The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

81 no reasonable, thinking, unbiased
mind will doubt that blind tigers All
hop joints would Immediately follow
the abolition Of the saloons in Canton
both in town and country. Nor dc
they doubt their continued existence
S nor the fact that not only boys but
honorable men would become regular
patrons and that they would shield the
X tiger that trusted their honor II they
had to lie to do so. Don't force them to
40 this. Don't degrade your boys and
husbands.
Q what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive"
Bishop Galloway says he prefers the
blind tiger to the open saloon. So does
Baxter and Davis of Jackson, who
helped him to fight the open saloon
and are plastered all over with indict-
ments for running blind tigers. and are
now ruI ming Hop ioints in the city of
the good Bishops home. Davis con-
tributes $25. year of this blind tiger
money to the Methodist church of
which Mr.. Watkins is paster-he told
me TINS out OF his own mouth when |
was in Jackson. obeying the Bishops
summon like good citizen.
Four Hop-joints run openly with
pool tables, in full blast in Jackson.
the Bishops home. Two men were
killed in Copiah county a few weeks
ago, the result of blind tiger whiskey,
and yet the Bishop says the people of
Madison county are SO corrupt they
Will not ferret out crime, is the reason1
we only had line indictments at our
last term of court. What a Islander.
1t is enough to make the very trees
Under which the Bishop speaks wilt ,
their leaves to hear his pathetic ap
peal to our people-he almost weeps,
yet no man is shot in Canton from ,
blind tiger whiskey and our people be- 6
lieve they are a moral, law abiding peo- ;
pie, as good as any body. The Bishop ;
ought to weep and pray some over :
Baxter aid Davis, his co-laborers in !,
Jackson, before he expends such We.
,ement feeling over sin cursed, saloo,. r
'idden Madison.
% wad some pow'r the giftie gle us q
70 SEE OURsELs AS OTHERS SEE usl
t wad frae monte q blunder free us
And foolish notion
Don't be afraid to change your mind
N conviction-wise men always do this. :.
ools alone never do. We have aways ;.
eserved this right on any question or =,
S to men UP to the very hour we put :,
ur ballot in the box. :,
Don't think that for Bishop Galloway &C
'e have any disrespect, we have watch al
d his onward and upward career with al
leasure and admiration. and referred d.
, him in our paper in terms of praise 10
hen he returned from his tour in the hi
astern world and was given such an fe
ration in New York. Then he was a an
IsHoP---in Madison county to-day he re
POLITICIAN PROHIBITION Galloway. tn
ike the Methodist minister who went DIR
whip his adversary and pulled off wi
S coat and laid it on the ground say. SCI
e, lie there brother Methodist until 1 ics
hip this fellow. When he come TO tn
is county and left Baxter and Davis 20
ming Hop-joints in Jackson, to IL
lch us home rule and democracy, he Ba
# his Bishops mantle in his home lik
Jackson. Oh Bishop! Bishop! don't oh
this any more, it puts you in too bad av
attitude-stick to your calling.
II is indeed q regretful scene to wit
IS great Methodist Bishop upon me
litical rostrum filling the minds of NE
> country people full Of prejudice yo'
ainst the town people. The Tenn me
rance Committee having said if the on
lntry people did not. want whiskey. an
Canton who did want it have it,
icb is right. But the great Bishop Pc
VS. this as d trump card, and in cheap f,
nagogic style and with sneering en- e
asis and an eloquent squat, says,
ou old country people" .'you old red W
ks" 'you old numskulls," you are p'o
in it. Did Christ do this? "
'ou can take your choice of blind
RS, no revenue, plenty of mean
skey and devilInent, or license, rev.
e, decency and good whiskey. T