Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Opposed to Prohibition. [ARTICLE]

Opposed to Prohibition.

“Yes,” said the Widow Flapjack, who is chief executive officer of an Austin boarding house, “yes, I must say I am very much, opposed to prohibition and closing up the saloons, and all that sort of thing. It’s all a base scheme against the best interests of the hotel keepers and landladies.” “Why, I am surprised to hear you express such unchristian sentiments, and you a church member, too. How do you inake out that prohibition is against the interests of the landladies?” “If prohibition goes into effect all the saloons will be closed up and'then all the free lunches will stop, Jfow, I’ve noticed that among my young men

boarders tlm aisrpated ones are th« most profitable. Before they caine tc dinner they always step into the saloon and get a sour beer or a schooner pi toddy, or something of that kind, and they fill up on the free lunch, and when they come to the dinner table they don’t hardly eat anything, while the steady young men who never drink just gorge themselves. O, my, you ought to see ’em eat! They just take the profits off, and if it fbr the free lunches and the “next morning” feeling that some of the boarders suffer from occasionally. I' don’t know what we poor landladies would do. There’d be no profit in the business. Yes, lam opposed to prohibition for purely economical reasons.’’ And the Widow Flapjack sighed and went out and gave orders to cut the pie into seven pieces instead of six.— Texas Siftings.