The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1886-07-03
The Impending Crisis.

will cast on July 9Th. On the one side
are arrayed all the evils of the liquor
trafic,--desolated homes, impoverished
and miserable women and children, fel,
low citizens, ruined in body, mind energy
and purse,-the body polite greatly ex'
hausted financially and degraded morally
and socially-an impetus and nuc,eu.
for all crimes and vice.
On the other side are arranged all thu
benfcent results of temperance, virtue
and industry-a law-abiding spirit among
the people, quietness, order and tho
minimum of crime-a higher grade o.
morality and a greatly increased influence
OF the christian Church, pleasant homes
with happy inmates cheered by pecuniary
independence and all these effects equally
felt in the improvement of all commercial
and public business.
J The law and even its advocates admit
liquor to be great evil in its direful
Consequences We now have an oppor.
tunity as citizens to crush the evil. II
after two years we find prohibition is not
satisfactory, we can, under the law, call
for another vote on the subject. 1t has
been practically effective and highly
beneficial wherever tried and it is worth
fair test by our community. Give it a
trial, fellow citizens, for two years and
we think you will never regret it. HUI
manity, the good of your neighbor and
the love of your country, all demand at
least trial of prohibition, There can
be no objection to this course, for there
are no side issues. The school question
is endeavored to be brought in, in order
to confuse the colored people, but it has
nothing to do with the issue. The pubs
lie schools must necessarily be kept up
for four months. according to the Consti-
tuition, and we can assure the colored
people that with the increased prosperity,
which prohibition will bring, the proba-
bilities are that the school term will be
increased instead of being shortened. 1t
is as much to the interest of the colored
as we'll as the white race to have prohi-
bition. We ask all good men then that
aging aside all prejudiced and unsound
objections they march to the polls on
July Sth, and seal the trial of prohibition
for two years in Grenada county.
Address From the Ladies' of Grenada
County.
On Thursday the 9Th day of July you
will be allowed to vote on one of the most
important issues ever presented to our
people. Voting is great privilege, but it
is also great responsibility. The indi-
vidual ballot cast will decide the issue
before us at this time. Your vote as far
as you are concerned, will decide for, or
against Prohibition.
Are you ready to take the response.
biity of opening saloons in Grenada
county? The bar-room is the fruitful
source of murder. Murder makes crimi-
nails Will you become a party to this
dreadful crime by voting against Prohi-
biton? Will you take this dreadful
step? If you would not sell whisky or
commit murder yourself, will you do it
by proxy?
We live among an agricultural people.
Do our farmers need whisky to make
them more thrifty? Are they able, with
small profits on their productions, to sup
port SO expensive and degrading a lux
ury.
Do you know any man who will be
made better in his business by the use Of
whisky? Do you know any man who,
in any relation in life, will be made bet
ter by the whisky shop? Does your boy
need it? Would you place that before
your neighbor's son which would be dan
gerous to your own?
Does your daughter or sister need
whisky to give them good husbands ?
Is there daughter or sister, wife or
mother in Grenada county, who will be
made happier by it? Will it elevate a
single man or boy?
Would you'not be safer without the
temptation of the open bar? But may
be the habit has been formed and you
feel obliged to have it. Then will you
not admit that it is bad habit ? And
would it not be better for you to send
off for it, than to open the saloon,
through which our boys and young men
will be led to ruin?
IL you are q moderate drinker, don't |
you know there are others who cannot
drink moderately? Is it not the most
uicked selfshness to put the temptation in
their way? The mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters of Grenada county, re-
member, that the decision OF this elec-
ton will involve the most serious conse-
quences. Parents, trying to shield their
boys from temptation, are watching you;
Anxious wives are waiting with bated
breath to see what you will do. The
little children look to YOU for protection.
The children of drunkards, worse than
orphans, are crying "Keep away the
dram shops" o, sir, we plead with you.
Do we desire anything less than we ask /
Then give us our boys, our brothers, our
fathers, our husbands, our homes, by
voting for Prohibition.
The anti-prohibition quote scripture as
favoring and authorizing their position !
in this issue, but not one character in