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1 V, LEOJfAKB B LAWS, Editor. Entered as "second-clase mailp ' , Hie fly was to.o: - . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Single! Copy One Year 25 Cents. Five Subs. One Year: u.50c Ten SubsLOne. Year$1.00 ';. . i-, . 1 ' NOTICErClubs of less than two dollars may be sent in One or two-cent postage stamps. - CHecks will' be taken in, any "amqunt. D01TT t l I Dont send -: us stamps larger than one arid two-cent denominations. We can't' dispose' of them, use hem, or sell them. And it s v dreadful hard to get phat lookin' at the dead peo ple's pictures printed on them. Think of this every time you say your-prayers and don't send us any more. Wine is a': mocker, .and Al Smith prohibition Jxa mockery. : ' J" -.. , then he takes afaltoutUnd-de n hOO thinkS 1OT.OC! iV, ha Ufa'i- frnm'tirlvn - . - . . . it . i.ii maAc, mtynin4 Rw.u ;: Where a wei n rmes.wi puipn- speeches and theiiCforgehfUi:1 of them. One day heseemsto . ' v ' Jr-J&. nAnUkA. -a.uu.j- -mere may ,,Me wv 0x6, . A phule is a 'man that ajsvet president would en force a dry law " A rnQdern-prohibitionist is a fellow whose steering apparatus is out of. fix. - An Al Smith prohibitionist re minds me of a bjing-hole without a barrel around it. A Smith demerkrat ia a feller who wants the jug days to re turn but is ashamed to own it. HOWDY! My name is "LASH." I'm a special-representative of Leonard B. Laws, and I call only by appoint ment on folks with an intellect as sharp as a-hew darning needle and the'activity of a flea on a hot hearth. 'My editor wants to send me to see you. He doesn't care if you are a democrat with moss on your back as long as a Billy Sunday prayer. He likes good democrats as well as -gofcdrepuDlicans but if 'you aren't good he wants to make, you -so. He thinks a square-bailed Baptist hold ing to Predestination with a '"bull dog grip is as good as a back-sliding Methodist. The Lash wants you all to go to Heaven but wants you to commence practicing some heavenly things down here so when you are snatched off without . notice that you will be acclimated. We don't believe in having to eat corn pone and sow corpse here on earth just because we are promised a harp and a heap of hosannas over the creek. We be lieve a little heaven here on earth will make' a pretty good mixture to oil our wings with when we com mence flying. If you are going to hie-it around here "on earth with the rag-tag and bob-tails of creation you'll likely hare a puncture some where about the half-way house and Why a politician when elected resembles the Devil, is, the devil serves nobody but himself and robs those who serve him. clares that he is -far from 'advo; i,nnn i i.: But as sure as Joes rg "ujr " a 8 c Tr'-'rT 'Or. Old Shylock was a Jew, Diuon laws. '-V, .i7- ,Wtien a wet, 'ti rules Jthe pulpit, He says: "I dQ not favor Gov: , .4 Then the Cevll rules' the pew. If several of the- things Smith -P That's the time old Mister Satan. v advocates is wrong . then ,weTf ail 4 Qets' the churches .in a stew; - - to hear him say. whatsis rigfit"' Wheni a 'Vet'nirules the pulpit, . And if a man is radically wrong.' f ' the Devil rules on the main issue which stand, ' goes migin. front in hjs campaign,. why is ft-: th Bible is forgot; voter compelled tp swallow"- ther Xnd the preacher preaches nothing .Then the faithful old believers, They are getting mighty few,. s.When a "wet'n" aule.the pulpit, ' "And the Devil rjules the pew". 3 VM A political prognostic ator can tell you what will happen three -saop t' ji puB 'jwou uiojj jidaAV n't happen' he can tell you that also.' wrong things and swear , that it tasted good just because -the fejUI ' low is the belled weather of his . party? ; I'd rather vote for ."what I. want and not getJt, fhan. tovjoteV for what I don't wantf andgeVa whole hell-of-a-heap ' of-, it;-3M mind has never been sos whicKer ; goddled that I would vote for what I didn't want: And the. man THE REAL ISSUES. AND WHEK THE BALLOT BATTLE'S ENDED. " Were I a Republican and had to go out and make" votes for the party by - preaching Coolidge economy, I wouldn't expect to or woman who feels &at.,heL .pr 4 bag .more votes than the boy Soon the Battle of Ballots will be over, Herbert Hoover will stand at the heafl. of the battle line direct ing a "has-been wet" army, or Governor Smith will order a has-been-dry" legion to march . for another four years. November sixth will be the der cisive struggle for old corn li quor." It will again invade our country, or public sentiment will tramp it into the subsoil. Hoover points to a dry coun try, and warns even the party he represents, of the impending dangers that confront us.. He sees - the wretchedness, misery and heart-aches that corn hqnor has brought to a million homes. He , sees that everything worthwhile is being attacked by the use of intoxicants. We only have to V. she must -support a candidate to did gophers who said, if he make a victory foi rthe tissues caught the one le'was after' and that they don 't, believe . in, is a two more he would have "three, hopeless slave to political preju- Why don't you tell the, people dice. , ' what a poisoned arrow Mr.? Gpol-; When I am toldjbvv"Dolitical ; lidsre fired into the canrns. Tof bosses that I must support" who-( bootleggers tell, them, he char- - ? vsV; : ij l.. ii. . jn iL : 1 : J . ' ever is uummaieu. uy.; iue iwssesi geu uu- uits iuui-iiuj-uuug:ixigttua or either get out of the. party,' I with the vindictiveness "of; the will tell the bosses and4hefparty Devil, and. get them to believe it to go straight to hell, so, far .as if you can , : v - ; 1 'Vi.7 I am concerned. will rou Do-iyi - . Booze is the hot-house of crime and the dry rot of civilization. heap -of dry. Democrats have set right down on it. - fc SWAP DOLLARS! pick up a -newspaper and read a minute to be .convinced - that miss the Promise Land pullman. drunkenness is the ftevil of all Ctorner lots in the, New feruselem - devik that is hissing and haunt- ing every step of modern civili zation. C i - ' "Shall we. rally, to the. support of one who has never, been seen . with a friendly ."word, or act. for corn liquor,' or must we-'letour political prejudice drag us down to 'thejevel of those who would . rather see then patty wiri . and the country lost? w,"v .J 1 is not the love we, have for " the 'republican party; that we, : want' to see a Hoover victbry . Thft Honstnn "nlatform RftPitis fSf iJfAiiff I T to be too wet to stand on but a on it and man to some 'friend. 7?. . and ask him to subscribe. Th's is asking a small favor ot:you but it Is worth a; heap to us." This would be equal" to sending;-'' one hundred and. twenty-three4 - thoasand sample,, copies iff peo- ' pie and asking - them : to snh- , : jf rwr ' scribe The . new. readers' will v sena cinos ana tnat neips ine Lash get acquainted f with new. . , folks. Will you do this, please? V -s 4 are going to be scarce and. you can't buy .them with dollars that you hare skinned out: of the thin purse of some unsjMpecting neighbor who never 'struck the combination on yonr crookedness till the day , be- fore you die. -Tour fellow ' man,; tho a stranger la yoar brother; trareling to, that Imperial City where bound less 4 brotherhood ' is the, only faith, put, say. Mister, suppose you hire ut to tell yon how, : mean we are within the next year?: And while you are telling how mean some of your A lady may .be for;l Smithy V";' t but she needs some mighty ' RQoas reasons that iMSatt't.think off! now. , r:. - h v , t ' - "i'fsv. tAMe, havet. a earched . n dcza ' ,n k f . A Tammany tumbltbug :-?.. i . feUow who wantsltd eaphat:v nea ' the other. fellow:;sowr i S. Ae ?Jt&i3?t 5f?.-- 7 ' ' v 'V Xr: -2 tfob Ttthe:,;H6rtz Bros. caK'-' f- . t - j 4 '"'li. v ' ' ftwfif e on page v42 J they pric I r - AJRomanized Smithocrat is, a flf - - m J5?tT ZrzL iff- . two legged Ianimalith a hat on JSSu . I' ; nA cit sen., we haveTnade.a.tfontrcqi r-... I C.rZ r- one : thousand; of; the -riana hut ' mr , want a Winn wrhnoo ?Atai neighbors 4are we might lndnce you . mination to wine corn lidttor but. toowntosomeofyour-yallerm.- .root and branch stands at tha' Our reason for do ihtinff - the tw, iTTTi.rrA'.Tv Twenty: Cent, wont break Jounor, j.- arty nevcr , Vinterety of the renubUcan partyW r pffort tn rin ftoJ;, On1 nrohihitinrt. i m thn faet- va -m'" ring that :yi)uHs 1 , to - wear nsy; , ; - going o swap ccl-.
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