The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-12-10
One Million Names--ItOll Them
In.

We have had applications for
enough Million Voters Agreement
blanks to hold one million names.
We have filed the applications, and If
every blank sent out from this office
should come back filled with sigma
lures, the million names would he Sc
cured. Now let there be some per-
sistcht housc-to-houSC work.
Notice this item from East Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. (:
"Of the 800 voters in this district
over 100 have signed the agreement
and still they come. We hold meet
ings in various parts of the district
and lay the plan before the people,
but our most successful method Is
house to- house canvass. We have
not applied To over 80 voters, yet
over 100 have signed. The great
length of our list, now five feet, with
100 names on it, makes our canvassers
almost invncible.'
That is the way to go at it. In
every county of tlg country where
there is any party Organization. or W.
{. +. L. organization, or White Rose
or Junior Club, or Temperance lodge,
there should he Immediately Il com
bination of efforts. Let the territory
to be worked in be mapped out by
election districts. and the work in
each district be assigned to some per-
son. 1t is better still, if possible, to
have two persons work together,
cSpecially in a ouSc-tO-hOuse can
vaSS.
There has never been, in the history
of the temperance or Prohibition
movement, from the days of DR.. Ben
iamin Rush down to the present time,
such an opportunity for the women ID
strike magnificent and final blow for
their homes and their land, as is pre-
scented in this Million Voters Agree
ment. Miss Willard, in her splendid
address last week in Boston, said that
the women of the W. {. L. Union had
in times past secured twenty million
signatures to petitions. In many
cases those petitions were trodden
under feet in legislative halls and
made filthy with tobacco juice. Here
is work that will not so miscalTy.
This Million Voters Agreement in
cludes in its significance all the petit
tions ever circulated by the women
for the temperance reform. This sue
cessful, it means success to all these
other petitions. This done, we are
within sight of everything.
! Sometimes-no often - Il voter is
encountered who objects to signing
the agreement because he does not
yet know who the Prohibition candi-
dates are to be. TO lis the objection
is very far from being valid. Men
must act, especially in political affairs,
on the basis of probability, not GER
tainty. The probability is so strong
that it amounts to reasonable GER
tainty that the Prohibition Party can
didates will be men of good moral
character, men of Intelligence, and
men who represent the principle and
policy of Prohibition. Surely any
man Is justified in acting on such a
probability. But if men cannot be
convinced of this make memoranda
um of their names, and he sure to see
them again after the National COnven-
ton of the Prohibition Party has
been held. Their objection will not
hold then. Here is the Agreement
We, the undersigned, being profoundly i'm
pressed wih the dggressire pOWer Of the IL
q"or trdtfc and The overwhelming erils, po-
Hticdl, industrial and moral, grOWing out Of
it, beliere that a strong influence Woald be err
erted upon public sentiment and long step
taken tOWard the eradication of those erils if
the enemies Of the liquor traffic wOuld present
as united a front as the liquor dealers present
when their business is attacked. U'c there
fore agree to rote, at the Presidential election
in 1892, for the candidates Of the PrOhibi
ton Party for President and Fice- PRESIDENT
prOrided the signatures Of one million roters
be secured TO this agreement
One million is four times the num-
Der of votes cast for Fisk. Every
town and ward should aim, at the
very least, at four times as many sig.
natures as the votes it cast for Fisk.
Aim at that us IL beginning.
Let us hear from those who are cir
culating the agreement. Send us i'm
items of encouragement. Tell how
you do it. Nothing succeeds like sue
cess.
We will continue to supply all the
blanks desired, free of charge. We
want 10000 signatures rolling in each
week by December l, and 10000
week by January l. Let every friend
of good government, sober cities, hap
Ply homes and prosperous industries,
give us helping hand. 1t is ire
mendous task but there is Il tremen-
dous necessity for its accomplish
ment.