The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-12
MISSISSIPPI PRESS.
DIVERS OPINIONS ON CUR
RENT TOPICS TERESLY
EXPRESSED.
Pith and Point.

Cu nISl lu Nlit Htdtt VI gan at ~ NCHNS
per square and afterwards in the sheet
acts at $3.50 per page in an inexcusa-
BILE folly and extravaganza. The law
in this respect should be changed, so
that these local bills would only be
published in the county papers, that
the people interested would have an
opportunity to learn their provisi MS
and that the State might be saved the
expense of double publication.
FICKSBuRG HERALD: Some of the
Protection plcaders say that whisky
ought to he taxed, but the States
should do it. They want the United
States Government to take the tax off
the evil thing. so that sugar, blankets
and all the necessaries of life may pay
tariff. The tax should never be
taken off Intoxicating drinks. The
United States should tax liquor twice
as much as now, then the States
should tax it very high and then the
counties and cities. If whisky and
brandy and such liquors were taxed
all around about five dollars gallon
and thousand dollar license required
at the least, it would be the very best
policy.
KosCIUsKo STAR: The report" d
discovery of brass in Kentucky turns
out to be only the skeleton of an office
seeker who had strayed there from
Ohio and died.
VICKsBURG Posi-: Prohibition was
not an issue in the municipal election
at Jackson. We are informed, how
ever, that what is known as the Ham
ilton element, almost solidly support
ed Mr.. McGill for mayor. Therefore
McGilfs defeat was "cold comfort" for
: the Hamilton partisans. Marshal
Carraway, whose official conduct was
so reprehensible at the time of the
Gambrell assassination, will certainly
not now be reelected by the new
Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
VICKsBURG HERALD: The Presi-
dent made the issue, when he said the
place for a dollar is in the pocket of
: the man who earned it. Messrs.
Blaine, Randall, and Company want
the cotton planter to put his dollar
, into the pocket of the sugar grower,
| the wool grower and the manufacture
er. Why? Because the protected
4 fellows have enjoyed other peoples
dollars so long, they think they belong
= to them.
} VICKsBURG Posi-: There is one
good thing about this free trade ques-
| ton; we can have free discussion
i about it, and our Representatives
should bear in mind that free discus
sion will demonstrate and prove that
it is the internal revenue taxes and
not the tariff duties that burden the
people of this State.
New MIssI>sIrPIAN: Let those
who may, talk about an elective judi
ciary but the crying shame of the de-
partmcnts of justice to-day, is the
present jury system.
NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT: One of our
f. exchanges enthusiastically dominates
! Santa Claus for the Presidency. If
+. the small boys and girls could vote
/ the old man would stand pretty good
, chance of being elected.
f New NIssIssIrPIAN The Govern
ernor's message was an ordinary con-
ventional message that would make
no enemies and could have no inilu
ence in shaping legislation.
YAZoO SENTINEL: The Nicksburg
Il Post publishes an article in which it
;, says that many citizens of this county
: are tired of Prohibition and are anx-
ious to try high license. Yes, the
, whisky men in the county are in favor
of high license, low license or no IL
censG in order to get the saloon back
in Yazoo county. The Prohibitionists
of the county, who constitute large
majority of the best people, do not
want the saloon back under any sort
of license. This is the whole thing in
, nut shell.
SOUTHERN SENTINEL Mississippi
will supervise her own elections and
as usual send Democrats to Congress
Chambers bill will never become a
law; but if it should, would not change
the result of elections in the South.
GREENvILLE TINES: In. the alb
sence of specific objections the term of
Railroad Commissioner should, of all
others, be enduring.
. COAST BEACON: The Mississippi
Legislature has a great deal of impor
tant work to do, and we are in hopes
that it will accomplish good portion
Gifts task. One thing must not be
forgotten-a plan of uniform assess
ments throughout the State.
GREENvILLE TIMES: The most
practical of the recommendations of
Board of Control, is that asking that
the State employ and hold accOunta-