The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03

The Methods of the Brewers
and DistiIlers Exposed.

and Dfsttilers ExpOsea.
Editor Magnolia Gazette
l am in receipt of a choice lot of
anti Prohibition literature sent me
from Louisville, Ky. / don't know
who am indebted to for this favor,
but / take that it comes from the
literary bureau of the Brewers and
Distillers League, whose headquar-
ters are at Louisville. --
Among our other bombs that were
fred at me was the celebrated letter
that Jefferson Davis wrote to Col.
Lubbock of Texas. A note at
the top of his letter, states that
while it was written to Texas, it
is equally applicable to Mississippi.
From this it would appear that it is
the plan of the Brewers and Distillers
League to send these whisky bombs
to great many voters in Mississippi
this year. Ex-President Davis was
not infallible. He made mistakes as
other people and great many of his
best friends think the writing of this
letter was one of them, but now that
the Southern Chieftain is dead the
people would like to spread the mantle
of charity over whatever mistakes he
may have ever made and only remem-
Der the good deeds that he did but
the Brewers and Distillers League
will not have it so. They will desc
crate the grave of the illustrious dead,
if they think their cause will be ad-
vanced thereby.
Another bomb is supplement- to
the EARN Herald" a "faken paper
published on the Courier-Journ-
al job press. This supplement" con-
tains nothing except long speech
from Hon. r. @. Mills of Texas.
This speech is prefaced by the fol-
lowing quotation from Thomas Jeffer-
son '!It is better to keep the wolf out
of the fold than to turn to drawing his
teeth and talons after he shall have
entered" Thomas Jefferson's head
was level when he penned those lines.
Some are in favor of letting the whis-
ky wolf in and try to extract some of
his teeth with high license, but the
deadly fangs are leftand with these he
is able to destroy and scatter the sheep.
Better not let him in, or if he is in,
better get him out as quick as posi-
BILE. Another quotation from Mr.. JEFF
ferson is as follows: "The legiti-
mate powers of government extend to
such acts only as are injurious to
Others" Mr.. jefferson is correct
again. The liquor traffic Injuries
others. A man gets drunk as poor
Henry Sheridan did and kills a good
citizen; therefore the Legitimate
powers of government" should exter-
inmate the evil.
Bomb No. 3 Is headed, "Weighed
and found Wanting" but it contains
so many misstatements that it is
hardly worth noticing. One para
graph will illustrate this. 1t says
"OhiO enacted prohibition in 1856
and after few months bitter expert
ence repealed it forever" Consider
ing the fact that Ohio voted on prohi-
bition in 1884 and that $4,000 vote
were cast in favor of it, being 10000
majority, but not constitutional ma
jority, it does not look much like the
; thing was settled "forever" in 1855.
The next bomb fired is small
affair something on the order of q
hand grenade. 1t is intended to be
used in close quarters. 1t is hurled
at the most sensible part of man-his
pocket book. 1t says elf tho State
is deprived of the enOrmus sum de-
rived from liquor licenses the
tax upon other kinds of property must
; be increased to make up the de-
ficiency," and then winds up with an
appeal to the avarice of the voter
; care your taxes so light that you
want to pay more"2 Oh, go away |!
You can't fool the most ignorant
darkey with that kind of stuff any
!, more; you told them that if whisky
was put out they would have no more
public schools. The thing has been
tried and proved to be untrue. The
! single day. Taxes are no higher than
they were, Notwithstanding we are
"deprived of the enormous (e) sums
derived from liquor license" AS to
the taxes being higher in some cities
in Kansas and Iowa, that is easily ex-
| planned. Up there the public schools
are run ten months In the year. Here
T they are only run four months. Be-
sides this the cities mentioned have
undertaken valuable improvements
costing large sums of money, such as
water works, electric light plants, etc.
Of course you don't expect the aver
age voter to know all this, you want
him to draw the inference that be-
cause no money is received from
liquor license that makes taxes high.
1t VIII only be those wholly uniform
ed that can be duped that way. Now,
Mr. Distiller g. Brewer, you say the
number of liquor dealers have H.
creased in Kansas and Iowa under
prohibition. If that is so, what in
the deuce are you kicking about? Is
not that what you want? If "the
number of liquor dealers in Iowa per
thousand of population is greater
than in Kentucky" why not try to get
the Iowa kind of prohibition in all
the States, so as to increase your sales
of whisky and beer? Why send out
these frantic appeals to "Vote it
Down." The intelligent voter knows
4 why you do it. 1t is because prohi-
bitiOn cuts down your sales. 1t is
money in your pocket to fight prohi-