Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-02-26

salvation; that the saloon catches up the
young men and gets them instead Of the
church, and that Zion is robbed Of her
children year after year, we get down
on our faces and cry out in real sorrow,
20 Lord, how long?"
Brethren, what do we pray that way
for about o thing for which we are re-
sponsible?
What is the saloon?
Is It anything that ever was in the
mind Of the Lord Almighty?
Is it an evil that he has sent down to
us that we make our swift appeal to him
in the midst Of our sorrow?
What is the saloon?
It is o civil creation.
How was it put in its present rela-
lions to society and law?
By we'll defined legislation.
Who made the laws?
The Legislature.
Who told them to place the state in
that attitude3
The voters that stand back Of them
and make or unmake them.
And 80 there never was a man that
stood on the license platform and voted
q license ticket and sent license man
to license legislature to pass license
law but is in completely with it
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How is it in the town where you live?
Who elected your last mayor
Your last board Of aldermen?
Who is at the bottom and 1t the top?
Usually when ask this question in
our license community find that the
church is at the bottom and the saloon
at the top.
Iwonder IL you noticed that speech
by John Sherman when he accepted the
senatorship from the legislature Of Ohio
the last time. when, standing up before
that body Of men, he said, Gentlemen,
I have not the least manner Of doubt
that the majority Of the people Of Ohio
believe in prohibition, but there is not
q man in either house of this legislature
that represents that opinion"
And yet this is government by the
people
What did he mean?
He meant that in some way or other
the best opinion in this country was
relegated to the rear.
What did John Sherman mean when
he said, IA majority Of the people Of
Ohio believe in prohibition, but there
is not a man in either house of this leg.
islature that represents that opinion?'.
He meant that the saloon had cap
tured the caucus, and then that the sa-
loon and the church together ratified the
nomination at the election.
And on the human side, just so long
as we do these things, just SO long the
best men of this country and best
thought Of this country will be defeat
ed
Now, ON the divine side, as said. I
think it is more awful still
Brethren, we have only just gone
across the threshold of our second Gen.
tury in this land pre-empted for Chris
tan religion, in this land founded on
Christian principles
What is the reason that you cannot
command the feet Of your own boys in
the church?
What is the reason more and more
the hoofs Of disloyalty 60 over Gods
Sabbath2'
What is the reason that the sneer
goes out at Puritanism; that our insti.
tutions are being secularized?
Three.fourths Of the church are wom-
en-, but they are not the government.
Three-fourths Of the Sunday schools
are girls. but they find no expression in
the methods that govern us
Brethren. what are you building this
country out Of?
You are building it on manhood.
II manhood in this country ceases to
be Christian, where goes tho Christian
ity Of your republic?
Ibelieve today, as I said few min.
utes ago, that God has a controversy
with the church today because Of the
completely Of its manhood through their
ballots with the dramshop.
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What was the women's crusade?
II was Q long smothered sob breaking
into cry.
Il was o midnight prayer coming
abroad at MONDAY.
You men sometimes say to us, Is we
stand in places like this. Home is your
kingdom.
We do not dispute it.
We know it better than you know it
But it was our kingdom that was out
ragged.
You say to Us, standing ballotless and
defenseless before this vampire of our
civilization: "You do not need the bal
lot We defend you by love and by
law"
Do you?
When, for SO years. by well defined
license Legislation, motherhood has been
| uncrowned and her children slain by