Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-20
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The devil will not be afraid of your Bible
IL there is dust on it.
1t doesn't take bit of meanness out of a
rascal to polish him.
Prohibition should be made party princi-
pie, not party policy.
A preacher with warm heart will not
long have a cold church.
The survival of the fittest is the doctrine
that always wins in dog fight.
To be slow to anger is better than to own
the best kind of seven shooter.
1t is generally the man who can least af
ford the cost who has the reddest nose.
Too many people are electric lights in
prayer meeting and tallow dips at home.
A dollar will buy four times as much for
grateful man as it will for stingy one.
How long halt ye between two opinions'
If the Lord be God, follow him. ."-Elijah.
1t won't do you any good to confess your
sins unless you are willing to forsake them.
There are many people who never expect
to get what they ask for in prayer meeting.
The devil has more sense than to under
take to make drunkard out of a stingy
man.
Before you go boasting that you have
been bad be sure that you have got entirely
over it.
A man will sometimes fight for his dog
where he wouldn't turn his hand over for
his wife.
For 30 years 1 have been temperance
man, and lam too old to ochange.-Abraham
Lincoln.
Personal abstinence lies at the very founda-
ton of our great reform. l.. Guy
Ter, d. d.
You can't tell how much money a man
has in his pocketbook by the size of the
strap around it.
Some people never find out that an oppor
tunity is an opportunity until it has turned
the next corner.
There is time to keep sweet and time
tofight, but these two good qualities should
never be mixed.
There are people who make good deal
of noise in shouting who keep very still
with their money.
Don't forget that your children will pay
more attention to your tracks than they
will to your precepts.
People who want to do good never have
to stand around on the street corners wait
ing for an opportunity.
When rumseller and Christian vote
the same ticket, how can the government
tell the one from the otherf
There is a way in which the postage
stamp has the advantage of the small boy.
1t can never be licked but once.
He learns a wise lesson who learns that a
Willingness to lose with the right is the
only sure way to permanent gain.
To talk about respectable saloon is
sheer nonsense You might as well talk of
an honest thief or an innocent criminal.
Reforms never go backward, and the tenn
perance reform will go right on until the
last saloon has been swept into oblivion.
If our Republican and Democratic friends
will tell us what they voted for, they will
shed some light over a very dark subject.
1t is the duty of government to make it
easy for the people to do right and difficult
for the people to do wrong.-W. E. Glad
stone.
Those who cast their ballots for the Pro
hibition candidates have the satisfaction Of
knowing that not single rumseller in the
nation voted that ticket.
Is God deadS Verify, it looks as if high
license preachers and church members think
80. They join hands with the devil by
voting with high license parties.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heav-
en-, but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven.-Matthew vii, 81.
A. Ill
other things being equal, of attaining the
highest physical, mental. moral and every
other kind of health.-Norman Kerr, NJ. d.
Talk to your neighbor about the prohibi-
tion question. Endeavor to win him over.
Send him literature that will meet his OBJ
jections. Look after the young men espe-
cially.
After all, it is not question of men with
us, but question of principles Our can
didates are not nominated simply for the
sake of the offices, but to represent the pro-
hibition issue.
We esteem worthy of all commendation
the noble resolve of your pious associations,
by which they pledge themselves to abstain
totally from every kind of Intoxicating
drink.-Pope Leo XIII.
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mind that the old parties must go" with
the saloon. In fact, it is impossible for one
to go without the other, for if you take one
away the other will tumble down.
Personal liberty does not mean personal
license. In civilized countries no man has
right to do that which degrades and de-
bauches his neighbor. Let US have per-
sonal rights before personal liberty.
Oh, that we could get them sober. and per-
haps we might make better men Of them!
You cannot do much with these fellows un-
guards.-Charles H. Spurgeon, d. ID.
Fathers, would you not feel that the fu-
ture path of your boy and girl would be
safer to travel if the dramshop and the
high toned, high licensed saloon were out
of the waya Then vote for prohibition.
l challenge any man who understands
the nature Of ardent spirits, and yet for the
sake of gain continues to be engaged In the
traffic, to show that he is not involved in
the guilt of murder.-Lyman Beecher, d. d.
Let there be an entire abstinence from in
toxicating drinks throughout this country
during the period of single generation,
and a mob would be as impossible rs COM
bustion without oxygen. = Hon. Horace
Mann.
Workingmen, the cause Of half time
and low wages is not overproduction, but
underconsumption. Close the saloons for
only one month, and all the shops, factories
and mines id the state would start up on
full time.
Araf xnf>s.