The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-10-18
"E.ibarai" Talk.

To the Editor of the BrOOkhaven Leader:
dome begging enough of your valuable
space to give the senior Liberal Just one
more sailing down. He's my mutton. aud
] can't afford to see him spoil.
He first finds fault in his last effuSion with
my nom dc plume, and appeals to Webster
to settle il. | am more than content to
have my right To the title thus settled, so
to WcbSters Unabridged let the reader 90.
The only difficulty, as will he seen before
close, is, that the libcrality of the first
Liberal and myself does not run in the
same direction. The Devil is IL very liber-
al fellow, i'll his way, but, as the immortal
Josh Billings would say, from all such
liberality as his and that of Liberal No. |.
may the good Lord deliver us. This self
constituted apostle of liberal ideas has
been nosing around and discovered, in
his Imagination, that | have no children to
educate. As the old hunter would say,
"llc's freed the wrong COON here. Tho
fact is, | have six, mostly boys, and my
neighborS have many more, and this Is one
reason we are So anxious to get whisky
forever baniShcd from our county. We
want them educated, too, but not with
whisky money. 1t is n fine idea-this
thing of licensing WHISKY in Mississippi to
raise money To educate our children. Mr..
Editor, and gentle reader, let lis look at
this proposition Il moment, from financial
point alone, and its absurdty is trans
parent. There are upward of S13,CiD,0OO
spent i'll this State annually for whisky.
The Auditors report for ISL shows that
the retail tax realized on this was S5I, 100.
Now take the census of 1SSO. This shows
there are 419, 9,j3 children in the State to
be educated. Divide the boasted whisky
tax of S54, 100 by the number OF educable
children of the State, and we actually
have within fraction of the enormous
sum of II cents to the child. In other
words the people of the State spend SO,
COG, 900 a year for whisky, i'll order to re-
aliZc II per capita for each school child.
| will remark, by the way, while on the
topic of education, that the gushing COM
rlunications of Liberal" display plenti-
ful lack of this tO-be-desired hlcs-
sing; but whether this is because II cents
ii year would not go very far i'll that direc-
ton, or because he squandcrcd his sub.
stance by contributing to the l5,OO0, 0O0
pile instead of spending it for selt-improvc-
ment, | cannot say. As he is such Il liberal
fellow, more probably the latter.
Liberal in addition to displaying Il
fresh supply of ignorance, magnities his
SANDER upon many of the people of tins
county. | Will briefly pass over this point.
When such men as j. f. ChileS, w. {.
Chamberlain, II. w. Bcacham, Il. ID.
Davis, A. j. Martin, A. G. b. Mccullough
and the many Others like them are claNScd
us ignoramuSeS and broken-doWn office
seekers who could not be elected Supcrvi-
sor in their respective beats, the reader
may Judge correctly of the rest.
As to examining those petitions and not
finding the name of any merchant, profes
sional man or mechanic thereon, perhaps
YOU had better examine them again your
self generous Liberal" tor if yOu will cN-
anime the right ones, you Will have the
conceit SO, completely knocked ont of you
YOU will never have the heart ask your
friends to examine again. We repeat, sex
anime their petitions"
Neither are the Eackncyed arguments
advanced in the purported speech worthy
of serious consideration. 1t Is sufficient Ia
say Of the Prohibition move in the West
that the people OF Iowa are so wcll-pleased
with it, and SO determined Ia Sustain il,
regardless of the heavy G) loss to the
school children, that they ratified il last
week by electng the Republican ticket by
a lapge majority, it being the friend of
the move in that State. AS for Ohio, the
question was never put to II vote before,
he move was championed there by neither
one of the great contending parties, and
no informed person expected it would ear
~ this time; yet there were over 3d.
600 votes east for it, and its sue
cess assured the next opportunity there is
given for test. Yes the handwriting is
on the wall in Ohio, and not another dol
lar will be placed i'll the whisky business
there with view to permanently.
Save your sympathy, 'Liberal, Lincoln
county ProhibitiomiSts do not need it.
"Charity does begin at home" sure enough,
and that is what we mean.
Thanking You, Mr.. Editor, for your in
diligence, now retire from this discussion.
Ta-ta, "Liberal," I'll meet y"u again at
Philip. Liberal, JR.