Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-09
PROSPERITY TRAIN.
An Inventory of Her Cargo-Rum and
Hard Times Abound.


ner, the Democratic party now throws
her colors to the breeze and says to the
Christian people of America: Give
us your suffrage and we will give you
prosperity" And now this great pros
perity train has arrived, and oh! 1t is
the longest train ever witnessed. 1t
reaches from New Orleans to Chicago.
Now that the train has stopped for the
inspection of her wheels, let us see
what she has on board that will bring
happiness and contentment to our
once happys.ghomes. There are from
seven to nine millions of bales
of fve-cent cotton, and there is
gathered around that cotton a
multitude .of honest men, women
AM children, with hard hands and
sun bronzed faces, with tears in their
eyes; they are compelled to stand and
see the result of their honest toll pass
| from their hands at just half what it
cost to produce it, This is prosperity
No. l. Let us see what else is on board
that will be helpful to us. ] pass on
up the train and as | look in | see great
heaps of dead men, and | ask the con
ductor who slew all these?" And he
informs me that 'these are they who
have died of strong drink within the
last twelve months, and there are one
hundred thousand of them, and it will
cost ten dollars each to bury them, and
we want Rev. Mr.. John Smith, ID. D.,
Ii. D., to preach their funeral. Mr..
Smith is very eloquent man and is a
strong supporter of the Democratic
party, and we wish to bring him into
prominent notice" Standing on the
top Of this mass of human bodies was
loud mouthed politician, MIR Jacob
Householder. by. name), the nominee of
the grand old party which stands
pledged in the sight of men and devils
to continue this wrecking and damn
ing of human souls Mr. II. said to the
gathered multitude that the tariff was
the main ISSUE and that Weaver stole
some chickens. The people cheered
him to the echo, and just at this juno
ture Bro. Smith came forward, shook
hands cordially with Mr. Householder,
pledged his support to the grand old
party and said he was ready for the
funeral. This is prosperity No.. =.
Leaving the one hundred thousand
who have been murdered by Chris
tian(?) voters, we come to the next
scene of prosperity. Here we behold a
mass Of living drunkards, two million
| five hundred thousand in number. Just
listen how they do prosper. We hear
the bacchanalian song, the piteous cries
of innocent women and children, the
crack of the pistol, the cry of murder,
and all manner of profane and obscene
language, which, were it possible, would
sicken the devil and his angels. With
red eyes and bloated faces they cry,
Give US whisky and personal liberty"
Ere another twelve months shall have
rolled round, one hundred thousand
of that prosperous number will lie cold
and stiff in death, and Parson Smith,
who by his vote helped to hurry these
to drunkard'S grave and a drunk
ards hell. will have the pl eaSure of eat
ing of the fruit of his doings by Orat-
! ing at the funeral of those whom he
has helped to kill. This is prosperity
No. 3.
We pass on up the train that was to
bring prosperity and what else do we
find Behold a scene that beggars de
scription, one million Of widows and
orphans, who testify that they came tC
their prosperity by red liquor, and as
we looked in on these as they were
shivering in their prosperity, we won
dered where it all came from. But we
only had to pass on It'll we came to the
100000 saloons being backed up by the
Government, and it was all very plain.
for you see it costs just twice as much
to run these 100000 saloons as it does
to run tho Government, and the Dem
ocratic party is pledged to support
this traffic which brings to us prosper
ity in the way of death and damnation.
We're | to vote for party who had
as solid whisky record as the Demo
cratic party, I would feel that l was
personally responsible for every crime
that grows out of the liquor traffic. Re-
member, when you vote with either OF
the old political partias, you are vot-
ing right along with every saloon man
in America. And now parting word
to you, Bro. Smith. When you vote
with a whisky party remember, you
vote to damn ten fold more souls than
will ever be saved through your preach
ing. y. A. ..
Bogue Chitto, Miss.
As 1t Ought to BE.