West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-11-01


have found the chief obstacle to
their advancement in this awful
habit ofstrong drink, and all the
intelligence and all the virtue and
all the enthusiasm of the continent
will
PACK THEMSELVES INTO AN AVA
LANCHE
that shall come crashing down
upon the greatest evil that ever
cursed the nations. Now / give
the politicians of America fair
warning of what is coming. Bet
ter lead off than come in after
wards among the stragglers.
Prominent men of both parties,
North, South, East and West fore
see the rising tide Of this great
reformation, and they are getting
ready to fight. the red dragon.
There may be many defeats before
the day of victory, but victory will
come as sure as God lives, and this
land was not intended for one great
drunkery. | nominate for Presi-
dent and Vice President in 1884
caring not which is the first or
which the second name on the
ticket, although one is d Repub-
lican and the other Democrat,
the one Western man and the
other a Southern man, two pro-
nounced prohibitionists, Governor
st. John, of Kansas, and Governor
Colquitt of Georgia. 1t is high
time that the far West were hon
ored with such an office, and now
that the war is all over let us show
that we realize It is all> over by
calling to the highest or next to
the highest office the illustrious
Georgian. Omy Lord and my God,
what country this would be with
no dram shops in it In Thy great
mercy hasten it!
No dram shops, then no jaiis and
no poor houses. Few desolate
homesteads, few broken hearts.
No women brought up in elegance,
afterwards married to men whe~se5
them, with pale cheeks and shriv-
eled arms and consuming lung and
hollow eye and fainting strength,
to fight back the wolf whose
nostrils, thrust through the broken
window pane,
sNUFFs FOR THE BLOOD OF HER HELP
LESS BABES.
Let the temperance societies of
the land cease quarreling, and the
| 10000 members of those societies
in this one State of New York Join
the hundreds of thousands of mem
bers of temperance societies in
other States, and the millions of
people in the United States who,
not belonging to any temperance
society, still feeling that something
must be done for the sobriety and
disenthralment of this nation, and
in one-half the time that | have
spoken of as necessary for the
achievement Of the work it will be
done. We want first of all to de-
mand an amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States,
passed by threefourths of the States
as directed in the Constitution,
forbidding the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic liquors, except for
medical, scientific, artistic or me-
chanical purposes in all the States
and Territories, and forbidding the
importation of foreign liquors ex-
cept for the aforesaid purposes.
Next year or the year after let a
great convention be called to de-
mand such an amendment, and to
nominate national officers. AS
last winter at great temperance
meeting held in this house Cover
nor Colquitt and Governor st. John
addressed the people, SO / now
invite the holding Of such a con-
vention in this city and in this
house. Mere State enactment is
not enough. Drive the evil out of
one State, and you may drive it
into another. Make it a
NATIONAL ENACTMENT
and you may drive it into the At
lantic on one side and into the Pa
cifc on the other. Let there be no
room from the Canadas to the Gulf