Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-02-06


laws are passed. and | do rot hesitate
to Join in all such movements and lend
all OF my limited resources of mind,
body and purse to that end. But |
cannot understand why people who
boast of the Acknowledgement of the
bulk of their saloon-loving element,
and in consequence have Il majority
of voters in the State in favor of Pro-
hibitiou. and have seven-eighths of
their counties under prohibitory law,
should keep upon their statute books
a local option license law 10y which
and through which to damn the chill
dren of IL minority in any county; and
especially when that law is out of
harmony with the teachings of the
Bible. the Spirit of our Constitution.
and in everything else, out of harmo-
ny with the whole tenor of our crimi-
nal code. The Bishop says further
that the law
"IS WELL CALCULATED To DEVELOP
AND KEEP ALIVE MORAL coNvIc-
TON ON TIE GREAT EVILS OF
TIE LIQrOR TRAFFIC"
Perhaps. in sense. this is true: for
while license with restrictions and To-
cal option is the policy the business
will 90 ON, more or less: and victims
of the policy in liquor cursed counties
will be regularly furnished as object
lessons to those who live in more IA
yorcd counties. But do the people of
the United States need this sort of
sacrifcial teaching on the liquor ques-
J >; IL l., IL. nt
been enough of human beings already
sacrificed on this legalized altar of
hell to teach the people OF this Nation
that the beverage liquor traffic Is il
curse, and that we would be lntinite-
! " better off without it! II not, then
we had better throw Oft all restrictions
and let the people get enough of such
! teaching as soon as possible. Further
more; it is universally conceded that
people incorrectly taught are in "a
worse condition to be afterwards
taught correctly than if they had not
been taught at all: and to license an
evil, and thereby legally damn some
in order to give others the benefit of
these object lessons, is to teach the
people that the continuation of hn-
man sacrifices under license is the
proper way to Investigate the subject.
This night do for fatalists, but will it
do for Methodist Bishop? 1t might
do for those who teach that we are to
do evil that good may come of it, but
if accepted by Methodist Bishop.
what becomes of his discipline?
But the Bishop says this licensing
SOONER OR LATER WILL LEAD 10 lie
COMPLETE EMANCIrATIoN OF
TIE srATE.n
.,;,, :, aouso Ali. ,., l..
tnra a. o% M;s,,; :, ;f tl'n nroceSs of
.t"c 80 III f,;onIs oFtLo I;nunr
u'o.a '''. tn ''' nio,nn,i ..n'inht;ast mdan
e,";,' t,' vi InI, ,if proI,ih;t;onists ;" .
va va r 49, , nm al ;n9n;t,m Rnt question
w - ,,ai' - tharo j. ,nofhnr sstotn in
n.y. ' "i",, tIot iii nrar sn.cnoL in
'ns "'ti' ,' aio,nnn+ Lo,.o ,1e conhat 49,
N;.,,;.-;,,,,; L., dome. and Louco tha
: R;sbou's boast. .we are not afraid of
the qualified electors" is not likely to
ever be OF genera appilca'lon. ana
the n,ohohilitv. and most seriously
n o", tLe nossihiltv Of ever com.
nletelv commemorative any State byany
pn,t IF ,nSt,;ctiva license with loca
n n Tbc Iessou Of Eceuse. and the
c cacourooemeut oiren jLe busjucss busucb
t",1I ncts viii olw,vs find sniff.
c;e"t resnonse in the ennidity Of
onnno, man to establish the business
s snw1 and r. make il , crnter of
;"t,ot;a any, ~ snraaJ thn noison else.
IT," To Iioons' thn business j. to
nlant i. and the soil that can he made
=" ," Wall ~ tho license viii Give the nlant
~ .e. an5 u" tha ront viii never die in
l"o t' "" oi, '"t AID Jo haJ I smoco inst berr
3 : an,,1 ~ sn,,.. hat tLo h;rtory nf Local
a |G",' n "''o" n,nnS nf nrnJ;cot;uu The
tin d.. h q" hnnn - failurr in every state
' w,TWI i - h ~" oxiStnJ. and the first
Hn mJ,n - m"n ,va that has follnwcd its
ai io,.n,''i ~ a"r STATE has GENERALLY
I h"o, ,h :" |" S;des"re,d and sncrrss
e zen 'a'' '''o'' " ''N >''' ''''''
i'' one