The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-07-03

This column belongs to the party
whose interests are advocated, ana,
their editor is responsible for all that
appears below. ED. GAZETTE.
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We have more than once made ref
erence to the injustice of prohibition
without compensation to dealers in
liquors. The State invited men
through properly regulated channels,
to go into the business Of buying and
selling whisky, wine, beer, etc.
Without complying with these con-
ditions they could not have opened
their houses. Now that they pro-
cured houses by building or renting
and have bought their fixtures, many
of which are elegant and costly, this
fact is now used by the prohibition
lists against them as one of the rea-
sons that they should be squelched.
Is it not right and proper that in any
legal business to be carried on, that
it should be surrounded with demon
trations of taste and art? Does not
an elegant church with carpets, cush-
toned seats, ornamented chancel, fine
chandeliers, and even fine paintings
on glass or canvass look much more
pleasing than the rough cabin where
in the oracles of God can be declared?
Yet we find no where in the New
Testament any command on the sub
ject Of building fine churches. Is it
not in harmony with all business
pursuits, whether literary, CONNER
cial or professional, to make the
place where dispensed as inviting as
means, taste and ambition can sup
ply? Saloon men in this matter have
followed the teachings of our modern
civilization from the gorgeous pic
lures and splendid cartoons of Ra-
phel and Angelo, at st. Peters at
Rome. down to the elegant fruit
stands in London, Viena, Paris, New
York and Philadelphia, both in Sec
ular and ecclesiastical business.
Now these fixtures of the saloons
are peculiarly appropriate to their
business and some of them in the city
of New York and other places are
centers of attraction, which states
men, poets, scholars and even preach
ers visit to catch the splendors of art
that adorn their walls, while in our
smallest villages they are set off with
what taste the business can sustain.
Prohibition contrary to any bill of
constitutional rights, any enforce
ment of the ten commandments, any
precept of the new Testament, pro-
poses to coniscate all those costly
goods by throwing them back upon
their owners as worthless as soon as
they are closed up by the absolute
force of numbers. Citizens of Gre
NADIA county you have the opportuni-
ty, not only Of taking away a mans
business to which the State by her
laws invited him, but to render use
less a large part of his capital as we'll
as his business experieuce. His H.
liquors VIII nav to be removed from
the county at a great loss, and other
means that he had procured to render
his business pleasant to his friends
and agreeable to himself will be
thrown upon a barren market for
sale, which you have destroyed by
your vote. Unreasonable conpensa-
tlpil Ihu iolio"Vu pioHibllluH, anu
protected the legal and vested rights
of men who sold liquors, the moral
right and equal justice would not
have been so wide apart. Az it is,
it is CONFIsCATIoN by set of citi-
zens of the rights and properties of
another set, as good in all the rela-
tons of life as they dare to BE-. With
out compensation for the losses which
they must sustain, it is highway rob-
berry done under the sanction and by
authority Of men who preach humili-
ty, love, mercy, justice, equal, rights
when they are violating every Ii vi
these high and holy principles. 1t is
a warfare of fanatics prateing princi-
pie against which they do not preach;
and we call upon everyliberal minded
voter in this county to stamp it so
deep under his feet, that nothing
but the searching influence Of cleo
tric force can ever reach it, and we
say these things in opposition to
drunkenness and in favor of temper
anCe.