The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-07-29
THEIR POLICY.

1t il perfectly manifest that before any
speeches we're made in this canvass 10y
the antics, their leaders held council
among themselves and reasoned about thit
way:
1.-THE Prohibitionists have a good cause
they have, as a rule, the best people OF
their side, both inside aud outside Of the
church; they have nearly every woman
and child in the county on their side; they
mean what they are doing for the best in.
terest of every class of both colors, morally,
socially, religiously and financially; and
they can demonstrate this by arguments
have no arguments on our side. The
liquor business is q mean business that
degrades everything and everybody that
comes in contact with it aud we know it.
With all the evils, and poverty, and
widows and orphans tears, and family
jars, and drunkenness, and fights and
contentious, and criminals sent to Jail and
the penitentary by it, while only few
men make money by it or are in any way
benefited, I've know we can't meet the
PrOhibitioniets on the stump and discuss
the fair, square issue of license or no Ii
cense, whiskey or no whiskey; we know
all this talk about breaking up the public
schools is an Internal lie we are ashamed
to repeat in the hearing ofintelligent men;
we know that this talk about robbing a
man of his personal liberty is another in
fernal lie that won't bear the sunlight of
truth; in short, we know that there is no
defense for the liquor business and we
dare not go Before the people OH that
issue. Let us, therefore, get up a false
issue and fool the id niggers and the
white YahOos in the country. Let Van 90
out and raise his old cry among the coun-
try people that there is no whiskey in this
question, but that it is political trick
in the interest of the damned deed in
trust merchants of BrOokhaven who are
expressing the poor; let him give the
id Jews particular I'LL; and let him
tell the fool nIggers that it is a Democrat
ic trick to get control of all the off ces
next year and take away from them their
rights. Let Jim go out and yell that aw-
full name Chrisman! Chrisman! to the
niggers and talk color line and war and
abuse the ID journeyman soul-savers
who are raising such h-ll of rumpus
in the churches to the prejudice of the
whiskey loving members; but let him
keep silent about his old cry Of Prohibi-
ton running the trade of the Brookhaven
merchants and dcnouncing the Yahoos on
Homochitto, Fair River and Topisaw who
want to control the affairs of this city.
Well just side track the Prohibition ques-
ton and make so much smoke the ID
niger and white country ignoramus will
loose sight of the real question, and maybe
yes, maybe, by a tight squeeze-well
pull through. Jack and Peet and Ike will
furnish the sinews of war; and the Id
niggers we can't fool we'll buy with whis-
key. You know you can just lead a mig
ger to hell with jug of wiskey and with
barrel of whiskey you can buy the whole
monkey vote"
So it was agreed even rs it seemed good
to them, and 10! the voices of Van and
jim, like the song of the whan gdoodle, is
heard in the highways and byways OF
Lincoln county proclaiming even as it
was beforehand agreed.-Daily Prohibition
Bulletin.
Yes, Mr.. Bulletin, but all of the "nig-
gers" and country YahoOs are not such
suckers and fools as the Anti leaders took
them to be.