Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-12-11
The voters for license will have to shout

der a goodly share of the crime, conse-
uuent to that free use Of Alcohol Us bey-
erage. The responsibility reverts to you
voters. Others may suffer the penalty of
violated law, but you stand responsible
for the effects Of that license; and will as
certainly as you have an imInortal being,
be held accountable by the Great Eternal,
for the blood of your neighbors. slain BY
your suffrage.
cam my neighbours keeper ?' say you,
yes, by the immutable laws of Justic you
are; in that you have made the laws
through which he sined, and will be held
eminently responsible for their action.
For remember Gle that SONS the wind
shall reap the whirlwind." Gods laws
of retributive justice are as intleXible as
the Adamant He has made incapable OF
bending. You may make Jaws that shall
cntrap and ruin your neighbor's son. but
the next east of the Die may reveal your
/ own son an abandon; made so by these
veritable laws ofyour own making, which
| swept him down.
| In prof that the majority of crimes
! cocnizant to the criminal code of these
/ States were the proceeds and effects OF
! whiskev drinking wequote from repOr-
/ er who visited the Penitentiary at Column
| bus, Ohio, to ascertain the origin and
/ cause of the crimes for which the various
! FelonS therein incarccrated were convict
! ad. lie ascertained that out of the elev-
! ell hundred criminals there, in durance
vile, ninety-nine out of the hundred were
! the proceeds of whiskey drinking, or the
| out-growth Of intoXication.
! We make several quotations from the
! revised code of the statutes of one of the
/ States. "That it shall be unlawful for any
! person or persons, byagent or otherwise,
| to sell Intoxicating liquors to minors, un-
less upon written orders of their parents,
! guardians or family physicians" OBJ
! serve, minor in the eyes of the law is
any one under 81 years of age. THAT 1t
! shall be unlawful for any person or per-
sons TO sell by agent or otherwise, intoX-
! icating liquors TO persons intoxicated; OF
/ that are in the habit of getting intoXica-
/ ted. But not unlawful TO sell 10 soper
I men,"
Observe here, that it is not unlawful TO
! destroy yrture and make men reckless,
! dissolute and vagrant, but extremely I'M
/ lawful for them 10 practice the business,
/ after that they are graduated in crime
/ and plsced i'll position. Satan delights
/ to have his ranks filled up by just such
| deceptive doings.
! Take those laws on their own merits,
/ and see what force they carry. Here you
/ have enactments giving leave to saloon
! lists and others to make az many topers us
: they please until they are thoroughly M
I bucd with the love and habit OF drink,
/ aud then they are to be driven out, ana
minors as SOON rs they attain tn majority,
! aud other sober men who can be trapped
/ into those diSgraCcful compartments, may
take their places, until another crop OF
l. Il. TOD tn hn fnrnpI
and so the evil will be prolonged by con-
tinuous supply Of victims. Verify that is
a most facile law, and meets its own
emergencies very adrotly, and doubt
lessly was drafted by sharp saloonist,
| or whiskey dealer.
As respects ourSelf we have hitherto
always supposed that the Forum, the
camp and the polls were in no wise the
! legitimate sphere of gentle woman s high
est. best endcavorS, but have hitherto con-
signed TO her, as We thought, higher,
purcr and vastly more onerous sphere Tor
prominence in action-viZ, Domestic SUI
Dremacy and endcdrmcnts. But Oh more
mature consideration we revoke that de-
cision respecting the vote, and decide that
woman does inharit, and that by Divine
ripht, the elective franchise, in its high
est and purcst form. Her heart Is her
ballot box. from thence she draws her in
spirationE, and there she chronicles her
decisions.
Tovote the greatest amount OF good TO
al and every member Ola community /;
her guaranteed privilege, as it is her
hounden duty, and the very first stop to-
wards securing this aggregate of good to
all is to vote the absolute prohibition OF
all alcoholic liquors as a beverage from
nd Inn isI from n
in all and every form, this baneful COM
pound. ooh, YOU ladies" say some of
YOU chad better say your prayers and
leave the subject of whiskev drinking to
be regulated by men" Yes we intend TO
say our prayers, that Is just what we are
doing. and intend TO make the subject one
of bcseeching mighty prayer, that our
vote be approved by High Heaven, and
recorded in that high court OF chaucery
in the affirmative.
And this vote we intend to carry out in
those several ways.
First-By combined temperance league
in sending up, az said before, to the high
est court in the Universe, that the Divine
seal be set to, that there be no more Alco-
holic liquors, made, sold, drank. given
away or forced on any one by fashionable
use or criminal connivance.
Secondly-By the gentlcmans' cooper
alton, we acknowledge the paramount
position THAI God has placed chem in; and
claim thci aid liz support of all that is
worthy the efforts OF true and noble
womanhood. And what more worthy her
best efforts than this gracious cause? We
repeat. The gantcmans' cooperation In
swift visitation ofthe penalties of the
law on al infractions and contravcners OF
the statutes, either State or municipal,
bearing on the temperance question.
Thirdly the ballot. In with holding
patronage i'm toto. from all dealers in i'll
toXicating liquors.
Neither voting for, nor In anywisc sus-
tanning any one in office whosocver thai
shall declare himself opposed to temper
ance, reform or demurrs to a prohibition
of intoxicating liquors in every form.
And that prohibition be the law, and have
absolute reign aud rule in this realm and
commonwealth and nations Of ours. 80
mote il be, and so helpus our Cod