Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 03,  1902
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VOICE FROM ROSEBUD
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Takes Issue With Savas and Says a Few
Himself.
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TO THE DEMOCRAT:
       I notice in your last issue a letter from one Mr. Savas Xydias.  I don't know how to pronounce his name and that is one reason he wants to turn your town loose.  It is usually people with unpronuncable names that want to over ride our laws, society and anything good for the sake of a little pleasure or a few paltry dollars.  Now it occurs to me the gentleman wants Marlin to violate the law by selling on Sunday and having gaming in the saloons, and for what?  To satisfy a few thugs that would go there to spend Sunday.  That would help to corrupt your young manhood and young womanhood, because people who demand our Sabbath desecrated for their pleasures can not uplift much.  If Marlin is too respectable for the gentleman let him go to Coney Island or some other resort where hell is realized day, night and Sunday.  If he wants things like he speaks of, go where they exist, don't try to bring a condition of that kind on the good people of Marlin.  There is more good, intelligent and refined people in Marlin than any town of its size in the state, and I say advertise your town, make some nice parks, have plenty of good music and you will always have in Marlin as many people as you can take care of and it will be people that can get pleasure out of something besides a mug of beer or violating the law or the Sabbath in some way.
                                                                 J. S. Watson,
Rosebud, June 28, 1902.

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