The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-06-17

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! their son or neighbor going to the whisky
saloons two OF three times week for Il
month before elections TO get enlightened
how Ia vote Yet il cannot trutltfully he
denied that many appear to do this,
Judging from the way they crowd around
/ saloons lust before elections, pcCially
/ do uuthnking colored men do this; for it
. is at such times and places that they are
about social equality, to he shot down like
hrutcs afterwards for their presumption.
[ 1t isa well authenticated fact that the
/ late CarroIltOn massacre, about which SO
much has been said, and in which II or
10 colorcd men were shot down in the
county court house, was the direct out
growth of the Carrollton saloons, and /
especially ask the coIorcd voters of Lin
cola county to remember this fact v hen
they come to cast their ballots on the Ii
quor question.
1t is hut natural that saloon men should
take to runnug elections. The cheaPncsS
Of their license depends on the officers
they eject ana many o'h'r h''''e'S "'"'t
serious to them. They have to guard
against the penalties of the law, and
they Know that the erection Is 'he ii'''
I" 10 thlS. Saloon men are S'''c'lH o"""
ed TO Keep oidcri! houses an" I" pay
damages to parties injured if their means
OF support arc 't"IaFcd OF "'S'l s'' ~
reason OF "r'hheu''1s' c5'"Se" ~ NV ~
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SUITS IL the Ia" H"" 9''''"S''''" "' wv 10
no" hi''''S '"'ic az III '''' u"
Where 'heie are u" Ii''''N'> H'''''' -'o"'
c"">I''PF ''iiiE' ! '"''' i '''''' " 49,,
~ pride or regret I" any '"' ''' N,''''''
Keeper ii - 'Iue Us '''' I'd" NV" S'''''"'
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WIl' OF '"''" "' II ''l','>'''' - ~ ~ ''''
'h'hS ior '"' I'AS VI '''' '.''''''' ", -"
motion ana 10 he3fI /" tNIoS' '''' s.'''''''
ana disgrace OF alather % h">""l'''' '',''
there are no Ia" S"lCS' 'uo"E" 'I'i' ~ ''
tliouSi'h" e'>rS loF '"''H' l''V W. ""''
Is law that can he pm Ill use near"
a man say there hah o'ca Il o"zeIl 't
more indictments Ill Col'a" county an oe-
cause '''I ma" Il" Incense IL" 'n''e. MS
Is better imam 10 nave III" 'I"I i VIZ
lated huhdre"S "i Times "i'H""' any
prosecutions, and TINS Is the way no"
with the law about damages t"r inc I'M
palrinent Of means OF support S'IIIlS OH
the NAhDath, 10 dFhhhat"S, EalloIS' tic'
ii we consider the question cah'u"lH
can 1t he greater wrong for a woman I"
sell milk tor common use which VIII make
her customers sick and icNrrlsh ny reason
OF ITS unhraIfhtnihr'', than 1t Is to sell
liquors ior diihf NJ purposes 'iat cause
"el'r!nm and sickness Yet woman lhat
sells unhealthy mix or hn'chtf 'ha'
sells unhealthy meat Is PulchiE punished
without fcm"iNe. why tins "fieiehre,
unless the victims OF strong drink are de
Indrd' matte |" 1elicNe th'N are strong
Wheh liicy are weak ana wise "heh 'ho\
are l"oIlSi mere are temperate men III
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