Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-08
And Makes Fine Impression
On the People at Each
Place.
: Full Text of His Letter of
Acceptance.
\ Scnthing Arraignment of the
Two old Parties.
They Subsist on n Diet of Tariff and
Flood and Pcrsistentiy Ignore the
Greatest of all Issues.


lass appointment in Mississippi Last
/ Tuesday. He spoke at Jackson, Wes-
son, Meridian, Starkville and Column
/ bus. in the order named, and at each
place by his pleasant address, solid ar
gumeutS and appeals to the consciences
Of his hearers, won friends for himself
and the grand party no represents.
Lack of space forbids our giving II
/ detailed report Of his speeches and
meetings, but below we give his letter
/ of acceptance, addressed to the com
mittee which notified him of his nomi-
nation. which has just been given to
the press. and which will be found full
/ of interest:
! To Col Eli r Ritter, Chairman, and Members
OF the Committee:
! GENTLEMEN Your favor OF the 10th
instant, which officially conveys the
notification OF my nomination for
! Nice-Prcsident of the United States,
/ by tie Prohibition party, has been re-
ceircd. 1t is no small honor to be
named for the second place in the
I kltitt0t lldllOn Ill Juc WOIll, dUu JlllS
honor is emphasized when it is con
! ferred; as i'll this instance. for the first
| time in our history, OH n native OF the
/ Lone Star State. 1t is doubly empha-
Sizcd when the honor comes as it does,
from Che Prohibition party-tho only
. party on the American continent that
has sufficient integrity and courage to
antoFonizc the American saloon and
l it, horde nf pOnpnmitant oUilC
I Alexander Hamilton i'll an early
period of the nations history said: 1T
is ours to be either the grave III which
She hopes Of the world shall be entomb-
cd or the pillar of cloud that shall pilot
the race to its millennial glory. Let
us not forget our immortal trust" If
with all tho advantages that hare been
ours, and with six thousand years of
! human history as our guide, our gov
eminent shall fail, where then shall
our posterity look for the hope OF lib
erty, and to whom shall they turn in
their search for patriotic government.
1t is no mere question III this cam
paign as to who shall be the Tins" and
''outs' after the fourth of next March.
| 1t is a question of deeper and more far
reaching Importance than the success
of any party. We find confronting us
condition rapidly approaching the
serfdom of the old world. Labor is
depressed; wages are low; factories are
shutting down; and men are being
ground to powder In their struggle
for bread, they welcome revolution and
even death. On the other hand 81 300
100000 of the nations wealth is being
annually wasted on the drink traffic.
Two hundred thousand American sa-
looms demanding the labor of more
! than million Of men, are licensed by
our government, national, State and
municipal, to engage in the business
Of manufacturing drunkards, paupers
and criminals. 1t is not now a ques-
ton of what the liquor traffic was or
what it might be under given condi-
tions, but it is a question of what it
now is, that confronts us. We find
that the business, for long years fos-
tered and encouraged by the general
government, has become colossal
monopoly-an octopus that threatens
the nations life. Every municipality
i'll America of more than 5000 popula-
ton is controlled by the liquor traffic.
In the language of DR.. B. H. Carroll,
Of Texas, this traffic "bids for ignorant,
vicious and purchasable votes. 1t
dominates in primaries and dictates
nominations in conventions. 1t 81
lences the police. 1t suborns evidence.
1t brides juries and judges. 1t Hobbies
the legislatures. It combines with all
kindred evils. 1t seeks the balance of
power. Its own forces are as compact
as Roman legion or Macedonian
phalanX. 1t is a secret tribunal 1t is
an owl of the night. It acknowledges
no criterion but success and worShipS
no God but self interest It has no
patriotism, and carries the black flag.
Instance the shameful record of the
Louisiana lottery. What the lottery
was for time, the liquor traffic is all
the time. Who can outline this traffic?
To-day we see it in perspective as it
throws across the deep and distant
heavens, against background tragic
and terrible, its direful and ever chang
ing. profile. A Titan, fighter, an
athlete; vampire, an octopus, a
python, a volcano. 1t has the stealth
of the tiger, the bound of the panther,
the weight of the mastadon, the mo-
mentum of an avalanche, and the speed
OF lightning. Terrible in it's secretive-
ness, it never foretells what it wants
nor where it goes nor where it strikes.
| 1T advances and recoils. 1t threatens
! tNCi III ttnu OOuC0. W1Jn one fringe Oh
its cloud it eclipses the genius of Prem
tiss, while with a paralyzing glare of
! its lightning it turns the poesy of
! Burns into tuneless babble' AS was
said of French communist, wherever
it respires it conspires With no more
conscience than cold iron, no more
heart than an iceberg, it confronts us
to-day, as ever before, always the foe
of man-always inexorable- inacces-
sibl glacial The man who makes
friends with it, lashes himself to a.
tomb, with the boom of eternity's
retribution sounding in his ears. The
party which makes coalition with it
invites the scorn of man and the judg-
ment of God. If you ask the centuries
what is the result of this traffic, the
answer comes century by century, like
| the peal of minute guns from some
| drowning ship, or like the measured
| stroke of funeral bell, or like the
storm thud of the surge on granite
! shores Death-ever death-utter
DEATH An eternal reverberation
which fills all history"
When the Republicans are in power
we find no change. When the Demo
Gratis are in power it remains the same
With both our leading parties securely
in it's grasp the liquor traffic ridicules
opposition and laughs in the face of
| God.
Politicians and office-seelers cover
bpfOra IL aQ tho opapiaI onuarc bafOra