Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-20
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY oCTOBER.2o 1892

is particepts criminis to all it does
and be guiltless? You can dodge
it. | wish | could see the forces
of good organized. Sitting down
and talking with a young man, an
officer in the Y. NJ. G.. A, he said: /:
"Are there not more saloons and
gambling hells and shameless
houses to-day than ever before?" l
said: eyes" He said: sis this
world going to the bad?" | said:
at looks So" He said: whats
the natter" / said: 81 know;
there never was time when the
devils crowd was so well organized
as now. You hit one saloon and
you hit every saloon in America.
You hit one gambling hell or one
shameless house and you hit them
all. They will all die together. You
never hear of a saloon keeper have
ing a row with another saloon
keeper, nor doing anything against
the business of another, or any
thing of that sort; but if you hit
one preacher the others all say:
Give it to him; he had no bust
ness gettin' his mouth in it any
how" / believe Gods forces are
in the majority. But the devil
pushes his crowd in solid
phalanx, sweeping this country
from Maine to California. God
wants to move forward his forces.
There's an old Republican says:
Il can't go with you now; l want
to see my man elected; you will
have to excuse me this time" And
the old Democrat says: "Y-y-y-you
will have to excuse me too; | want
to go with my party this year. l
can't go with you, Lord, this time,
some other time, maybe" And
when God wants to rally his forces,
most of the church is on the other
side; and He can't do it all.
Suppose there was great big
ruffian in my house beating my
wife and children; | am outside
and come running up preparing
to enter, and the crowd catches
me, and they say: ooh, don't go
in the house; there is man in the
house killing your wife and chill
dren, but don't go in; wait til he
comes out and then attack him."
And what does the ruffian say?
"Why, if he waits till | come out
to attack me I will stay in the
house forever" That is what he
would say, The liquor traffic has
carried this whole thing over into
politics, and then they stand at
the gates and say: "You must not
come in here And | can no more
get at the liquor traffic without
going into politics than l can get
at the ruffian who is in my house
numbering my wife and children,
without going into the house. You
can't attack the liquor traffic any
where without going into politics
as sure as l am talking this
afternoon, and you know it.
Who runs the politics of Wheel
ing-of Pittsburgh Cleveland?
Who controls the politics of New
York? You know you can't get
at the Prohibition question outside
of politics for outside of politics
there is nothing to fight. l am
like the fellow who was going
along with pitchfork on his
shoulders and a vicious dog ran
out at him to bite him, and the
man just took the fork down and
jabbed it through the dog; and the
owner of the dog said: "What did
you do that for:?" The fellow said:
"He was going to bite me. ;"
"But," said the owner of the dog,
"why didn't you take the other
end of the fork?" "Well," said
the fellow, "why didn't he come
at me with the other end?" The
liquor traffic is coming at us with
the death and destruction end,
and | am going at it with the
pitchfork end every time. If we
license the saloon keeper he'is as
good as anybody. | have but one
objection to the licensed saloon
keeper. and that is the same objec-
ton have to a louse-it's the way
he gets his living-off the heads of
families.