Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-08-27
THREE "NEXT STEPS"
IN. PROHIBITION ADVANCE.

NA1Gp Antlll NIdIlCS ~
Jones OF the Prohibition national COM
mittee epitomized 1.-The Three Next
. Steps In the Prohibition Advance" and,
pointing out the opportunity of crys-
tallizing the sentiment now aroused in
the temperance reform, declared:
The Three Next Steps In Prohibition
Advance.
THE Prohibition party proposes to
take possession of the government in
the name of patriotism and civic
sistent educational campaign of the
last forty years it has become COM
paratively easy for aroused public sen
timent during the past five years to
secure legislation and drive the saloon
from rural sections, but the hardest
part of the fight and one that will de-
mand compact political organization is
just before u.s."
Continuing, Chairman Jones pointed
out these three next goals OF the Pro
hibition reform:
ITO secure state and national Prohi-
bition Of the manufacture as we'll as
the sale of alcoholic beverages, to win
the large cities, which control our pol
itics. and to preserve, establish and adj
minister the perfected legislation. once
it has been placed upon our statute
books and embodied in our constitution,
will require methods far more substan-
tial and resourceful than any merely
extra partisan movement can produce,
1.-THE political power of every great
city. of every state and of the nation
at large is geared to the machinery of
parties, carefully developed down to
the last detail of efficiency and up to
the highest possible point of successful
organization.
Sudden furrieS of unorganiZed in
dependents appearing now and then
in these larger fields achieve little in
competition with the disciplined armies
of the regular" firmly intrenched or
CARNATIONS.
mo president was ever elected by a
spontaneous popular uprising which
had not previously captured or created
OlSdulLGu DOllllCdl pan
through which to effect it's purpose.
mo nonpartisan reform movement
ever secured control of a state or city
government long enough to perma-
nently establish its issue without first
overthrowing the dominant party with
anothe" party as aggressive and as
efficiently organized.
mo moral issue and no other issue
has ever permanently won in politics
until it was able to command the dis
ciplined support of political machine,
built to defy and survive the wear
and tear of the most strenuous agita-
ton and the hottest campaign.
Organizing For National Victory.
GAS Prohibitionists we boast that the
Irresistible power of u great moral
cause will secure its triumph in the
end because it is right; but while that
is true, it is true only because such an
issue before the end will inevitably
attract the loyalty. wisdom and prac-
teal common sense necessary to or
ganize it into victory.
1.-THE Prohibition reform has reached
the hour in its advance where it must
unite ali it's forces in solid political
phalanx to finally establish its issue
where it has won a preliminary Skin
mish by sudden popular uprising and
carry the moral revolution through to
aAcompete and permanent triumph.
IF this is not done the awakened and
powerfully organized forces of drink
and vice will recapture by assault
thIO ugh the still dominant license par.
ties all that has been wrested from
their grip in this past half decade.
Where Previous Prohibition Move
ments Failed.
''This has happened in every great
temperance and Prohibition revival of
the past because the liquor dealers
controlled the attitude and policies of
both leading parties. and the great in
dependent movements against the
liquor traffic failed to take advantage
of their foodtide and crystalline into
political organizations fitted to cap
ture, transform and administer the
government.
THE Prohibition party was born for
ty years ago and has patiently and per-
Sistently borne the storm and stress of
nearly half a century for just this pur-
pose-to point the way and provide an
instrument by means of which the ma
TONS clean majority. long ineffective
because politically divided, could re-
unite and place in power a political
organization created by it and pledged
to carry out its will.
ITO construct even the nucleus of q
solid. unstampedable political party re-
quires the patience of lifetime and
the slow growth of a generation of
political experience Even were it 9TH
erwise. the complicated ballot laws Of
our half a hundred commemorative
would require unlimited funds and i'm
mense effort to effect even a tempo
rary political organization of national
unity. which would still lack the sta
bility and esprit de corps of the older
and thoroughly disciplined parties in
the field
1.-The Prohibition party is the only
organized force in politics champion
ing the Prohibition issue from princi-
pie and conviction. By the experience
and discipline of our forty years ca
reer our organization has developed
and matured until we have become n
recognized factor in politics. which the
politicians of all parties are watch
ing with constant anxiety.
To Put Prohibitionisss In Congress In
1910 Elections.
Because of our vantage ground we
owe It to all the friends of the Pro-
hibition movement to launch at once Ii
campaign for the strengthening and
extension of our organization as a
party, to the end that we may imme-
diately inaugurate in every section of
the land an out-to-win campaign in
the next most important national con-
test, the congressional elections of 1910
6fVx1ifh tho oufhuciacm now d0mi-