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

Yes we have an only son and II he
wants to kill himself drinking whisky
the sooner the better. "A dead trouble
is better than a living one. we are
not uneasy on this point and no one
else need be-
Do Southern women desire to enter
the cesspool of politics? Are they
afraid to trust their husbands ana
sons? Must they accompany them 10
the polls and pray over them to Keep
them from proving false to their proml-
SEES and convictions. God forbid IT,
Shame on such tactics.
Can YOU follow the leadership OF
those who SANDER your tribunals OF
Justice and charge moral depravlty
aud turpitude upon your citizenship
and they aliens too. For shame, De
men, be proud men and freemen' not
towards and .ruculent ours.
At the spring term Of the court at
Jackson two boys were brought be-
fore the court for being drunk IN Utica
Kinds county, when asked by the
grand jury where they procured the
whisky, they said they did not know.
How do you like that fathers ana
mothers. Yet the Bishop wants blind
tigers. Judge Powell will coroborate
this fact.
Dontlet excitement daze your reason.
Why let imported men who have not u
dollar invested here and never Will,
stir up all this racket-and for what.
Who is it reasonable to suppose your
friends, your home people or they. Are
Won re asonable people, if so stop and
think? Have you any grievances com
mensurate with .all this turmoil and
bitter strife and the effects it will leave.
Do these aliens love you better than
your home people?
In our opinion under the Federal con-
stitution, whisky, beer or liquor can be
brought into Canton and sold in un
broken packages. Whisky can be put
up in bottles of one or more drinks
sealed, and beer in any form and seal
ed aud sold, if not opened and drank or
mixed when bought. No need to run
blind tigers. this beats prohibition.
The hop Joint and this solve the prob
lem.
Look at the most prominent men in
our county defending the open saloon
and say if you find ought against
them as sober, honest, honorable men.
What actuates them but the material
welfare of the county and good morals
in which they have the present and
past to sustain them. We challenge
com parison with any dry town or com
munity in the State. Who are the
original agitators in Canton, where
from and what interest have the bulk
of them in this county. People OF Madl
son think soberly over these things.
How were you getting along before
this fustian and hurrxh was begun?
Do you know what it will lead to.
Don't forget law can neither create
virtue, horror nor sobriety, and that
home influence and early training and
blood are the only factors that " i'll
prove safe. Train up child in the
way he should go, and when be is old.
he will not depart frbm it," 1t is
bound to find evil sometime, soon or
late and if blood and nataral proclivity
are not too strong, which law cannot
and will not prevent the home Influence
and the love and veneration of living
or dead parent will be. more potent
than all the laws of all the earth to
save the tempted one. girl or boy.
Keep open saloons regulated by law,
and build State keelv Institutes to treat
drunkards free if too poor to pay.
Make man not whisky responsible. Let
an affidavit be made out by any one
for habitual drunkards and send them
to these institutes for treatment. and ii
not cured keep them there. Seven
States now have them. California,
North and South Dakota. Oklahoma.
MARYLAND aud louisiana. Let reason
and common sense rule US in the whis-
ky matter, which we will never get rid
of. AID not utopian Tisdirected relig-
ious zeal and fanaticism, which has
drenched the world with blood. Re-
member the ancient Waldenses the
Crnsades and the modern Armenians