Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-04-10

/ BISHOP galloway, and denOminated
by him the excellent MEASURE"
But you undertake to contrast the
| status OF the liquor business i'm Mis-
sissippi with that of Georgia and Ken
lucky.
Now, my brother, have you not
local option law in Georgia? Has it
not made many of those who are pro-
tected by it selfish and Indifferent to
the needs of those who cannot get its
protection? And have the people of
Georgia the confidence in the efficien-
cv of that law today they had three
months after its passage? If not, why
not! Because the experiment of try
ing to regulate an uDmitigated evil
has proved to be false in theory, wrong
in principle and defective in results.
How is it with Kentucky! On Janu-
airy 9, ~, one hundred and forty-sev-
EN- thousOnd citizens of the State petit
toned the Governor and Legislature
to enact laws regulating and restrict
ing the licensing of the liquor traffic.
From that day to this Kentucky has
had local option with restriction. and
the longer such laws have existed the
holder and more aggressive and def
ant has become the liquor power i'm
the State. Why? Because such laws
are a league with hell and compro-
mise with the devil. How? They au-
thorizc the sale of indulgences to the
worst class of our citizens to sell Ii
quor. while our court of last resort
says it could not be sold without such
indulgenceS. 1t is Il repetition of the
corrupting influences that made it nee
cssary for God to raise up II Luther;
and the condition is being fostered by
Il combination of leartless politicians
and misguided Ecclesiastics just as
was the case on Luther's day. Mar
tin Luther possessed more faith in
God than exists in all the Bishops of
America today. He stood up at the
Diet of Worms in the presence of
combination of corrupt State officials
nd apostatc clcrgymen, and counting
himself and God u majority because
on the side of the right, he won his
ease. All of the Bishops in America
have not 1.-THE of his Christian brav-
cry. They have not enough faith in
the right for God to work through.
When it comes to counting numbers
they put the meanest liquor dealer in
the land against God, and then say we
haven't II ma jority, and hence we can't
do anything but legalize the business.
Bishop Galloway aud Dir. Black
may think they have carried God in
the liquor licensing business with
them, but they will find that they are
honestly mistaken.
While our Ecclesiastical Dignita.
ries are repeating history by fawning
before corrupt political power, God
is also repeating history by raising up
an army of understrikers with the
faith, and to fill the place of, Luz
ther. If the liquor traffic is ever sup
pressed in Mississippi, the very foun-
dation principle ofBishop GallOway's
excellent measure" the right of the
saloon to exist under the sale of in
dulgencies or license, must have a Sec
ond Martin Luther to crush the life
out of it. "1e cannot serve God and
mammOn." 1e cannot force COM
promise between hell and heaven.
The devil tried that with Christ, and
he has more ingenuity than all of our
modern Bishops. Ye cannot harmon
ize the agencies ofChrist and the agen-
cies of the devil.
Every great reform of the past has
become necessary by reason of such
efforts made largely through an apos-
tate Church. This spirit of coward
ice and want of faith in God manifest
ed by our modern church on the liquor
question is rapidly producing its fruit
unto corruption and it's end unto de-
structiOn along other lines as well.
Judge Cooley. of Michigan, whose
reputation as jurist is fully equal to
that of c. b. Galloway as Bishop,
now comes to the front and proposes
to strike hands with the Bishop on
the principle and practice of licensing
an evil in order to restrict it by Ii
censing or taxing system of lOtter-
les, and thereby give to the United
States the benefit of such system of
gambling houses as now exist at Bad
en- Baden or Monte Carlo. And, as if
not to be outdone in the rapid prog
ress and Improvement of the age, Su-
perintendent Byrns, of New York
City, steps to the front and offers the
Bishop his hand by proposing to Off
set DR.. Parkhurst's proposition to
close up or prohibit brothels and
houses of designation, by licensing
them with restrictions And then as
thought along certain line begets
thought, the endorsement of the Mis-
sissippi licensing law, by Bishop Gal
loway, in great metropolitan reli-
gious ijournal--the New York Inde-
pendent-and it's characterization by
him as "the excellent measure" seem
to have stimulated the fertile brain of
the Rev. DR.. RainsfOrd, Rector of st.
Georges Protestant Episcopal Church,
of New York City, who offers our
Southern Bishop his hand on the
Southern liquor licensing question,
and proposes to rob the saloon of its
evils by making it sort of church APP
pendage, and having the best men in
the church to run it.
Now, l challenge you. Brother Glib
son, and authorize you to extend the
challenge to Bishop Galloway, or any
other Christian gentleman who will
be courteous in discussion, to adduce
a single reason in justification of the
Bishops excellent measuren-the
Mississippi liquor licensing law-that
does not apply with equal force and
reasonableness to the justification of
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