The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-11-13
PROHIBITION.
Thanks to Judge Chrisman---
Bishop GallOway's Unw.se
COursc---SOme ReficcA
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Editor BrOokhaven Leader:
wish, through your paper, to thank
Judge Chrisman and all who voted
with him against the saloon. Men
are in the habit of evading RESPONSE
bility by killing important measures
in the committc, thinking that will I've
the last of it. 1t doubtless would i'm
prove things if they knew their miss
deeds would he recorded. ! am not
surprised that men were disconnected
when the test came, and they were
cOmpeiled to go on record in favor of
the LIQUOR saloon; Il thing that they no
doubt had often condemned as the
worst ~ evils, h0wpver much they
might have been welded to a political
party or lost to appetite. But am
surprised, If it is true, that any MEM
Der Of the Convention did undertake
to screen himself by making Bishop
Galloway his scape- goat. The ppo-
pie male great mistake in sue j u
/ delegate. Bishop Galloway is entitled
/ to his opinions, as other men are, and
il is but reasonable that his opinions
should have great influence in Missis
sippi, and especially, with his church,
but it is pity, a shame, that any
man, church or people should be led
bv him, or any other man, into error,
on Il question so plain and well under
stood as the Constitutional Prohibi-
ton of the liquor traffic.
Bishop Galloway, like other public
mth, is responsible to the people, and
especially to his church, for the opin-
ions he expresses, or doctrine he adj
vocf,es, that effect the public safety,
the public health, and public morals
aud progress of Christ's Kingdom,
the cause he SO zealously and eloquent
" advocates. The question is this ::
Does his course antagonize any of
these interests If SO, his church
should require him TO desist. In the
rules of the Methodist church, the
drinking of spirituous liquors, except
in cases of necessity, is forbidden.
This rule is as old as the Methodist
church, and every expression of the
church on this subject by resolution,
has committed the church anu its min
listers to the destruction of the saloon,
the agency for making drinkers and
! drunkards.
| When saw it stated in the papers
that Bishop Galloway thought it I'M
wise to make prohibition an issue in
the canvass for delegates, | thought
it might be, that he feared it would
lessen our chances III getting good
men elected, by arraying whisky men
and politicians against us, and have
no doubt but that others excuse his
position on that ground. When
went to Jackson to meet the PrOhibi-
ton Executive Committee on the sec
ond day of the Convention. and found
that Bishop Galloway, and others in
iluenced by him, were opposed to
bringing the question of Prohibition
before the Convention, and saw the
Committee was packed on us, | left
in disgust for home, and with depress-
ed spirits.
| would say to the people of Missis-
sippi who have hoped to sec the pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic through
the Democratic party, that longer for
bearancc and hopes would be vain.
TO say nothing of the Legislative bo-
dies of past years, the last Legislature
and present Constitutional COnven-
ton settle the question against State
prohibition through that party. AS
s6 many of our friends were in favor
of securing the object through the
party in power, amt so far as know
none opposed it, we though it best to
cooperate, and work with them OH
that line, and when the tests were
made in both cases the last legislature
and the Constitutional Convention,
we found that some of our prohibition
friends, instead OF allowing us to help
them capture the party for prohibi-
ton, by using their influence against
us, and others by their silence, allow
ed the party to capture the State for
the saloon. From all the facts before
MS, it does seem that the liquor sa-
loon is dependent on the party in
power, and the party on the saloon.
The party, the saloon and the devil
on one side-on the other side, the
church, our homes and country. We
must choose between the two, we can
not give our influence to both sides.
Respectfully.
HENRY WARE.
Pass Christian, Miss.