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

the history of the world. Like
, all other questions, Prohibition
t will be the rule in America, when
the party which represents it
comes into power, and not before
that good hour. -
In this State DR.. Galloway
wants the Democratic party to be
depended on to take care of Pro-
hibition. 1t would be as wise for
Methodists, Presbytcrians and
Baptists to depend on-say,
the Catholics-to advance their
doctrines. The Catholics, would
be as faithful to the trust as the
Democratic party is to Prohibi-
ton.
All the anti-liquor legislation
we have, we had to literally
thumbscrew out of the party, and
we have never known in advance
what we would get. We have
been, all the life of the Prohibi-
ton movement, in the humiliat-
ing attitude of beggars. Those
who choose to think that it is wis
est and most profitable to beg
rather than accept the invitation
of friends in well established
political party with a marvellous
~ increasing vote year by year,
can continue to vote with IL wills
ky party and pay for the privi
lege of so doing by begging; but
as for me, | will vote with and
for the party that represents my
cause. | cannot talk for Prohi-
bition and vote for Il whisky par
ty, or man. | cannot denounce as
the sum Of all villainies' the Ii
qnor business and vote for par
~ that endorses the business.
How any Christian man can
anatEcmatizc the saloon from pull
pit or platform, and then vote for
Il saloon-controlled party, | cannot
conceive. What do saloon-keep-
ers care for Conference, Conven-
ton and Synodical resolutions,
denouncing their business, SO long
as those who adopt them 90 to
the polls on election day and vote
for the party that fosters their
| business If there must needs be
inconsistency, our religious de-
nominations should reverse the or
der, hoary with age, adopt reso-
buttons endorsing the liquor traf-
fc and 90 to the elections and
vote against the business and par
ties that foster it. The advan-
tagc to Prohibition would be in
estimably greater, and the sa-
looms would soon be swept off this
continent. There are three or
four things about the Prohibition
party that strongly commend it
to me
| |. 1t demands the uncondition-
al abolition of the liquor traffic
in all this nation, and the conse-
quent, emancipation of our poll
ties, and public men from thug
and slum domination. This isn't
true of any other party in the
country.
2. There is not Il brewer, dis
tiller, or liquor vendor of any
kind, not gambler or prostitute,
in fellowship with the party or
that endorses it. This cannot be
truthfVlly said of any other po-
litical party in the United States.
3. 1t is aggressive, and suffi-
GENTLY conservative on all great
questions involving the interest of
confronting the American people.
1t takes unequivocal positions on
all questions. In this it has SUI
perior claims over all other par
ties.
t. 1t is prominently the edu-
cational force for Prohibition in
this Republic. Its campaigning
never ceases. If DIR. Galloway
likes "local option because of
the opportunity it affords for ag-
itation and educational work, he
ought to like the Prohibition par
ty more for I" local option will
bear no comparison to it as an
educational scheme.
j. H. GAMBRELL.
Brookhaven, Miss, Jan. II, 1894.