Can't Do Anything.

They are having one more time down at Hempstead over the putting into effect of the prohibition law, which was carried in Waller county.  The saloon men secured an injunction to prevent the county commissioners from publishing the election result, and the prohibitioners got together and decided that the saloons must close anyway, and so ordered the saloon-men.  The case was so acute that the governor was asked to send troops to Hempstead to prevent trouble. — Denison Herald.

Thus it is evidenced that prohibition does not even prohibit the disturbance of the peace, let alone carrying into effect its real purpose.

"Can't Do Anything", The Austin Statesman, Wednesday, Saturday, June 13, 1903, p. 4, col. 2-3.

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