Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-05-05
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/ their true manhood aud Christian pa
triotism, by rising even above this aud
all her barriers, and placing them
selves uneQuivocally onIecord in favor
of Prohibition.
But, SAYS ANOTHER, THE ALLIALcE WANTS
CLASS LEGISLATION IN ITS OWN
INTEREST.
/ Very well; why does it ask il ?
Democratic and Republican Legislators
have already granted, renewed and
extended the same thing to liquor
manufacturers and bankers; aud to
deny it to farmers, if they demand it,
is to discriminate against them and
their business, and in favor of the
other two so-called industries. And
the voter must cowardly dodge the
responsibility of voting at all /; or he
must vote with the Alliance to make
the farmer the equal of the distiller
and banker; or with the Democratic
or Republican party to discriminate
against the farmer and in favor of the
distiller and banker; or he must vote
with the Prohibition party to repeal
all class legislation, and put every
American citizen on equal footing.
And this is the position that all true
Prohibitionists of every shade of p0-
litical mixture should occupy. Are
we told that there are some minor OBJ
jectious to the Prohibition party :
Are there not worse objections to any
other party If there are minor OBJ
iections to the Prohibition party as it
now exists, let all directors get into
it at once and help to remove such
objections. They ought to have been
there at the start and helped to keep
them out. No sane man ever expects
to remove liquor licensing objections
from the old parties. Like Ephriam,
they are Joined to their idol, and have
been left alone to worship it. Hear
us, friends,
PIE GRANDER OPPORTUNITIES
than he has vouched to ProhibitioDists
just at this time. If one half of them
were together in compact political
organization, they could march to a
glorious victory and to imperishable
honors within the present decade.
Why stop to abuse or quarrel with the
Alliance people? They only ask the
warehouse measure, and the sub
treasury plan, as an offset to legisla
ton in the interest of other classes;
and us our laws now exist they are
entitled to all they ask. They are
largely the wealth producers of this
country, and are entitled to as much
consideration aud fostering care from
the government as any other class of
citizens.
They simply ask for these measures
or, as they very properly say, some
thing better in their place. Sold out,
us the old parties are, to the liquor
and banking monop )lies, they can
give them nothing better, and are not
willing to give them.that, and hence
they substitute epithets and abuse for
argument with which to try to meet
and discourage them. Nevertheless
the fact remains that they have been
Disseminated against, by granting to
other classes the same character of
legislation that is now being arrogant
ly and contemptuously denied them.
Then the
QUESTION ARISES, is THERE ANYTHING
BETTER
Or is there anything as good for the
farmer, and more satisfactory to other
classesP In trying to solve so import
ant governmental problem, involv-
ing as it does, vast, varied and COM
plicated interests, it were we'll not to
overlook one well established fact;
that is, that the worlds history shows
that the pendulum of human policy
has generally swung from one extreme
toathe other. But recognition of
this fact must not deter us from seek
ing necessary relief from unjust and
L.burdensome systems, and if such re-
Suit is feared in this instance. it is
the greater reason why all good men
should come into the council and help
to moderate the swing. The longer
and more tenaciously the pendulum is
held at one extreme the further it gen.
orally goes when the opposite swing
is made. If PrOhibitionists were
everywhere together in a compact or
ganization, they and the Alliance
could soon settle this question. There
are some party Prohibitionists who
believe the warehouse and snb-treas-
ury plan the best, but large MAORI
ty of them think something else bet
ter. There is large number of AL
lance men who think something else
better, but perhaps quite majority
of them do not.
THE THING NEEDED IS THOROUGH OR
GANIZATION
of both parties, and free and friend
ly interchange of views between
them. The strange thing is that the
Alliance is organizing everywhere,
and pushing its financial measures to
the front; while thousands of professed
Prohibitionists are still being led by
the whisky partisan collar to the polls
and voted to perpetuate those in
power who legislate for the destruc-
tion of their children. The financial
question might be settled easily and
quickly if we had a new political par
ty in power to settle it. OF the Ma
tional Banking system, S. p. Chase,
it's originator, said before he died
at was the mistake of my life it has
built monopoly that affects every in
terest of the country, and should be