The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-08-18

tlrely upon whether the half-loaf
is poisoned or not. You say half
a pound of butter is better than
no butter. That depends upon
whether 1t is oleomargarine or
mot. Here is bridge over
roaring stream. A freshet in the
nighttime sweeps away half the
railroad bridge. The first half
of the bridge stands soIidly. 1t
is half-past seven o'clock at night,
and the express train IS coming.
| The watchnan stands there with
lantern. He sees the bridge
sound at that end, and he waves
the lantern, tAll is well," and at
forty miles the hour the midnight
express tram sweeps on, and hay-
ing passed the first half of the
bridge-crash, crash, crash Two
hundred souls gone into eternity.
Better have had no bridge at all ;
then the watchman would have
swung his lantern of warning. Is
, half a bridge better than no
bridge?
So they propose to compromise
this matter. They say prohi-
bitory law cannot be executed,
j and, therefore, we had better not
have any such law on the statute
> book. Will you tell me, my
friends, which one of our laws Is
= fully executed? We have law
E against Sabbath breaking. Mil
lions Of people break that Law
: every Sunday. We have laws
: against blasphemy. Sometimes
i the air Is lurid with lmprecatlon
We have laws against theft, bu
: you have hlghwaymen and burg
e lars filling your jails and pene
/, tentiaries, and thousands of peo
Ii pie outside of Jail who ough
d to be inside. You have law
against murder, yet we have thre'
e men in our Raymond Street Jai
for murder, and there are score
Of them IN. the United States, an'
Cincinnati has her full share
/ Now, why not throw oyerboar'
/ these laws, if they are not exc
y cuted fully, aud let US give for
q high license to a few men all tn
4 privilege of swearing and steallni
y and murder? Now, let us have
= HIGH LICENSE FOR THEFT.
e Get ready your excise commits
!. sioners. We will have $4,000
te $4,000 high license for theft
" We must somehow put dow
or these small criminals that al
4 stealing door-mats and postage
to stamps and chocolate drops. FC
ID high-license we'll give to a fe
o. men all the privilege of runnln
90 off with $4,000 OF the Newar
- Bank, of watering the stock in
40 railroad company, taking $3.50
I. 900 at one clip. NowI shall hay
I this license very high, say $40
an 600 for theft, aud in that wa
t we shall put to an end all the
no sneak thieves and tuppenny scou
IS o drels and wharf-rats, and all hi
HI to the million dollar rascals. X
IL will never put down theft In tt
.ot country until you give few pc
ISo pie for high license all t
,or privilege of ste aling.
SO Then there is
,h. THE EVIL of BLAspHEMy.
re- Let US for a high license, s.
ion SO, 600, gather a hundred m
De. in these cities, men of the hUtts
III tempers and the fireiest tong
not and the most spiteful agar
the God and decency. Having gat
se? cred this precious group TO do
The the biasphemy of the country
ler' high license, give them full swce
'hy and then Just let us extinguish
nd these small swcarers, who ney
ry- have any genius at swearing, a
hat who always swear on a SIN
j." scale, and who never get beSo
ow nby George ~ or "my stars !"
ay, sdaln iti7 Extirpation for
ind small swearers. You will ney
lille put down bIasphemy In this col
d" try except by high incense.
ur- And the sin of murder WI
If your law against it is a failu
I'VE Murder on Long Island, murt
800 in Illinois, murder in Pcrnsylyar
to murder all over. 1t is almost
len possible to convict one of t
the desperadoes. He proves an al
'hy right away. Or he did it unC
/ OF emotional insanity. Court-ho
can full Of sympathizers, and when
EN- is cleared the crowd follow b
down the street thinking he on
you to be sent to Congressl Y6
Nv, law against murder is failu
AXE Now, we have got to stop tn
'ro- clumsy assassins who kill peo
pie with car-hooks, and Paris-gre
and dull knives, and having