Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-07-23

ONCE money order or postal note.
TUESDAY, July %, 1895.
Mississippi is for free silver at 16 to l.
An ounce of prohibition is worth a
ton Of license.
A good many who pray like saints
vote like devils.
A d. D. who votes a license ticket is
doctor of deviltry.
The devil never likes to have man
read temperance page.
A minister who pleases everybody
usually pleases the devil
Prohibitionists have principle. The
old parties have policy.
Saloon keepers are recruiting officers
for the army of drunkards.
Saloons are slaughter houses. Did
your vote help build them?
A Prohibitionist would rather be right
than vote the winning ticket.
Blessed are those who oppose license,
for they are fighting the devil
The saloons virtually say "You fur
nish the boys. We do the rest.
The temperance resolution in the Re-
publican platform is stuffed club.
One hundred thousand men go down
every year in the maelstrom of drink.
Saloon keepers do not let political
party stand in the way Of their business.
Dare to do right because it is right
and condemn the wrong because it is
wrong.
The Republican party is like hill
Of potatoes-the best part is under
ground.
Nobody who sows license party vote
seed can complain if the saloon harvests
his boy.
A good many talk for home rule in
Ireland, but vote for saloon rule in
America.
Every Prohibitionist preacher is a new
John the Baptist preparing the way of
the Lord.
A Prohibitionist without a temper
ance paper is like soldier without am
munition.
A vote for the principles you believe
in is the only vote you ever cast that is
not thrown away.
The liquor traffic will never be ex.
terminated by politicians who fear tc
incur its enmity.
The man who doesn't want religion
taken into politics usually hasn't much
to take anywhere.
Heather parents throw their children
to the crocodiles License voters throw
theirs to the saloons.
1t doesn't seem consistent for person
to sing "In the Sweet By and By" wbc
is voting license ticket.
The temperance man who votes Re
publican ticket is trying to ride tw'
horses going in opposite directions.
The temperance man who votes
Democratic ticket is trying to ride tw
horses going in opposite directions.
Whatever may be his private charac
ter or habits, in politics no candidate
better than the party he represents
Dare you so vote that your ballot vii
help pave the way Of your son to g
drunken into eternity, "thou fool?"
The lack Of interest in politics show
that the people have discovered that
makes no difference which Of the oil
parties wins.
Prohibitionists, there is no royal roa
to success, but success is assured if 70
stand by your guns and claim what
just and right
1t is pretty lot of consistent voter
who will vote for prohibition for thei
own county and vote license for the res
Of the country.
Every vote for the Prohibition candi
dates will be protest against the drin,
traffic and the oppression of the wag
earners Of this land.
It is wrong to sell whisky to an igno
rant Indian, but it is lawful to sell j
to any of Americas pure minded younl
men of fine education.
II lots Of men wanted to be right hal
as bad as they want to be postmasters
there would be a mighty moving int
the Prohibition party.
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