The Semi-weekly leader., 1907-12-18

all Chll III Uusiutes anu dFe
morally responsible for the evils
resulting from such sales. There
is no escaping this truth md logic.
The Leader Il proud to be able to
say that most Of the reputable
newspapers ia Mississippi have
come to appreciate what is above
said and now taboo liquor advers
tisements, refusing to accept them
at any price offered. Those who
will not voluntarily do this, the
Legislature should require to do
it by law, with suitable penalties
attached.
The Daily News has earnestly
and consistently advocated statu-
tory prohibition and intends to
continue doing so, but it's adYertis-
ing columns are open to any form
of business, not unlawful in char
acter, and the inter State liquor
traffic has not been so declared in
this commonwealth, boasts and
falsely pleads the News.
Consistently boshl An
other diagram needed. Will the
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News attempt to deny that, SO far
as Mississippi law is concerned,
that it is unlawful to sell liquor in
all but seven or eight counties Of
this State2 Or will it deny that
in taking refuge behind the inter-
State commerce laws, it legally,
morally and logically places it.
self in the same boat with the for
eign liquor dealers, prohibitionist
though it vaunts itself as being,
and adopts the identical argument
of the foreign liquor dealers and
the express companies when
forcing their Infamous G. O. d.
traffic on prohibition communi-
ties?
Moreover, the News con
sistently" fought prohibition both
in its editorial and advertising
columns up to less than - months
ago, when it was no longer able to
offer decent excuse for its OPP
position, in the face of facts and
the ever rising moral tide in favor
of this great reform. 1t is now
only half CONSISTENT and will
not be wholly so until it sheds its
whisky advertisements and ceases
to hearken unto the seductive in
tiuence of the foreign liquor deal
er through its counting room.
No, The Leader is not going to
cut the News off of its exchange
list ard hopes it will keep coming.
When the brewers and saloon
keepers say they are becoming
good and talking reform; there is
no need for any one to despair or
become discouraged over the evil
dent persev Gritty of the News; but
we want it distinctly understood
that The Leader is not going to
sit down silently and smoke, but
reserves the right to discuss and
criticise the editorial business
policies of the News or any
other public journal whenever, in
our opinion, they run counter to
law, morals or sound public poll
cy. To assert this right for our
self is to concede it to all Others.
So far as SNUG faced, white
livered hypocrites" are concerned,
we have only to say that if the
editor of this paper we're started
out with instructions to lasso
ite-livered hypocrites and moral
idiots. the last one of the editors
who processes to be a prohibition
ist and caters to the Jug and blind
tiger traffic by publishing the ads.
of liquor dealers, would have to
outrun our mustang to keep from
being rounded up and corraled.
If publisher says he doesn't sell
liquor by publishing the adver-
tisement Of a liquor dealer, then
be must be receiving the liquor
Dealers money under false pre-.
lenses.
| Suppose the News smokes on
this proposition awhile2
If there's aught in name Mr..
Looney, of Texas, who wants to