Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-06
PROHIBITION SHOTS.
A Column Selected From the Peoples Rec
ord.

A Column Selected From the Peoples Rec
ord.
Step out with the minority and God.
Saloons are anarchists headquarters.
What doyo put first, party or principle'
Ladies' Entrance" is ladies' entrance to
hell
License is sin against God and crime
against man.
Most of the gambling dens are annexes
to the saloon.
New York city has 5000 man traps-li-
censed saloons.
The saloon is the recruiting station for
the vote buyer.
Saloon doors are made of the same ma
terial as the gates of hell.
If you are ashamed of your religion, you
have not got the right kind.
Prohibition is Gods way of dealing with
all sin-personal or political.
No Christian girl should put her arm
into the handle of a whisky jug.
There is no absorbing issue which every
where divides the two old parties.
License gives the saloon keeper mort
gage over every cradle in the land.
Blessed is the man who votes as he prays,
for of such is the Prohibition party.
A man who prays, "Thy will be DONE"
ought not to vote for a license party.
A big part of the license fees has to be
paid by poor women at the washtub.
The license system provides for the per-
petuation instead of the prohibition of the
saloon.
Read up and form intelligent convictions
on the liquor question-the giant crime of
crimes
Laboring men have just grievances, but
they cannot be righted by rum bought can
didates.
The saloon is intrenched behind the IL
cense laws. Both old parties are license
parties.
The devil would rather get minister to
vote a license party ticket than to start 10
saloons.
The licensed saloon is continued by Ii
cense voting Christians. Judas started the
practice.
1t doesn't make much difference what
church a man goes to if he bows down to
the saloon.
Prohibition in the case of slavery has been
a success Why should it not be in the case
of the saloon?
The saloon is called the poor mans club.
Yes, it clubs thousands into poorhouses
asylums, jails and hell.
To license the saloon is to rob and MUIR
der by law The license party voter is an
accomplice in the crime.
The Prohibition David need fear nothing
before the rum Goliath, for he goes against
him in the name of God.
The devil takes a picnic when he gets a
minister to sit on the same ratification plat
form with the saloon keeper.
DR.. Kelley says mothers and nurses by
giving soothing sirup, opium and drugs are
making drunkards of babies.
The gospel calls the devil roaring
lion." The pail that carries his hell broth
is we'll named 1.-The growler."
Before you advocate license look up the
answer to the old question, us it right to
do evil that good may Gomez"
The Son of God was manifested to de-
stroy the works of the devil. The church
seems manifested to legalize them.
Minneapolis has 81, 900 license, and the il
legal sale on Sunday is so great that the
ministers have combined to oppose it.
Without good morals liberty is impossi-
BILE, says Carlyle. Without the abolition
of the saloon good morals are impossible.
If you vote so that the streets will be
safer for children to walk through as they
grow up, you may be sure it pleases God.
A license vote scatters thistles on some
one else's farm, though you don't want
them on yours. Sometimes they blow over.
There is law against marking ballots.
But the devil has got his mark on every
November vote for the two old license par
ties.
The average character of boys and young
men in Kansas is said to be much higher
since prohibition of the liquor traffic than
before.
The man who gets mad because the min
lister carries his religion into politics usual
ly has only taken hom eopathic dose of it
himself.
Your vote counts in Gods sight even
though you are not in the majority. We
read, Abraham believed God, and it was
counted"
The Democratic and Republican parties
have passed all the license laws, and yet
some folks can't see but that they are tenn
perance parties.
There is canal of liquor flowing through
this country every year so miles long, 40
feet wide and 10 feet deep; 2.5OO.000 drunk
ards fall into it.
If the sale of liquor is not wrong, why is
it so restricted? If it is wrong, why is it
not wrong to vote to license it or to vote
with party that does license it?
The supreme court has said, mo legisla-
ture can bargain away the public health or
the public morals" License laws will be
declared unconstitutional some day.
There are 1000 brewers in the world
turning grain into poison. Do you think
they have something to do with the hard
times? What does your party Think
Distilleries are the DEVILS manufactures,
saloons are his storehouses, bartenders are
his clerks, drinkers are his patrons, and
the majority of voters are his supporters.
The people cannot be expected to vote
right until they have informed themselves
on the vital issues of the day. The news
paper is the best medium of enlightenment.
Saloons are sin and disease breeders.
But while our board of health tacks up
notices of contagious disease the board of
excise tacks up a license to sell drunken
ness
The saloon slays 100, 900 men annually.
One hundred and ten thousand men were
killed in battle on the Union side in the
war. The saloon is a more dangerous rebel
than the south.