The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-16
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY THE WOMEN IS CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANCE UNION.
OUR MOTTO: FOR GOD AND HOME AND
NATIVE LAND.
INTE9IPERANCE.
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BY P. A. ROSS.
PART w

OdOrOuS volcano, the merry lava OF which is
less injurious than the sickening, deadly
stencil which emanates from its crater"
In concluding cur general discussion of
this wide-scoping subject. we desire to test
the strength of the ''iery' scorn and Sin
furious" satire contained in the above
choice paragraph which appeared, few
days ago, in Appointment organ of the
liquor-dealers, and which is doubtless a
very sincere expression of their estimate
of the formidable prohibition movement
that is boldly confronting and daily retard-
ing the ravages of the arch-fiend of In
temperance.
Strictly considered the entire paragraph
is "a sensational, emotional, hystericaln
attempt to ridicule and condemn the glo-
rious Temperance Reform that is fast
driving the injurious, sickening, deadly
liquor traffic from our land.
If the indefatigable labors of Temper
ance people to save the "hypochondriac"
slaves of injurious, sickening, deadly"
liquor from adrunkard's life, drunkard's
death, and drunkard s hell are only an
''ehullition of fanaticism, " may God has
ten the time when such faaaticism shall
cover the earth as the waters cover the
sea.
Liquor-dealers, for ten cents il glass,
cram man full Of Injurious, sickening,
deadly" liquor which causes himto stagger
through the streets and wallow in the
gutter, but when a person, with human
pity and sympathy in his heart, s.helps the
bemired victim up, takes him home, ex
changes the poverty and rags and misery
of the family for plenty and decency and
happiness, liquor 2thereupon hiss
| 'fanaticism, = ''fanaticism -
Liquor-dealers, if you do not want any
more 'disordered liver, weak brain fanati-
| cism' just close your saloons and quit sell
ing injurious, sickening, deadly" liquor
and the Temperance fanatics" will not
modest you. But just so long as you con-
tinue to deal out that which benumbs. de-
grades and ruins, just so long will sTem-
perance fanatics guard the devious foot
steps of the poor drunkard and endeavor
| to win him away from sin and teach him
to love Jesus better than he does your
FIERY lava"
/ Thank God, IT emperance fanatics are
not ashamed Of their blessed work and
acoatld a million, million times rather be
Temperance fanatics" than Hguor-dealers
enemies of all that is good and pure and
holy-of whom one of your own clan
boastingly and truthfully asserted, ''the
saloon keeper is monster in league with
the devil, has taken the agency for popu-
lating hell and all his patrons are hopeless
Victims
Liquor-dealers, amid your wrathful IT,
rades of abuse, vituperation and SANDER,
remember that yoatr death-dealing dires
alone make the presence of Temperance
fanatics necessity, and that whenever you
permanently close your doors their occupa-
ton will be gone. Then, and only then
will they abandon their righteous crusade
against that heartless desecrator, Intem-
perance. Thus you see the need of the
| Temperance party is the outgrowth of
your own vocation and the continuation of
this hostile antagonism depends solely up
on your own actions.
Despite the gross insinuations. spiteful
slurs and sublimated opposition of liquor
dealers, Prohibition" is the strong and
willing hand that dares to rescue pitiable,
dellrlOuS victims from the ''malodorouS
Volcano into which 1.-THE fiery lava" that
sizes and tizzes'' in every bar-room
dram-hovel, rum-shop, groggery, and gid
ed saloon has numerically forced them.
Prohibition" is the iron grasp that is
rapidly closing the gore stained jaws of the
ravenous drinE-demon that yearly deUoars
one hundred thousand human beings, and
from whose enormous NAV there hourly
''spurts'' a deluging stream of ''sickening
stencil" which ''siZzes and tizzes'' until
the whole earth is reelng beneath the
''malodorous" tide.
Prohibition is the heaven blessed an
tidote that is setting Alright 1.-The disor-
dered livers and weak brains" of those in
to whom liquor,dea delight to pour
their injurious, sickening, deadly, fiery
| lava until each Of those sinks of vice and
crime reek with blood and pollution and
''the stencil which emanates from its
crater" is only equalled by the foul belch-
ings of hell itself Prohibition is the
potent agent that is effectually quench-
ing the raging, blistering torrent of "fery
Laval which produces.
THE withered, dark, defeated mind,
That curses Heaven and scorns mankind"
Liquordealer, may shrek ''fanati-
cism' until they are hoarse, but it will
profit them nothing. They may howl
''disordered livers and weak brains'' I'M
til they choke with rage, but it will not
avert their ultimate fate. They may
writhe and rave and squirm in agony
as, day by day, they keenly realize that
their sphere OF deadly" ruin is growing
smaller, but Prohibition will not check
its grand and onward march until all the
victims of injurious, sickening, deadly
liquor are saved from the fiery Volcano
OF rum, and virtue and sobriety sit SUI
premely enthroned upon the mighty pyra-
mid of Temperance Reform, erected by
the hard labor of Gods people and sup
ported by the massive arm of Omnipo-
tence.
Though denounced and in some meas
ures retarded by opposing parties, the
Temperance Cause like river, which
though. its surface is broken and ruffled
into waves by contrary. and boisterous
winds, yet holds on It's way with resistless
force. All the combined power and opposi-
tion Of men or devils seem incapable of
interposing any effectual barrier against
it's triumphant progress.
The redemption of mankind from the
roaring maelstrom of Intemperance may
appear slow, but just as certain as God is
eternal, just so certain will virtue and So
briefly finally prevail, = for wickedness hath
exceedingly polluted the whole EARTH and
their hurtful works are. fulfilled Evil
doors shall be cut off, but those that wait
upon the Lord, they shall inherit the
earth. y
Intemperance is powerful and penetrat-
ing. 1t can strike the deepest roots can
twist itself nto every fibre Of the
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