Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-18
liberty. We are pining for an answer"

liberty. We are pining for an answer"
Education. organization. legislation.
then moral reformation is the cousum-
nation of the Prohibition agitation and
means the elevation of the population
of this great and glorious nation from
the domination and the degradation of
the excessive stimulation and great inn
in the frequent potation
of liquid damuation in the shape of
rum :"
Leal and Brave Citizens: Guzzlers of
stale beer and bawlers aloud for per-
sonal liberty in the shape of rum.
When town can license a saloon
which increases the county's taxes,
without the County's having a say so in
the matter. it is taxation without rep
reSentation. Jefferson said this was
undemocratic, but may be he was a
crank.
\ murderer, rowdy, roisterer, and
Eicksburg Alderman was killed in the
Hill City Sunday in drunken row 1t
seems that the best qualification in that
city to secure an office is the fact that
one is notorious law -breaker. Evil
IDENTIFY personal Liberty" and its at
tendant villainies have full swing and
sweep in the crooked city"
Prohibition don't prohibit in Durant.-Vicks-
burg Herald.
License don't regulate, Sunday Laws
don't close. and embezzlement laws
don't protect bank depositors in Vicks-
burg.
Prohibition don't prohibit in Durant.-Nicks-
burg Commercial Herald.
And yet the apostles of Satan in
Solution" made themselves sick wor k
ing against this non prohibitory Pro
hibition.
Who ought to count most in legisla-
tive circles. we would like to know, the
one thousand saloOnists of Mississippi
or the united preachers, educators and
women of all the land? Come, anti
local-optionists. don't turn red in the
face and choke, when answering your
conscience this question"
Let it be a contest of the knife, and
the knife to the hilt, and the hilt to the
heart Ties of party, bonds of friend
ship. chains of mammon. absolutely
nothing should hinder or hamper the
hand that drives this knife home to tn G
rum traffic's heart"
We have entered this contest, not as
fancy and pleasant tournament nor
holiday joust, but as grim, stern,
death-struggle, in which the future
prosperity and existence of our coun-
try. and countrymen are at stake.
These being our views. we shall use all
the means and all the weapons that are
legitimate in war Therefore whatever
hinderS this reform, whoever stands in
its way. we shall attack and merciless-
ly. for in this case to be merciful to the
individual means to be treacherous and
cruel to the nation. If then, any man
places himself forward as the advocate
of whisky and endeavor by the force
and eXaltedneSS of his character to but
treSS up the rum power, let him not
expect that we shall sit by and hold
our peace on the contrary he may ex-
pect that we shall try to dip our pen in
fire in order that every word we write
may blister and burn.
Subsequently, Mr. Marshall was as
sociate editor of the Sword and Shield
and the New Mississippian, where he
continued to do valiant battle against
the saloon and its allies. At still
later period, he became the senior edi-
tor of the Daily Democrat, an evening
paper at Meridian, and during the To-
cal option campaign of 1888 in
Lauderdale, made things fairly sui
phurous by his opposition to the whis-
ky advocates.
1t is not the purpose of this article
to inquire how Mr. Marshall can recon
Gle his past record and the editorials
quoted, with his late championship of
saloon-keepers, his derogatory slurs at
Prohibition and Prohibitionists, his
tlippant illusions to preachers, and
his much-vaunted loyalty to the Dem
Ocratic party and Democratic princi-
pies. 1t is not our purpose to ask Mr..
Marshall to reconcile or explain an as
postasy that has seemed to old friends
and allies as dreadful and damning as
Julian's. 1t is our object to emphasize
by this striking example what we said
in the beginning of this article, and
plead for the personal iberty"-the
emancipation of our public men from
the degrading bondage of saloon in
fiuence. The way to do that is to
abolish the saloon.
A CHEEKY PROPOSITION.
L. L.