Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-08
NO. 4S.

the purchasing clause of the Sherman
silver bill destroyed the coinage of
silver.
The act was passed June 5th, 1878,
and is published on page 202 of Nc
Pberson's Hand Book of Politics, for
1878, and the part to be left standing
reads as follows: "Where any mar
shal or deputy marshal of the United
States, within the district for which
he shall be appointed, shall find any
person or persons in the act of opera
ting an illicit distillery, it shall be
lawful for such marshal or deputy
marshal to arrest such person or per-
sons and take him or them forthwith
before the most convenient judicial
officer named i'm section 10l4, of the
Revised Statutes, who may reside in
the county of arrest, or if none, in
that, to the nearest place of arrest, to
be dealt with according to the pro-
visions of sections 1014, 1015 and 1Ol6
of said Revised Statutes"
Now, Brother Black, if the PrOlhi-
bition party had control of the FEEDER
al government as your party now has,
and would just repeal the section of
the law which legaliZes distilleries,
and leave all of the restrictive fea-
lures of the law in force just as they
are now, such repeal would make all
distilleries illicit, and bring them un-
der the provisions of the above quot
ed section; the enforcement of which
| together with the restrictive laws
would close every open saloon in the
United States; every legalized distil-
lery and probably every mOonshine
distillery.
Thus YOU see that if the National
Prohibition party was in power, and
| preferred to abolish the liquor traffic
by Federal laws rather than State
laws, it would still be unnecessary to
enact single centralizing Federal
law, but simply repeal one feature in
system of Federal centralizing laws
| already in part past and now fully en-
dorsed by your party, in order to
squ' lch the liquor traffic from one end
of the government to the other.
! believe all Protestant churches
claim that the liquor traffic is greater
obstruction to the progress of Christi
anity than any, if not all, other causes
together. And how is it that an edi-
tor of Protestant religious journal
can afford to pile up. or attempt to
pile up distractions in the way of any
organization, political or otherwise,
that has for its object the permanent
removal of that obstruction out of
Christianity's way, is beyond my fee
ble powers of comprehension.
The National Prohibition party con-
tains many of the ablest men and
truest patriots in the nation. For
over twenty years these men have
been studying the question of the abO-
lition of the liquor traffic from every
conceivable standpoint, and hence
their opportunities for understanding
it are certainly as good as those of
any other class of men. Indeed, they
are the terror of politicians and other
political parties, who dread their in
sight into the subject SD much that
they absolutely avoid them in open
discussion; and newspapers, religious
and secular, that are not with them in
sentiment most generally deny them
the privilege of presenting the claims
of the party through their columns.
They are doing more to enliShten the
public mind on the exact status of the
liquor question than everybody else
put together, and they never fail to
do their full share to help any other
class of prohibitlOniSts to limit OF de-
strOy the traffic in any particular To-
cality.
They have n National platform that
no opposing politician, minister of the
gospel or newspaper editor will dare
to discuss with them on the rostrum,
and yet there is class of religious
journalists that seem not to know how
to get along without now and then
making an uncalled-for and unjusti-
fable thrust ut them. They are the
only class of men or party Organiza-
ton that the Liquor Dealers Associa-
tiOn of America expresses any fears of,
and so thoroughly convinced are they
that their plan of operation embOdies
the true principle of and only success
ful plan for permanent prohibition
that they have stood together for
twenty odd years, growing at every
quadrennial election from 5000 to
nearly 100000 votes, and coming out
of every defeat with increased vigor
and determination.
Can you tell me, Brother Black,
what any sO-called prOhibitiOnist on
earth wants to check the progress or
increase of such an organization for?
If so, shall take it as great favor.
Paducah, Ky.