Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-05-28
This Is the Business That
Agrees to Pay Back Fiji
teen Cents of Each
Dollar Of Spoil.
A Few Reasons Why America Is
Getting Ready to Wipe the
Liquor Traffic Off
the Map.

You know the liquor traffic breeds
criminals.
You know the liquor traffic makes
arunkards.
You know the liquor traffic causes
murders.
You know the liquor traffic makes
truthful men liars.
You know the liquor traffic c0rrupts
the legislature.
You know the liquor traffic makes
deadbeats out Of honest men.
You know the liquor traffic makes
people too poor to pay taxes.
You know the liquor traffic fills our
insane asylums.
You know the liquor traffic is the
main entrance to the penitentiary.
You know the liquor traffic furnishes
the clubroom for crooks and thugs.
You know the liquor traffic breeds
poverty and causes premature death.
You know the liquor traffic is the
greatest cause of the ballot box stuff
eng.
You know the liquor traffic causes
criminal registration.
You know the liquor traffic protects
the criminal.
You know the criminal protects the
kQuor traffic.
You know the liquor traffic lessons
The earnings Of men.
You know the liquor traffic makes
good Workmen poor workmen.
You know the liquor traffic is the IA
thsr. Of the boycott.
You know the liquor traffic is the
perpetual lawbreaker.
You know the liquor traffic causes
divorces.
You know the liquor traffic makes no
man a better man.
You know the liquor traffic ruins the
family.
You know the liquor traffic fills our
poorhouses.
You know the liquor traffic brushes
out the lives Of innocent women and
children.
You know the liquor traffic causes
suicide
You know the liquor traffic makes
brutes Of husbands and fathers.
You know the liquor traffic breaks
the hearts of thousands of mothers.
You know the liquor traffic is against
the church.
You know the liquor traffic corrupts
ne police.
You know the liquor traffic hates the
Sabbath.
You know the liquor traffic is the
eleaFing house Of our money for GRIM
mails, drunken sotS, ruined men, blast
Cd hopes, miserable lives, suicides and,
tn fact, all manner Of vice.
You know the liquor traffic depletes
the community Of money.
You know the liquor traffic kills
mems ambition for a better life.
You know the liquor traffic depreci-
ates adjoining property.
You know the liquor traffic costs
many times more than the revenue de-
rived from 1t.
You know the liquor traffic is In
America because it pays the million
afre brewer
This black list Of disaster and mis-
cry received by the Associated Pro-
Ebit1on Press from a correspondent in
$Sdalis, Mo-, by no means exhausts
the roll Of crime and tragedy which
f0lows In the wake Of the drink trade.
But with every one Of these items
confirmed in the daily press news dis
patches and in the experience Of al
most every home throughout the land,
d It any wonder that the American
people are rising in their might to put
Die liquor traffic out Of business and
drive It of the continent?
Indeed, Is it not the most natural
1taing, since the dominant parties for
forty years controlled by and subject
10 this curse have refused to wipe it
out, that the patriotic forces most
thoroughly aroused against it should
consistently advocate the union Of all
temperance forces for permanent vic
tory by political organization pledged
to establish state and national Prohi-
bSt1on?