Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-09
PROHIBITION NOTES.

No ONE can be true to God and at the
bamc time be true to saloon party.
Heaven and hell never mix. Issue
HE'LL will not be hotter for saloon
keeper than it will be for the preacher
End layman who creates the saloon
The Sentinel.
OTEGo, n Y, elected no-license COM
missioners, the first time for many
years. The prohibition party vote is
nearly doubled
PoITICAL parties are not what they
were; the people are losing sight of
them in the contemplation of princi-
pies Dayton LiberatOr.
MARCH was the first dry Sunday Co
iumbus, Ind, has enjoyed for ten years.
Livery one of the twenty-five saloon in
the town was closed tight.
THE administration ait Washington
has changed hands, but so far It's the
drink habit is concerned it has not
changed heart The Voice.
THE democrats of Chicago have nom-
mated eleven candidates for aldermen.
Four are saloon-keepers and three have
no occupation except politics.
IL the prohibitionists of Pcnnsyl-
vania don't stop electing their local
candidates people will forget that the
party is dead" again. N. Y. Voice.
Tue Epworth Herald says of the sa-
loon "kill it! kill it!' Right words, but
are Epworth ballots equally right?
Ballots alone do the killing now needed.
THOMAS L. MURPHY has obtained 21,-
600 signatures to the total abstinence
pledge in the cities of New Haven,
West Haven, Fair Haven and Meriden,
| CT.
IT is a dirty trick to work for polit-
ical policy that helps to build mp and
sustain the liquor traffic, and then COR
denim the victims of the tratlic.-Bel-
mont (N. " Pest.
A TOWN in Ohio which has long been
known as Porter's Station, has by a
popular vote leen changed to Ei.gwell,
in honor of the prohibition nominee for
esident.-Chicago Lever.
A PROHIBITION club win be organized
taking in nearly all the students of
Parker college at Winenbago, Wis, and
representative will be sent to the
state oratorical contest in May.
How can one define the attitude of
the once e. o. p. towards the temperance
| question better than by designating it:
An eXpanse of silence stretching out
into illimitable space?-Wcsterly Tri-
bune.
PHILADELPHIA prohibitionists cast $50
votes in the recent local election. The
fraudulent Baker ballot law, with its
partisan determinations, was RESPONSE
BILE for the loss of many votes to our
party.
To send a man who has become vic
tim of the drink disease to a Jail is
about as reasonable as to send raving
lunatic there. Chicago Tribune. Or
| about as reasonable as to protect, for a
price, the trade that makes him luna
tic-N. y. Voice
If we could believe that resolutions
would destroy the saloon business,
we would be in favor of resolutions ad
libitum. But we do not so believe.
One law passed and enforced will beat
all the resolutions that ever were
passed.-Bozeman New Issue
CHAIRMAN HEATH, of the Texas pro-
hibition state committee, has arranged
to put state organizer IN the field to
continue work until state meeting the
| first of June Chairman Diekie indorses
the move, and Mr.. Dickie and Mrs
Cougar will attend the meeting.
OVER and over and over it has been
proved that temperance men nominated
and elected by license parties can rise
no higher than their party caucus, and
are powerless to do anything for temper
ance An opposer of the saloon is out
| of place in their ranks.-The PhalanX.
A PHILADELPHIA labor journal was
recently offered one thousand dollar
| advertisement from prominent irew-
| er of that city, but refused to accept it.
| Such paper is the true friend of labor
and ought to receive the generous sup
port of the workingmcn of Philadel-
phia.-The Lever
EVERY time liquor has increased the
bribe it offers for existence, it has found
more hands stretched out TO take its
| blood money, and more defenders at
the ballot-box. And now comes the
Palmetto state, where liquor offers the
biggest bribe ever paid. d.-Northeast
| Georgian.
IN this enlightened age, and in a
Christian country, is it possible that
men in their senses will vote with any
party that encourages and is commit
ted to the liquor traffic? Is ii possible
that fathers will consent to the ruin of
their own sons to crafty their party
prejudices?
THE wretchedness and misery, the de-
based manhood and degraded woman
hood of our land, produced by
the sale of this poisonous liquid un-
der the sanction of law, will cry aloud
to God for Judgment on the professed
Christians who help to make the laws
for it's liberation.
CONGRESSMAN BYNUM wants law to
protect consumers against the essences
and essential oils used in compromising
whisky This is like firing off a blum
der buss at a flea. Give us law against
the deadly alcohol, the main feature of
| the drink, and the essences and oils will
take care of themselves. IN. Y. Voice.
| AT the election held in bellevue, Pa,
David II. Martin, a straight-out prohi-
bitionist and editor of the Educator, a
prohibition paper, was elected for bur-
CESS by good majority, there being
five candidates in the field. Rev. Chas.
e. Swift, the straight prohibition can
didate for school director, was also
elected.
''NEw occasions" not only ''tcach new
duties" but call for a new generation
/ Nsks