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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
FREE BEER VOTED DOWN.
Efforts of Temperance Advocates Vic
torious at Lehigh University.

BETHLEHEM, ,Pa.-(Special correspond
ence. THE temperance people have
won the beer fight at Lehigh Universi-
ty. They made tremendous effort to
save the institution, as they said, and
after twelve days of vigorous lobbying
among the freshmen succeeded in pre-
vailing upon enough students to re-
nounce free beer in a formal way.
There was great JOY among the beer
men after the ''antis'' had been out
witted by the postponement of the
meeting The temperance crowd was
so badly ''rattled" that all would have
been lost if the outside evangelists had
not again come to their aid. They de-
termined to redouble their efforts.
Preachers well versed in parliamentary
law through experience in many con-
ference fights took the Prohfbitionists
in hand and drilled them vigorously.
Another meeting was held, and the
action ta have free beer was recon-
sidered and voted down-71 to S. The
original vote in favor of beer was 60
to 81
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
w. C. T. U. NOTES.
From the Superintendent of the Ma.
tional Press Department

From the Superintendent of the Ma.
sional Press Department.
Out of 10000 British troops in India,
1906 are teetotalers.
Thirty-two states and territories have
given women some form of suffrage.
Scientific temperance instruction is
now given in all the public schools in
Sweden.
The President of the South African
Republic, never takes wine or spirits.
The Norwegian Total Abstinence
Society has 100. 900 members in S53
local unions.
1t cost Ireland last year ten million
dollars more for intoxicating liquors
than it did for rent
Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and
DIR. Kate Bushnell, two of the 'round the
world" missionaries of the w. C. T. H.,
are now on their homeward way, after
having travelled 1000 miles.
Count Leo Tolstoi, who spent his
time and fortune year ago in allevia-
ting the sufferings of the starving Rus
SLAMS asserts that drunkenness was
one of the great causes of the famine.
The Ontario w. C. T. U. and the Do
minion Enfranchisement Association
are Jointly petitioning the Ontario
Legislature for full suffrage Women
IN Ontario already have school and mu-
nieipal suffrage.
A bill recently introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, provides that
persons addicted TO the use of intoxica-
III ~
office created by statutory provision.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chan,
eellor of the Exchequer, has introduced
n the House of Commons a Liquor
Trade Veto Bill. sSIhe bill seeks to es-
tablish a control of the traffic in local..
ties, by popular vote.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
BROOKHAvEN MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1898.
THE OLD PARTY PRESS.
Editorial Opinions From the Oppo-
nents of the Prohibition Party.

ENtorlal opinions from the Oppo-
nents of the Prohibition Party.
Notice is given by Helen NJ. Cougar
that at an early day she WILL in con-
Rection with other philanthropists,
call meeting in Chicago for the pur-
pose of protesting against the indiffeE-
ence of the public on the subject of
crimes committed under the influence
of liquor She refers in her letter to
several shocking crimes which have
recently been committed ia thif sity by
drunken men against their wives and
children, and charges the masculine
half of the people with criminal neglect
in permitting the conditions to cen
tinue which foster such charges. She
thinks they should stop the liquor
traffic. 'If men are incapable or un-
willing to do this" she says then let
them at once place the ballot in the
hands of the Deborahs, that they may
protect themselves and show mercy
TO the weak and wicked manhood that
allows this crime to go on unrebuked." 3"
Chicago journal, April 20. 1898
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
A NEW YANKEE DOODLE.
W. b. VAN TwYL

When Johnnie Bull from DER the sea
Sent out his dogs Of battle,
To bind this land so brave and free,
lie ncard our muskets rattle,
Oh, don't you see the Red Coats fly
Before our men 80 handy;
We would not yield but fight and die
With Yankee Doodle dandy.
Cornwalls down to Yorktown came
He thought TO conquer neatly;
But Lafayette and Washington
Shclled Of his corn completely.
Oh, don't you sec the Red Coats nv
Before our men 80 handy;
We would not yield but night and die
With Yankee Doodle dandy.
sec another foe arise
He holds a mighty beaker;
That seems to reach the very skies
Hrimfull of burning liquor.
oh would you sec this demon fly
The Wine and Beer and Brandy
Then do not yield but fight and die
With Yankee Doodle dandy.
Our arms shall be our ballots true
The safeguard of our nation;
Let every freeman dare and do
Whatever bc his station.
Oh, would you see this demon fly
The Wine and Beer and Brandy?
Then do not yield but fight and die
With Yankee Doodle dandy.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

This law goes into effect in South
Carolina July next, 1t is not a proilih-
itory one, but the purpose IS tomake the
process of intoxicati0n more difficult
than at present. 1t is very doubtful if
this result will be reached since
original packages are liable to be
very popular and the larger the dose of
the bigger the drunk Neither Pro-
hibitionists nor liquor sellers approve
this law, but Governor Tillman will
have his own way and is bound to give
it a thorough trial The outcome will
be awaited with interest st-Syracuse
IN. W Journal. April ID, 1898.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
WAR AGAINST SALOONS.
Efforts to Enforce the Law in
New Hampshire,
Combined Effort of All the Temperance
and Christian Societies Has Re
suited In New and Strong
ORGANIZATION.

MANCHESTER, n. H.-(Special corges-
pondence)-At no time since the days
of the defunct Citizens league have the
temperance people of this city
been so aroused as they are at
present. For few weeks past
the organization of society 10
combine all the temperance and Chris
tian societies in this city into one grand
society has been under foot, which
movement eliminated Sunday after
noon in the organization of the Man
chester Anti-Saloon society.
The society has for its president DIR.
X. 5. True, one of Manchester's leading
physicians. a man who is closely iden-
titled with all church and temperance
movements. Its vice-president is Mr..
George S. Merrill, and Mr. John F.
Chase, husband of the president Of the
local w. c. Il. T., is secretary-treasurer
of the new society.
The societies forming the Anti-Saloon
society are four Good Templar lodges
one lodge of Royal Templars of Tenn
perance, one of the Sons of Temper
ance, all the societies of the Young
Peoples societies of Christian Endeavor,
all the Epwerth Leagues, the Reform
club, the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union, the Advocates of Christian
Fidelity of the First Free BAPTIST
church, and other young peoples So
cieties. The local alergymen are also
in favor with the movement, as are
also the churches Barring out the
churches, the society combines over
5000 young people,
The object of the new society is to
foster temperance principles in the
city, with a view to the enforcement Of
the prohibitory law. DIR. True, presi-
dent of the organization, proposed the
name Anti-Saloon society, and in pro-
posing it said that the new society
meant war on the saloons.
The saloon-keepers are already afraid
of the newborn giant. They are hav
ing built, it is understood, private
places in their saloons where at mo-
ments notice they can conceal liquor.
The situation is interesting and war
is in the air. The Anti-Saloon society
apparently means business, and the
saloon keepers do not relish the idea.
No saloons have yet been closed, but it
Is matter of but few weeks before
the most aggressive work will be
taken mn
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
Linuor and Rnsiness.

The stress of modern business and its
exigencies are such that man must
have clear head to deal with them.
The brain, clouded by alcohol, can not
hope to compete with the clear mind of
temperate man, and employers are
everywhere awakening to the fact and
using every resource to induce their
men to leave intoXicants alone 1t ap
plies to workmen of all classes and con
ditionS, and the man who habitually
uses alcoholic stiinulants is speedily
handicapped by it, whether he be pro-
fessional man, a bookkeeper, a skilled
mechanic, or a common day laborer
The recent protest Of the great Phiiadel-
phia shipbuilder Mr. Edwin 5. Cramp,
against the granting of licenses to four
saloons near his works illustrates the
feeling that is general among large en-
ployers of labor Mr. Cramp Stated to
the License Court that he objected to
the saloons solely because they had
resulted in many accidents and the de-
moraliZation of our men. He was also
very positive that drunkenness becomes
more common with the increase in the
number of saloons in the neighborhood
and declared that the decentralization
his company grew rapidly with the in
crease in dramshops. This, of course,
is entirely reasonable and is an
answer from practical experience to one
of the familiar and common sophistries
of liquor men.-Cleveland Ohio Lead
er, April H. 1898.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
HE WAS CAUGHT.
How a Non-Partisan" Temperance
Legislator Gave Himself Away.

Legislator Gave Himself Away.
HARRISBURG, Pa.-(Special cores
pondcnce)-I send you the following,
which appeared in the Telegraph of
this city to-day, and which shows what
kind of candidates good temperance
men are induced to vote for:
A certain member of the House from
an eastern county, whose reputation
as a total abstainer is firmly established
at home and who was elected in a close
fight by the aid of the Prohibitionists,
received a shock recently which COM
pletely upset his center of gravity.
After the close of the morning session
this temperance reformer at home
walked by himself into one of the
fashionable bar rooms of the city. "Ah,
good day, Mr. -" said the white
jacketed and urbane bar tender. "a
beautiful day" replied the member.
"a little of the old as usual? Eh, Mr..
-" "Yes, I'll take little old rat
tlesnake," replied the member, as the
long necked bottle was put out on the
marble top bar with a ring that made
the procession of glasses on the bar
dance a polka AS the temperance at
home member was raising the glass of
distilled spirits to his lips, delegation
of friends from home, one of whom was
the cashier of bank, sprang out from
behind a screen and confronted him.
"Ah, boys, won't you join me in some
thing?" ''Oh, no, we never drink"
said the chorus. "Well, you see, this
place is full of malaria, the river here,
you know. makes it, and my doctor adj
yised me to take little whisky oecas-
ionally, only occasionally, mind YOU"
groaned the member, but won't you
take something's "Oh. no, you know
we never drink" came the chorus.
'But, boys-ah-you won't mention
this little joke at home, now, will your
pleaded the temperance at home mem
Trbo l,o,-s i;J ,,o4
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
Work in Kansas,

OTTAWA, KAs-(Special correspond
ence)-The Political Reform Leagues"
organized on the plans prepared by the
State Prohibition committee are prov
ing great success. State Organizer
Leonardson is now in the field organiz-
ing leagues rapidly. The people are
taking hold with enthusiasm. The plan
will develop strong personal workers
and speakers; leading our people to be-
come systematic readers of our press;
filing in systematic order for use, the
best shots found. The system of reports
from the leagues is calculated to build
up the work wonderfully.
w. j. NEWTON, State Chairman
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
RAILROAD PROHIBITION.
President Corbin Issues a Righteou!
Order.

A new order, just issued by President
Austin Corbin, authorizes the immediate
discharge of any employe of the Long
Island railroad seen to enter or emerge
from a liquor saloon, or known to be in
any degree habituated to the use of in
toxicants while either on or off duty.
1t is further stipulated that in the fill
ing of vacancies preference shall always
be given to the total abstainer, as op-
posed to the man who even so much as
takes an occasional glass. This is the
most summary prohibition law we have
ever heard or read of, yet we have list
eued in vain for pretext from the
usually loquacious defenders of the per-
sonal liberty of temperate drinkers
The fact is, no sane man can excuse
the befuddling of brains intrusted with
the custody of human lives. And ma
tional prohibits is only rational ex-
pansion of this concededly necessary
lesser restriction -Pittston pa Eve
ming Gazette.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

Temperance reform goes on in Europe
with as much vigor, perhaps, as in the
United States. In England temperance
reform is active and energetic, and the
wines and beers of other countries les
sen drunkenness to a great extent. But
that we draw largely
from the drinking classes of Europe
they drink less here than they did at
home Freedom and prosperity are the
great agents of temperance reform
Buffalo q. W News, April Il, 1898.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
OLD PARTIES ARRAIoErp.
Truths That Should Be Kept Before
the People.

Truths That Should Be Kept Before
the People.
From the National Platform of the Prohibi-
ton Party.
We arraign the Repu blican and Dem
ocratic parties as false to the standards
reared by their founders; as faithless
to the principles of the illustrious lead
ers of the past to whom they do hon.
age with the lips; as recreant to the
higher law" which is as infexible in
political affairs as in personal life; and
as no longer EN- bodying the aspirations
of the American people or inviting the
confidence of enlightened, progressive
patriotism.
Their protest against the admission
of IN oral issues" into politics is It con-
fession of their own moral degeneracy.
The declaration of an eminent au-
thority that municipal misrule is the
one conspicuous failure of American
politics follows as a natural consc-
quence of such degeneracy, and is true
alike of cities under Republican and
Democratic control.
Each accuses the other of eNtrava-
gance in congressional appropriations
and both are alike guilty.
Each protests when out of power
against the infraction of the civil-service
laws, and each in power violates those
laws in letter and spirit
Each processes fealty to the interests
of the toiling masses, but both covertly
trucIle to the money power in their
administration of public affairs.
Even the tariff issue as represented
in the Democratic Mills and the Repub-
lican Mckinley bill is no longer treated
by them as an issue upon great and
divergent principles of government,
but is mere catering to different sec
tional and class interests
The attempt in many states to wrest
the Australian ballot system from its
true purpose and to so deform it as to
render it extremely difficult for new
parties to exercise the rights of suffrage
is an outrage upon popular govern
ment
The competition of both parties for
the vote of the slums and their assidu-
GUS eourting of the liquor power and
subserviency to the MONEY power has
resulted in placing those powers in the
position of practical arbiters of tho
destinies of the nation.
We renew our protest against these
perilous tendencies and invite all
citizens to join us in the upbuilding
of party that has shown in five ma
tional campaigns that it prefers tenn
porary defeat to an abandonment of
the claims of justice, sobriety, personal
rights and the protection of American
homes.
Western Leader-Do not be alarmed,
amia bic brother, because some Prohi-
bitionists do not speak tenderly of the
unfaithful Prohibition is in the air
to-day in many quarters and it requires
shock OK little frostiness to crystal
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

Prof E. r. L. Gould of Johns Hopkins
University, in lecture at Boston at a
quarterly meeting of the American Sta
tistical Association on IAN Investiga-
ton of European Methods of Control
ling the Liquor Traffic" said: ut
needs no words from me to emphasize
the great Importance of this question.
Tbs moral Importance of 1T goes with
out the saying. 1t is also important
from the economic point of view. To
day one-eighth of all the wages of the
community go TO the provision of Ii
quor In Germany one-sixth of tho
wages of the industrial population are
absorbed in the payment of liquor bills.
Ia England there are 12S, 900 pubic
houses, or one for each 173 inha bitants;
in Belgium there is one to every SO. In
this country we have three large cities
where the proportion is in one of them
one to 9S, in another one to every lilo.
and in third one to every 121. The
immense economic waste involved by
this expenditure. TO say nothing of the
sanitary, social moral and political
consequences, need no emphasis from
me to make you appreciate the import.
anee Of the question with which your
legislature has undertaken to deal"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
TON AND TAMMANY.
Senator Sherman Says They Are
Two of a Kind.
A Letter to the Niagara Falls Gazette
That Has Caused Lively
Breeze In the Republican
PARTY.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y.-(Special cor
respondence). The Niagara Falls Ga
zette yesterday said editorially: I'VE
make public in this issue letter from
the Hon. John Sherman of Ohio, who is
easily the first of living national Re
publican leaders, and, measured by ac-
complished results, is also the worlds
foremost financier
What this sagacious statesman, tru-
est and most loyal of Republicans,
thinks of New York politics is instruc-
tive and significant That there is not
the loss Of a copper between Tammany
and Tom Platt is what thousands of
Republicans have been thinking, but
which few have had the high courage
to proclaim.
" There is more of John Sherman in
the laws of the United States, said
President Harrison, than there is of
any other man. If this consummate
statesman, who has been doing his
whole duty to his country for nearly
forty years, has not earned the right
to give counsel to his party, in heavens
name who has?"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

The Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott, pastor
of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, n. Y,
appeared with delegation of citizens
before the Brooklyn Excise Commits
sioners to oppose the application of
Daniel Flynn for a license to sell liquors
in the Hotel Windermere, No. 50 Henry
Street, that city. Dr. Abbott told the
Commissioners the neighborhood was
one of homes and boarding houses, and
that no temptation should be put in
the way of the young men living there.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

The new marshal of Oak Harbor,
Ohio, has surprised the saloonisss of the
town by announcing that e<ery saloon
keeper found in his place of business on
Sunday morning would be arrested.
He has also notified the stores and res
taurants to close Sunday. The saloons
were never wide open Sundays, but ae-
cess by the side door" could be had at
any time.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

The following officers in the Worces-
ter (Mass) County South Prohi bition
club have been elected: President, E.
Fl. Dunbar, of Worcester: Vice-Presi-
dent, C. B. Knight; Secretary and
Treasurer, c. Z. Burnham; Executive
Committee, Melvin Shepherd, Stur-
bridge; Rev. J. P. Kennedy, Worcester;
Rev. E S Best, Spencer, and j. d.
Hunt. Milford
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

J. Howard Moore has the following
appointments for Iowa: Oskaloosa,
May 5, Des Noines, May s, Q: jefferson,
May II, II; Extra, May IS. IA; Atlantic.
May Is, Ii; Oakland, May Il; Council
Blu Nav ~
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

In view of the fact that the Excise
Commissioners of New York propose
to issue 200 all night licenses for saloons,
the ladies representing the Womans
Auxiliary of the Church Temperance
Society have undertaken to raise the
funds for the purchase of a night lunch
wagon at a cost of 5000. 1t will stand
upon the street from 7:S0 p. m. to 4:3o
a. m 1t will take more than one
wagon and more than one thousand
wagons to offset the evil influences of
the 200 saloons.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
We'ra Getting There.

Prohibition County Chairman n. w.
German of Marion cosnty, Kan, was
elected police judge on the Law and
Order ticket by handsome majority in
opposition to the Republican nominee.
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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

Our esteemed contemporary, the
Rockford I'll. Monitor, rejoiees greatly
over the election of a no-license ma
yor of that town The four daily
papers OF the place championed the
whisky-license candidates.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

NEw YORK CITY.-James White, "a
years old, who lived with his wife at
No. 100 Wyckoff street, Brooklyn, died
late last night from the effects of dose
of paris green which he swallowed
while drunk,
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30

Both Republicans and Democrats at
Rosedale, Ind, neglected to nominate
town tickets and file their certificates
in time, and Rosedale has u full set of
Prohibition officers.