The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1908-05-28
Sunday Morning thoughts.
Editor Reveille:
JUD BoLLs.

Editor ReVellle:
Your last issue certainly contains
variety of literary hash but some
Of it had bones in it. For instance
quote from Senator Wright oi
Georgia. "The saloon fed on fall
en- manhood" and almost in the
same column / quote from A. I.
Montgomery, 81 am equally strong
against prohibition" Thus we
have in contrast two great minds.
If we admit that Mr.. Montgomery
is correct, Senator Wright, your
self and the overwhelming MAORI
ty of the body polite of Missis-
sippi and other states are absolute
ly unthinkers, for he says: tTo
EVERY THINKING man the futility as
we'll as the falacy of such prop
osition has been seen and noted. "
l regard Mr.. Montgomery as an
extraordinary ''thinker"-one OF
large experience and observa-
ton" of prohibitory laws which
"perchance are ruinous to COM
monwealth. Imagine, if you
please, this heart feeling patriot,
standing upon the threshold OF
some unfortunate commonwealth,
believing and paving, moaning
groaning, shedding streams of
briny tears in "experiencing and
observing" its ruin for the want of
whiskey. He is an extraordinary
thinker because history does
not record such a spectacle. Ire
land became a subject, France
changed her government, Spain
lost her national prestige, but the
cause generally ascribed, these
commonwealth had TOO MUCH OF
THE STUFF.
He is an extraordinary thinker
because he has thought himself
into a regular doctor of laws
q. L. D. for he says : "The
statute books of Mississippi are
burdened with a concatenation of
constitutional imperfections,
three fourths of which should
be abrogated." Not long since
l read an address by the chancel-
lor of the University of Virginia,
an expounder and teacher of the
law for more than 40 years. He
said: "All the states of our Union
have good and wholesome laws,
but those of the state of Missis-
sippi are exceptionally fine. Mis-
sissippi, by her nerve and brain, is
a leader indeed in meeting all emer-
gencies of law" l quote from
memory. l felt complimented as a
citizen of this great common
but alas, alas, "nothing
but leavesl Nothing but leaves"
is the death knell of
"ruin" according to this legal ad-
Indicator. Poor John and Bob.
What numbskulls that they "can-
not remember that their fellow
citizens, the saloonists, have
rightsl" How "heavy hearted"
they must feel that they went to
the legislature, performed the will
of the constituency and acted well
their part for God and their nature
landl But boys, wake up, take a
drink, this is the bible remedy for
the heavy-hearted, according to
friend Montgomery. He is an ex-
traordinary thinker because he
thinks that morality inculcated by
education is the climbing post into
Heaven. Why can he not think
of the innumerable host of moral
lists who have finally been over
come by the demon of the still1
Why can he not think OF the
myriads of the best education who
have been pitifui subjects of this
soup of hell, who have wended
their way against their own reason,
and over the teachings and pray
ers of parents, friends, church and
clergy7 Why can he not think OF
the countless thousand homes,
desolate widows and hungry chill
dren who have been subjects ofthe
reign of the saloona Why can he
not think of the communities
which have been turned into in
fernal pandemonIums from. whisky
1t seems to me that a little recol-
lection would render this thinker
a little more acute if he would on
ly give it moments sway.