The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-04
AT LAST.
God at last has answered the pray
ers of his people.

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This has been notable fight in
the history Of Tennessee. The bat
| tie has been long and hard, fierce
and fast and furious. When it began
the enemy was entrenched behind
double-ditched fortress. They had tn
law on their side; they had the admi
istration forces on their side; they
!! had constituencies. INSCRIPTIONS
brazen, brutal machine on their side,
they had money to burn-and they
burnt it. They seemed to be irwin
lcible.
| The bravest Knight that ever
championed just cause, challenged
the right of the liquor traffic to live.
He went forth with truth and justice
to do battle in a manly way. They
pounced upon him like a pack of RAJ
venous wolves; they lied about him.
they bounded him; they traced his
name with vile and ma1icious SLAM
ders; they bought and sold votes,
packed the boxes and miscounted the
ballots. They endorsed him and left
him PROSTATE on the battlefield and
thought that he was dead.
He rose again; undaunted, uncon-
quered, stronger, more majestic, more
valiant, and greater than The was be-
fore And when they saw his
strength grow stronger, and heard
his railing call, and saw the multitud
flocking to his standard, they way
laid and murdered him, and spilled
his hearts blood in the cutters of
the street.
And they said, "full surely now our
cause is ripening.'
But the murderous bullet that pier
ced the heart of Edward Ward Car
mack, and shocked a nation, crysta-
lized at the same time the prohibitionl
sentiment in Tennessee, and sounded
the deathknell of liquor traffic. It
was a priceless price, and yet one
mans life is cheap if it saves ten
thousand souls from a drunkard's
hell, and ten times ten thousand
from ignorance and vice, poverty and
rags
The enemies of prohibition; not
he purchased political speiler but
he real honest enemies to prohibit
ion, have not the faintest vision of
what this trouble is about. They. are
IS blind as sin-curged soul is blind
o a Christians faith. They are as
leaf as dummy's ear is to the
tone of an eolian harp. They
imply do not know, cannot under
stand, what it all means.
They think, some of them, that
'olitics Is at the bottom of it. 9th
rs of them say that only fools and
anatics, women, children and poIiti-
al persons are. interested i1r it. They
re densely ignorant, most OF them,
lpon this subject. Theyrwin not lis !
en- to prohibition takers. They will
lot read prohibition newspapers, or
literature Of anYkind.
Their chosen leader, Mr.. Patterson
himself, reads only one side of this
,reat question, as his messages show
nd is grotesquely ignorant of what
lie writes.
They are all dumb blind, leadingt
he blind.
This victory Games from the hearts
# the people. 1t is the child off
heir faith, their hope and their prom
Sc. 1t is the prayer of the mother
or her hayward boy. 1t is the crys-
allied tear of beaten, broken
hearted wife. It Is the new born-hGpe
# the mother, as she feels for
he first time her first born's breath.
t is the young mans ambition, tol
save his college fellow or his club
nate. 1t is his seIf-preservation ais b
ooks out upon the future, rosy with
nope, flowered with desire and frag-
ant with ambition. It is the old
mans dream, culIed from memories
If what might have been. It Isl the
ruition of the Christian faith. It is
he elimination of the brotherhood
If man. 1t falls upon Tennessee soil
ike the gentle rain from heaven, and
,hrice blessed, for it blesses those
who giveth and those who receiveth
t.
1t comes to restore order out of
chaos; to change poverty into plenty;
rags into raimenH,, and by taking from
him the enemy that steals away his
brains, to clothe man again in his
right mind.
All honor to the men and women,
the preachers and the papers, WAC
hath wrought this good work. among
us. May their days be long, full of
honor and of plenty, and may their
children and their children's children,
rise up to call them blessed. The