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

PROHIBITI0N COLUMN. |
,,crEp BY THE PROHIBITION EN-.
ECUTIvE COMMITTEE.
4 rHE VOTERS OF GRENADA
COUNTY.
.action under the "Local Option
1'nhas been ordered to take place in
'rounty on the Sth proximo. The
Z Il sharp and well defined. 1t is
4 OF no Sale.
Fhsra M is no middle ground and no neu-
mint from whence to witness the
|, conflict. A fair and unrestricted
s,ossion OF public sentiment at the bal
bor shall be had if in our power to
"A M Il The most vital public interests
involved, and he who is opposed to
traffic cannot be laggard or skulk
duty in the impending canvass with
lasting shame to himself. Ii you
"a 4 doubt of the wisdom of prohibit
N n giye it the benefit Of the doubt, for
n can have no doubt of the pernicious
bets Of the grog-shop.
Voters OF Grenada County, take the
ater to your homes and your hearts,
d as husbands, fathers, sons and
others, choose the flag you will follow.
m must range yourselves under the
INNER Of the Moloch Of Intemperance if
N are ''for the sale" There is no escape
nu that. Your intentions may be good
voting against prohibition, but the re-
kltifprohibition is defeated, will remain
besaIne. If upon mature reflection you
pte "ior the sale" as to the best interest
your county, we concede that the re-
action that you meant we'll, will in a
peasure afford you consolation, mo matter
Fiat the result may be, but if you act
hthout due reflection, good intention
iii not relieve you from the remorse OF
d evil act unheedingly done. If you are
br the prosperity, good citizenship and
happy homes which follow sobriety econ
boy and industry, vote and work against
ha whiskey traffic, and if perchance you
hould be in error as to the policy OF
pohibition you will have the consolation
d know you have erred on the right side.
The advocates of the traffic seek to i'm.
press those whose hope for the education
| Il their children is in the public schools,
hat the suppression of the sale will cut
1 Of o fruitful source of school revenue. II
his we're true in fact we could reply
With crushing truth, the evils incident
| 10 the pernicious traffic far outweigh the
suppose revenue derived from it. But il
Il not true in any sense that the traffic
i fruitful source of revenue.
II every county in the State issued
Whisky licences in 1885, as did this, oul
/ part Of the license fund would have beer
$500, but as it was our pro rata of thu
fund was only 81, 300, upon the basis o
our having 5, ,426 educable children in thu
county, which entitled each educabl'
|thild to 24c. The total number that at
tended schools during the year was 3276
which entitled each to nearly 40c. TIT
average number in daily attendance
however. was only 2,101 which entitled
each to nearly SO cents. 1t is but fair tt
say in this connection that one crimina
prosecution in the county in 1885 which
grew out of whisky, cost the county 81,
i&. 1t is also fair to say that the count,
whether we adopt prohibition or not will
continue to draw pro rata share OF .th'
whisky license fund, derived from th'
\ unties that do not adopt the law.
Whisky men assert with apparen
seriousness that prohibition trample'
upon individual liberty, that it is al
INVASION of personal rights, and we arr
charged with intermeddling with the law
ful pursuits of the whisky dealer. Moth
ing could be more fallacious and utterly
groundless. In the first place if it be con
ceded that the law against gaming, lot
teries, cruelty to animals and all othe
acts made criminal by statute and tina
are not crimes, per Sc, are not invasion
Of personal rights it is absurd to say
that the "Local Option Law" is, and il
the next place every man, who now ha
license to sell whisky will be permitted
TO continue until the time is out.
The idea that seems to prevail in SOM
quarters that physicians and druggist
are permitted under the law to carry OF
the traffic is absolutely without founda
ton. The law has been carefully framed
and is impartial and benificent in all 0
its features.
Against those who carry on the traffic
we have no war to make. Our fight j
against the traffic. We recognize the fac
that honest men and good citizens ar
engaged in the business, and by reasol
Of that and that alone, the business j
made in measure respectable, but
"Ha! see where the wild blazing grog
shop appears,
AS the red waves of wretchednes
swell,
How it burns on the edge of tempestuou
years,
The horrible Light House Of He'll"
Men of Grenada county, this measur
appeals to our common humanity, thel
Without regard to race, party affilation
or religious creeds, come to the rescu
and prohibit the traffic.
BY the Executive Committee.
y w. III. FITz-GEEALD,
Chairman
One of the most effective aids in tn
Prohibition work is the organizing O
Young Women's Christian Temperate
Unions, begun by Miss Passie McCabe, O
columbus. When the dear, delicious
llaaarling girls pin on the white ribbon, ant
plead for prohibition, the young mel
soon cave to their pleading. Prohibition
ISL In jackson New MissiSsipDian,