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

give us the rash rather than the
carbuHcles.
Here you will have
A SPLENDID LIQUOR ESTABLISH
MENT.
Masterpieces of painting on the
wall Cut glass on silver platter.
Upholstery like Turkish harem.
Uniformed servants to open the
door, uniformed servants to take
your hat and cane. Adjoining
rooms with luxurlant divan on
which you can recllne when
taken mysteriously i'll after too
much champagne, cognac, or old
'Otard. All the phantasmagoria,
and bewitchment of art thpown
around this Herod of massacre.
this Moloch Of consumed worship
pers this Juggernaut Of crushed
millions.
Do you not see that this high
license movement strikes at the
heart of the best homes in
America; that it proposes the
fattest lambs for its sacrifice;
that it is at war with the most
beautiful domestic circles In
America? Tell it to all the phil
anthropists who are trying to
make the world better and let
Journalists tell it by pen and by
type that this day, in the presence
of my Maker ard my Judge, |
stamp on this high-lIcense movo-
ment as the monopoly of abomi-
nation. 1t proposes to pave with
honor, to pillar with splendor,
and guard with monopolistic adj
vantage a business whichha made
the ground hollow under England,
/ ireland, Scotland andAmerlca will,
the cavacombs of slaughtered
| drunkards.
lam opposed to this high license
i because it is
4 ANTI-AMERicAN,
it is antl-common-sense, it is anti
demonstrated facts, and it is anti
4 Christian. Oar Revolutionary
fathers wrote first with pen ant
then with sword. first in BLACK
ink and then in red ink, that al
men are equal before the law
. Impartlality written on the Decla
ration Of Independence. on th'
Constitution of the United States
and over the door of oar Stat,
and National capltols. Now, hoy
! then dare you propose for $500 o
81, GOO to let one man sell sweet
J encd dynamite, which you deny t,
T, his fellow the light because b
] can not raise more thau 800, Q
! more than $50, or cannot rails
I anything? Are the small dealer
9 in this festive liquid to have n
= rights? plead for equal rights
! the first American doctrine.
2 plead for the rights of these me
who are doing a small, pruden,
, economical business in sellin
Z extract of logwood. strychnin'
7 and blue vitrioll What rlgl
. have you TO say to these wealth
? men standing beside their gre'
I confagratlon of temptation, &c
aheld, while you deny the pol
fellows in the traffic the right
!, much as to strike luclfer matcl
Now, this high license NOV
: ment is the property qualificatit
'e IN the most offensive shap
Why do you not carry it out
! other things? Why do you a
:, J stop all these bakeries until Il
e bakers can pay $1,000 licens'
q Why do you not shut up all &
!, butchers shops until the butcht
. can pay $500 or 1,0002 WI
e do you not stop these thread-an
i needle stores and the small DIR
3 goods establishments, except th
Il Il a man pay $500 or ST. 100? "Oh,
= you say, ssthat is different" HI
a is it different? SWELL" you sa
a "the sale of bread and meat al
Il clothes does no damage, viii
! the sale of whisky does damage
= Ah. my brother, you have su
- rendered the whole subject
= rum-selIing, is right, let all ha
] the right; and if it's wrong, 50
Z or $1,000 are only 5ribe
y Government to give Co few nj
! - a privilege which it denies to t
a great masses of the people WI
- - do you not carry out this idea
n licensing for only those who 6
pay q large lieehse?- give the
n all the privilege.
81 "Oh,'' say somcspeop|c, "y
~ cannot execute a prohibItory la
81 and therefore you had better ia
III tins high license as comp
e. mise. And there are peol
j. whn saw