Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-03-28

for slavery, through the parties al
lied to it, as they had done from 1900
to 1910, there would have been a
slave holder or a pro-slavery man
elected President in 1860, and slav-
cry would have been settled upon us
for perhaps century to come. But
thanks be to God, there was third
party, the members of which voted
as they talked and prayed, and so
accomplished the abolition of slav-
cry.
The temperance people have been
in the wilderness 80 years talking,
preaching and praying against in
temperance, but voting all the time
for the liquor sellers candidates, as
neither party dare put Prohibitory
plank into their platform, knowing
if they should do it the entire liquor
fraternity, including the moderate
drinkers, would go with the opposite
party. Some good temperance men
say, "Choose the least of two evils
and vote the Republican ticket" as
if, two thieves being nominated for
office, one of whom had stolen a
thousand dollars, and the other one
hundred thousand dollars, they
should vote for the theft who had
stolen one thousand as the least Of
two evils. Between the two evils
there should be no choice. Suppose
the Government should license men
to steal as they now license men to
make drunkards, and suppose that
two thieves or two men that the
thieves would vote for were held up
for office by the present great
political parties. In that case,
all good men would vote with third
party for a Prohibitory amendment
against stealing, May all good tenn
perance men who have been choosing
the least Of two evils choose neither
hereafter, but vote the third party
ticket for Prohibition.
The license law is great curse to
this nation. The Government has
no more moral right to license men
to make drunkards than it would
have to license men to break the
Ten Commandments. The enormity
of the evil of intemperance is almost
inconceivable. There are nearly
100000 drunkards in the United
States, and 100000 women and
children are suffering disgrace and
poverty on account Of drunkenness.
Nearly 100000 men die drunkards
every year, and go to a drunkard's
grave, and | fear to a drunkard S
He'll, as we read in Gods book that
mo drum ards shall inherit the
kingdom of God" 1st Cor, 60.
Statistics show, also, that 81 per
cent. Of all the crime committed in
this country is the result of intem
perance. How long shall we tamely
and quietly tolerate a slavery that
not only debases the body but de
stroys the soul?
The Federal Government receives
$50, 600, 900 revenue annually from
the manufacture of liquors, and the
States receive $40, 100000 more for
licenses, making total revenue OF
500, 100000 year, SO the Govern
ment makes 81, 900 on every man
that dies a drunkard. To balance
the financial account, however, the
debit side must include the cost of
81 per cent. of the pauperism and
crime, and this would show that for
every dollar received from this source
ten dollars Cor $1,000,000,000) are
called for to sustain the paupers and
punish the criminals which this liq-
uor traffic creates.
In 1880 there were only 10,3O5
third party Prohibition votes cast in
all the United States in 1881, about
10000 and in 1882 nearly 100000.
If all the temperance people in the
land will only work and vote as they
talk and pray, we will have three
and a half millions in 1888, and
in 1892 we will elect a President on
the Prohibition platform. and Pro
hibitory Amendment will be in prac-
tical operation in every State Of the
Union.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DEAD
it was not killed by the Democrats
! or Prohlbitionists, but it killed itsel
,, through the machine, and the elec-
J ton Of Democratic President il
1884 will convince the party that i
: is dead. The reason it can not bC
, raised from the dead now is because
it has been doing as the man dlC
) when drowning, who cried out
! "G1od Lord "Good Devil"l ant
) when rescued, said he did not know
f whose hands he might fall into ant
he wanted to keep good friends witt
both.
The Republicans have been crying
' ''good Temperance and good Liq
i u9r," while the Democrats have beel
crying ''good liquor all the time
!. the result being that the liquor ira
: ternity have nearly all gone over t
. the Democrotic party with their i'm
\ mense capital and power.
; About 1886 the dead party will b
r resurrected with new body hayin
/ Prohibition soul in it (; in 1888
e will nearly sweep the land. and i
! 1892 the entire church will vote Pro
d hibition. The new party will eleC
6 its President and will rule the Ian
J. two score or more years. To accom-
IS pllsh these great and glorious result
10 we must WORK AND VOTE AS WE tai
re AND PRAY, and God will send us d.
d liverance from this dreadful evi