Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-10-17
PROHIBITION WORK.
Valuable Suggestions Given ir
the Citizen by Chair
man DiCkle
THE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF sUs.
TAINING AND EXTENDING THE
CIRCULATION OF THE PRO-
HIBITION PRESS.

How tho Work Can Most Effectively be
Done-Enrollment of Voters Absolutely
Nscessary-In What Way Such . List
Can be Used - Special Poll Books for
This Purpose Have Been Prepared by
tho National Chairman.
The last mum Der of The Citizen, the
organ of the National Prohibition
Committee, contains many valuable
hints and suggestions to workers. from
which we reprint the following:
To those sincere men and women
who are asking what they can do to
advance the interests of the Prohibition
party, we answer, not by presenting
some novel or startling mode OF proce-
dure. but by urging again upon their
attention, suggestions and plans OF
work which in various forms we have
repeatedly presented. Let no one
bemoan lack of something practical
to do until he has made an honest
effort to do some Of the things here
recommended.
OUR NEWSPAPERS.
The most efficient agency in winning
and holding converts is a well edited
party paper. Let every prohibitionist
subscribe for at least one prohi hibition
| paper. What stupendous folly to sup
| port your enemy and starve your ally
There is not a person to-day a sub
| scriber to any prohibition paper who
| cannot if he will, secure at least one
new subscriber What boon that
would be. Try it Try it with will
Determine to do it. Get your man and
send his name and his dollar to the
publisher of some prohibition paper.
You can do nothing easier or more inn
portant
PUSH THE PAPERS.
To all interested, we commend the
following plan for increasing the cir.
culation and consequent usefulness of
our papers
l. Procure or make an outline map
of the territory to be covered
Q. Divide the map into ten or more
sections as small as the working force
made.
8. Let one person be assigned to
each section, and pledged to present
to every family in his section the mat
ter of subscribing for a prohibition
paper
| 4. Procure a liberal supply of sam
pie copies to be presented, together
with necessary information concerning
annual su Inscription price, and special
terms for short periods Publishers
will furnish samples and terms on ap-
plication.
5. With the territory small and the
number of persons to be seen limited,
let each worker determine to present
the matter faithfully and with tact
| once or oftener to every family in his
district First of all, press the local
prohibition paper if you have one, then
those of state and national circulation.
Try to place in the hands OF each
likely to make him a prohibitionist-
We trust the suggestions herein will
be acted upon by a large number of
| clu bS, and where no club has been
organized we commend the plan to the
| consideration of individuals interes ted
| in the progress of the Prohibition
| party.
This work will help those heroic
men and women who amid a multitude
| of discouragements are struggling to
keep our papers at the front We
exhort every friend of pro hibition to
| lend hand
ENROLMENT.
In every voting precinct there ought
to be an enrolment of all known pros
| hibitionists. Such list should be in
the hands of the chairman of every
| precinct committee, and carefully
| prepared and frequently revised copy
| of each precinct list ought to be con-
stantly at the command of tho county
committee
The uses of such a list are numerous
and important
1. When special work is to be done,
| the local committee can assign the
work more promptly and more judi
ciously than if obliged to call up names
from memory.
| 2. Notices of meetings, calls for eau
cuses and conventions, samples of liter
| ature etc, can be sent more fully and
| with greater certainty by using such n
| list.
=. The committee can see that every
voter is registered, and on Election day
| can attend to the always important but
often neglected duty of seeing that all
our voters come to the polls
4. Such list frequently consulted
and freely used, will tend to bring the
| workers in contact with those who con-
| tent themselves with voting and such
contact and stimulus may reasonably
be expected to develop new workers
8. The county committee will often
| find such list of great value in mail
| ing important documents and reaching
the voters with practical information.
| We desire most earnestly to press
upon all local committees the import
ance of such an enrolment. We ask
every local committeeman to consider
himself personally and especially in
vited to render this important service
| Immediately. No doubt there are To-
| calities in which local committeeman
will neglect to do this work, and in
deed, though we wish it were not so,
| we fear there are too many localities in
| which members of such committees
have long since TO rgotten the fact of
their appointment
We therefore urge every interested
person to do himself or have someone
else in his locality do this work and do
it at once.
A half-dozen copies of such list in
every community, in the hands of COM
mitteemen and others, and kept in
sight could hardly fail to provoke
more or less of active work
To all we say, let the enrolment be
made Get your committee to do it
and do it right away, if you can, but if
your committee does not act, do it
yourself.
of monthly communications between
this Office and every county committee
If our county committeeman are prompt
and responsive, we shall know from
month to month what is being done in
the way of active work in every part of
the country. We believe we can be