The Semi-weekly leader., 1907-12-18
We DO NOT SMOKE.

The Sunday morning editions
Of Jackson's two dailies, the News
and Clarion Ledger. have much Of
their space edited BY New Orleans
and Nlcksburg Iiquur dealers.
The above editorial paragraph
was published in The Leader of
last Wednesday. It was suggest
cd by the fact that on the Sunday
morning previous, Dec. Sth, it
had been noticed that the SUNDAY
morning editions of the Clarion
Ledger and the Jackson Daily
News each contained several col
umns of attractiyely displayed adj
yertisements of New Orleans and
Vieksburg liquor dealers. who
make it an object to furnish the
Jug and blind tiger trade in pro-
hibition towns and counties. A
closer inspection of these papers
as this article is penned shows that
the second section of the Clarion
Ledger of Dec. Sth contained 10
columns of advertising for New
Orleans, Slidell and Gulfport
liquor dealers, and that the second
section of the Sunday morning
News of Dec. Sth carried about 8
columns of advertising for Vicks
burg and New Orleans liquor
dealers. The first sections of the
Clarion Ledger and News of the
date named have been mislaid or
lost, and it cannot be stated by US
whether they contained additional
advertising of this character or
not.
OF course in our little para
graph, quoted above, we never
meant and never intended to con-
vey the impression that New Or
leans and Vicksburg liquor deal
ers are actsuaIly writing for the
editorial columns of the Sunday
morning editions of our jackson
contemporaries, and it never even
occurred to us, in the light of man
ifest facts and what The Leader
and other Mississippi papers
have said lately about publishers
in prohibition counties advertis-
ing for foreign liquor dealers, that
anybody would be simple or idiot
ic enough to place such con-
struction on it. 1t was as if we
had said the Mississippi sherilfs
will soon be editing a large num-
ber of our State exchanges, haV-
ing reference to the advertising
of their tax sales; or had written
it that the Jones-Kennington Dry
Goods Co. is editions a large part
of the Sunday editorials of the
Clarion-Ledger and Daily News,
having reference to the large dis
play ads. of this firm. The idea
of the paragraph needing a dia
gram and special interpreter never
once entered our noggin.
However, nevertheless and not
withstanding these facts, the
Jackson News of last Friday, after
taking pains to tell who edits The
Leader, made ludicrous exhibi
ton of itself by bombastically de-
claring that insofar as the News
is concerned the above statement
(The Leaders, paragraph) is an
INFAMOUS lie.
A few years ago Freddie Sui
Inns, the present managing editor
uf the jackson Daily News, was
introduced to the editor of The
Leader by Ed. Frantz, OF the
CIarion-Ledger, as "the biggest
liar on the Mississippi press. ;"
He never blushed or denied the
soft impeachment" and it has
seemed to us he has been franti-
eally striving ever since to prove
his title. He handles facts as
recklessly as Sherman handled fire
on his march to the sea. He is
liable to make any sort of wild
statement for the sake of sensa-
tion or notoriety, regardless of
the real facts and circumstances; !;
so we let Freddie personally pass
as unworthy of serious considera-
tion.
What The Leader is chiefly
concerned about is that prohibi-
tionists shall take knowledge of
and rightly appreciate the direct
and intimate relation the adVertis-
ing of the liquor traffic bears to
blind tigers and the weakening of
prohibition laws and sentiment
and deal with it as it deserves
when the Legislature meets and a
State prohibition law is passed..
If the liquor traffic is an evil, a
breeder of immortality and crime,
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