The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-01-08
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Crisp Jackson News OF State In
tereSt.
Mr.. NOEL'S VIEWS.
On Prohibition Issue---Ccnfed.
crate Camp Differs With Row.
land as to LincoIn's Portrait.

Senator E. F. Noel in an interview
relating to the liquor question, said:
! "While rrgretttng. that the Ii.
quor question has been brought
into the canvass for the governor
ship, shall not evade any re-
sponsibility it entails. Temperance
believers who regard the licensed Ii
quor traffic as the greatest enemy to
their cause have fought it with two
weapons, statutory prohibition and
local option. The chief difference be-
tween these two is that tho former is
the legalized EXPRESSION of public
sentiment Of the State as q whole.
voiced through its usual channel, the
law-making body; while the latter is
county expression, limited in its
operation to those localities over
which the former does not extend.
The principle of statutory prohibition
Is right or is wrong, Ii it be wrong,
the laws embodying it it should be re-
pealed; and the people of every beat,
III every county, should determine for
themselves whether or not they
should have saloons. In Mi sissip
pl for many years absolute statutory
prohibition has prevailed over terri
tory enlarged by every Legislature,
embracing some counties as whole,
as IL Tate, aud all of others contain
ing municipalities of over 500 inhab.
itants, as in Holmos. In 1902, by
the Dunn bill, statutory prohibition
was extended over all the remainer of
our State, outside of municipal
tiles containing over 500 inhabitants.
Consequently the local option
principle is now operative in less than
one-thousandth part of Mississippi.
All the connection that a governor
has with legislation is suggestive or
negative. Two-third majority of q
Legislature can enact any law over his
Teto. L .s a.sisi is ~ a tss - aqa,
Through their legislators ask for an
extension of statutory prohibition,
even to embrace the entire State, it is
not in the least probable that any
governor will put his vote in their
way. If there be a candidate who
wonld thus use the veto, let him so
declare, definitely, making an issue.
Otherwise, this question may be wholly
transferred to the legislative canvass.
I am now, as in the past, with those
who favor any just measure. affording
reasonable hope for the advancement
of temperance.
The State Penitentiary came to the
assistance Of the Treasury right nobly
during the month of December, and
the books of the Treasury disclose that
during this time there was paid iuto
the Treasury by the Warden of the
Penitentiary the sum Of $9i, 1913. 70.
The amount would have gone over
500, 900, bnt the Warden was unable
to get cars to ship the products of the
prison farms to market at the time
when the market was the highest, ow-
ing to the car famine which prevailed
on all the roads in this section of the
State. The sum paid into the Treas
ury By the Warden represents pro-
ceeds from the sale of cotton, cotton
seed and timber. The Warden ex-
poets to pay into the Treasury this
month a goodly sum Of money, but
not as much as was paid in in De-
cember.
The r. A. Smith Camp Of Confed-
crate Veterans of Jackson, at recent
meeting, passed resolutions disap-
proving of the action of Director Row
land of the department. of archives
and history, in asking for q portrait
of President Lincoln, to be placed on
the walls of the department. in the new
State House. The resolution was
adopted unanimously, and the pro-
ceedings were free from acrimony.
The veterans merely declare that the
portrait of Mr.. Lincoln has no place
in the department., owing to the fact
that he was not Mississippian.
The December collections in the va