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

fold, and the Republican party elect
ed both Governor and Legislature.
Now what follows? Prohibitonists
of all parties are getting up petitions
all over the State begging the very
men they have helped to elect on IL
censing platforms not to repeal any
part of the prohibitory law. Did any
body ever see such foCl nonsense eX-
hibited on any other question! The
liquor men have all along demanded
of those for whom they voted a pledge
that they would lcgislate i'll the inter
est of the liquor traffic; while non
partisan Prohibitionists have stood by
and voted with party. pledge or no
pledge; and now that they have thus
PLAYED the fool and gotten themselves
into trouble they go like sychophants
and plead with their masters to dlsre-
gard the pledges they have made to
other men, And this is what non
partisan nonsense, based upon loyalty
to party rather than to principle, Will
lead us to as long as we are ldl0tlc
enough to continue to try to reverse
all of the well established principles
of Christianity, civil government, and
political methods in dealing with the
really and intensely political aspect
of this liquor question.
South Carolina elected Il non -partl-
san Prohibition Legislature; but when
| it pulled itself together il Peoples
party Governor influenced its MEM
bers to adapt their liquor legislation
to the probable coming policy OF that
party, and State control instead OF
Prohibition was the result. And the
very next move of that governor
was to advocate the encouragement
Of wine growing i'll the State, and Ii
censed beer shops: the best schools
ever invented OH earth to encourage
liquor drinking. Why all of this non
sense, timidity and pertidy in dealing
with the liquor traffic. when the high
est Court in the Nation. leading on
the advance guard of Prohibitionists,
beckons back to the churches and
says, Come on, Come on Come On".
"No citizen of IL State or of the Unit
ed States has any inherent right to
engage in this business and through
it to damn your posterity. No license
necessary, Bishop; you just create
that sort of privilege and give it to
liquor men of your own accord; and
if you, through such an instrumental
ity, debauch and damn just one of
your own sons or just one of some
body else's, his blood will be upon
your own skirts,
Why all of this nonsense, timidity
and pertidy in dealing with the traffic
when by just raising our heads and
opening our eyes we can behold an
avalanche of statistics showing that
the liquor vote of this entire Nation
is in the minority? That taking the
results of local option elections and
constitutional amendment elections as
a basis. there are more who have vOt-
| ed for Prohibition or remained away
from the polls through Indifference
than the liquor men could influence
through love or money to vote against
it. Hence it is not necessary to con-
vert single straight-out liquor man
in order to sweep the business from
the country. All that is necessary is
for Prohbtionists of all grades to get
together in some sort of an organiza-
tion through which they can WELD all
of the powers of a political party, and
go to work to infuse interest into the
tay-at-homes. The liquor men have
bought up all they can get of them,
and hence the balance are ours if We
will but show them that it is to their
interest to go with us.
Now, suppose the five millions, or
thereabout of men in this nation al
ready committed to the principle of
Prohibition, were thus organiZcde
Such an organization would contain
mainly the virtue and intelligence of
the Nation. 1t would contain mainly
the morality and Christianity of the
! Nation. And 1t would contain the
most of the available wealth of the
Nation comeatable for practical pur-
poses. With this virtue, intelligence.
morality, christianity, and available
wealth 1t could organize, equip and
man a secular newspaper press that
would food this country from center
to circumference, not with the false
idea of license with restrictions for
the government of an evil Outlawed
by our highest court; but with sound,
logical, common sense arguments
against the federation of the abOmina-
BILE business in any way. Then with
our modernly organized religious
press, and now and then one of our
older religious papers already in the
field; it wodld be but little time till
such il movement would crack the old
political shell around the balance of
our religious press and then with our
entire ministry correctly informed on
the principles involved in the licensed
liquor traffic, and hurting Their anath-
emas against it from every pulpit III
the land; and our ablest and best men
OH the stump as candidates for office
in every campaign that occurs, teach
ing the people the correct principles
that underlie our government as set
forth in the decisions or our highest
courts; and with the rigid enforce
ment of every prohibitory law pro-
cured through Prohibition methods;
who but n pessimist of the monkey
tribe could doubt our ability to sweep
the traffic from the Nation in five
years!
Bnt just here our "Smart Alecs"
cry, .'You can't get the people to do
it; you can't get the people to do it,"
Now if Bishop GallOway's brag meas
ure of lisfranchisement ever was APP
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