Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-17

partisan PrOlIIbltlOnlStSI III this State
have hitherto affiliated, is a Prohibit
ton party, or will ever become one.
"Tho leopard cannot change his spots
nor the Ethiopian his skin" 1t is a
liquor party by both profession and
practice. The anti-sumptuary or 21st
plank in its national platform, to
which the Mississippi Democracy sub
scnbes, means opposition to PrOhibi-
ton and is so construed by all liquor
dom.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN CONGRESS
has opposed every measure pointing
in the direction of Prohibition, and in
the 51st or Reed Congress almost the
solid Democratic vote of the House
was cast against bill to prohibit the
sale of liquor in original packages in
Prohibition States, including Con-
gressmen Morgan, Catchings, Ander
son. Stockdale, and Hooker of the
Mississippi delegation. Allen was alb
sent or ''dodgedn and Lewis, the only
one rho roted for it, was rewarded for
his "crankiness" by being defeated for
denomination.
PROHTBITIoNISTS HAD AS WELL UNDER
STAND, ONCE FOR ALL,
that the spirit of the liquor traffic, IN
its last analysis, is despotic, ticentious,
brutal, mprincipled and Internal, and
that any movement forits suppression
which fails to recognize this fact will
by so much fall short of success.
Whether dramshops are to be run in
both ends of the National Capitol and
a trad tionally States Rights party re-
quired to trample under foot the sa-
cred doctrine of States Rights and
local self government, as the Demo-
Gratis did i'll Congress at its dictatiOn:
whether the best element in society is
to be over-ridden and defied by Il
black, ignorant and vicious mass of
voters, led by so-called white line
Democrats. as has been repeatedly
done i'll local option contests i'll this
State; or whether it be to desecrate
the Christian Sabbath, rob the drunk
ard of his last penny and write in
blood and crime and tears chapter
of sorrow and degradation in every
home in State and Nation-any or all
of these are equally immaterial to this
constituencies traffic so it but crafty
its lust for gold and pander to the de-
PRAYED appetites OF its enslaved and
misguided victims.
That any political party should un-
blushingly avow itself the ally and
defender of such an infamous business
as this (aS the Democracy has done),
and then have the brazen etfrontery
to ask and expect the support of self
respecting Christian men and patriots
of Mississippi, should be Indignantly
resented by every such citizen of the
commonwealth, as well rs by our pure
and exalted Christian womanhood.
For Prohibitionists to longer support
the Democratic party, is to stultify
themselves and heap contempt upon
the cause they profess desire to see
succeed. Mississipppians and fellow
ProhibitiOnists, if we believe what we
profess and mean what we say, let us
rally by the thousands to the standard
of the National Prohibition party and
prove our faith by our acts.
Neither of the old parties will evei
take up this issue, because the large
liquor element in each makes such a
step fatal to party success. If such a
thing We're at all probable, the old
party that attempted it would not be
Il unit on it in all the States, and there
would be division in Congress, such
as is now witnessed among the Dem
ocrats on the tariff and financial Ques-
tions. Hence the rational political
solution is the uniting of all Oppo
nents of the traffic in Il new party, and
the ultimate forcing of all its friend:
and supporters into another.
Not only is the National Prohibi.
ton party solemnly pledged to the
suppression of the legalized liquor
traffic, but it is alive to all other need
ed governmental reforms, and its plat
form challenges the admiration of ev.
cry candid patriot. We cordially and
earnestly invite every honest and sin
cere foe of the liquor traffic in Missis-
sippi, without regard to his past polit-
ical affiliations, to unite with us un
der the Prohibition party banner--the
party which, though as yet compara-
lively small in numbers, gained more
votes at the last Presidential election
than both the old parties combined
whose gain IN Mississippi was 317 per
cent. over the election of four years
beforehand whose vote for Bidwell
in this State was only 1876 less than
the vote for Harrison.
Under Mississippi's new Constitu-
ton, with its elevated and intelligent
standard for suffrage,
THE RACE PROBLEM IS NO LONGER AN IS
SUE OR EVEN PLAUSIBLE BUGABoo.
The white people of the State may
now safely divide into two or more
parties OH the living issues of the day,
the foremost of which, though by no
means the only one, is the effectual
suppression of the liquor traffic.
Thousands of the good men of the
State have hitherto clung to the Dem
Ocratic party in spite of its open alli-
ance with the liquor traffic, in the
honest hope that if ever given "a
chance" it would reduce the expenses
of the government to an economical
basis, give the country honest and
substantial tariff reform, abolish the
National bank monopoly, place silver
on its former equality with gold and
furnish the people with an ample sup
ply of paper money redeemable in Ell
ther of the precious metals. Its shame
less extravaganza and frittering away
of time and money-its caricature OF