Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-23
UP WITH THE FLAG 1!
The Prohibition Army Must Face the
Future and Fight.
A Ringing Call from the Kansas Cyclone
to All the Moral Forces of America
TO Baltic Against the saloon.
NJ v. p. BENNETT, OF KANSAS

N. v. b. BENNETT, OF KANSAS
Yesterday is gone; the day before
cannot be recalled.
The present is ours.
Let us front face to the present and
look to the future.
LET the dead past bury its dead"
Ours is to do with the living.
Attention, Prohibitionists
The hope of Prohibition is now and
In the coming days.
The people have disrupted things.
Alliances have overturned methods.
Prohibition amidst confusion con-
founded is made stronger con-
firmed, and stands like the over
hanging cliffs on the surf beaten shore,
firm as adamant, while the rolling.
angry waves, stirred to their utmost
depths, lashed to fury, break, and
scatter at its feet
Our business is not to make some
party better, nor to make either or
both of the old parties do what we
have pledged the people to do
If this is our mission, the sooner we
disband the better.
No old party can be reformed.
To reform is to form anew.
No old, corrupt church was ever re-
formed
But new ones have been organized
When churches become corrupt,
Christians leave and form a new one.
When old parties become corrupt,
many professed Christians remain to do
in a party what they know can't be
done in church, and what they know
never has been done in party.
The Id Federal party, when it failed
to take up living issues, had sense
enough to die.
The Wing party, knowing the past
and looking to the future, found it's
corruption so strongly intrenched that
honest government was impossible,
said:
'It is finished" and died.
All experience has shown that COR
rupt parties and methods are never re-
formed; they die out or are prohibited.
The object of political party is not
corruption.
Its purpose is more than success at
the polls.
1t administers government, if pure
and honest, fairly and honestly for the
good of the whole people.
This should be its aim, as it is the
purpose of every rightly organized and
properly constituted political party.
The army of Prohi bition is facing the
present and future; it is looking for
ward.
Let there be no struggling.
Our principle is right.
The saloons must go.
The Prohibition party is the only
party to make them go.
1t is the only party in which the peo-
pie can get relief
1t is the only hope of the farmer, the
wage-worker and the toiling masses
1t strikes at combines, trusts and mo-
nopolies.
1t wants an honest dollar, whether
of silver or gold, or paper, or all three,
that is worth one hundred cents to
spend or keep
1t wants the best home market, as
well as the cheapest egress to the
worlds market, for the products of
American industry.
1t does not despise man because he
wears cheap clothing.
What it hates is cheap men. who sell
their ballots for cheap whisky and elect
cheap men to make dear clothing, dear
transportation, dear homes, dear rents,
dear provisions, dear furniture, and
dear living to workingmen and low
prices for labor.
Prohibition sees clear through tariff,
civil service, Pan-American congress,
counting hats in the cloak-room for a
quorum, force bills dependent PEN
sions, to the cupboards of the poor, to
the wardrobes of the 1aboring masses,
to the saloons in soldiers homes, steal
ing their pensions with beer, and cries
out:
mo liquor traffic monopoly, no bank
ing monopoly, no beef monopoly, no
food monopoly, no grain monopoly or
gambling in Stocks" and demands fair
play and fair trade for all industries,
and prohibition of all trusts, com bines
and syndicates that are sapping the life
blood of the nation and impoverishing
the people.