The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-07

stated, when the conventions meets,
they will certainly be heard from.
"lf the convention, in its assembled
wisdom, deems il unwisc or inexpedi-
ent to give It's constitutional prohibit
ton we will make the best of it, but il
we can get il we want it. One thing
will be insisted on especially, if con
stitutional prohibition should be de
MED, and that is the enforcement of
the money derived from the liquor Ii
censes from the common school fund
Every platform of the Prohibition
State convention for 9 years has CON
tanned this plank: That we consid-
or it unwise and unpatriotic to raise
revenue for school or any other pur-
pose out of an article that has filed
the land with mourning and Frustrated
| the highest hopes of the country, and
that no people have the moral right to
license sin to obtain the elements of
an cduCatiOn.'
"In addition to the above, the last
convention embraced a declaration
about like this: That we are solemn
| ly convinced that whatever is morally
wrong can never be politically right
or eXpedient, and that the present Ii
censc laws of Mississippi, forming a
partnership between the State and the
saloonists of the State, are n league
with death, sin against God and a
curse against the unOffcnding citizen;
therefore we urge upon the Lcgisla-
ture the placing of the liquor traffic
under the ban of law, along with gam
bling and other kindred vices
at is proposed by Col. McNeily, OF
the Greenville Times, that the funds
derived from liquor licenses, so far us
the delta is concerned, be applied by
the Constitution to the lcvee fund. As
long as liquor is licensed at all, the
most appropriate and logical thing to
do, is to apply it to supporting the
criminal courts and .jails in the coun-
ties that suffer the evils of the traffic.
As already shown, the Delta counties
are now the principal sufferers from
the saloon evil. If this fund were di-
verted by constitutional provision
into the levee fund, it would not only
pOpularize and increase the saloons by
creating a false idea of their utility,
but would practically foist them on
that otherwise highly favored region
for time indefinite.
"Only short time ago, no less au-
thoTity than the Times itself, refer
ring to the demoralizing influence of
the whisky traffic in the Delta, said:
That the practically unrestricted pre-
valence of saloons in such popula-
ton as ours, leads to crime and disor-
der, asserts and provesitself.' Referring
to the liquor subject, the distinguish
ed editor of the Memphis CONNER
cial used these true and significant
words in an editorial of his paper of
February 81: There can be no doubt
that to liquor is due much, if not all,
of the race conflicts that disfigurc the
current history of the South and draw
down upon us the condemnation of
communities who know nothing about
our difficulties
eff the saloon were abolished alto
gethcr in the Delta and Prohibition
operated there as it has in my county
and others where it has had fair trial,
it would not only
IMMENSELY IMPROVE LABOR
and diminish crime, but the increased
productive power of labor would far
outweigh any advantage to the leyee
or any other fund derived from liquor
licenses,