The weekly picket. (Canton, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-03-22

ScueIdl disposition 10 Seil "
farms il Madison county hecau'
= they cannot depend upon their i
z Dor, which; insists on coming
town on Saturday morning an
spending the whole day. Whe
night comes they go yelling hon
through the country, firing Oft pl
AL OILS, having a good time Sunda,
nd taking Monday to get sobel
'hess tanners may exaggerate tn
situation however, but we beliey
! that the able writer Of the articl
! in the Herald will probably adm
4 that the consumption Of
FIFTY-plvE THOUSAND FIVE HUN
J, DREL FIFTY-FIvE DOLLARS WORT
or WHISKEY
tper annum does not improve th
5 lcotton sclaping and cotton pickin!
labor in Madison county.
We are moved to ask at thi
Ipoint, how many bales Of cottol
it requires to foot this drink bill
p Iof Madison county? From the besl
information we can obtain the cot
ion crop does not average over SAC
DER bale. Sometimes it sells fol
ii more and sometimes for less. Av-
sraging it at $40 we divide this
drink bill by that sum, and the
number of bales OF cotton it re-
| Iuires to foot the bill is,
ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
/ AND EIGHTY-NINE
| One thousand three hundred and
eighty-nlne bales of cotton is a
irain upon the resources of Madi-
on county, which constitutes a
good answer to the able article in
the Herald.
Suppose some other tyiant than
he saloon had the power to exact
contribution from this people Of
ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
AND EIHGHTY- NINE
bales Of cotton for i epecsac.
14lag bon TIRE every eaf. Oh The !
FaifA GlrysAads of Cantor How
II long III wuress Ine larIhsfs aonrlnuf \ 4
TO cultivate their farms? How
long before the whole population
would leave the county? And yet,
we ask the question in good faith,
would they be any worse off in
making this sacrifice annually,
than they are in the
THOUSAND FIVE HUN
DRIED FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS WORTH
OF wHIsKEY
consumed? We think we might
leave the answer to this question TO
he saloon keepers themselves. And Il
by the way, we want to be under
stood in this matter of condemning
The licensed saloon, that we do not
make war on the saloon keeper
His business is legalized, he pays
IN exorbitant price for the privi-
ege he exercises to make us all
Trunk, and it is not the saloon
Keeper we condemn so much, as &
he men who petition for the Ii
ense, or who vote for him to con-
lnue the business.
The editors of this column
eadily concede the point made by
be writer we are answering that
be saloon keepers in Canton are
EXCEPTIONALLY good fellows.
But You farmers, mechanics and
pliers, how long do you propose
, be parties to business that
My brings ruin financially and
orally upon the county we love
, well. This business cannot
ldure. 1t is bound to 5estopped.
is no longer "a anoral question eli
lily. 1t is qustion Of private tr,
i'd public preservation. And the tn
an who believes that it is going ar
continue indefinitely lacks COM in
on sense Our county is bleed he
& to death. The prophets of her tel
Ids instead of being poured into lii
6 channels of legitimate trade WI
d commerce, are being sold and be
e money poured into the Golfers wi
the brewers and distillers of the an
est. We need this wi
ETY-FIvE THOUSAND FIVE HUN
DRED AND FIFTY-FIvE DOLLARS TT
home, to improve the farms and
r the comforts and coDveniences
life, that we do not raise or :
lnufacture at home; instead of de-
going back to buy more the
liskey. Pour this golden stream ths
10 the pockets of our laborers sol
;fead OF down their throats in ma
,iskey, and every branch Of dia
laStry will feel the impulse tho
.ht here at home. In
Now we know exactly what the sci
swer will be of the whiskeyites
this article. We do not have ore
wait to hear it. They will not the
uy the facts which their own abs
has stated and that tie
have simply used to drive to bnl