The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-14
PROHIBITION At CORINTH.
WHAT THE OPPONENTS OF IT
HAVE TO SAY.
A Sad and HumiIiating Confession
That a Saloon or Two Is Neces.
sary to Prosperity.
lsOREEsPONDESoR OF rHE APPEAL. I

le0REKSPOHDEScK OF TEE APPEAL.
CoRINTH, MISS, February 13.-''Pro-
hibition," your correspondent Of the
Sth, seems to be poslhumous humor-
list, or jolly prevaricator. 1t is
strange that he has net been en-
ployed as the advance agent of such
truth.tellers as "Gath" and eli Per-
kins." Prohibition" says: 1.-THE init
nation tbat the anti-prohibition petit
ton was 'tampered' with a. Jackson
two years ago is an old thrt aibare
Islander which no informed and re-
spectacle persOn here believes, etc"
/ say candidly, without fear OF con-
tradiction, that whoever Prohibit
ton" is, he states what is not 80.
There are just as many respectable
anti-prohibltionists as there are "pro-
hi's;" perhaps more so.
Your correspondent says tfa ths
whisky pet tiop sent to the Legislstur
was so imperfect and unfair that it
killed itself. Strange. Did it never
occur TO the minds of many tna. that
petition was sent 10 JACKSON in the
care and it's interests to be looked
after-by distinguished" lawyer Ct
Corinth? Did the Legislature Sit
down upon the lawyer or the petition ?
Echo answer, the-lawyeT.
For the repeal OF this odious FIVE
mile law a majority of the taxpayers
have signed. / only ask Prohibition"
to examine the sherifl's books and
prove the fslsity of his own state
ment1. Not only that, but l state that
a majority of the business men ask
for the repeal of the law, aud repeat it.
OF the most ignorant and misin-
formed men, commend me to "Pfo.
hib." He says there are only two
sale Ons within a radius Of fifty miles
of Corinth. "Shame, where is thy
blush" when thou used 10 imJibe I?
He knows that whisky can be oh.
tanned within fifty miles of CoriDth-
at Pocahontas, Middleton, Grand
Junction, Lagrange, Salisbury, Hic1-
DRY Valley, in Tennessee, and Mar
gerum, Cherokee, Pride's Station,
Newport, Chicka'aw, in Alabama, aud
Iuka, Michigan City, Falkner, in Mis-
sissiEpi, numbering in all thirty So
looms where the "ttuff" can be OBJ
tanned within fifty miles Of the grave
yard-Cerinth. To quote his own
words, "it is shallow nonsense about
trade leaving Corinth." Give US a
saloon or two and the trade will most
Gel tainly come hack. The old cry Of
"short cotton crops" has been raised,
but Evansville, with a popp lation of
Only300, with a saloon, has received
more bales of cotton than our dead
town without a sa'ojn.
Speaking Of empty store houses,
your writer must surely be grayely
mistaken or Fever walked our streets.
We have by actual count fiitsen empty
store houses and as many vacant
dwellings. Even the hogs, roaming at
will, sleep in some OF these vacant
houses.
AS to whether this county has saved
$25,000 by this law, can only say
that the largest delinquent tlxlitt
published in the State comes from
Alcorn county. would most respect t.
fully ask of "Prohib" where the saw
ing comes in.
As regards emigration to the West,
still adhere 10 my former remark,
that thepeople are becoming disguised
with the affair ard are emigrsting to
the Welt. He fays some colored peo-
pie have gone West. From authentic
sources learn that 2l8 colored f4mi-
fascinating a to.al of oil - have
"gone. sWest." Even such Prohibit
tionists as Will Morgan, Richard Bur
nett and others have emigrated since
they have killed the town-not taking
into consideration numerous other
white families that have'emigrated 10
Arkansas and Texas.
To pay any further attention ID this
nonenity who signs himself "Prohibi-
ton" would be useless and supelflu
GUS, so by-by PRO"
Our usually quiet little town is all
torn up by the publication of the FOL
lowing in Fridays Herald, the author
of which is DR.. n @. Steele, chairman
Of the Alcorn county Prohibition COM
mittee. The wonder of the town is
that the editor of the Herald allowed
it to appear in his columns:
"A favorite argument with the col
ored sisters for not signing against
whisky is: We never fo!ch it here ;
it was here when We come; it will be
here when we die; daito' we amt
gwine to have nothing to do with put
ting it out nor keeping it out. Socra-
tes and Aristotle would sit at their feet
TO learn logic. What was the logic of
the dozen white ladies that would not
sign ?"
Following the above, this same
Steele approached a negro named Dill
worth and asked him if he could Sc
cure him balf-pint of liquor, giving
him 25 cents to purchase, supposedly,
the same; also presenting him with 25
cents for his trouble. The darby got
it, and Immediately DR.. Steele swore
out an affidavit charging Pompey
Evans with the same. A jury, con-
sisting of Messrs. Joe Iams, q. W.
Graham, Joe Boone, Frank Burnett,
Joe Potts and Thomas Woodward were
selected, and verdict of "not guilty.
was rendered, for the jury doubted
whether DR.. Steele or the negro Dill.
wolth wanted it. Such is prohibition
in Corinth. coRRIGENDA.