HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. Herald 09/26/1907.& --'_ _ s'ue''.---_ _ _ _ °x`..w^•~r--T~~+.
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Sheriff J9ekson clapped the lid on
the slot machine business and also on i.'
the Sunday booze proposition Last '
week to a faro-you-well and >rvery
town in t}te county felt the effecLa of ~
" the sheriff's order exteept Cenh•al
Point, The she>ii(£ was not playing the ~
Point as any favorite, either, but as it
happenec}, this town had been dry so
Tong and so violently that all the citi-
zens had tong since Ynaatered the art ,
of gasping through a dty Sunday with- ~
out a struggle, and when the lid drop-
- ped it "never touched us," and Central
Pointers were able to sit up and give
their neighbors the horse laugh.
The Medford Tribune man evidently
forgot to lay in an over-Sunday bottle
lost Saturday night and in consequence:
he got up Monday morning as mad as ~
a wet hen or a dry editor, and the way
he said things about Lhe sheriff wits a ~
reminder of the Arizona liicker of the'
Jaya gone by. It Shc•rifF Jackson has;
been as hi (ur law) larious as the
'fribuitc soya hr has the reputation of
havinf; been, ft is funny that the gaud
peuple of .Iacksun County ever clecled ;
him to uflicr~.
'1•he saloon business should be };,,v- ,
erned as all other busirxrsses are sup-
posed Lo be i;uverncrl, vir, according to ~
daw, and it is conc•t~ded by many men
now engage,] in that business that the!
saloon men thomsclvca arc mostly i
rt•,ponsibl" fur I he tvatvc of prohibition
now swooping lhr r„unl rv.
Ji c)rrgon saloon nun hurl st.artcrl in
a ft-W yeai'3 apn Ln ('utllply with the i
law as str•ir[ly as nx,,;l other ordinary
riliz,~ns cmioavur lu ruml,IV with it, it
is doubtful if thrrt• wnnl~l be a "dry" ,
town m tb,~ state today. ~
As ,t matter of fact, there is no4
reason why saloon men shintld b,• a
whit morn immune frorn the law than ~
newspaper men, merchants ur peuple
who };raw spuds. We are all auppuved'•
to be t•qual before the Lttw uml we all
should bc. I
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