Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-07-25
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to politics at all, / would try to
carry it into pure, clean politics.
| want to ask Brother Millican
which is more consistent, the sa-
loon man who advocates anti-pro-
hibition, and breaches it, and
votes the same way: or the bish-
op, preacher or layman in Gods
Church, who breaches it, and
prays in the church for prohibi
ton, and then votes together with
the saloon keeper with a party
opposed to prohibition, and in
favor of lcgaIizing the accursed
traffic.
The brother says the reason
there was such difference in the
vote for the amendment and the
Prohibition vote afterwards, was
that the amendment was outside
of politics, and that the advocates
of every political faith voted for
it.
If this is the reason, then there
are very few Christians in Ten
nessee who keep themselves un-
spotted from the world, for in
that election it was easy to tell
who was on Gods side, but now
it cannot be told who is, and who
is not. Some claim to be on Gods
side, but they don't vote that
way, for God said, ''No drunk
ard shall enter the kingdom of
heaven. Think you, my broth
er, that you will be held blame
less in the matter when you vote
with a political party who is a
partner in the business of making
drunkards: And | say, every po-
litical party that compels the sa
loon men to pay a license, receives
that as their share in the business,
and every man who votes with
such party is guilty as member
of that party This may not be
good logic, but | have never yet
seen it overturned.
The very fact of such a large
number voting for the amend
ment, and forsaking the cause of
Prohibition in the next campaign,
shows that they loved their old
licensed political parties better
than they loved the cause of Pro
hibition or the Church which has
put itself on record as ':opposed
to all forms of license, high OF
low Not only DIR. Smith, but
God himself will not approve such
consistency.
The brother says: II carry
out Prohibition practically in my
life, talk it by the wayside, preach
it from the pulpit. " | ask him:
how does he do when he comes to
vote, and how does he tell those
to whom he talks to do when they
come to vote:
He says the idea of Il political
church is unscriptural, and | add
nit that he is right, but if pro-
hibition political church is wrong,
how much better is Democratic
or Republican political church
He says it is blind fanaticism
to put every one on the side of
the saloon who votes the Demo
cratic or Republican ticket. l
ask him: what he calls the Chris
tian who votes with these parties,
knowing when he does so that
they are both on the side of the
saloon, granting license to its
business, and not daring to speak
out against it, and said Christian
at the same time passing by IA
bold, clean party advocating
nothing that is not in accord with
Christian character, and speaking
boldly and plainly upon the pro-
hibition of the heinous liquor
traffic. say what does he call the
professed Christian who does
that ! Does he call him Il Christ
ian, Hypocrite or Fanatic!
| am only young man, but
ever since | was old enough to
know right from wrong, l think,
| have been Prohibitionist. Be
fore there was any Prohibition
party we hoped and tried to get
it through the old parties, but
they refused to even put them
selves on record against the traf-
fic, and this caused the formation
of the Prohibition party. l am
not Il preacher, but if | was one,
| would not only abuse the bust
ness of the saloon-keeper, but |
would blaze the truth into the
face of the church members who
voted with the political parties
that sustain and legalize his bust
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