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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

against A. j. Hardin, Marshal of Keo-
kuk, Ia, on appeal from the decision
of the Supreme Court of Iowa.
Leisy & Co. ship9ed some of their
beer in sealed kegs and cases to Keo-
kuk, Ia, where their agent, nom
resident, offered it for sale in the orig
inal unbroken cases. The beer was
seized by Marshal Hardin under the
Prohibitory law of Iowa which forbids
such sales of liquor. Brewers Leisy &
Co. brought suit against Marshal Har-
din, claiming that his seizure of the
beer was unconstitutional and void
and in violation of that provision of
the United States Constitution giving
the General Government exclusive
right to regulate Interstate com
merce. The Court at Keokuk deeid-
ed in favor of the liquor men. The
Prohibitionists appealed to the SUI
preme Court of Iowa and won. The
decision of that Court was everruled
by the Supreme Court of the United
States. Chief Justice Fuller delivered
the opinion ofthe Court. He SAID
"The power vested in Congress to
regulate commerce with foreign ma
tions aud among the several States
and with Indian tribes is tho power to
prescribe the rule by which that COM
merce is to be governed, and is y pow.
er complete in itself acknowledging
no limitations other than those pre-
scribed in the Constitution. 1t is co.
extensive with the subject on which il
acts aud cannot be stopped at the ex-
ternal boundary of q State, but mus
enter its interior, aud must be capabl,
of authorizing the disposition of thoss
articles which 1t Introduces so thai
they may become mingled with ths
common mass of property within th,
territory entered. Aud while by virtn,
of its jurisdiction over persons ant
property within its limits a State ma,
provide for the security of the lives
fhealth and comfort of persons ans
protection of property SO situated, ye
a subject natter which has been con
hded exclusively to Congress by tn,
Constitution is not within the iurisdic
tion Of the police power Of the State
lnasmncll as Inter State commerce
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1892.

of Kansas and Iowa, within tive
months during its operation, the gov
ernment revenue licenses granted tC
liquor sellers to open "origiDal pack.
age saloons" in spite of State laws, in.
creased POO. In other States. parti-
ally covered by prohibitory laws
"original package sellers began to
set up. In one or more Prohibition
counties here in Mississippi, original
package saloons were opened in def
ance of the State law, aud scores of
others were talked of aud contemplat
ed, if the loop-holc made by this de-
cision was not speedily closed.
Senator Wilson of Iowa, realizing
that the Prohibition law in his own
State and in every other was about to
become deadletter, promptly intro
duced the following bill in the Senate
to nullify its effect:
BE it enacted, etc, that all ferment-
ed, distilled or other Intoxicating Ii
quors or liquids, transported into any
State or Territory for use, cOnsump.
tion, sale or storage, shall, on arrival
in such State or Territory Tor remain
ing therein), be subject to the opera
tion and effect of the laws of such
State or Territory, enacted in the
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

| consisting in the transportation, pur-
chase, sale and exchange of commodi-
ties is national in its character and
must be governed by uniform system,
so long rs Congress does not pass any
law to regulate it or allowing the
States so to do, it thereby indicates its
will that such commerce shall be free
and untrammeled, a right to traffic
exists and so recognized by the nsages
Of the commercial world, the laws of
Congress and the decision of the courts,
is not denied. Being thus articles of
commerce, can the State, in the alb
sence of legislation on the part of Con-
gress, prohibit their importation from
ahroad or from n sister State or when
imported prohibit their sale by the inn
porterg
"The plaintiffs in error are citizens
of Illinois, and have no permits, but
import into Iowa beer which they
sell in original packages as described
under onr decision IN bowman rs.
Chicago re Bidway Co. supra. They
had the right to import this beer into
that State, and in view which we have
expressed they had the right to sell it
by which act alone. it would become
mingled in the common mass of prop
erty within the State. Up to that
point, then. we hold that in the alb
scnce of Congressional permission to
do so the State had 70 power to inter
tere by seizure or any other action i'll
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
Declaration of PurpOss.

Whereas. tAa General condition of Our coun-
try inpsra,iyrly demands unity OF action on
tho nan 81 the labGring classes, reformation
and ce51emy. and the dissemination Of prin-
elnp> hest calculated to encourage and foster
agricultural and mechanical pursuits, encour-
aajyg tie telling passes leading thela In
the roal to prosperity, and providing Just
and fair remuneration for labor, just OK
ehaa.sa ier eur commodities, and the best
mean, 4 securing to the lah0ring classes the
greatest amount Of good we hold to the
principle that all noacpoies are dangerous tc
thena>t ia pest Of or country. teadin.; 20 en-
s,arra fire.. pea,.'o a;.l subycrt and li2aliy over
G.ysa ii. Eralt principles purchased by the
sa.acr- 81 American liberty. %e therefore
ala.t tHr following rs CTR declaration princi-
pie;
1. Tolaaor for the education of the agrlc''i-
turaI classes in the science of economical gov
emmrut. IN strictly Eon-partisan spirit and
bring aaou; u more perfect union Of said
classes.
. Tint We demand equal rights to all, and
spc,ialfaTurs 10 none.
2. To caiorse the motto: ain things es-
scn.la,, unity; and in all things CHARITY.
t. Tode;rlDp better state mentally, morally
sota''y AMI financially.
3. 2o constantly strive to secure entire har-
many AMI good viii to all mankind and brother
ly love among ourselves.
6. To suppress personal, local, sectional and
national pciulices. all unhealthy rivalry and all
selfish ambition.
:. The brightest jewels which II garners, are
the tears Of the widows and orphans, and its
Imperative commands are to visit the homes
whore llccr&,ei hearts are bleeding: to asSuage
the suffering Of a brother or = sister /; bury the
dead. raco for the widows and educate the or
phanS to exercise charity toward all offenders
to colstrga words and deeds n: !heirRoSt favor
able n;ht, granting honesty o. purpose and
good intentions to others and 90 protect the
prin ipic. Of the Farmers Alliance and indus
trial Union until death. lis laws are reason
and its equity cardinal doctrines inspire purity
Ofhought and life. its intention is; ''oA earth,
peace and good will to man.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

exercise of the police powers, to the
same extent and in the same manner
as though such liquor or liquids had
been produced in such State or Ter
ritory; and shall not be exempt there
from by reason of being introduced
therein in the original : package or
otherwise.
In due time this bill passed the SEN
ate and reached the House of the 51st
Tor Reed) Congress. Meanwhile the
liquor lobby had organized in the
House bent on its defeat. When it
was realized that effect of the decision
was to set at naugkt the cherished
Democratic doctrine Of States rights
and local self government, an attempt
was made to defeat the bill by
loading it down with an amendment
providing that all articles of COM
merce, as well as liquors, should be
included in its provisions, and inject
ing other requirements designed to
hazard its passage. The bill with
these amendments went back to
the Senate, which rejected them
and a conference committee of the two
Houses was appointed to harmonic
their disagreement.
BY this time the public sentiment
of the country became so pronounced
against delay and in favor of the Sen
ate bill, that on the 9th day of August
1890, the conference committee, con.
sisting Of Hons. Joseph r. Reed and
A. C. Thompson, on the part of th,
House, aud Senators JAS. F. Wilson
Geo. F. Edmunds and j. z. George, oil
the part of the Senate, submitted re
port. recommending that the Hous'
recede from its amendment and pas
the Senate bill. Hon. VIM. c. Oates
q member of the committee on th
part of the House, submitted a minori
ty report, opposing the passage of tn
5 Senate bill.
/ When the vote was taken on th
adoption of the conference report an,
passage of the bill, it stood: yeas, lis
i nays, 93; not voting, lis.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
4he Ocala Demands.

Ia, We demand the abolition Of national
banks
b. We demand that the government shall
establish Sub-Freasuries or repositories In the
several states, which shall issue money direct to
lhe people at low rate of interest, not to eX-
esei per cent per annum, on non-perishable
nam products, and alse upon real estate, with
proper limitations upon the quality of land and
the amount OF money
c We demand that the amonnt OF the cir
eaia'as medium be speedily increased to not
less than $50 per capita.
:, That We demand that Congress shall pass
sach laws as viii eflectually prevent the dealing
III futures of all AGRICULTURAL and mechanical
productions providing a stringent system of
procedure in trials that win secure prompt
conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall
secure the most perfect compliance with the
law.
D. We condemn the silver bill recently passed
ny Congress, and demand in lieu thereof the
nee ana unlimited coinage of silver.
!. we demand the passage Of laws prohibiting
aleh ownership OF land, and that Congress take
prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all
hhds now owned by aliens and foreign syndi-
e'eS' and that all lands now held by railroads
ne reclaimed by the government, and held for
actual settlers only.
. Believing in the doctrines of equal rights to
an ana special privileges to none, we demand
a. That our national legislation shall be so
maned ialid In the future as not to build up one in
elsefy az the expense of another.
,n,n' we further demand removal Of the exist
~ ~ nsilYy tafill tax from the necessities of life,
s'' lie poor or our land must have.
&C. g We further demand Just aud equitable
'9seen OF graduated tax on incomes.
st ta. We bedeye that the money OF the country
~ aug pc kept as much as possible in the hands
,,s,, u. ine people and hence we demand that all
ttheI1liai ana state revenues shall be limited to
sas sn,eSSary expenses OF the government econ
'.,uetliy and honestly administered.
80, We demand the most rigid, honest and just
s,ns. sse alia national governmental control and
n;l,s VISION OF the means of public c0mlnlf
teiisnon I'm n and transportation, and IL this con
~ a'i @ dila supervision does not remove the abus
~ ~ neM exlsting. we demand the government
ANA nn63ttrrsiilp oI such means OF communications
ald tfanSpOrtati0D
81, Y demand that the Congress Of the United
s summit aifainendment to the Constitution
gssvossiab.g for the election Of United States
State. fs'e - sssa aeotaS - '"e.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

Nearly all of the 93 nays were 10y
members of the party that has the
anti-sumptuary plank in its platform
and which processes to believe SC
strongly in the doctrine of States
Rights aud Local Self-government!
The position of MISSISSIPPFS
STATES RIGHTS DEMOCRATS
on this measure, intended to give the
people the benefit of their State and
local prohibitory laws, and prevent
the settling up of .original package
saloons" in every Prohibition town
and county in the State, is recorded
on pages S2l7 and S21S of the Con-
gressional Record, proceedings of Aug.
6, 1890, as follows:
Yeas-LEWIS.
Nays-CATCHINGS and MORGAN.
Paired against the bHi-ANDERSON,
HOOKER and STOCKDALE.
Not votingand not paired-ALLEN.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

prohibition of importation and sale by
the foreign or nonresident importer.
Whatever our views may be as to the
deleterious OF dangerous qualities of
particular articles we cannot hold that
any articles which Congress recognizes
as subjects of Interstate commerce
are not such, or whatever are thus
recognized can be controlled by State
laws amounting to regulations while
they retain that character, although at
= e same time, if directly dangerous
n themselves, the State may take APP
propriate measures to guard against
injury before it obtains complete jnris-
dietion over them.
$50 coneede to a State the power to
exclude directly or indirectly ayticles
so situated without Congressional per-
mission, is to coneede to II majority of
the people of State represented in
the State Legislature, the power to
regulate commercial intercourse be-
tween the States by determining what
shall be its subjects, when that power
was distinctly granted to be exercised
by the people of tile United States,
represented i'm Congress, and its pos
session by the latter was considered
essential to that more perfect union
which the Constitution was ad opted to
to create, Undoubtedly there is diff
Guilty in drawing the line between the
municipal powers of the one govern
ment and the commercial power of the
other, but when that line is determIu-
ed in the particular instance accommo-
dation to it without serious inconye-
nience may readily be found, to use
the language of Mr.. Justice johnson
in Gibbons rs. Ogden in n frank and
candid co operation for the genera
good The Judgment of the Snprems
Court of Iowa is reversed and the
cause remanded for further proceed
ings not inconsistent with this opin
ion.n
Justices Gray, Harlan and Brewe
dissepted from the majority opinio,
of the Court.
There was great exultation and re
joicing in all liquordom throughpu
the Union over this decision. Ii wa
boosted openly by the whisky pres
aud liquor dealers that it would prac
| tically nullify every prohibition law il
the country In the Prohibition State
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
NO. 40.

them broadcast throughout the eoun-
try for the advantage of third poIit-
ical party to operate with"
This is most refreshing admission
that an investigation of this kind. by
a commission appointed by Prcsi-
dent who is neither a Prohibitionist
nor total abstainer, would result ir
"Prohibition documents" Mr.. Blount
seemed to share this fear. He said:
"Now, Mr.. Chairman, submit that
/ the real purpose of this investigation
is movement to agitate the question
of Prohibition in this country"
/ What an admission this is, Here is
a business which is charged with all
sorts of iniquities aud 0utrages. It's
champions deny the charge aud resent
the allegation. A decent business,
/ like a decent man, would court inves-
tigation in order to disprovc the
charges. But the champions of this
business move earth aud hades to
prevent an impartial investigation,
and they admit that record of the
facts in the case would prove to be n
''PrOhibitiOn document"
The motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill was lost 10y vote of 81
yeas to 119 nays. OF the II9 voting
against the bill, 81 were Democrats
and % Republicans. OF the 81 yeas,
all were Republicans ExcEpT FOUR
Edmunds of Virginia, Burns of Geor-
gia, LEWIS of MISSISSIPPI and
Skinner of North Carolina. II3 men,
bers failed to vote. OF these, 81 were
Republicans and 81 Democrats.
Mississippi's Congressman are re-
corded on this bill as follows. (See
pages 377S aud 3779. Congressional
Record 51st Congress):
Yeas-LEWIS.
Nays-HOOKER aud MORGAN.
Paired against the bill-STOCK-
DALE.
Not voting and not paircd-ALLEN,
and CATCHINGS.
The LEADER presents this. record to
show tO all candid Prohibit onists of
that the Democratic party
S not only committed against Prohi-
'ition in its platform. but, by the ac-
ion ofits Representatives in Congress,
S the friend of the liquor traffic.
Hon. Clarke Lewis is the only mem
Der of the House from Mississippi who
'oted against the interests of the IL
luOr traffic and he is the only one who
was candidate for denomination at
he hands of his party this year who
has been defeated. Allen, Catchings,
Hooker and StOckdale-all tie rest
who were candidates-have been re-
Fanny all this, isn't it, if the Demo-
cratic party is not a whisky party and
the saloon is notin politics Z
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13

In last weeks Vindicator, fifty or
more citizens of Attala county signed
and published statement ..yonching
for Mr.. Ratlitf's character rs a man
and a Christian. We are inclined to
think that Mr.. 5. L. Dodd's letter was
a mistake, and will do our cause more
harm than good. Especially is ouch
the case in that part that deals i'm. and
processes to disclose, relations of client
and attorney, which are confidential
and should never be livulged. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. Ratliif, in addition to
being local Methodist preacher, is =
member, of good standing, OF the
leading fraternal organizations. We
are earnestly opposed to his candidacy,
and are among the most ardent Of the
supporters Of Mr.. Williams. At the
same time, we do not care. to be un.
just to any one and win not knowingl,
misrepresent anybody Lexingfo,
lAdeertisef.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
RECORD! Records!
Proof That the Democratic
Party is a Whisky Party.
More Opposed to Prohibition
Than I'm Favor Of States
Rights.
Wanted the Way Left Open for
Y r"Original Package"
Saloons.
Opposed to Having the Liquor
Traffic Investigated.
How Mississipprs congressman Voted
Let Candid Prohibitionists Read.

On April 2Sth, 1880, the Supreme
Court of the United States rendered
its original package decision.
This decision for the liquor men and
against the Prohibition States was
rendered in what was known as the
"original- package" case of Leisy &
Co, beer brewers of Peoria, H.,
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
County Alliances.

rop,al,-rfc>,drnt. +. J. MillsapS, ,Crysta
sprilgS: Secretary, 7. ". Ma!heny' lialieh'fSt
Cqlhorne- President. John Andrews, for'
l,r,,trfn. r.. silent, 4 NJ Newman, Ham
t1-,. seer .tate. Jaan Nix, Mccall creek.
UIpl- '-a>..,rnt. d. y Brown, Utica; Secre-
tarv. {. : ~paHn, Raymond.
JrgcrSoa-Preslient j. NJ. simmons, Union
riTrrh; secretary. T. l.. Darden, Fayette.
lincoln President, T., 7: Douglass. Wesson'
secretary Edward smith, BrooEhalen.
sralsau--Prcsident. T. J Alsworth, Canton;
serrslsry payil Z. Wood. sharon.
Rapkfg-Presidcnt. jas l.. Buchanan, Pela-
hatchr, Secretary, Il. E. KNIGHT fe"ahatcine.
,ills. Secretary, j. J. Hilton. Harrsville.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
THAT "MONEY MATTER. -
| Letter From IA Conservative
WcSSon Democrat.
Editor Mississippi Leader:

DAtk Z" SOhSCA
WeSson Democrat.
Editor Mississippi Leader:
Although you differ from me in
politics, | hope you will succeed with
your paper. | admire your candor,
and | don't see where you lean at all
toward the Republican party, which is
the only party we Democrats propose
to fight. We can all safely endorse
almost every clause in the platform of
the Prohibitionists, and Peoples party.
They are good platforms, and / see
very little Objectionable i'm them.
But platforms are "principles,n and
how few of us stick up to our princi-
Piles.
am sorry the Democrats have NOM
mated Col. Money for Congress.
admire him. He is an orator-and |
doubt if he has an equal in the State
in that respect. But he can never
satisfactorily explain why Huntington
(whO was a railroad man and not n
banker) should have consented to loan
Mr.. Money fifty thousand dollars.
Notwithstanding my high regard for
Mr.. Moneys integrity, there is some
thing in this private transaction which
carries with it bad odor. believe
the Democrats made ssmistaken i'm
nominating Capt. Money, and think
Burkitt will carry his district.
l have just read an article in which
| learn that the United States Govern
ment pays one-half the taxes levied
on private property IN the District of
Columbia. can hardyly believe this
and would like toascertain if it is true.
With best regards, your friend,
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
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VOL. X.
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Wesson, Miss.

The LEADERS understanding is, that
the General Government pays half of
the expenses of the District of Colum-
bia, but does not pay the taxes ON any
of the property.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
AHOTEL DENECHAUD (
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New Orleans, la.

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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
THE RACE PROBLEM SOLVED

REGls t<-~-sssE:S1nT Ur afl.s., ,.,f.s!-f.
Compared viii, the Population According
to The Census of 1890.