Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-09-19
Sept. IL. LESSON Is. Subject: PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY. Rom. 14:Is-s3.
A PLAIN CORTLAND;
Violated When we License saloons.
WHO Is GUILTyp
/ All who Vote with Parties that License them.

we dCCtpt thdI do Collceb anu u uc'
and we challege any one from the
greatest ID. ID. down to the meanest
little whisky politician in the country
to logically refute it.
The golden text selected for the les
son reads: at is good neither to eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything
whereby thy brother stumbleth.' An
accepted authority in the Baptist Sab
bath school said more correct rem
dering was that given by the Revised
Version" is good not to eat flesh,
nor to drink wine, nor TO DO ANY THING
whereby thy brother stumbleth." The
same person said during the lesson
recitation that 1--WE are individually re-
sponsible for our acts, and for our IN
fueHce."
Men are stumbling and staggering
and falling all over this country under
the effects of liquor legalized by
Christians rotes and Christians infu-
ence. And, strange as it may seem, this
identical individual last fall gave his
influence, if not his vote, to party
that says in it's platform this state of
affairs shall go on.
Moreover, at the very hour this
lesson on Personal Responsibility"
touching the liquor traffic was being
taught in the Brookhaven Sabbath
schools, within less than one mile of
these schools widowed mothers
heart was bleeding over a loved son
brought to deaths door by whisky
shipped into the prohibition county of
Lincoln under sanction of National
laws approved and maintained by both
old parties, and for one or the other of
which most of the Christian and Pro-
hibition voters of Brookhaven last fall
cast their stumbling blocks we mean
their ballots. Not long ago another
widowed mothers heart sadly bled in
Brookhaven for a slain young son
whose death was caused by liquor OBJ
tanned under sanction of the same laws
and the same old parties.
Within the last II or IL months two
or more bloody tragedies have occur
red in the prohibition town of Halle
hurst, due to liquor, and about this
time last year the town was in a fer
ment over the mischief being wrought
by "blind tigers" All this liquor
was manufactured and brought into
the State under the sanction of the
these blind tiger men even had gov
eminent license to debauch and make
drunkards of the boys and young men
of Hazlehurst. And, remarkable as it
may seem, some of the Christian men
and ministers of that town, who made
the greatest ado about these whisky
outrages, were among the most loyal
adherents of the G. o. P. that pledges
it's sympathy and protection to the
liquor industry" Worse still, they
supported a man for Congress who,
with his party associates in the House,
spat upon the time honored Demo
cratic doctrine of States Rights and
local eIf-government, and would have
foisted open original package saloons
on the people of Hazlehurst and
Brookhaven and every other Prohibi-
ton community in the Nation in spite
of all State and local laws. @, for
some Isaiah or Daniel in this nineteenth
century to rise up and tell us how
many hundred years it will be before
we shall obtain Prohibition through
the Democratic party by such policy
as this
For our part, we rejoice that our
Sabbath school and other religious lit
erature is beginning to mix religion
and politics" and explode the mis-
chievous and hell-born doctrine that
there is no relationship between a
mans religious and political response
bility. We are glad that many preach
ers and not a few laymen are waking
up on this question as never before,
as letters we are receiving indicate.
The time is fast coming when neither
ministers nor other Christians and
PrOhibitionists can go on voting and
giving their influence to license par
ties and not have either their intelli-
gence, courage or sincerity called in
question by some one, and always their
consistency.
The diagram on our first page shows
that this Christian Nation spends in
one year for missions (home and for
eign) 55,500,0OO, a mere speck by COM
parison, and S1,2OO,OOO,OOO for liquor,
not counting what is shipped abroad
to debauch the heather and paralyze
the efforts of the missionaries. 1t is
notorious that the saloon is the worst
foe of morality, religion, good order and
the American home and wants seven
days in the week to carry on it's satan
ic work, aiming ultimately to abolish
the Christian Sabbath.
How dare Christian patriots and SOW
ereigns, whose ballots
Execute the freeman's will
AZ the lightning does the will OF Cod
become Daiticeps eriminis or remain
passive and unconcerned in the pres