Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-05-31
A Protest.

SDiIOn hESOhTER:-1Ou our cores
pendent has no morbid desire he as.
sures you and your readers to see his
scribbling in print; neither is he
chronic grumbier, because the world
does not wag according to his own pecu-
liar notion. 1t is only from sense of
duty as Il citizen that now raise my
voice against the crying and shameful
evil that is daily undermining our So
ciety, debauching and running our
young men, openly and VIGOROUSLY
violating both state and national law,
and as l suppose (P) bidding defiance
to our county and city officials. There
are times when patience ceases to be a
virture, and the mouth of charity ana
forbearance to wrong doors Is mock
cry. Such a time in my humble judg-
ment has come in the history of Iuka
The disgraceful scenes witnessed on
our streets last Saturday evening it
seems to me ought to be enough to
arouse every law abiding citizen to
sense of duty and determination that
such scenes shall not occur again.
When man can come into our town
in broad day light and peddle out e.
nough wild cat whisky to fill the num-
Der OF drunken men we saw parading
our streets last Saturday evening,
think it is high time, if the officers can
not, or will not, take charge of them
| and keep order. for the citizens to say
| it must be done. When men can walk
over our streets full of liquor talking
laughing cursing and hallowing, when
they can get dead drunk and walow
in the dirt just In the rear of our
business houses in plain view of one
of the mos. frequented streets, and
our officers never see nor hear of such
conduct, and finally when an arrest is
made, and the offender turned loose
in twenty-five minutes, because there
in no evidence (D against him to hold
him. | think it is high time for the
citizens to take hand in affairs.
1t seems that the public sentiment
OF this state has become very much
fatigued by violations OF the liquor
law. l see a statement in the New Or
leans Picayune that the United States
government has spent in the Southern
district of Mississippi 1868 600 in the
prosecution of the illicit liquor traffic,
and suppose it would be safe to say
equally as much has been spent in the
Northern district.
This is not as it should be. There
is no need of this burdensome expense,
every community can put a stop to this
blind tiger business if they want to.
There is nothing needed so much to
enforce the law against the Illicit sale
OF whiskey, either State or Federal. Is
a determination on the part of the
citizens of the community in which the
law is violated, that it shall be done.
Every community needs such spirit
OF self protection as Sam Jones and
/ Bill Arp tell us that the citizens of
Gainesville, Ca. had when they de-
termined to put down the original
package man in their town. They
showed that spirit that takes no de-
NAL. and when they said go. he went.
When the U. S. Marshals on the one
side and the State, County and City
officials on the other will join hands
with a wholesome public sentiment,
that the blind tiger business must stop,
the detestible business will stop, and
the more detestible tiger man will get
his just deserts and not before.
hope our good citizens will become
fully aroused to sense of duty in this
matter and determine not to permit |
this nefarious business to longer con-
tinue in our midst Let others join in
welding the cudgle in defence of law.
order, society, our homes and our
boys. More anon. CITIZEN.