The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-03-26

get IO6ln W T6tUfN ~ uFHfhUtY, tAC4CUy
willfully and deliberately seeking the de-
struction of mankind?
Rumsellers, you argue that you do not
ask a man to drink. Did you never invite
any one into YOUR saloon just to take "a
friendly glass" with you? You have. and
you did it for no other reason than to ex-
cite that dormant appetite, which you
knew, when once aroused, would force the
man to spend his last cent for liquor, and
that through his downfall you would fill
your Golfers.
Rumsellers, in the last day, when you
will be required, by sin-hating God, to
account for the manner in which you
spend this life-for having defraudea your
neighbor out of his hard earnings, starved
his family and made paupers of his chill
dren, your time-worn pleas that you had
legal license for that especial purpose, and
are not responsible for the result of your
liquor, will not save your cringing soul
from a burning hell BE not deceived !;
God is not Knocked forswhatsoever man
soweth that shall he also reap DE
struction shall be to the workers Of in
iquity."
Rumsellers, in.hooting and eondemning
temperanceladvocates, you eagerly class
them as fools. If a person who seeks to
increase the happiness, prolong the life,
and save the soul of a fellow-man is a fool.
pray in what category do you appear who
rave to obtain the money of your fellow
man by destroying his body in this world,
and damnlng his soul in 1.-THE world to
come?
RumseIlers, if your business is as ne
cessary and beneficial as you assert, why
do YOU frost the lower-halfi of your win
dows and doors, so that those who enter
your saloon can drink in secret?
If it is so manifold blessing to man
kind as you claim, why do you place a lat
ticed screen between your bar and door
behind which to shield your customers ?
If it is so grand and noble vocation as
you aver, why do you furnish private and
secluded rooms to which one can go and
engage in protracted dissipation uno5-
served?
Despite all your vauntings about your
liquors, you dare not expose to view the
inward workings Of those lazer-houses of
iniquity- bar-rooms, dram novels, rum
shops, groggeries and gilded saloons.
DO not the forked paths of death lead d.
rect from those accursed establishments to
every form of sin, to every degree OF mis-
cry, to every class of crime, to the stencil
full brothel and to the lowest hell
Iatemperance is bloody knife, satisfied
only acith Immortal souls as trophies
There is no denying that the cristalized
power Of whiskey monopolies, rings
cliques, and associations possess and con
troll mighty influences for the perpetuity
and spread Of their contemplate business
yet the clouds of righteous Indignation are
rapidly and Enthusiastically gathering in al
quarters of the globe, and soon they will
collect into one vast, laundering ''besom
of destruction which will completely blot
out this whitening plague of Intemper
ance.
No institution can long survive ''whose
foundations are laid in oceans of human
blood and tears. and whose Golfers are sup
piled with money coined out of hopeless
women's grief and orphan childreG's cry
for Bread
Man is constantly beset with the daz
zling snares of Intemperance. At almost
every street corner he is confronted BY
some new temptation, into which Seems
engrafted a resistless, magnetic infiu-
ence, which staggers him with its per
fumed breath, and which reaches out it,
gilded paws and smilingly invites hin
closer. Heed but one whisper, yield but
an inch, and into it's victim it quick.
thrusts it's lacerating claws, SO snugly con
cealed beneath the velvet surface, whose
| secreted venom is ultimate death.
| Said celebrated ancient writer THE
arrows Of calamity, barbed with anguish
are often fixed deep in our choicest com
forts. The fiery darts of temptation, sho
from the hand of hell, are always flying il
showers around our integrity"
! These distresses are more severe and thu
| dangers more fearful now than they were
then. The arrows" are more effective
and the darts more numerous to-day
than they were when those sentences were
penned, seven score years ago, for the
| missiles of pain and the devices OF destruc
ton haye been correspondingly fashioned
| with the developing ingenuity of man.
Nearly every city and town in our states
are crowded with tipping saloons ani
their auxiliary departments ante-cham
bers of hell wherein are Matched and fec
those ravenous teaches of corruption
which wallow and struggle and gloat il
the life-blood Of our neighbors and friends
and kindred.
Every day this great massacreing work
is going Oh. Each hour some new victim
is being slaughtered by liquor
Would that we could inscribe, in flaming
characters, upon the blue arched heavens
God IS mandates against the use of WhlS
kew. Paint, in tiny ciphers. upon every
uuiyering leaf and blushing flower, TIT
woe accustomed by intoxicants. Chisel, il
colossal figures, upon every r0ck-ribbeC
| mountain, the deplorable effects of liquor
Engrave, in FURNISHED letters, upon every
atom Of nature, the direful consequences
| of drink. so that the infatuated inebriatt
would be constantly confronted by thu
power of the element that is rushing hin
with startling and merciless rapidity to
eternity. to God, and the judgment ?
| Persistent discussion OF the cause OF in
1 temperance will contribute materially tx
| its final destruction, for it is mainly
| through the medium Of the press that the
| people are educated up to the importance
of the issues involved in any great contest
Besides there is no liquor-dealer who viii
not hotly protest against any agitation Of
/ the subject, for the reason that SO long IA
| tiey can succeed in beguilng their Gus
| toners into unconscious oblivion OF thu
awful da, ger which surrounds them, just
so long viii their nefarious business con
tine to grow. expand, and prosper.
| AS silence is the liquor men harvest
let all Temperance people by unilinching
aggressive war upon the hydra-inonster o
! Intemperance. awaken and warn ever,
man OF the imminent and appalling doom
which will eventually descend upon him
if he continues permit bar-rOoms, dram
novels. rum shops. groggeries, and glldet
| saloons to proudly Haunt themselves il
bold defiance of God and home and Ma
tive land ~