Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-10-10

tainly as day and night and to imagine that justice
and honor is to be found in the life and mental
makeup of habitues of the hrothel is travesty on
common sense.
Think, if you can, OF Satan standing guard at the
tomb Of Jesus and it may be you can catch the rea
son why the devil not there.
What claim has any man honor and reasoD'
That is simply unit to be counted on the state by
boss in lining up the vote after the thugs have nom.
mated ticket. gambler standing on the street
corner smoking cigar sees Uncle Bob coming with
his' hands on his hips, and says: "Helo! Uncle
Bob; going to vote the Republican ticKetf"
eyes, cir, I am; never voted any other ticket
in my life. l never will, either"
'Thats right, Uncle Bob!" and the gambler
turned aside to laugh; for Uncle Bob was deacon
in the church and the gambler was a candidate for
alderman on the Republican ticket
How many Uncle Bobs do you think there are
in this countryi Why, they bob up on every cor
ner; the city is full Of such voters. And just here
we want to note the fact that Uncle Bob had close
relative holding city job by appointment, and was
simply making point to "stand in' in case the
gambler was elected. Sect
And 60 they wrap it up. After this wise and
vote the church follows; for the fight for living Is
very sharp and the question Of bread predOminates
and twists and turns conscience into scrap pile.
And SO they wrap it up, and punch the pith out
Of the elders and deacons, and langh their religious
pretenses to scorn. If the fact we're not serious
one it would be amusing to note the tricks played
on the average voter After the ticket is made up
the opposing faction howls ''Fraud' Then begins
a regular mud-slinging TRADE, both parties oppos-
ing the others methods and before the day of eec
tion both sides have produced enough evidence to
send both parties to the penitentiary.
And SO they wrap it up that the Bobs say:
sWeI my party is no worse than yours, and see
no cause for changing my vote"
Stop and think OF how much brains man must
have to vote city ticket. Let the reader imagine
choice between two rotten eggs, and possibly poll
tics in local felf.government will loom up.
Every county seat has it's buzzard's nest, and
when the county seat is in the city then the county
is involved because Of expenditures that the city
shifts onto the county by way Of taxes for the sup
port Of paupers and criminals.
And go they wrap it up that the county officers
must ''stand inn with the city officers, that each
may have the support of the other for reelection;
and between these two thieves the taxpayers are
crucifed. II only the guilty were crucifed, proba-
bly, no one would care but unfortunately this is Dot
the case, for there those who systematically
held up from year to year. have no mind to write
up the corruption Of city politics, as feel that no
informed man is ignorant Of 1t, but simply to Dote
the fact that decent politics is simply out Of the
question go long as our present system Of running
elections is maintained.
Partisan golitics is the storm cloud hanging over
our cities. 1t matters not what party is the strong
1nodora NJ tho vicinun oIannnnka cantura
ganizaon and hur it against the liberty Of the peo
pleE Cook county, in which Chicago is located, ID
the seat Of political corruption, and it filters down
through Peoria, Bloomington, Decatur, Springfield
and Quincy, and passing East st. Louis, it touches
Missouri and leaves it's brand on the face Of St.
Louis, while, blubberiDg and boiling, it damns ev
erything it touches till it leaps into the retiu gulf
"A Chicago politician is as void Of honor as .
harlot is Of virtue. linguat might consult the Il
brares Of the world for words to express the pOlt