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Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Chico. California.
An Honest Layman's View.
JOHN BIDwELL.

Mr.. EDITOR 1 am more surprised
every year of my life at the blindness
of men politically. They nearly all say
we are right and that they would be
with us at the ballot box if they
thought we had chance to win. This
idea of being anything so we win"
is despicable and deplorable. Read
the history of the past and we find
the heroes to whom the world does
homage today were men who i'll their
day stood alone in their views and for
the right.
This land has good men enough to
settle this question IL they would only
act. If we could read Alright No
drunkard can enter the kingdom of
Heaven" and ''woe to him who put
teth the bottle to his neighbours lips,
and then could see the thousands of
drunkards annually taking up their
habitations among the lost, and
could properly conceive the curse
the traffic places upon helpless women
and children, our Christian manhood
would surely be aroused.
Until the ministry speaks out in an
unmistakable manner on this question
and the church members vote as they
profess, we will make no greater prog
| ress.
When my religion don't make my
politics better, want better kind of
religion. LAYNIAN.
jackson, Miss,
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Gen. Bidwell Speaks.

When the churches became practi.
cally unanimous against the sin OF
slavery, then, andnot till then, was
slavery doomed.
SO with the greatest sin of our times
the liquor traffic. When churches
and pews shall, by the mightiest of all
weapons which Providence has placed
in their hands, namely, the ballot,
make common cause with Prohibition,
reformation will become irresistible.
and then, not till then. will the saloon
and the liquor traffic be doomed.
Could there be such thing as "a
spontaneous movement, coming to-
gether of reform elements in over
whelming force, then new name" and
all pertinent questions would be in or
der. Meantime. come what may, re-
form must go forward. and is going
1t is most desirable that it should 90
at pace as quickened as possible
What is in our own power to accelerate
cooperation?
TO my mind an appeal should first
of all be made to the churches. No
reform movement can afford to ignore
the influence of the churches; nor can
the churches be guiltless in consent
ing to hold back in a great reform hav-
ing for its object the entire overthrow
of the liquor traffic.
But who can issue such call to the
churches? For obvious reasons no
church can assume to give the invita-
ton. There is but one power that
can perform the conspicuous and deli
cate service. to-wit. the Prohibition
party through its national commit
tee.
That committee can do what no 9th
er committee or organization has the
power to do, pamely, to ask the church
es how much longer they propose
to go on voting for and with the sa-
looms, thereby largely incurring the
annual responsibility of wasting bill
lion and half of dollars in intoxicants
and sending a hundred thousand souls
to drunkards' graves. There are we
know many exceptions to this charge
among ministers and members. They
are brave and shining lights. But "a
large majority of Christian voters still
pray for Christ's kingdom and vote for
Satan's kingdom. They know it and
the world knows it.
JOHN BIDwELL.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Ought to he Room for one More.

/ 4 MOhammedan invasion OF America
| has begun. We have in this country
/ six branches of Adventists, twelve OF
/ Baptists, three of the River Brethren,
I four of the Plymouth Brethren, seven
of Catholics. two of Christians, sew
enteen of Lutherans. two of Episcopa-
/ lians, twelve of Mennonites. seventeen
of Methodists, twelve of Presbyterians.
three Reformed, two United Brethren.
We have four branches Of the Qua
kers, four of the Dunkards, nine of
the Communistic societies. We have
two Jewish Churches or "COngre-
cations" two Mormon Churches, forty
Theosophical societies. forty seven
Chinese temples, 221 societies of Christ
ian Scientists, 334 societies of Spirtu-
alists. We have 329 barracks of the
Salvation Army and four societies for
Ethical Culture. But we have as yet
no MOhammedan mosques. Muham-
med Alexander Russell Webb has taken
pity on us in our desolation. and he is
now lin our midst" prepared to give
us mosque and Mohammedan pub
fishing house which shall scatter the
Koran i'll English all over the land
Mr. Webb is an American who used
to be journalist, and was once Amer
lean Consul to the Philippine Islands,
where he embraced Mohammedanism
He has returned to his native land.
backed it is said by unlimited wealth,
prepared for missionary work As
there are % sectS of Mohammedans,
we look for rivals to be in the field at
an early date. All of them will find
followers. We don't believe that any
religion could be invented that would
not find some followers here, not even
one i'll which the devil was worshiped
in fact, perhaps that one would be
as popular as any in the big cities!
The religious vagaries of the human
mind seem to be linitless. All of
them. however, are alike in several
important respects. All assume the
Immortality of the soul, the existence
of God and mans dependence upon
Him, and all are expressions of the
hunger of the human heart for some
thing beyond and above the present
existence. All are valuable in just
the degree that they realize the con-
ceptiOn of the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of man; in other
words, in just the degree that they ap-
proach the summing up of all religion
as taught by Christ: 'Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength and with all thy mind; and
thy neighbor as thyself This do and
thou shalt live" whatever thou shalt
call thyself or thy creed.-Erchdnge
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Three Great Preachers rs-An En-
COlra1ement tO Bows.

Three of the greatest preachers ever
known to America have been Phillips
Brooks, Bishop Simpson, and T. De
Witt Talmage. Talmage when the
illogical student was advised by his
teachers that his whole manner of de-
livery must be changed or he could
never look for success. Simpson was
decreed by the conference committee
that was to pass upon his admission,
to be hopeless case, and it was only
after repeated effort that he secured
admission. Brooks when student at
Harvard, consulted the president on
his future vocation. He began by
saying that the first thing to do in
making a choice was to throw out OF
the question the impossible vocations
and that in his case, owing to an impe
diment of speech, preaching was i'm
possible! All of which shows that il
is as difficult sometimes to foretel
the successful preacher as it some
times is for the oldest of publishers t.
foretell successful book.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
The Lawyers In the Swim.
LAYNIAN.

An administration of lawyers is what
President Cleveland seems starting in
to give us. Not only are the President,
the Vice. President, and all but one of
the Cabinet lawyers, but the other Off
ces are falling to the same profession
in profusion. For instance, March 20
announcement was made of 16 16appoint-
ments, beside batch of postmasters.
Ten of these were such as lawyers only
could fill. The other six were: minis
ter to France, minister to Germany,
minister to Denmark, first auditor of
the Treasury, fifth auditor of the
Treasury, and commissioner of rail
roads. Every one of these is lawyer
Two days later another batch was sent
in of 10 appointments, besides post
masters. Three of the 10 were mar.
shals and judges, to which lawyers
were appointed. OF the other seven
the commissioner of patents is law
yer, the commissioner of the land Office
is lawyer, the assistant commits
sioner of the land Office is lawyer, the
first assistant secretary of the inte
rior is lawyer. OF the other three
one is business man, and what the
other two are we don't know. The
''woe" pronounced in Luke xi, 81, i:
evidently not to be fulfilled during
this administration.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
The Editors Position,

The editor, while friendly with all
when occasion demands, should be u
little useful to his friends and a little
dangerous to his enemies. He should
be willing to praise, yet not afraid to
blame" He should uphold the hon.
est and faithful officer in the dis
charge of his duty, and he should pro
test against wrong doing. He should
let no fear of withdrawal of official
patronage deter him from duty. While
a temporary loss may be incurred, the
public will sustain the honest editor
and the officer wha may be derelict in
his duty will, nine times out of ten,pre-
fer to mend his ways than to keep up
warfare with an editor whom it may
not be desirable to antagonize in his
next race.-Newspaperdom.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Business Failures.

Bradstreet's report of the business
failures for 1892 show that year, de-
spite the popular belief to the contra
ry, to have been a good one in business
circles. The total failures reported in
the United States and Canada were
1852, whereas in 1891 the number was
Il, ,240 and in 1890 it was 12,299. And
besides this decrease in the actual
number of failures there was also de-
crease in the rate of business mortal
ity, since the number of persons, firms
and corporations engaged in business
was LIZ, ,424 in 1892 as compared wish
1,093, ,610 in 1891 and 1.063.338 in 1890.
In other words, while one concern
in every sc failed in 1890 and one in 76
in 1891 the ratio was only one in SO in
1892. This is a very decided and a
very encouraging improvement.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Sam Jones has been preaching up in
Indiana, and was not well received by
the newspaper men, which provokes
him to say:
'These little flea bitten NANCY edi-
tors remind me of an incident when |
stayed all night with an old country
man once and his flee barked all night,
| asked him the next morning were
there burglars around during the night
aud he said mo" and asked me ''why?"
| told him that his little dog barked all
night. "OI' he said, "little Jim is so
full of fieas that he can't sleep and he
barks so as to wake others UP that he
may have company" So with these
editors. They never feel lonesome as
long as they can be fighting, abusing,
traducing anything that does not agree
with them and their views.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Tom Watson Hasn't FIOpped.

The associated Press report that I
have said that there is only room for
two great parties, and that if the Dem
ocratic Party carries out in good faith
their platform the Peoples Party will
give them full credit and submit, is
false. l do not believe ex-Congress-
man Thomas E. Winn made any such
declaration either
There are several vital issues named
in our platform which the Democratic
platform ignores entirely. Therefore,
if they were to enact into law every
demand they make, these issues would
be just as important then as they are
now.
L am Populist and will so remain.
THOMAS z. WATSON.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

ut is sometimes called species of
blindness when men persistently stick
to party, though they know that its
success is dangerous and its tenden-
cies bad. But it is something worse.
The support of a party under such
circumstances is wilful betrayed of
virtue into the power of vice, for the
sake of that personal satisfaction or
pride Of opinion which partisan VIC
tory gives"
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
HEADQUARTERS

HEADQUARTERS
PROHIBITION NATIONAL COMMITTEE,
/ ALBION. Mich, March 20. 1893.
! Correspondence reaching this office
indicates "A good degree of activity on
/ the part of our forces throughout the
/ country. Compared with the same
! = riod four years ago, it is undoubted-
/ ly true that a larger number of per-
sons are reading prohibition newspa-
pers and actively engaged in the ad-
vance of our principles, than at that
time
The speakers at work in the Rhode
Island campaign under the auspices of
the National Committee, report vigor-
oItS and wide awake work being done
III every part of the State. Interest
ing meetings are being held and large
ly attended. and general spirit of ag-
gressive work seems to characterize the
prohibition voters.
Several Of our correspondents quite
confidently predict at least fifty
per cent increase, and some 80 50 far
as to entertain the belief that the
Rhode Island vote will he doubled
next month.
The National Committee has already
commenced plans for rendering assis-
tance in important State Campaigns to
be conducted during 1893 in Ohio,
Iowa and Virginia.
/ 1t is mOat encouraging fact that re-
/ sponses to our financial appeals come
in with such promptness and liberality
that we are able to plan somewhat def
! initely as to assistance that can be fur.
uished these States.
\ meeting of the National Executive
/ Committee will occur late in April or
early in May, at which time more def
mite plans will be decided upon for fur
ther assistance in the fall campaign of
i 1898
1t has finally been decided that the
Committee will continue the publica-
/ ton of THE CITIZEN" although the is
sue Of succeeding numbers viii not
reach the large circulation given to the
/ first number. Upon the reduced circu-
/ lation the magazine will be nearly and
perhaps quite self-supporting. 1t will
be made especially a means OF eommus
picatiop between the National Head
quarters and our workers, including
state, county and local committeeman.
/ The delay incident upon determin-
ing the future of THE CITIZEN" will
necessitate bringing out the March
number about the close of the month,
| to be followed, perhaps two weeks later
/ by the April number, thereafter each
number to be published on or before
the first of the month.
We expect during the month of
/ April to publish, either through the
prohibition newspapers or in a sepa-
late pamphlet list of the contribu-
tors to our 1893 fund, We trust that
all who have received our appeal, and
who have not yet responded, will do 50
at an early date,
/ We ought to have two thousand ad-
ditional responses upon our system OF
monthly pledges for 1893.
There seems to be very much less OF
disposition to contemplate fusion
and thorough acceptance of the fact
that the Prohibition Party, pure and
simple, has its mission, and proposes
| to do it's work without compromise.
SAMUEL DICKIE,
Chairman.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
WB7 z YTS Is 1T
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u kAEE CAN 1T DO

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t0s" treatment, that Of DrS. Starkey & Ialen,
r scientific adjustment Of the elements of Ok
oo"aS ,orn Si'' Nitrogen magnetized; and the COM
l,,' TD"'' p so condensed and mado portable that
va Se'' al over the world
n "'> ocen IN Use for over twenty years ;
,.S''s'ii'S OF patients have been treated, and
roo'' Olle thousand physicians have used 1t and
''li''oloed it-a very significant fact.
p.., 1viipound OXygen-Its Mode of Action and
MUS NUS Is the title of book of 200 pages,
IL t,nsueo an Dy DrS. Starkey & Palen, which gives
'enl'uferS fun information as to this re-
Sras "'ole curative agent and good record of
easp, ''i'S cures in wide range OF chronic
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n.. l2o Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal
%'''e mention this paper .-noYl2-6m
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The Mississippi Railroad Commits
sion has reduced the telegraph tolls to
% cents for ten words any where in
the State. For day messages the COM
panies are allowed to charge 2 cents for
each additional word and l cent on
night messages. On ten words there is
no distinction between day and night
messages.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
The Bar - appropriate name for a

The Bar - appropriate name for a
liquor paper - says:
1.-THE old parties are our friends; and
for the last thirty years they have held
the reins of government, and during
all this time our business has prosper
ed and increased beyond our most SAN
guine expectations. AS long as they
control We are safe. Depose one OF
both of them, and we might as well
hang our harps on the willow trees, for
our vocation will be gone. Our duty
is plain, keep both parties in the field
divide the spoils of Office between them
prevent the hopeless defeat of either
We have the power to do this. Let us
use it with fear and trembling, for one
blunder, one false step, may precipi
tate our ruin"
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The policy of the LEADER will not be
narrow, hide-bound aud illiberal. We
believe in free thought and free speech,
knowing that when these have full
play, that the truth. which is mighty.
will prevail.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Where the majority of the peoplede-
eide to uphold a wrong, it is not the
duty of a journal or citizen or of a
party to tamely submit to the wrong,
but to strive with might and main to
change the decision and to change the
majority, and to keep striving until
the change is effected.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

1t is said that General w. S. Hancock,
one among the most distinguished off,
GERS of the Federal army, and at one
time the Democratic nominee for Pres
ident of the United States, who was
buried in his native town, Norristown,
Pennsylvania, has not a stone, or spire
to designate his last resting place.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Mr.. Clereland is impressing one val
liable and much-needed lesson upon
the country, to-wit: that office-holding
is not the chief end to be attained by
an American citizen.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

1t is said that should the Hawaiian
Islands be annexed to the United
States, Claus Spreckles, the Sugar
King, would profit annually 52,5O0OOO
on sugar bounties and S2,OOO,OOO more
on his private steamship line.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

j. +. Willetts. lecturer of the Nation
al Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, says: Il believe we should take
a stand in favor of all great reforms.
including the temperance question"
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Now that the tin horns of the tariff
controversy have stopped. the license
voting church members ought to be
able to hear the still small voice ask
ing: Am my brothers keeper"
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Governmental extravaganza has
become contagious The last Con-
gress, with its Democratic majority of
148, spent 53S,OOOOOO more than the
Reed billion dollar Congress.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

L. H. Taylor. Jr.. prominent dis
tiller of Frankfort. KY, was chosen
State Senator to succeed William
Lindsay, who succeeds j. q. Carlse in
the United States Senate.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The price of cotton seed is unpre-
cedentedly high. There are two obvi-
Gus reasons for this: First the short
ness of last years cotton crop, and
second, the increased demand for cot
ton seed oil to take the place of hog
lard, which is limited in supply and
high,
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Texas is going in for four million
bale cotton crop. Mississippi farmers
should stand from under and go it
strong for hog and hominy
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Every man who voted the Demo
cratic ticket at the last election said
by that act that he was for. that party.
regardless of its antagonism to Pro
hibition.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Day after day Columbus wrote in his
diary Sailed on" That's the motto
on the pennant of the Prohibition ship.
It is just as sure to discover new
world. Sail on.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The saloon is armed with a double
barrelled gun. One is the Republican
barrel and the other Is the Democratic
barrel. But the widow whose husband
is killed by whisky can't tell which
barrel the shot came from.--Voics,
Quincy. Ill.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

Never name your boy for a man un-
til the man is dead and his earthly re-
cord made up; for. happy indeed is he
who has no crumbled human idols.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
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Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

A man can grow sad, melancholy,
dyspeptic, bilious, hollow-eyed, pale,
detected, tired of life, cynical. cold
blooded, repellant and too dangerous
to be at large, and still he will laugh
to see fat man chasing street car
that is going three feet to his one.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The next quarterly meeting of the
Copiah Alliance will he held at Strong
Hope. east of Beauregard. the ltl
Tuesday of April.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

In the Parish Councils bill now pend
ing before Parliament. Mr.. Gladstone
recognizes the right of women to vote.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

The Democrats and Republicans of
st. Louis have nominated II saloon
keepers for seats in the Missouri Leg
islature.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18

DR.. MeAllster, Of New Albany, has
patented machine gun which shoots
800 times per minute.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
Kinds County has cash balance in
her treasury of s72,78.

The Democrats for office only are
having something of disappointing
time.
Mississippi leader., 1893-04-18
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Chairman Dickcy Tells of Its
Plans.
The Work of the Next Campaign Already
Begun.

The following address by Chairman
Dickey. though its publication has of
necessity been somewhat delayed by
the LEADER, will prove of interest to
most of its readers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-13
Cotton Seeds High Price.

TENNILLE, GA, Feb. 12.-Since the ad-
vance to the present high price for cotton
seed you can hear the farmers discussing
the extravaganza fertilizing that they have
done to their oat, wheat aud rye crops. One
farmer remarked that he had put cotton
seed enough per acre on bis wheat to bring
him in cash S25, If marketed now. Another
was heard to say. and this one goes in for
grazing blooded COWS, that he had pot $50
worth Of seed under rye and oats which be
expects to Craze mich COWS on after awhile.
So it goes. How oft 1t IL that the stone
that the builders set at naught becomes the
chief cornerstone. 49,
The probability now is that the seed will
be sold 80 close that sutticiency will not he
left to warrant good stand of cotton next
summer, and those farmers who have been
returning the seed to the land may find
that their corn crop will be light one
next fall. The variety Of cotton seed
needed under this state Of affairs is the ALE
seed-and-no,lint variety. Seed Ia bring
ing 30 cents per busheI in cash here.