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

Into the treasury, because II is the price of
blood NJ 1T. xvii. G,
For fifteen dollars Judas
Iscarlot had sold CHRIST. Under
a thrust Of conscience, or in dis
gust that he had not made a more
lucrative thing out of it, he
pitches the rafting shcckels on
the pavement. What to do with !
the conscience money is the ques-
ton. Some say, ssPut it lntu the
treasury Others say, .sIt ism t |
right to do that, because we have
always had an understanding that
blood money or 4 revenue obtain
ed by tile sale Of human life must
not be used for governmental or
religious purposes. So they
decide to take the money and pur-
chase a place to bury paupers;
picking out rough and useless
piece Of ground all covered over
with the broken ware of an adj
joining pottery, they set apart
THE FIRST POTTER FIELD.
50 you see the relations Of my
text when it says, ssIr is not lax
full for TO put them into the treas
ury, because it IS the price of
blood.
We are at point In reforma-
tory movements In this country
where it is proposed to restrain
or control or stop the traffic of
ardent spirits by compelling the
merchant thereof to pay large
sum, say $500 or $1,000, as a
license. IL Is said that this will
have a tendency to close up all
the small drlnkerles which curse
our cities, and cnly few men
can afford to sell intoxicating
drink. This
MONEY RAISED DY HIGH LICENSE
will help support the poor-housest
whore there are widows and
orphans sent there by the dissipa-
tions of husbands and fathers
Don't you see? This high tas
will help support the prisons il
which men are incarcerated fol
committing crimes while drunk
Don't you see? This high tas
will help support the court O
oyer and tcrminer, whose judges
and attorneys, and constables
and juries, and police stations
and court-rooms find their che
employment in the arraignment
trial, and condemnation Of thos
who offend the law whi5e IN
state Of insobriety. Don't yol
see? How any man OF Woman
in favor of the great Temperance
reform can be so hoodwinked a
not to understand that this high
license movement is the sulrende
of all the temperance reformatio
for which goo men and wome
Lave been struggling for the a
SIXTY years, is to me an amaze
ment that cclipses everything
My subject is. "High License
the Monopoly Of AbomInati,n.
Do you not realize, as by mathc
matical demonstration, that tb
ONE RESULT
of this hlgh-license movement
and the one result of the closin
of all small establishments
that were the result--and til
opening of few large estabhsl
mcnts, will be TO make rum-sellln
and rnm-d:inklng highly respc'
table? These drlnkeries
Brooklyn and New York are
disgusting that man will nj
risk his reputation by going mi
them; and if q young man shou
be found coming out from one /
those low establishments he woul
lose his place in the store. Nov
suppose all these small establish
ments are closed up, and III
then yon opeu the palaces OF i
ebriatIon down on the avenue
1t is not the rookerics Of alcoho
ism that do the worst work, tht
are only the last sioppng-plac
on the road to death. Where d
that bloated ulcerous, wheezll
wretch that staggers out of a rur
hole get his habits started? At
giltterlug restaurant or bar-roo
OF a first-class hotel. where it "
fashionable to go. Ah! n
friends, il seems to me the dl
POSITION Is to stop these sin'
establishments. which ara only 7
rash On the skin of the boz
Polite, and then to gather all i
poison and the pus and the ms
'sFal'on into d few great carbu