Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
The Democratic Party Has Ar
rayed Itself Against the
Churches and Hc
VIII Stand by the .
Churches.
The Man Who Votes the Demo
cratic Ticket Becomes II
Partner i'm the Liquor
Traffic.
The Tariff Question IL Tom
Thumb Baby Compared
to- This.
What Bishop Galloway Said
Ten Years Ago.

Friends in different States have sen
me many replies ~ to my article OF
the Democratic party and the liquor
traffic. 1t is Il great stretch of Ian
guage to call them "rcplies,n for sucl
they are not in fact. For the mos
part they are mere evasiOns and by.
plays. One editor solemnly aver'
that "Dr. Gambrell says no Christian
rW vote the Democratic ticket,
which is solemnly not so. | grieve
to think many Christians will do So
and thus vote to entlirone the liqnol
power in this nation. uttered my
conviction that no Christian ought to
do such things, but
SOME EDITORS ARE IGNORANT
and do not know the difference be-
tween will and ought.
Another editor protests against "the
cloths" defiling itself with politics.
Nonsense. The New Testament
knows nothing about the diiietante
clergyman of to-day.
TIE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY WAS A
CARPENTER,
and the early preachers were fisher
men and men of affairs. They were
of the people and for the people. A
minister too nice to lift his voice
against n great iniquity is too nice for
this world. He bears no more re-
semblance to John the Baptist, Peter,
Paul or any of the first preachers who
shook the earth with their fulmina-
tions against iniquity in high places
as well as low, than a dude does to a
man. 1t is
THE VERY BUSINESS OF PREACHERS
to wage war on sin, and if great po
litieal party conspires with the enc
mics of public morals "to frame mis-
chief by a law" then it is time fo
every pulpit in the land to thunde
the wrath of heaven against the un
holy alliance, and time for ever,
Christian to withdraw from such ALI
ance. For my part, | do not hesitat
a second to put my foot on the utterl.
unbiblical idea, that a preacher mus
remain silent on momentous ques
tion of public morals, because polit
ical party espOuses the cause of til
destroyers of the people.
A PARTY THAT TRAFFICs IN HUMAN BLooI
in the homes of the people, in th
hopes of wives and children, in tn
peace of the country, IN its morals an,
prosperity, for pelf and power ough
to be treated according to its deeds
A saloon party deserves the sam,
treatment now accorded by all Chris
tian people to the saloon itself, ant
that is so plain that it need not bt
argued to sensible people. But pas
experience shows that
UNLESS PREACHERS SPEAK OUT
for the right the politicians will G,
on in the wrong. And what ar,
preachers for, if not to establish il
the land that righteousness that exalt
eth a nation and tear down that sil
which is reproach to any people ?
The ablest article by far that hav,
seen appeared as editorial in the Gal
weston News. My article was printed
in full and the editorial wasjudicial il
tone and well put. Indeed, it is al
article worthy to be studied by SOM
writer's of the period. There is II,
attempt to whip in. The editor seem
to realize that
THE TIME FOR REASON HAS CONE,
and that the old-time methods will
not serve any longer.
No attempt is made to deny tina
the Democratic party stands commit
ted to the liquor traffic. Indeed not
man has been able to deny the fac
1t is conceded by everybody. Blu
the News deplores the attempt t
draw votes from the Democratic part
ON q side issue. 1t insists that th
tariff is the great moral issue befor
1.-The country and ought to have til
right of way.
Now do not deny that
THE TARIFF is GREAT ISSUE,
nor that it is moral issue. To tai
money from one class of people an