The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-06-12
MARCHING ON.
The Lowndes County Prohibi-
bitionists Ready for Business.


tn. Kind 10 Inspire Confidence.
COLUMBUS, Miss, June Z, 1890.
Editor Brookhavcn Leader:
The indications now are that
Lowndes county will do its full duty
in freeing Mississippi from the curse
Of the open saloon. The people
throughout the county have been re-
markably quiet, which the ants con-
strued to be ignorance or indifference,
and consequently they have been
"playing 'possum," but we have had
an eve on them and are well posted
as to their designs aud methods.
While the people have been saying
but little they have been doing an
unusual amount of thinking, and now
they have commenced in earnest to
compare notes and make up their
verdict, which they will render on
the first day of July, that being the
day for our primary election. have
good reasons to believe that the YER
dict will be, the saloon must go. |
know such u verdict will break the
hearts of some of our politicians, but
they must suffer the usual conse
duences of being on the wrong side of
an important question and in bad
company. They have discovered
that the tactics heretofore used sue
cessfully, will not do i'll Lowndes.
They can't "work' our preachers, and
the disguised liquor literature so far
circulated don't "catch" our farmers
"worth cent, land there is confusion
in their ranks. Another discomfort
is that those who were looking with
longing eyes upon that convention
p Ian and were anxious to serve their
country, have about concluded aft
er all, it might be an apple of Sodom-
at least bunch of sour grapes. A
press of private business forces them
to decline the honor, etc. The fact
is, public sentiment is being too
strongly developed against the Ii quor
business for them to face the music.
They seriously object to being folded
in saloon napkin, and laid upon the
shelf for years to come. The truth of
the whole matter is, they are about
out of ammunition. The people have
learned that "personal liberty" is a
falacy, high license sham, rev.
enue a fraud, aud prohibition don't
prohibit is only worm eaten old
chestnut. That decision of The
Supreme Court which it was claimed
by whisky editors from the rivers to
the end of the earth had given prohi-
bition "black eye" and had "souhd-
ed its death nell,' is getting to be an
other. 1t seems to me that every
man should know that such state of
things cannot long exist in this coun-
try, and that Congress will very soon
restore order and quiet by passing
one of the several bills now pending,
giving to each State the control over
liquor imported within its boundary.
About the only thing they have left
which they are using with any degree
of effect is that of white supremacy,
and yet undertake to say that there
is no division upon that subject, and
it is not possible for anything to arise
before or during the convention to
produce the slightest difference.
Whatever the plan may be for the
settlement of the suffrage question
will be accepted by the entire dem
ocracy of the State. The attempt to
create an apprehension of third
party in the State is wholly without
foundation, and is for the same de-
ceptive purpose. What in the name
of common sense do we want with a
third party? Are we not largely i'll
the Majority Where is the necessi-
ty for such a mover The man who
claims intelligence and to be inform
ell upon this subject aud does not
KNOW Jlidb ldl 20 lIuJOiiCy VI tiiS
white people of the State favor the
abolition of the saloon, is deceived
and too far behind the procession to
be much of friend or dreaded seri-
ously as an enemy. When | state
that the white people are opposed to
the open saloon, | mean the white
voters. AS to the women of the State
our mothers, wives and daughters
they are almost a unit, standing with
hearts lifted to God and their hands
stretched to the democratic voters
Shall the drunkard- maker step in be-
tween them and the lawmakers and
hush their prayer viii Mississippi
men, who boast of chivalry, permit
such a thing? Should not the char
acter of those on both sides of this
question be considered9 Do you
know, sir, that large per cent. of
those engaged in the liquor traffic
belong to that class of people who
feel no interest in the general well
fare of the State or nation? Who
are without country or nation,
and for two thousand years have fol-
lowed in the wake of cOnquering
armies, preying upon the conquered
and unfortunate How wicked and
corrupt the heart of the man, born
in the State of Mississippi, who can
stand by these shoulder to shoulder
aud apply to our noble Christian
women such as compose the w. G.. T.