The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1886-06-26

Copiah county gives promise of becom-
ing the banner prohibition county. The
light of hope has died in the hearts OF
the whiskyites. All three of the newspa-
pers published in the county have declar
ed in ringing tones for prohibition, and
the flame of enthusiasm is sweeping over
the county and growing redder and red
der and brighter and brighter every day.
Crystal Springs has shucked her coat,
rolled up her sleeves, doubled up her fists,
and entered the ring for the champion
ship with a reform club numbering a
hundred and eighty members.
Wesson is training, with frequent and
enthusiastic meetings, and says she will
do the most effective work of all in giving
whisky black eye.
Hazlehurst is rising up and hustiing
| for the fight, and will clean up the enemy
on the first round, and fatten him all
over the ground. In fact the prohibitions
have made splendid fight, and already
routed the enemy, and the only question
| is how large the majority will be.-Pro-
|hibitionistin in Jackson New Mississippian.
We deny that the Democratic party
is whisky party. Whisky. may be a
favorite beverage with its Irish and for
eign supporters in the North, and it may
| frequently put in its platform a catch
vote plank about sumptuary laws
Though prohibition is not sumptuary),
but it is undeniable that the great ma
iority OF Southern Democrats are for
prohibition and becoming more and
more so, and that sentiment is destined
| to control the party hereafter in the
South and make its platforms. We know
the Democratic party Of Mississippi has
given us our present local option law.
But it is poor policy for whisky men to
urge that the Democratic party is for
whisky, when they know that the ma,
iority in the Republican party is for pro.
hibition, and at the same time admit
that the colored vote is in the balance oi
power in the county and State.
As the most reflective lie which the
Ingenious whiskyite has yet invented tc
bamboozle the colored voter is that the
public schools are dependent upon the
LIQUOR license revenue, we recommend
everv prohibitionist to read article o
the State Constitution, and section 724 ol
the Code, which entirely knocks the
props from under the above mentioned
| lie, -Prohibitionist in Jackson New Mis-
sissippian.
Whisky cannot even quote statistics
correctly. The United States tax for sell
| ing liquor in Maine and Vermont is paid
by druggists who sell for medical pur.
| poses under the stringent State laws
Why, unless prohibition does prohibit
do Maine and Vermont hold on to il
SO tenaciously, and why has Rhode
/ island, their neighbor, so earnestly fol-
lowed their example?
] II "a mind that surrenders to a single
idea becomes essentially insane," how
about the mind that can earnestly and
publicly adopt one idea at one time and
the next day or week become apparently
equally enamored OF another and oppo-
site idea and can vault from the centre
of one cause or party into the centre o1
another with the agility of an acrobat?
| The former kind OF insanity is prefera
| BILE.
To use the sacred name of Christ tc
defend the whisky traffic is certainly as
bold in its blasphemy and sacrilege al
that first Tempter who bade the Saviou,
of the world to bow dotcn and worship
Him.
20 for nrohihition and let the praa