Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-02-21
LIBERTY AND THE NEW ERA.

LIBERTY AND THE NEW ERA.
A New Era has dawned upon us
1t has begun at West Point, and ex-
tends maybe as far as five or siS
miles in the vicinity. AS usual, the
New Era has an apostle. Ia this
case it is 81. NJ" We exceedingly
regret that this apostle did not sign
his full name. We suppose. how
ever, that it stands for James Madi-
son, maybe; or, more likely, for
John Mud.
In this New Era any man has q
right to conduct any business he
may choose to. What ifit does in
jure the people? What if it does
take money from the TWO hundred
taxpayers to support the proceeds of
one mans business 1t is a man s
right to have life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and he will
have it if he has to destroy, the life,
liberty and happiness ofone hundred
other men.
We are at loss to know how to
look at Mr.. John Mud. He
is evidently man Of many points.
To look at his legal lore. set forth in
his article, in the issue of Feb. 9th,
you would naturally think him not a
limb only, but the very trunk of the
law. Hear!
"No legislature can pass an act which is
constitutional, to prohibit thu manufacture
and sale Of liquor"
We have seen some of the decis-
ions Of the Supreme Bench on this
subject, and nothing proves more
conclusively to our mind that there
ought to be change than the fact
that all the judges, from the circuit
courts to the Supreme courts of the
United States are wrong-totally
wrong-in their decisions in these
instances. They said the prohibitUry
acts passed by State legislatures
were constitutional. Alas "What
fools our supreme judges are when
it comes to law. Will not Cleveland
put -. NJ" on the Supreme Bench!
How beautiful would the ermine
seem on this apostle ofliberty. Will
not Chief-Justice Mud substi-
tute a beer keg for the bench. How
much more comfortable than a
bench, and how much more natural
he would look.
We have not time to sufficiently
admire him in his character of Chief
Justice, before he turns another
side to our view, and We behold him
as historian, greater than any of
his predecessors, the more than Jo-
sephus of modern times. Hear ye
him
at is an effort to undermine the founda-
tons oil representative democracy. 1t is
an effort to overthrow the principles which
the Revolutionary heroes fought for, and
weresuccessful. 1t infringes and encroaches
A.. { - -
Since reading the above, VIC have
thought over the matter some; we
must confess that we are not up on
the bit of history he mentions. We
have heard that there was some
trouble about tea, in the Boston
harbor, but can't remember any
mention of cargo of Jamaica rum,
and sugar, ready to make into
punch for animating the patriots.
We are now of the opinion that
there must have been such cargo
and that those wicked Indians
drank up the rum.
At present we cant even recall a
single battle that was fought with
desperate valor that a saloon man
; might have freedom to traffic in
broken hearts and poverty. Even
Josephus is silent on this subject.
The only mention of ardent spirits is
the battle Of Brandywine, and even
here no record is found OF a bar
tender going into battle with beer
bottle in each hand. or a saloonist
Riling up his barrels and kegs for
breastworks in the cause offreedom.
Even the Goddess Of Liberty was
not depicted in those days as stand-