Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-06-12
THE scRAPBooK.
Facts and Arguments For the READER
Writer and Speaker.

Facts and Arguments For the Reader
Writer and Speaker.
I'VE shall publish in numerical order
matter that will be highly valuable to cv-
cry worker in the temperance reform. We
advise the reader to cut out this column ev-
cry week and paste 1t in book that can be
carried in the pocket and be handy for inn
mediate ereference.-EDITOR.1
es-New York State Grand Lodge. I. O. @.
7, Aug. 20, 1891.
Our place is In the forefront of the battle,
with mo Compromise blazoned ON our
banners No man and no political party
that gives support to the liquor traffic or
looks to that traffic for support should re-
ceive the vote of any Good Templar. To
| give such vote would be to compromise
with wrong and violate every principle Of
our order. Principle is higher than polit-
ical parties, and we as Good Templars pro-
pose to throw our ballots with our prayers
for principle.
20-Republicans and Prohibition.
Prohibition Is not the policy Of the Re-
publican party. Every national Republic
an convention before which the question Of
prohibition has been presented has peremp-
torily refused to adopt it.-lndianapolis
Right and Freedom, Official Organ of the
Saloon Keepers Association, Oct. %, 1892.
3O-United Presbyterian Churcs,-G General
Assembly at Springfield, D., june, 1850.
Resolved, That any form of license or taxa
ton of the liquor traffic is un-Scriptura in prin-
ciple and contrary TO good government and
ought to be discouraged by every Christian,
philanthropist and patriot.
31-Boston Traveller.
We tender our right hand of fellowship
to any man or body of men who, seeking
the utter extinction of the liquor nuisance,
may, as an incident of their work, seek the
best side of bad law, but we enter our
protest against any such wastage of strength
as would be represented in'a organization
LAW and Order league] that is content to
rest its labors upon using tho modicum Of
good that can be found hidden in q bad
law. We want laws that will be unsatis-
factory to all drunkard makers, and on
that issue we protest against all action that
can have the effect of compromise or that
begets apathy.
32-Gullible Nonpartisan Prohibitionists.
Republicans in the New York Legislature
are fooling with the prohibition amend
ment very much as their brethren in this
state did. They pose as it's advocates in
the legislature, but they will see to it that
it is killed if it should ever come to pop
ular vote. But nobody is fooled by such
tactics-not even Prohibitionists, gullible
as they have been on occasions.
in Philadelphia Ledger (Republican) March
| 20, 1890.
33-National Temperance Convention.
The tenth national temperance conven-
tion was held at Saratoga Springs July Is
and 16, 1891, with about $50 delegates pres
ent from 20 national bodies and 90 state
| ,ivu md 1ocfu usfsx,
bodies.
Resolved, We condemn the licensing Of the
liquor traffic for beverage purposes. We be-
| lieve the license system is wrong in principle,
utterly fails to restrict the volume of the trafc
and entails upon the people financial burdens
vastly in excess Of the revenues paid. License
high or LOWS bad in morals, bad in finance.
bad in politics, a sin against God. crime
against man, a disgrace and peril to Christian
civilization.
| 34-Rev. DIR. da Costa.
The fate of our city is today HANGING in
the balance. Much depends upon our moral
judgments and upon the view we take Of
the character of men. The sinners above
all men in New York are not exclusively
below Twenty-eighth street. The sinners
above all men-the capitalist of the brothel
and the saloon-sit in churches, political
wigwams Republican and Democratic),
ana no re1Ormer cares TO assam tnem.
These men manufacture the sin as they
manufacture houses and furniture. They
make sin possible and inevitable and force
it upon the poverty stricken class, upon the
weak and the ignorant, who know not how
to earn their daily bread. But towers are
still falling, and some day mighty one
may descend upon those who are sinners
above all, and who fail to recognize that
reform must begin in the person Of the re
former.
35-Cost Of the TrafIac.
There can be no new foundations for the
liquor curse comparable for strength with
the money that is now accepted by govern
ments from this permitted iniquity. For
every dollar accepted by governments in
this compromise with iniquity so is in one
form or another wrung out of the resources
of the people, and every days continuanee
of this miserable scheme of finance adds TO
public burdens in proportion as it swells
the gains Of iniquity. When the American
people renew acquaintance with their own
courage, they will recognize their folly in
selling indulgence" and being cheated ii
the price thereof editorial in Boston Trav-
eller Independently May 81, 1892.