The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24
Our Way.

= all things, and endeav ors to never le
/, its zeal run riot with it's judgement
/ We speak our opinions from coDscien
tious and honest convictions regardle'
of consequences. Our purpose IS tt
vindicate principles and not, to please
men. We have pursued this course fo'
So years and have never had cause
regret, and have reaped the reward Of
clear conscience and the respect Of
the best of men. We embarked in the
newspaper business fifteen months ago,
and have made it a success in the face
of adverse predictions to the contrary.
1t has paid 100 per cent an the original
cost every month and is in need OF no
corruption fund, financially. Yet we
publish gold standard paper in free
silver county. No higher compliment
could be paid our patrons--the good
people of our native county, than to say
of them, they have risen above perso-
nal political prejudice and every other
reprehensible phase of character and
given us royal support, and we GER
tainly not only feel proud of such esii-
nation, but grateful for it's financial
features. This personal preliminary
is to preface the criticism coming from
certain quarters, especilly two active
prohibitionists who do not and never
have taken the TIMBs, that it is in the
pay of the whiskey element and will
not admit prohibition literature into It's
columns. For the benefit of ali whose
minds are SO distempered as to meas
ure other peoples corn by their half
bushel," we will say we are not only in
this instance above corruption, but will
forever remain so. 1T is hard to learn
old horses new tricks, or catch old
birds with chaff." We have travelled a
straight road too long to desert it in
our old age.
''The bright sun may be extinguished and the
May wonder darklng in the eternal space
Rayless. and painless, and the icy earth
Swing blind and blackening in the moonless
air.
Morn may come and co. and come, and bring no
day,
And man may forget their passions in the dread
OF this their desolation and all hearts
Be chilled into selfish prayer for light"
Ere the TIMES barters her honor or
'..sells her birthright for mess Of pot
tage."
We owe no. more allegiance to the
whisky elemento of Canton than we do
to prohibitionists, other than arises
from conviction. Eye have decided not
to admit in futuresa enemies into our
camp or people into our house ITO raise
a fuss with MS. or .give stick to-
break our own head If the prohibit
tionists had d. paper ia Canton, would
they admit the wbiskey element to use
It in the interest Of the open, saloony
Or the churches open their doors to
Bob Ingersoll? We are honestly op.
posed to prohibition. both upon moral
and practical grounds. No man ever
saw us stagger on the streets of Canton.
Self in man, like all other animals,
Games first. Let him be educated that
drunkenness is an evil and will iniure
all let him be put UNDER
the ban of society for intemperance.
Let pure and lovely womaahood shuni
him as she would pestilence, not wink
1T his indulgence, keep his company or
marry him, and man would with, rare
4 bandoned cases, walk sober path in
life. Let SOBER reason influence yoal
reader. Look at the court records in
dry counties, andtyo will see law does
not prohibit. What can you cite in
your own county equal to the evil of
blind tigers in dry counties. This is
not religious question any more than
my other vice of man is. We are glad
70 know christians Of the highest stand
ird, and even ministers are holding
dloof from this question, Sc
'raught with danger of arrangements
Ind passion. Christ, one of the purest
IT the pure who ever trod this earth,
vas charged with being "a wine bibber
Ind eating with puDlicans and sinners "
lie organized no prohibition movement
Tor stirred. the passions of men, yet his
influence swayed not only multitudes,
'ut made thrones tremble. and the per.
ume of his holiness and example has
vithstood the storms, passions and oe-
'astating elements Of more than 1900
ears without losing it's aroma or less