Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-03
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Facts and Arguments For the Reader
Writer and Speaker.

I'VE shall publish from week to week In
numerical order matter that will be highly
valuable to every worker in the temper
ance reform. We advise the reader to cut
out this column every week and paste it In
book that can be carried in the pocket
and be handy for immediate reference
EDIToR.1
1O-Brewers.
Resolved, That we as a state organiza-
| ton will use our united efforts to aid in the
election of such liberal minded men as will
give us such laws as we in the cause Of law,
order and liberty ask for.-Pennsylvania
Brewers Convention, Sept. 0, 1887.
11-Dr. J. NJ. Buckley In Christian Advo-
| cate, Oct. 4, 1888.
Under all forms OF license the people
have every facility to get drunk and the
young every temptation to drink License
is practically free rum" Prohibition un-
enforced could be no worse But 1t proper
ly defines the business and keeps our hands
clear of the price Of blood.
12-wiIliam II. Seward.
Established parties are built on certain
policies and principles, and they will stand
and remain so long as those policies and
principles are of paramount Importance,
and no longer. They must break asunder
and dissolve when new exigencies bring up
new and different policies and principles,
and the transition stage will last until the
paramount importance of these new poll
cies and principles Is established, and no
longer.
13-Joseph Cook.
Without a dominant political party be-
hind it, prohibitory legislation is a sword
| blade without a hilt. 1t Is not true that
when public sentiment emphatically justi-
fies law it is always executed. Public
sentiment so justifies the law against sell
ing liquor to drunkards and minors, but
the law nevertheless is not executed. The
vast majority of good citizens justify this
law, but their will is defeated by the au-
dacity of the liquor syndicate and the cow
ardice of party managers. A prohibitory
par; ), therefore, is supreme political ne
cessity. Only prohibitory party in power
can give to every temperance blade q hilt
and to every temperance hilt blade.
14-Hon. William T.. Dodge.
1 think the time will come when there
will be national Prohibition party organ
lied in this country, the mission of which
shall be to drive out the liquor traffic.
15-New York Independent.
If we are ever to have pure ballot, hon.
est municipal government and nobler
manhood, we must suppress the saloon,
and to this end we must not forgive stub
born Legislators more than seven times.
And while we carry on with greater vigor
our schemes for educating public sentiment
on this subject, let us draw the lines In pO-
litical action between those who stand with
the saloon against the people and those
| ha OF ho
loon.
16-Benson j. LOSING.
am in full accord with the unconcealed
purposes and logical action of the Prohibi-
tionists 1 have been member of the Re
publican party from it's inception in 1854.
This temporizing, this cOquetting with
| the mortal enemy of society, this unmanly
masquerading, is alarming to every ear
nest soul at this critical moment.
17-DistiIIer Atherton.
J. NJ Atherton, distiller, Louisville, and
president of the National Liquor Dealers
Protective association, in letter dated
March 2, 1889, said:
1.-THE two most effective weapons with
which to fight prohibition are high license
and local option. The true policy for the
trade to pursue Is to advocate as high
license as they can in justice to them
selves afford to pay, because the money
thus raised tends to relieve all owners of
property from taxation and keeps the treas
uries of the towns and cities pretty well
filed This catches the ordinary taxpayer
who cares less for the sentimental opposi-
ton to our business than he does for taxes
on his own property.
Local option is local prohibition, but
the experience is that there are always
enough license counties mixed in with the
no license counties to practically supply the
latter with all the liquor they need. Sooner
or later the trade may be able to defeat the
local option feature, but until prohibition
is destroyed or it's political efforts broken
repeat that our best weapons to fight it
with are high license and local option by
townships"
1s-Henry Ward Beecher.
You are not right to stand still in any
great party, moving In any direction, doing
wrong, without deliberately taking account
with yourself. Am I striving to correct
the evil by all the influence can wieldi
On finding that it is impossible, do free
myself from all the imputation Of partner
ship in any such guilt, one way or the other!
More closely still. No man has a right
in any of the associations of life, in any of
the partnerships of life, to throw the blame
of wrongdoing upon the whole, taking none
of it to himself. If a bank be organized to
perpetrate swindles on the poor and needy,
every man in it who neglected his duty or
who hoodwinked at wrong and blinded lies
consciously, and by some indirection made
profits, but did not care about causing any
disturbances-every such man in it, ! say,
takes his dividend Of the responsibility. It
was his duty to have seen these things and
know them. There is no such division Of
the responsibility.
A man who, with open eyes and clear un-
derstanding, permits wrong to be done
without protest and resistance up to the
measure of his power has all the responsi-
bility for the sum total of all that wrong
Nobody has a right to be peaceable when
there is sin around and when 1t Is sur
rounding him. II there is wrongdoing. he
cannot say to himself, There are four part
ners, and I shall only have fourth part Of
this responsibility" You have the whole
of It'll God does not make dividends in those
things.-June 8, 1884.
10-California Republicans.
The Republican party of Los Angeles at
its convention Nov. 2, 1892, adopted the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That we support the existing sys-
tenn of high license and the regulation Of the
LIQUOR traffic on lines Of safety to the entire
community, as heretofore indorsed by q ma
jority Of the people Of Los Angeles and en-