Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-10-24
FEs DEVILS NAs!Es,s!slys.
A Ringing Editorial by the
New York Voice.
One Explanation of Negro As
saults OH White Women.

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wonderful devices is the use to
which he has succeeded in putting
the plea for "Personal Liberty"
The burning of witches in the
name of religion, the massacre of
infants in the name of Him who
said HSuffer them to come unto
me, ''the waging of bloody, pitt
less wars of conquest in the name
of the Prince of Peace, the de-
fense of anarchistic dynamiters in
the name of freedom, the defense
of free love in the name of social
purity-all these inventions we
have seen or heard of; but they
all take a second place in compar
ison with the plea of Personal
Liberty which the devil has con-
trived for our day and generation
in defense of the worst violators
of Personal Liberty upon which
the blazing sun ever SHOT down
his beams.
Consider. for one moment,
what personal liberty means. 1t
means liberty pertaining to one S
own person. 1t means that the
acts of a man or woman that af-
feet himself or herself alone shall
not be interfcred with forcibly by
others. 1t means a mans right
to control his own muscles so long
as he does not use them injurious
ly to others; to think his own
thoughts and worship his own
God; to live his own life as he
pleases to live it so long as he
does not infringe on the equal
rights of others. The great his
toric violations of the right OF
Personal Liberty are the Spanish
Inquisition, which tortured men
and women in order to change
their religious beliefs, and the
system of slavery, which claimed
authority to separate mother and
child and to place their bodies un-
der the absolute control of anoth-
er. The third and greatest violator
of Personal Liberty is the one of
our day and generation-the pro
lection by law, for price, of
100000 murder-mills in 'the
land of the free and home of the
brave For if to take "a smil-
ing babe from its cradle by the
feet and dash it's innocent brains
out against the wall is violation
of "Personal Liberty,'' the sa-
loon stands responsible for such
violation. If to take sturdy
boy of six and hold him on red
hot stove till God in pity releases
his soul from the torture is vi
olation of Personal Liberty, then
the saloon is responsible for such
violation. We have shuddered in
horror over the tales of torture
practiced by the red men genera
tions ago. They tortured their
enemies and their enemies child
ren: to-day, God have mercy up
on us, we sec fathers and mothers
inficting tortures equally un-
speakable upon their own child
rem, as the direct result of the
change wrought upon them by
the legalized murder-mills of a
"Christian" land.
On another page this week we
present partial list of some of
the results which these mills are
turning out as their regular and
expected work. 1t is not a rec
ord of the injuries inflicted by
drinkers upon themselves, but
upon others, generally helpless
children and innocent women.
Whatever might be said about the
right of man to get drunk and
the right of another to help him
get drunk, if the injuries result
ing were upon the drinker alone,
can apply to none of these cases,
and cannot apply to the liquor
traffic as we know it. No one
will be surprised at this list. Ev-
erybody expects these things. All
men know that the same kind OF
results will appear in the record
of the next two months as GER
tainly as the sun will rise and set.
Every one knows that they are
the result of the legalized drink
traffic. In short, every one knows
that the saloons are murder mills,
and that we can't have them with
out such devilish deeds being
done. And yet to-day these afro
cious violators of Personal Lib
lerty are, under the clever manip-
i ,,I,x;oos of that uauius called the