Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-24

nave HltHtItO dlHlidItu, IL lOiiDI-
1 ton party, or will ever become one.
"The leopard cannot change his spots
nor the Ethiopian his skin" 1t is n
liquor party by both profession and
practice. The anti-sumptuary or 2lst
, plank in its national platform, to
| which the Mississippi Democracy sub
scrlbes, means opposition to Prohibi-
tion and is so construed by all liquor
dom.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN CONGRESS
has opposed every measure pointing
i'm 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 '.dodged" and Lewis, the only
one UhO rOted for it, was rewarded for
his "erankiness' by being defeated for
) denomination.
PRoHIBITIOSIsTs HAD As WELL UNDER
STAND, ONCE FOR ALL,
that the spirit 0fthe liquor traffic, IN
its last analysis, is despOtic, HcentiOuS,
brutal, unprincipled 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
Il traditionally States Rights party re-
quircd to trample under foot the sa-
cred doctrine of States Rights and
LEGAL self government, as the Demo
Gratis did in Congress at its dlctatiOn:
whether the best element in society is
to be Ovcr-ridden and defied by
black, ignorant and vicious mass of
voters, led by so-called whiteline
! Democrats, as has been repeatedly
done i'll local option contests ill 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 aud 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 cnslaved 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 we'll as 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. Mississippians 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 ever
take up this issue, because the large
liquor element in each makes such II
step fatal to party success. If such a
a thing were at all probable, the old
party that attempted it would not be
II 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 friends
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 sim
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 III 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 on the living issues of the day,
the foremost of which, though by no
means the only one, is the eitectual
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
tariff reform, as presented in the Will
son bill-its base subserviency to the