Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-02-27
HELEN NJ. COUGAR.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS FROM THE
NOTED PRoHIBlTIoNIsT.

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when he votes for principle.
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IL prohibition does not prohibit, then
why does not every liquor dealer in the
world vote for it?
Put the Prohibition party in power,
and we will make it easy for the boys to
do right and hard for them to do wrong
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Nine-tenths of our brewing interests
are in the hands Of English syndicates.
This condition is far more dangerous
than the conditions which preceded the
civil war.
In Chicago last year 100000, 900 were
spent for liquors. What would this do
toward settling the wage question. 1t
would give 10000 families homes worth
$4,000 each.
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The good people elect bad men to Of
fee and then get down on their knees
and petition and petition and ask God to
save the country. Give me the ballot,
and I will do my petitioning on election
day.
If saloon is a good thing 400 feet
away from church, the best place for
it would be right in the vestibule. That
would be prohibition six days in the
week anyhow, for churches are locked
up except on Sunday.
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Do not turn your political Prohibition
meetings into prayer meetings. We want
little practical politics. The religious
and moral phases of the question are con-
coded by everybody. Its political phases
are not. We want converts to political
Prohibition.
Politicians do not regard the church
vote. They know that the rum dealers
would spot them if they should, and
that the goody goody people will vote
the ticket anyhow, SO they propose to
stand in with those whom they fear on
election day.
Give me the money spent in saloons in
one year, and will pay the $3.50, 900, 900
which it costs to run our government
without taxing you directly or indirect
ly and have a bank account left of over
5000, 900. l would undertake to live COM
fortably on that.
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Why do you keep the Christian women
of this country from voting? Nine
tenths of your wives would vote the
Prohibition ticket. You would not re-
spect them if they did not. Clear down
in your manly heart you always like to
see woman do right.
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Sometimes men say that women do not
know enough to vote. 1 know that ev-
cry man is regarded as success, but
when we get the right to vote, if we vote
to license a business which costs $21 for
every dollar returned to the government,
l hope you will be men enough to dis
franchise us.
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The ascendancy of the Prohibition par
ty would give us three jobs looking fol-
one man instead of three men looking
for one job. Divert the money which
goes through the saloon into legitimate
channels of trade. and you farmers will
get living prices for The products of the
soil you are working.
Prohibition proposes to combine the in.
fluence of the motherhood of our coun-
try. Some say we do not want to see
the women vote. No matter, it is going
to come, and if you do not get out of the
way the car of progress will roll ove1
you. Twenty-three states now give
women the ballot. We have got si1
women mayors in the west.
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believe there are more good men thar
bad men. All we have got to do is t.
get these scales of prejudice off our eye'
and stand as thoroughly for our princi
pies as the rum dealers do for theirs
The only sensible voters in the country
are the saloon keepers and the Prohibi
tionists. The rum dealers say we will
make our business our politics.
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High license is fraud and shame
The New York Tribune said the othe1
day that high license had been tried lons
enough to show that it is a failure, ant
that it would be better to let down tn
bars. I am with The Tribune there
Give us free whisky or prohibition. You
say high license makes respectable sa
loon. AS we'll talk to me about respect
able hell. In the name of conscience, i
we must have any kind of saloon, lie
it be doggery so nasty that the rats viii
hold their noses as they pass through it.
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The other day read of a steamer com
ing across the Atlantic ocean. 1t wa
discovered that smallpox was on board
and the vessel was quarantined. You ant
feel much safer because the government
exercises its supervision in such cases
But it is estimated that for all our car
against contagious diseases we bur.
about 20, 900 people yearly from such dis
eases. But worse than that, we bur,
100000 yearly because of drink. w
vaccinate people against contagious dis
eases. I wish there was some equal.
effective process by which we might vac
cinate the American voter with common
sense enough to know how he ought t.
vote on the whisky question.