West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-05-11

victims of the traffic have fallen
INTO eternity, unpardoned and un-
saved. y u
The speaker commended the adj
vanced ground taken and held bv
Richie county. Twenty-nine wears
has prohibition prevailed here. and
In spite of the jug train from Wood.
and the dereliction of some of its
officers, the result is grand success.
He spoke of the temperance yicto-
r'es and defeats, and the general
advance in Parkersburg. We can
say with Napoleon, that one more
such victory as the saloonists gain
ed In the last election will ruin
them. He referred to the effort of
the liquor men to secure the reno
val OF their excellent Chief of Police
who was bringing them to Justice,
and the firm stand taken by the
Mayor of their own choice, who
said, eff Mr.. Mehen goes out l 60"
and of the persistent violators be-
ing put under heavy bonds to keep
the peace by his His Honor, Judge
jackson, during the present term
of Court.
He closed with a stirring appeal
for agitation, organization and a
strong delegation to the State Con-
vention, protesting that he would
not cease to cry out against the in
iquitous traffic so long as he could
speak, and if speech failed, he would
make mouths at it while life lasted.
With the amusing anecdote hap
PLY applied, of the boys killing
the gosling to keep from be-
ing chopped" by it when it grew to
be gander, the Chairman introdu-
ced the last speaker of the evening,
REV. G. C. WELDING, OF PARKERsBURG,
whose speech of half an hour was a
fitting climax to the trio of excel
lent, stirring addresses. The speak
er briefly reviewed the progress Of
temperance from the Crusade thro'
the Murphy movement to the pres
ent, when the secret of our power
and success was the adding of an
other "tio11" to Bro. Prickitt's four
and that was, salvation: He in
sisted that we can't be incorporate
in appropriate denunciations of the
liquor traffic. They called him a
radical on the temperance question
Be it so. He believed he was right
if right, he couldn't be too right
To illustrate the progress Of tenn
perance, he said he used to see boys,
place little boards across sticks OF
stones, and putting toads on one
end, strike the other end with clubs,
sending the toads high up in the air
so the liquor boys used to send the
temperance toads sky high every
time, and enjoy the wicked sport
hugely. But positions have changed
now the boards are turned round,
and now we're sending up the toads.
The party on top always laughs,
but he laughs longest who laughs
last. Now, the liquor men were
crying out for their rights" ask
ing terms and begging for mercy.
This reminded him of the murderer,
sentenced to death for killing his
father and mother. When the
Judge asked him if he had any
thing to say, he replied by appealing
to the Court for mercy, on the
ground that he was a poor, lone Or
phan. The whole traffic is wrong.
License is wrong; equally wrong,
whether the license be fixed at %
cents or 100000, No man can
pray for the license system. When
YOU join in the crime and license it,
you put away all divine help.
Prohibition is the line of battle.
There are 100000 people in West
Virginia $4,000 are voters. We
want to arouse the State want meet
ings in every district. We must go
before the Legislature next Winter
with petitions bearing the names
of $4,000 voters and 10000 wo-
men.
We must have system and organ
ization, with central organ of COM
munication, so that we may work
and 90 forward with a common pur-
pose and inspiration. A few earn
est temperance workers, in Par