The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-16
TRHPRRAaGE RALR.

Interview with Hen. 4. 7. Caldwell, Of
WOad Comfy, last Might, IN Regard 20
the status Of the Temperance Gauss II
this hlAIe.
An lNFELLIGRNcRR reporter encountered
Charley Caldwell at the Mcclure House
last night, and asked him what he was do
ing up here just now.
swell, l am up here in attendance upon
the Supreme Court"
How is the prohibition movement in
your part Of the Slater
1t is moving rapidly, but without much
noise, and the indications are that 1t will
be forced as an issue politically, not only
in our part OF the State, but all over it.
soon. The use OF spirituous liquors as a
beverage is receiving lees favor and more
odium every day, aud in the course oil q
few years 1t must go-aud the day in
which the decree goes forth that 1t shall
not be sold as q beverage In any territory
under the jurisdiction Of the United
States should be observed % q day Of Ma
tionAl thanksgiving, Why, the use oil
liquors In this country hAs caused more
deaths, more destruction Of property than
all the wars We have ever had. 1t has
been the greatest enemy hui people have
had 10 contend with, and yet they en-,
courage and support 1t. II q Of ouT
citizens Is illegally detained by q foreign
power we would release him even at the
cost Of thousands Of lives and millions oil
money. Yet intempeTenCe has killed,
robbed and destroyed more Of our'citizenE
than all the outside world, and 1t Ia II.
Csnsed by the government. But we are
not surprised atit, for what bstter can be
expected Of q civilized country that allows
and permits polygamy, Why don't they
license ittoo? 1t dsstroys fewer lives, lest
property and less virtue than intemper
auce.
What about the convention 10 be held
here on the 2ShP viii 1t be large, and
what Is the objsCtH
The convention will be large-uot &C
large as 0 political convention, but as 70
spectacle. II will be- a large gathering
larger perhaps than thought OF by many
The object OF the convention Is TO organize
for work in the interest Of prohibition
something must be done 10 save the
young and old, who are being destroyed
every day by this curse. Victims are
hourly being swept away by II, the bright
cot, the best hearted, The most noble
They fall silently, % the leaves o! Autumn
fall, and are buried and soon forgotten
aud II It Ia not wiped out 1t will not bt
long until every family cemetery will con
tain q victim OF lts destroying power.
Do yon believe prohibition will be 9
benefit to the State interest?
Yes, cir, | consider the lives Of half 9
dozen oil men that l could name, who
have been swept to their graves from tht
city OF Wheeling alone, from the effect
oil liquor, would, II they were to-day living
be worth more 10 the State than oil the reY,
enue 1t has received from lts sale, and
the revenue received 10 the only sdvan
tage derived from 1t, and there 10 not {
man living to-day, who would not give, Il
he we're able, money sufficient to run thu
State a thousand years, to redeem {
drunken SON. Aud 90 long as you license
liquor selling and furnish o place to sci
II, so long will 1t be used, and 80 long vii
there be drunken people.
VIII you he present at the meeting OF
the 28th inst?
Yes, sir; and at any and oil others
may be able to attend. II is the only
enemy I eyOr had that ! hsrbor malice
against, and II | could | would curse |
with q thousand tongues. The poetica
lament Of the dying savage itly represent
my feelings In regard to It:
az lOath0 you 10 my bosom,
BOOFn you With mine eyOi
III tAunt you With my latest breath,
And fight you I'LL die"
Good bye, sir.