
of cavalry. 'Hy 0110 of thoau upheavals
that come to nnnlea In tho field
I wna rnmlaaloned second lieutenant
and aent to New Orleans to lie mus-
tered In and paid my money. Another
fresh olllcer was with me and when
wo had mustered In got our money
cut off our sergeant chevrons nnd
had sewed on our shoulder straps
wo lokeed at each other nnd won-
dered what wo would do with tho
tainted money. My friend Hnlil ho
was for painting Now Or lean a so
red that a circus wagou would look
shrimp pluk. Being eaally led astray
at "I years of age I said I had
thought that myself. So wo wandered
to Canal street nnd In u window of
a saloon I saw a quart bottle of
champagne and I said I sow It first
and was going to purchase It and
conceal it about my person as I had 1
never tnsted champagne and thoao j
olllcers 1 had seen drink It seemed
Joyous and carofree. Ho said ho
would take the mate to It and wo
went In mid each paid five dollars
of .Mr. Lincoln's money nnd hail a
colored man remove tho obstruction
and pour It out. I have always
thought that a ipiart of extra dry
champagne on nn empty stomach in
fifteen minutes by the watch was
going some. I did not want any of
the good stuff to get away. So I never
left a drop In the bottle. The first
half tasted better than the last
pint nnd I had great thoughts of dis-
tinguishing myself In battle and of
telling (Irani how the war could be
fought to a successful termination
but after I drank It all I did not
caro so much. What I wanted was
to find a hospital with a nurse who
carried a bag of Ico In her hip lock-
et and fresh air so we went out on
Canal street and tried to look so-
ber. Tho people seemed to try to go
between me and there were several
collisions and I made several people
apologize for their rudenoss. O my
() my but what a night! Wo went
to all tho places that were open
and discussed the conduct of the war
nnd at daylight found a steamboat
bound for Ilatou Houge. and wo took
passage on some bales of buy and
every pulsation of tho engines of the
steamer raised tho root of my head
and for three days I could not touch
tuy head or my hair with a feather
duster without my skull cracking
like a tin roof In a cyclone and fi-
nally when my brain got bo It would
stay In my head and not try to get
out of my head with a Jimmy and n
sledge hammer and I could get on
my homo without a derrick I swore
off and from that day to this I
have been a prohibitionist as far
as drinking a ipi..rt of champagne
tit one full swoop is concerned.
And here 1 am in the old town again
where I have watched Mardl finis
processions In years past when tho
ciowd was o dense that I umld only
ee the top of the head of the Quuun
of lleauty when I wanted to see her
full length and where no man can
Hi'cccsstully ralso corns. Now I go
to see the sights monuments of Jack-
son w ho was the only man Now Or-
leans Uuows of. Other men may have
had their good points hut Old Hick-
ory takes the cake here. I go out to
the cemetery where departed friends
are hurled alxive ground 11 it a sort of
marble soda fountain because be-
low the surface of the ground It Is
so wet that the most cheerful person
would Kick ami ask for oar locks
on the marble sarcophagus so that
if the river over overflows tho lovi"
the departed friends could rlao up
and could row to high ground. .Tho
"Id French quarter Is always Inter-
estim; hut there must he somo law
iiMniM lepalrnm painting or mod-
.rnizing the place. It is as ancient as
t'Mit and the people enjoy It dirt
filth and all because It remains
Jan as t always was. The resdetits
of the French quarter speak sneer-
uiRly of the "American quarters"
"here skyscrapers aro being built
and where buslneB Is conducted
along modern lines by as enterpris-
ing a lot of business men as ever
I lived. To build n skyscraper they
must have to drive piles down sev-
eral miles but they get there all
thi same.
Umlaluua Is In the first stages of
the prohibition craze Just getting a
little "nutty" around the edges but
has not yet nrrved at the stage of
the disease where they "see things"
und run amuck with the prohibition
torch aflame with Incendiary benzine.
Somo parishes. In tho far Interior
have gone dry llko a farrow cow
and bellow around llko a Maverick
that has been eating loco weed. (A
parish In Umlslana Is tho sntuo as
counties In the north.) Hut tho lovol
headed citizens nro out with the
lnrlat ropes of good common bciiso
to rope nnd tie tho wild-eyed prohi-
bition steer and by next year It Is
believed tho stampeding herd will
bo rounded up and bunched nnd turn-
ed loose to grasB. Thoro will bo some
parshes where there nro no largo
cities and where negroes nro plenty
and not very reliable nnd whero
tho whito people can have nil tho liq-
uor they want In tholr homes whoro
prohibition will bo n good thing
but there uover will bo Btato-wldo
prohibition In tho state because
every white citizen of the stato la
I proud of old Now Orleans and thoy
I will novcr vote to lnjuro Its bUBlnosa
Creole families who hnvo drank their
wlno alnco they wero children and
when that statu becomes so dry
that one of the old families cannot
alp Its claret that has been In the
cellar filnco Louisiana belonged to
Spain or France there will be n rev-
olution that will make the prohibition
voters sit up and take notice.
'Kvery white citizen of the state
nearly la related to tho old French
nnd Creole gentlemen by descent or
marriage nnd nil visit tho big city
periodically nnd nro proud of tho
freedom and the Joy and pleasure
to he found there. Father and moth
er nnd the children up In the atnte
lay up money to make the nnnual or
oftener visit to the loved ones and
the best loved city In tho world.
They go down tho river happy spend
the days nnd nights as only New
Orleans people can and they go back
homo counting tho days that will
pass before they can come again and
have another holiday and no man
who has Been these people enjoying
themselves In tho Crescent city can
for a moment hrllovo that they will
ever cut off tho pleasure of them-
selves their neighbors or the hun-
dreds of thousands of visitors whi
go in the winter to the Paris of
Ami rlca. There are tunny things con
noci'd with tin llipor liitererts of
New Orleans that c".n be ci IMc'.cd
nnd no olio crnlcSed them more
than do the brewing Interests and
they aro trying as hard as good
men can to bring about a change.
Too many bnd men have been engag-
ed in tho Balo of beer but tho brew-
ing industry both local and tlioso
conducted by brewers nil over tho
country who have agencies In New
Orleans nro combining and cutting
off from receiving supplies men who
conduct places that do not stand
the test of honesty and decency nnd
every day some denier Is told that
he Is not a desirable customer and
that brewers aro ashamed to boo
their names In front of such places
and such men simply go out of bus
iness for all respectable brewers
stand together and say they simply
will not stand for It. That Is what
ought to have been done long ago
but It Is not too late to brighten
up tho saloon business in New Or-
leans so no respectable brewer need
bo ashamed to see his name on a sa-
loon. Within a year there will not
be a saloon in this town which
a respectable eltucn will shuri If ho
wants a drink.
I write this after spending several
days in the city visiting saloons
everywhere both the old and now
kind talking with brewers citizens
business men nnd men In public
life from tho governor-elect to tho
bootblack and a bootblack is In pub-
lic life If anybody la. I havo walked
up and down the miles of levee
where aro business houses older than
1 am shipping everything that Is
eatable drinkable and wearable to all
parts of tho southern world. I have
seen cords and cords of enseB of
bottled goods consigned everywher)
to the Philippines Australia Japan
China and all South Amerlcair ports
and Africa and no one need tell
me that tho people of Uiutslana If
they nre sane aro going to vote
to cut off from tho city they wor-
ship this trade of millions of dollars
a year and turn it over to New-
York Iloston Philadelphia and other
wet rivals of good old New Or-
leans. This city from her location so
near tho Gulf and so near tho con-
sumers of tho south nnd west and
everywhere has held her own
against any cities of tho oast her
business men being the peers of
any In the world and now If the
stato that comes homo to It ns chil-
dren come home to the old mother
drives tho prohibition knife betweon
tho ribs of the old mother nnd
leaves her to dlo on tho lovee her
business gone to lior rival good old
Iloston that made her first fortuno
selling New Knglnnd rum to the
hoathen nnd giving them blblos ns
a trndlng stamp you will henr that
hell is to pay on tho Mississippi
and If nil this comes about you can
have my head for a football at tile
state university i spent one even-
ing fn a French restnurant below
Canal street and lingered over my
dinner to watch the people eat the
things they love to oat. and which
almost gnve me a fit and see thorn
served with wlno by tho French
waiters to women nnd children
around the table the old black bot-
tles coming on frequently and all
partaking und talking happily In
French nnd ocaslonnlly In English.
Not one showed tho least sign of
drunkenness nnd nil went nway bo-
fore 1 did. happy contented nnd
Jolly. I wondered what the scene
would look like If tho next night
after prohibition had become a fact
and the same party had entered the
restaurant and tho waiter could not
by law pull a cork and tho red wlno
censed to flow nnd the good nntured
laugh would be absent nnd gloom
would settle on tho families that
came there. I think tho waiter would
go Jump In the river tho proprietor
would go hnng himself tho old
Creolo gentleman that sat nt tho
corner table ho had occupied for
forty years and drank hla claret with
his broiled chicken would sigh and
think tho world hnd ended right
there nnd tho families I had watchod
would pack up and move to Argen-
tina nut that was only a dream. My
French family will bo thero ns long
aa they live my Creole will some
dny fall to como to hla familiar
table but It will bo becauso ho la
dead and his son will fill tho va-
cant chair nnd my waiter will con-
iinuo to Dend over until ho Is red
in tho face and grunt at ho pulls
tho cork from tho black bottlo and
the old happiness will continue.
We often read In tho north of
elections In Louisiana that aro crook
ed and tunny hnvo got an Idea that
a fair election In the atnte Is I in-I
possible. That may havo been tho
case In carpet-bag days but for ninny
years Ixiulalanu. has had tho fairest
elections In any state and many
cities In tho north mnybo old Mai-1
wuukee could get some points on
fair elections. I was at n luncheon I
with Governor-elect Sanders who Is
a flno young man about thirty-five
years old who looks twenty-five
and who has been speaker of the
house and lieutenant governor. 1 nak-
ed him nbout the election laws and
It was a revelation. No tramp or non-
resident or repealer or foreigner
working on tho railroad temporarily
can vote. If a iiinu wants to vote
In 1008 ho has got to show to tho
Inspectors of election n receipt for
his poll tax for tho year 1900 and
1907 and 1!M)S before he can vote.
In fact he has to prepare himself
two years In advance to become a
voter In dear old Ioulalann. No
chnnco to round up a gang of rail-
road hnnilB and get out tholr first
papers beforo they havo had their
shirts washed that they wore over
on tho steamer from tho other aide
of tho water and who cannot speak
a word of Kngllah. Such a state of
things would seem perfectly nwftil
to a northern politician who was out
for the votes. Tho governor said
that It was practically an unheard
of thing to have Illegal votes cast
because no "floater" can float In one
place for two years and pay a poll
tax three times nnd havo tho receipt
with him to show Just for tho prlvf-1
lege of voting. To securo many II-
kgal votes by colonization under
that system a candidate for ofllce
would need to havo tho Dank of
ICngland at his back and a boarding
house and a good memory to keep
track of his floaters. It la the best
election system 1 over heard of
and beats primary elections and
Australian ballots till to pieces.
New Orleans Is .apparently more
prosperous than many northern cities
during these panicky times the
banks being ready at all times to
furnish all tho money needed for
commeiclnl purposes but tho busi-
ness men on tho levee do not need
to borrow much as they hnvo tho
money they havo mndu In tho luiK
fifty years baled up and stored away
In the warehouses with tho Juto and
Spanish moss whero It Is as safe
us though In a bank ami these
shippers and commission men go
right on sawing wood und not wor-
rying about what the prohibitionists
nro doing up the atnte. They act and
talk as though If tho worst camu
and prohibition should como to them
llko tho south wind that destroyed
titilvcston they would havo New
Orleans secede from Louisiana build
n boa wall across the state to keep
tho cotton planters and sugar plant-
ers and tho rlco growers from ever
coming Into tho old town and they
would set up a government lu Now
Orleans "by tho people nnd for tho
people" und ask the rest of the
stato to iiiovo lu and become citi-
zens of tho now ''Crescent Stnte"
and havo a good time. So nobody
who wants to muko beer and drink
It or who wants to Indulge In wlno
In limited quantities need worry
nbout tho rich old statu that was
tho mother of all tho states lu tho
Loulblutiu purchase because wo
bought tho whole western country
with tho beer and wlno privilege In-
cluded and If tho states lu tho
Louisiana purchase go dry the
French und tho Spaniards who helie
d nloug the trade to say off what
they thought was a lot of worthless
land on your Uncle Samuel would
rise up lu their graves nnd protest
und make an international question
perhaps with Cormany to arbitrate
and Germany would surely show
sense on such a question.
1 am almost ashamed to bo down
here with a straw lint nnd no vest
letting mosquitoes eat mo up lu In-
stallments drinking Ice cream soda
ami sitting with my bald head under
electric funs while tho readers of
this stuff are shoveling suow and
wearing ear iiiuITb and blowing hot
air on their lltigers to keep them
from freezing but there aro always
a few of us who havo all tho good
things lu this world. Now I will just
run over to Texas and seo how tho
fellows with wldo hats look up'ui
this Irrigation of throats question.
In goliiu from hero to Texas It 13
necessary to havo bomu words with
the old Mississippi rler which dur-
ing these cyclone days Is getting
;p waves that would do credit to
tho ocean nnd those waves go over
tho decks of tho ferries that carry
cars across ami you Icel that you
aro traveling by land nnd by sea.
all lu one trip. Tho old river says
nothing but It la "onto" nil tho dev-
iltry going on In all tho states
ttiiougn wnlch It flows. If .von could
understand Its language It would toll
you hero how It left tho people
of Minnesota and WImcohsIo enjoy-
ing wet goods how Iowa Is so dry
that the peoplo como down to Mo
river to drink how Missouri gets
some drinks and wants to bo shown
why it shouldn't keep drinking If it
wants to. It washes tho feet of Illi-
nois whero one foot Is dry and
tho other wet It laughs nt dry Ar-
kansas which comes across It to
Memphis to got Its Jag It passes
Mississippi whero tho only drink
obtainable Is liquid quinine and
stomach bitters und chills and fover
cure nnd tho stuff to drive ma-
laria out of tho system and then
It gets so largo and powerful hero
that the Gulf la hardly big enough
to contain Its contribution of liquid
sand und bewago. And ieoplo talk
of controlling by dams nnd dykes
and dredging n river that acknowl-
edges no man Its master nnd goes
where It pleases across lots or In
the channel na it haa a mind to do.
It Is a great old river and ono al-
ways feels better for not being
drowned In It and a algh of relief
is breathed when the train to Toxas
niakea a hop skip and Jump from
tho car ferry and strikes dry laud
i on tho other Bide
J. A BIVENS President.
A. H. PALMER Cashier.
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
ARDMORE
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Surplus Fundi $100000 ...
Account of Anns and Individuals solicltedll Courtooua treat-
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NICE DRESSED CHICKEN
FRESH FISH
Butter Eggs Head Cheese
Home-Made Chillie
Home-Cured Breakfast Bacon
Fresh Creamery Butter
And all other kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats at the
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200000 FEET OF GAS FREE
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When we do your gas fitting sell you ranges or fix-
tures be sure you get your tickets on that 200000
feet of free gas.
A visit to our store is an education in the gas appli-
ance business in itself and all callers will receive the
most courteous treatment that can Lc accorded.
Ardmore Supply Co.
THAT J5RIGIIT SPOT
For Country and Town
We have ititido especial preparations to provide
you with the best things for summer. Look
over this list: Refrigerators Screen Doors
Screen Wire. Fruit Jars Gasoline Stoves
Perfection Oil Stoves Lawn Mowers Ico
Cream Freezers Wat r Coolers. Bljr stock of
Binder Twine.
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