| Show Pussyfoot Johnson Crusader For Prohibition Dies at 82 V BINGHAMTON N. N Y Feb 3 UP William Villiam William E. E Pussyfoot Johnson dead at 82 left the crusade crusade crusade cru cru- sade for national prohibition to a anew anew anew new generation Saturday After Alter giving one eye and 40 years of his life for a short term victory in his fight against rum Johnson died at Binghamton city hospital Friday three weeks before before before be be- fore his birthday Friends who recalled Johnsons Johnson's toting gun bartender fighting campaigns said Pussyfoot PussyfootS was only partly appropriate as a nickname nickname nick nick- name for the big mustached dry Jn In his prime he heaved several saloon keepers into the street and held his own in a scuffle with stud students stu stu- d dents in London until he lost an eye Never Nc Was as a Saint Johnson never played the role of saint He Ho said in a published article years ago that ho he had to tolie tolie tolie lie bribe and drink to put over prohibition on America He slackened his offensive against drinking drinkin when he saw re repeal repeal repeal re- re peal coming The more I talked he said when the nation was crowding crowding crowding crowd crowd- ing prohibition aside the wetter the country got so I decided I better better better bet bet- ter dry up If It Johnson was not a true pussyfoot pussy puss foot loot neither was he a a. for tor temperance groups He led his own campaign and it took him to England and Turkey after local success gave him wider confidence e ein ein in his cause The nickname was given him by a Haskell Okla newspaper Johnson arrested a cafe owner there who had threatened to shoot him on sight In his capacity as asa asa asa a U. U S. S marshal Johnson entered the illegal cafe posed as a tipsy cowhand and demanded whisky He got it then promptly disarmed the saloon keeper who had threatened him and arrested him Tribute to Ills His Attack The paper commented The buster booze-buster strikes like lightning even if he is a pussyfoot Johnson invaded whisky-loving whisky Oklahoma Indian territory in 1906 as a special agent to enforce the hated law against transporting liquor into the area He lost five deputies and there was a price of or on his head but he obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed convictions convictions 97 97 of his arrests Johnson died believing that education education education edu edu- cation toward temperance would prevail in America yet in 1921 two years after prohibition was effected effect effect- ed he had said the United States will vill never be bedry dry You cant can't legislate legislate legislate legis legis- late the Ten Commandments into the people |
