The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-11

al pulpit platform country writing
lie,
In politics. everywhere else the good is enemy
to the best. countrys peril wrong
who vote, but from otherwise respectable who
vote wrong-not much from obscure bad citizens as
from the purchasable prominent.
By which that large company influential
often wealthy and always highly respected
they vote become active politics governed by
self instead of principle Honest in business upright in
private e infrequently church. they
look their and others suffrage sort of
merca asset oh, they would SELL perhaps would
not buy ballot outright every they
do indirectly sell their votes and they other
to do and thus they become danger
Gus and undesirable citizens.
Saloons help town financially" "Iawenforcement
crppes community commercially the wide policy
pays" IF should my convictions against In
favor OF virtue, would hurt business The is
of mine, and If oppose him he would leave" "he my
friend his wife aends my church"-the arguments
are familiar are they not? But such
advertisement For Sale"
Unless all signs fail in legally dry state there are
bankers who train with booteggers hold the deposits
r. such criminals; and there merchants vote with
gamblers to retain the trade the there
are public school teachers who support execrabe
istraton for fear of losing their
of both the church and state who politics
thugs and backguards and grafters rather mperi
their positions Is the poor ignoamus ballot
for the price any bribetaker than
money or Of holding somebody's good WILL getting
office for himself knsman? needy wretch
who is bought driven like masters bidding
less criminal than socially and commercially
prominent traitor his country both his suf
frage and his powerful influence the wrong side DE
it pays?" Why to Jail and the other
to Congress- judgeshp a diplomatic post? Are not
both tarred with the same stick?
The church member who retain saloon be-
cause liquor selling tenant pays him high rents is a
ha-tal thn h,tno tho
partner in the grogshop murder MILL Brand him
The banker who consuts the index deposit
tors in order to determine how he shall
election has soul to sell to the highest bidder;
devil is usually the successful bidder Mark him. The
contractor whose political affiliations determined by
his income from the administration and as the
administration pays, is Who pur-
chase him?
The merchant who attempts justify support
candidates platforms ground he fears that
otherwise he will lose trade is who though his
higher than that Of oafer is
mirable because his manhood is held a higher hgure
for his manhood still in the market Nor the
morally changed when the price paid political
support is Office popularity friendly
who votes against his convictions his religious
principles. the public moral welfare. justify
his being CRATER by saying The candidate
than the franker acknowledgement There
thing In 1t Friendship social position good will
these and other such things have value, trading
any them trading either of them
is bribery. That is all
Herein lies the only real hindrance regeneration
If the OPPOSITION the cowardly silence of
the prominent influential the community any Ameri
city could clean up and keep or
the enmity of the highly respec
table, and not the opposition of the tenement chiefly
sponsibe every fostering body politics.
Let's the public the and insist that the
public tell the truth about that Of undesirable c
GEMS
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