The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-24

ltfance. boz we would net aoiiees
he rights Of the many because g
~ abuse lbe privileges ,hey enjoy
We hsve no quarrel with The good (
and true men eio advocate prohibit
lion As cure f1f iatempeance, bat
We sse constrained 10 believe these
wouh DC phnanthopis.s would ae-
knowledge nc fact that prohibition I
wiz not prohibit Che immoderafc use
~ ardent spirits. when they once in
yestiQato Tue subject carefully. Bot
Tor that class Of sporting humanity
who were never 10 the pest able tc
control their own iuordinate appe-
tics, except when surrounded hy|
The influences Of a tetotal society J
we have no patience. Unable to
drink in moderation themselves, they
are DESTROYS Of prescribing every
BODY else. The unfortunate fox,
who got bis taH cut Of in o trap, rec.
commended the fashion to all his
acquaintance. SO the poor inebri-
ate, who, BY the influence OF loving
friends, IS taken out Of the quite
and inducedto reform-aliltle. wants
to prohibit every body from drink
ing, becausehe cannot indulge in a
glass without making beast Of him
self. This is about as sensible as
the action Of the farmer who muz-
zled all his cows because old Pidy
sucked herself.
We commend temperance socie-
tiles, whose object is, BY example and
moral suasion, to reclaim the drunk
ard, bat when the membership say
to tie outside world you shall, OF
Iyou shall not, do this OF that, they
assume an unwarranted authority
over the rights and Iiberties Of 9th
ers.
Now, for Illustration, suppose "
take the county o. Chickasaw Their
arc in. this county about four thous-
and adult males We dare say ther,
are not Eve hundred Of this number
! Who touch not, taste not, handle
\ not" fermented or distilled liquors
II weIare correct in this estimate
. there would be thirty five hundred
men In this county who, in SOM
way on other, and at some time O
othsF, use liquor OF this thirty fv'
Aundredi we defy any advocate o
prohibition to point out one hundred
confirmed inebfates Bot, TO carr
out our Illustration, suppose tier
area hundred Then, because the
one hundred are wanting in selfcon
troll, the prohibidonist would de-
prlve thirty-iour hundred men, VIII,
/ do not drink to excess, Of the privi-
lege Of doing as they please in thii
matter II there is 6 power that hat
the right to prescribe what men shall
drink, the same power may prescrib,
what We shall eats what we shall
wear who we shall palronize il
/ business, and what church We shall
attend We should not be asionish
ed 70 learn that among thirty-fy'
hundred persons 10 Chickssaw coun
Is, one.hundred dyspepties could be
found. Isis conceded on all hands
that pork is deleterious 60 the health
aud well heiQg Of persons SO afflicted
| The samg principle ihen that would
impel a man TO advocate the muz
| cling Of thirtyfoar hundred men, he
cause one hundred drank to excess
LIQUID pfohititt the sale and consump
tionOf pork because its use would
[ bainjarious to The health Of the dys
tpeptie
III short, The doctline Of prohibit
ton, fpraetical, is at variance will
the theory Of free government, ant
repugoant TO the spirit Of our iustitu
tipns. But its ihpfaeticability hai
II been 50 thoroughly demonstrated in
other States OF this Union, it be-
cones worse than absurd to tall
about trying tin Mississippi.
sTuF CIafihn in a LENGTHY Ariel,