Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-03
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
A Column of Carefully Selected Paragraphs
That Should Garry Conviction.

A Column of Carefully Selected Paragraphs
That Should Garry Conviction.
The saloons virtually say: You furnish
the boys. We do the rest"
Saloon keepers do not let a political party
stand in the way of their business.
Dare to do right because it is right and
condemn the wrong because it is wrong.
The liquor traffic will never be extermi-
mated by politicians who fear to incur its
enmity.
A vote for the principles you believe in is
the only vote you ever cast that Is not
thrown away.
Whatever may be his private character
or habits, in politics no candidate is better
than the party he represents.
Dare you so vote that your ballot will
help pave the way of your son to go drunk
en- into eternity? Thou foolp'
Totalk about respectable saloon is sheer
nonsense. You might as well talk Of an
honest thief or an innocent criminal.
The lack of interest in politics shows that
the people have discovered that it makes no
| difference which of the old parties wins.
Prohibitionists, there is no royal road to
success, but success is assured if you stand
by your guns and claim what is just and
right.
It is pretty lot of consistent voters who
will vote for prohibition for their own
county and vote license for the rest of the
country.
Every vote for the Prohibition candidates
will be protest against the drink traffic
and the oppression of the wage earners OF
this land
1t Is wrong to sell whisky to an ignorant
Indian. but it is lawful to sell it to any of
Americas pure minded young men of fine
education.
If lots of men wanted to DO right half as
bad as they want to be postmasters, there
would be mighty moving into the Prohi-
bition party.
Statistics show that 10000 people are
killed by whisky where one is killed by q
mad dog. What of itf Shoot the mad dog
and license the sale of the whisky.
Wendell Phillips coined a great truth
when he uttered this languages 1.-The man
who for party forsakes principle goes down,
and all the armed battalions of God march
over him."
Would you do something for prohibition
this campaigni Are you pushed for timer
1ueu puU SOIuC lHOucy iutO l1ucI0g0IV W O0
scattered. 1t will help the cause as moth
ing else can.
One or both of the old parties will be
smashed sooner or later, and new party.
cleaner and more progressive than either Of
the old ones, will secure the ascendancy.
Speed the dayl
It is pretty difficult matter for any one
to keep sweet" when we see the professed
Christians Of the land denouncing the sa-
loon with their mouths and sustaining the
traffic with their ballots.
The only sort of prohibition that is worth
anything is that which prohibits the manu-
facture, sale and importation in every state
in the Union and is backed up by party
which makes that the supreme issue.
There cannot be made an objection
against the principle of prohibiting the
liquor traffic of the party behind the prin-
ciple that will bear five minutes investiga-
tion. We invite proof to the contrary.
There is more delight over one man who
votes the Prohibition ticket regularly ey-
cry election than over 90 and who talk loud
all year and then stay at home on election
day If the weather Is the least unpleasant.
No greater calamity could have befallen
the Prohibition party than to have rushed
suddenly into power. Years of preparation
are required to accomplish any work Of The
magnitude Of that attempted by this party.
At this stage Of the discussion il ought
not to be necessary to write two column
articles to prove that the saloon fosters
crime Everybody knows that The busi-
ness OF the citizen is to quit fostering the
saloon