Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-08-01

sin to give up his sins, and the
other is a political idolater trying
to live a Christian life and yet too
proud of his old party affiliation
to acknowledge the error and
abandon the wrong contained in
it when he sees it. A church can
no more be ga Prohibition
tChurch, and "opposed to all
forms of " license of the liquor
traffic. as the NJ. +. Church,
South, has declared itself to be,
while its membership vote for
those who help to make laws to
legalizc or license the traffic, or
refuse to exert themselves to re-
peal such laws already made, than
an organization whose members
practically ignore every one of
the ten commandments. Nor can
man who votes for an active or
passive alder or abetter of the
liquor traffic to make or execute
laws for him be Prohibitionist
any more than the man who lives
, outside of the church and gives
, his influence and support to those
things that antagonize Christiani
, ty can he Il Christian. "By their
fruits We shall know them. The
church is just what the acts of its
individual members express, re-
: ligiouSly, politically, intellectual
t ly and socially, and the man is
politically just what the men he
votes for to make and execute
laws for him are. If they are
. practically the friends of the IL
, censed liquor traffic, he is prac-
tically its friend; and Il church
made up of majority of such
, men is practically its friend.
The United States Supreme
Court has said, '.Thcre is no
greater source of crime and suf-
fering to society than the dram
shop and that, because of this
"no citizen of a State or of the
United States has any right to
run one unless that right is grant
6 ed to him by our law-making
bodies. : And these law making
bodies are made up of the men
that Il majority of the people, au-
, thoriZed to vote, vote for; and
9 hence the voter, through the rep
resentatives he votes for, is the
; making power that determines
! whether the business shall be lie.
galized and brought into exist
cnce, or continued in existence
But again, says our brother
"Thc doctor hinders the cause ht
= would help. What are is) to he
- come of those who voted before
8 any Prohibition party existed Z
Here is an attempt to make it ap
:. pear that we said man mus
!, vote with the present existing
Prohibition party in order t(
screen himself from censure ant
5 condemnation. Now, let us sc,
Just what we did say on that sub
l ject. In article five of the serie,
of seven that we wrote for tn,
1 Tennessee Methodist on this sub
ject, we said: 81 do not care 8
| cent whether you join the exist.
5 ing Prohibition party or not, il
you will just get out of your old
liquor-soaked, liquor-ruled, and
liquor-cursed party, and organize
an anti-liquor party of your own.
t | do not care if there are a thou
sand anti-liquor parties organic
ed Now, why did not our
brother do the fair thing, at least,
in the closing part of his article,
; and quote just what we said We
will not impugn his motives by
even intimating that it was a will
full misrepresentation. We pre-
fer to put the more charitable
construction on it which attri-
butes it to the force of habit, not
only with our brother, but with
thousands of others somewhat
like him. We mean the habit of
answering everything that ema-
mates from ProhibitiOnist, with
Il few stereOtyped words and
phrases that have been culled out
or manufactured by liquor news
paper editors, liquor bosses in the
liquor business, or regular liquor
politicians. We have never yet
read an article from the pen OF
any one of that class of writers
that did not come clothed in just
} that sort of phraseology, and was
not marred by just that sort OF
misrepresentation. If any one,
however, will take the trouble to
read any of the straight liquor
papers, or converse with the IL