Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-08-22

great tears poured dOWn tnc urea
and saddened face.
Witness after witness tcs-
tilted that Manning lived at 179
Girod street and that he had been
getting drunk off of the little
money his poor, frail wife made
from drapcring and working
around among the neighbors; that
he had come home oftcntimes,
beat his wife, took her hard earn
cd money from her with which
alone she had to buy her children
bread and spent it for drink.
That he had on several occasions
thrown his wife down and choked
her; that he had beat his two lit
tie girls of 4 and 6 years of age;
had tortured them by sticking
pins in them, and that in his
drunken spells he had threatened
to kill them if they did not give
him money.
Judge Whitaker grew troubled
over the case, for he said:
"Here are all these witnesses
who swear you are a brute, and
there is that frail little wife who
wants YOU released. y
But duty comes first with Judge
Whitaker and so he sent Man
ming up for sixty days.
''Oh, my God the poor
woman cried aloud as she heard
the sentence, 'they have taken
from me all have in the world"
And as the officers bore her and
the two sobbing little children
from the courtroom she looked
toward the dock, where her hus-
band was being carried, and with
a heartrcnding cry walled: "Oh,
God, what will become of my
poor little children.
What love was this; what devo-
ton. Even though he beat her,
and though he snatchcd the very
bread from her mouth and from
the little children, yet she loved
him and would save him.
The poor woman and the little
children were sent to the Home
for Homeless Women and the
brute of husband will languish
in Jail for sixty days.
Now, reader stop and think of
it. Back of that debauched and
brutalizcd husband and that
wretchcd, povcrty-stricken wife
and helpless little ones was the
lcgalized dramshop which trans
formed him from his proud and
manly estate into Il drunken brute
and wifc-beatcr. Back of that
licensed dram shop which per-
formed this hellish work was the
State which granted the license
and which for its completely in
the infamous transaction, de-
mandcd and received a part of
the very money, perchance, that
was earned by the delicate hands
of that starving and sorrow
stricken wife, cxtortcd from her
by her drink -crazed husband and
paid into the till of the saloon.
Back of that State, shaping it's
policy and responsible for its
laws, was the Democratic party
of Louisiana. And, shame of
shames. back of and forming the
major portion of that party, re-
sponsible for its policy, were the
Christian voters of Louisiana, in
Guiding such men as Revs. DR..
Palmer, DIR. Mallard, DR.. Carter,
DR.. Purscr and scores and thOus-
ands of lesser note men who
pulled off their coats, event into
politics and were ready to see
the Democratic party rent into IA
thousand fragments rather than
submit to the rechartcring of the
Louisiana LOttery-all honor to
them for that; but who are
auiescent and all but dumb in the
presence of this infinitely greater
monster of evil, the liquor traffic.
The chain of responsibility and
guilt is logical and complete to
the last link.
Talk about the blood-guiltliness
of David!-how will the Christ
ian men of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi and every where else in this
whisky-cursed land escape the