The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-10
Steadily Forward.

The Temperance advocates have MANY
/ reasons TO be encouraged in their good
work. From all quarters Of the Union
and from al parts of our own State
comes up the cheering news Of the preva.
lence Of prohibition.
The legislatures Of al the Southern
States, except that Of Virginia, have
adopted local option. Under it, very
much of the territory, outside of the
large towns and cities, have been freed
from the curse of the saloon. The
towns and cities win constitute ''the
last ditch, of the whisky people The
slums of the crowded thorOughfares. are
much more favorable to the continuance
Of vice in all its forms. Here whisky
and It's yotaries viii die hard. But the
cities are rapidly being surrounded by
the prohibition powers prevailing mid
the pure air and healtkful sentiment of
the country districts.
Georgia has ninety-four out of one
hundred and thirty-four counties under
prohibition. She Is maintaining her
claim to being the empire State Of the
South
South Carolina and Alabama are not
much behind, as about one-haf the
counties in each have adopted prohibi-
ton.
In Tennessee, a State law forbids a
saloon within four miles of a chartered
school-house. The friends of education
and the friends Of temperance can com
bine their force and Danish the traffic Of
''the creature"
Kentucky has over five hundred
municipalities and thirty four counties
under prohibition, including Bourbon
county, the place of the manufacture of
the celebrated brand of whisky. Good
bye "old Bourbon a long, long fare
well.
In our own State according to the
Hand Book of Prohibition for 1885,
more than one-half of the entire terri
tory is under prohibition through local
option. The last legislature passed over
one hundred local prohibitory laws.
Nearly every legislature that has been
in session during the year has had the
liquor question prominently before it and
all the legislation when the ques-
ti0n indicates an advance movement
In some instances, the opposition has
been fierce and the gain small, still the
movement in every case has been on
organized action against intemperance
now concert of action and
method prevails; where the prohibition
was weak it has grown stronger; where
it was strong, it has assumed a more
permanent and aggressive form.
By no means, the least encouraging
indication, the success of the prohibition
is the organized, determined
and unscrupulous opposition to it upon
the part of brewers unions and whisky
rings. Secret circulars have been dis
tributed appealing to saloon-men to
stand for their rights. In a recent
brewers convention held in New York a
fierce onslaught was made upon the tenn
perance people as fanatics, as opposers
of liberty, and an arrogant programme
was made out to rid the country of
these plotters against the welfare of
society.
The kilograms Of the 9th inst, tell
of a determined struggle of the better
class of citizens in Mansfield, Louisiana
to Danish liquor. The whisky ring de-
SPARED of success by a fair and open
fight and stole under cover of night,
the registration books and the poll
books for three of the strongest local
option wards. One registration book
with all the names torn out, was found
on the gate of the Rev Mr.. Harp. The
insult to the reverend gentlemen caused
much indignation. But insultsSo preach
ers, tampering with ballots and indeed
to everything that is good
and true, spring up from whisky advo-
Gates just as naturally as noxious vapors
from a cess DOOl
The anti's are very proud of the
phrase, prohibition does not prohibit:'
if it doesn't, why are they so rampant
against it, why is their money spent so
layishly to prevent it, why in fighting
it do they adopt such methods as com
promise their manhood and their honor?
Actions speak louder than words.
Meantime, the onward tread Of the
people, as they bond together in deter
mined phalanxes for the banishment Of
all intoxicants grows louder and louder.
1t proclaims in unmistakabe terms that
this destroyer of the nations wealth,
this corrupter of morals, this bane of
society must be stamped out forever.