Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-16
NO. 80.
ward, logical thinker can believe

it.
Is. "Local option" is not Gods
method of dealing with evils, and
it cannot be the. method of any
citizen who is consistent servant
of His. God never left questions
of morals to be settled one way,
or another, according to the NOR
al status of public opinion in
given community or county. He
SAYS to the evil and evil doors,
"THoU SHALT NOT" no matter
whether public opinion is in ac-
cord with the SHALT, or not. He
who would bring questions, in
volving the morals of the coun-
try, from Gods high ground of
s'THOU SHALT NOT, down to the
quagmire of "local option,'
which simply means elf you will
you may clothe immortality with
our legal approval and authori-
ty," cannot be consistent SER
want of the most High, as a citi-
zen. Let one imagine, if he can,
the Lord on Mt. Sinai announc-
ing a "local option measure un-
der whose provisions the people
by communities are to decide
whether the ten commandments
should he put in force or not
Monstrous Think of a servant
of Coda minister of His-ad-
vocating ''local option by which
separate communities may be call
ed upon every two years to arbi-
trate the moral and legal status of
"a business that "breaks in pieces
the tables of stone containing
God law, every day and hour
of its existence. Monstrous in
deed Christian citizens are
reasonably expected to honor God
in what they do, whatever others
may do. Let Christian citizens
keep faith with God more than
with politicians and political par
ties
THE NON-PARTIsAN FALLACY.
DR.. Galloway "still thinks the
non -partizan policy the wisest. :
This is of Il piece with his do
cal option theory. There is this
striking fact about those who in
sist upon Prohibition being kept
on "nonpartizan'' grounds; they
arc among the strongest political
partizans in the land, if not for
their own benefit, then for the
benefit of special friends. Two
; striking illustrations of this are
found in the person ~ of DR..
Galloway, who a few years since
said in public address: "The
political party that espouscs the
cause of the saloon may as well
prepare to 90 into liquidation.
The Democratic party in its ma
tional platform I21 plank avows
its espousal of the saloon cause,
but DR.. Galloway will not con-
sent to its liquidation. On the
contrary, he continues to give his
influence and vote against the Ii
[ quotation. If this isn't partizan-
ship gone blind in a Prohibition
ist | do not understand what con-
stitutes partizanship. The other
case is that of Mrs. j. Ellen Eos
ter, of Iowa, who from its organ
ization, has been wet-nurse in the
National w. G. I. L. for the Re
publican party. When this dis
tinguished woman found that the
w. G. T. L. would not endorse
her political party, because Of its
whisky record, she undertook to
disrupt the organization by leav-
ing it and repudiating its counsels
and decisions. There is no non
partizanship in the makeup or
plans of these two celebrities. He
seems to think that those who be-
lieve in Prohibition, with party
behind it, are very clever people,
with good intentions, but they are
lacking in political wisdom. 1t
is freely conceded that party Pro
hibitionists do not know rs much
as would be good for them. But
in the midst of their serious lack,
they have accumulated enough
wisdom to discern whisky plank
in a political party platform, and
quite enough to know that they
cannot advance the cause of Pro-
hibition very rapidly by voting
the ticket of whisky dominated
party. DR.. Galloway, and many
other Prohibitionists, do not seem
to have yet learned this primary
lesson, the very first one, in the
book of political rectitude and
Christian citizenship. Good men
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