The leader., 1903-04-01
Official from W. T.U.

Official from W. G. 7. U.
Woe unto him that buildeth a
town with blood, and establisheth
q city by iniquity. Hab. 2:12.
Except the Lord build the house
they labor in vain that build it.
Pisa. 1921.
WAR DECLARED.
On the afternoon of March 81.
last year, a secret meeting of the
representatives of the Louisville
whisky interests was held in the
Gait House, in Louisville, XIV.
On the following day the Cou-
rier Journal published lengthy
report of this meeting, and the
plans and purposes of the whisky
manufacturers and iobbers who
composed the meeting. The Jour
nal reported: "The association
will be a national organization.
1t will shave its headquarters in
Louisville. and will be supported
by fund to which the distilling
and liquor jobbing interests Of
the entire country are expected to
contribute. 1t is understood that
the organization will have unlimit.
ed financial backing, for represen-
tatives of the trade everywhere are
taking deep interest in the mat
ter and have already authorized
the promoters of the organization
to call on them for funds. The
money will be used in employing
speakers to conduct campaigns in
States where the prohibitionists
are strong; in distributing printed
matter, in employing statisticians
and writers on economic subjects
and anti-prohibition arguments
particularly" This movement
among the whisky men is but
confession of the fact that their
craft is suffering. 1t is an admis-
sion that they have been lying all
the time when they have been say
ing prohibition does not pro-
hibit."
Recently strange pamphlets
have come from somewhere, with
no name Signed and no publisher
gwen, deluging the State of Mis-
sissippi with anti-prohibition lit
erature.
Number of Liquor Dealers in
Prohibition and Licensed States"
Theory of Prohibition, ;" Attain
ta's Experience" and History
of Prohibition in America" All
of these pamphlets carry the lie on
them and written through them.
More than that; the writer's are
impious for they at times assume
a pseudo-pious attitude and quote
or rather wrest scripture to their
purpose.
We are grateful to the temper
ance, church and religious papers
that warned the public of this
scheme of the liquor league-and
we are thankful to God that He
has awaked the consciences of men
and that the State of Mississippi
is too intelligent to be trapped by
any such schemes as the liquor
men have started up.
The boast of unlimited funds
with the very blood money they
have swept into their Golfers, they
will now attempt to lay more
death traps and murderous de-
signs. At previous convention
of the liquor league they admit
ted among themselves that their
trade was suffering and that they
must have the boys
The schemes of such men are
murderous while they and the
hirelings they have employed are
murderers. The sooner this is
realized the better for communities
at large and when these men are
dealt with by the law and receive
their just leward, the sooner will
we have peace and protection.
No doubt there will be a strong
financial backing. The whisky
traffic has the money, plenty of
it, for the purpose of corruption
and perversion of everything that
is lawful and righteous. They
have gained money at the expense
of widows and orphans. They
have caused empty homes and
empty pocketbooks, whereby they
themselves are made rich.
They look to the power which
can give-we look to the
power of prayer and supplication
to God.
At present prohibition move
ment is sweeping over the south
west and liquor interests are being
hurt. We wish these whisky peo-
pie to know that it is the purpose
of prohibitionists to war against
liquor and its attendant evils unto
the end. Let men come up now
that war is declared. The saloons
make demons in human forms;
they would debauch women; de-
stroy men and blight children for
the money that drinks bring them.
Their graduates will go through
courts, prisons, penitentiaries,
dungeons, and lunatic asylums to
the pits of perdition.
The whisky forces, the DEVILS
forces, are unit; let church and
State present solid phalanx and
win for God, home and native
land.
Let Christian people meet the
icc,7o and IN Gods ,opoo win for