Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-30

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BARRED FROM GOING TO RACES.
1T. LOUIS BANK PRESIDENT ISSUES PER-
EMPToBY oRDEk TO HIS CLERKS.
st. Louis, NJ, May 49, -(special-Prssi-
dent William u. Thompson, Of the Bank of
Commerce, has Issued u persmptor, order
Tor bidding any and every employee of the
Bank of Commerce from attending rsceA un-
der penalty Of dismissal. The tendency and
opportunity to bet on tie Is,es, lose IN pney,
plunge, and eventually become defaulters Il
so eat the bank pre.iJent thinks it 10 dan
Rsrous for young men to attend.
learn also that it is fact that the
Chicago and Alton and other railroads
have given peremptory orders to their
employees that they cannot go into
the sa luonH or drink whisky or beer,
either on duty or off duty; that, IL any
OF their men drink or go into saloons,
they will be peremptorily discharged.
hare studied humanity good deal
! have mnde tour during the last few
days through some of the prohibition
states, and i find that the law OF the
land, the law OF God, conscience and
character, after all, il not the highest
motive with the great IN ass OF humanity.
know that prohibition will pronibit
under cert ain conditions, and the " orld
will some day have prohibition from
some one of the many stanndpoints.
When 10 W and character and conscience
do not furnish the higher motive, hu-
manity will find the higher motive and
will have prohibition some day. When
ever every corporation and business firm
ard manufacturer and farmer shall say
hatr drfnk
shall not remain In my employ; when
the day shall como when every church
shall SAY to its membership: II you
dIink you cannot remain within the
folds OF this church; when ever order or
organization, such as MaSons, Odd Eel
lows, knights OF Py thias, etc., ETC.. shall
say: No drinking man can be member
OF our order; when every young lady
shall say: No young man who drinks at
oil shall come within the sacred pre-
cincts Of my home; then, and not until
then. will prohibition of the liquor
traffic have sufficient motive or Il
sufficient incentive, to bring about the
desired end. Poor humanity! How sad
the conclusion! The law Of God of no
avail; the law OF the land VIC lated with
impuuity; ch haracter subverted; home
ruined; soul damned. and yet men drink
on. But when we nee the effectiveness OF
the rule Of the st. Louis banker and the
Chicago and Alton railroad, then We
wonder: Will only the thing that
touches the pocketbook and the
stomach furnish motive that will ac-
complisL the desire end.
Thousands OF laboring men; tn ous-
ands Of young men, just budding into
mani ood need this higher motive. W hich
the facts dem onstrate is the higher m o.
tive: That is,if you drink at all you can
not find position to earn a livelihood; !;
you cannot belong to the church or se-
eret order; you cannot maintain your
places in decent society; you cannot as
sociate with the pure girls OF our land.
We must have prohibitions; We must
down this liquor traffic or IT will even-
tuaily down us. There is no hope for a
man who drinks; there 10 no promise to
the life OF the young man who frequents
the saloon. In the higher circles oil So
ciety, socalled, the men and women will
drink their wines and champagne. Fl ON
some OF the German dances and club en-
tertainments both alike, will 60 home In
toxicated. This class can afford to
| drink; they are no account, drunk or
sober. would put no restraint upon
them. They have reputation to take
care of, but No character to maintain.
But there are thousands ON thousands
tippling and drinking who are worth
saving and 1t Is the duty of those in po-
sition to furnish the higher motive to do
1t aud to do 1t at once. ! an, told that
many saloons at some OF the division
points on the Chicago and Alton railroad
have already closed up for want OF pat
ronags. / have heard also that the
brew wers and distillsrs have boycotted
the Alton rnilroad-won't let them haul
their beer and whisky. But II the Alton
can run it's trains with sober men they
can afford to lose the revenue which the
hauling CT beer kegs and liquor barrels
might give them. l believe the whisky
traffic in an enemy to the race OF man,
and believe every true man ought to
raise the black flag and show no quarter
to his and the human races worst en-
| emy.
liv. in a prohibition town, and yet
Rome and Atlanta ship their Internal
iugs into our town. The express COM
panies do it for the revenue that 10 In
1t; and right here, In one OF the driest
towns, perhaps, In America, we have
more than one young man floating 10
ruin on wLiskcy furnished from the
Sodoms and Gomorrahs round US. be-
I.eye In furnishing every motive to man
with appetite and desire to drink, to
ytop him and the sooner we furnish the
N otiys ssAs better. The fool who drinks
| seems to be tho last man who finds
out he ought not to drink. The drunk-
| ard il the last one to realize that he II q
orunksrd. Those who are least able to
buy liouor imagine that they have
money to pay Tor il. Let our corpora
| lions and all business interest and all
orders. churches and home circles enact
= probipition law which says: II yoa
monkey with wbiskry, you monkey
| soursef cut oFrespectsbility aud out Of
nosition and place. Then we VIII ses
that prohibition prohibits; then wo
| win zee II at there IL no more liquor
drank In the prohibition than there y 10
] the liouor state: then our politicians
| y IN become prohibitionIsts; then party
| platforms win knock out their non
sumptuary plaDks: then our govern
| ment win get out OF cop 'rtnershlp with
| The trafYic: then liquor selling will he 20
.nfernalIy indecent and hquor drinking
! 40 imam ously disreput able. that y0u
can hardly lnd a human being tnat WIN
1 18th .r cell IL on the ono hand, or drink
it on the other. ] know many WIN not