The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-08-19
HIGH LICENSE PARAGRAPHS,

HIGH LICENSE PARAGRAPHS.
Raising public revenue by license for
vice. "Woe unto him that buildeth his
house by unrighteousness and his cham
bers by wrong .''-Jer. rGi. 10.
! One fatal fact will make strangely for this
traffic under high licenses. 1t has pur-
chased a right to be, and the community
has accepted the price. The blood money
| has been paid, and the blood must there
fore of right and interest be split. The
community has taken the price, and must
in honor allow the sacrifice to proceed. =
We have sold our fellow-men; we have
set apart our thirty pieces of silver for
the potters field. for State prisons, asy-
lums and aims house, and now the fearful
work must go on. We have all struck
hands in reference to it.
II will never consent that the State
shall seek profit from the suffering and
degradation of the people. -Heathen En-
peror of CHINA.
''One of the most criminal methods of
assassination for money ever adopted by
the braves Of any age or country. Rus
Kin.
Your spirits and intoxicants are
death. King Cete,Uayo, visitang England
IN 1879.
Il am more afraid of it (brandy) than
! of Yankee bullets. "-Stone,raU.
Takes heap of money out of the coun-
try and State treasures. Phil. Record.
| A glance at the surroundings of the old
haYmarket in Chicago, the scene of the
recent dynamite outrages, is sufficient to
reveal one of the invariable comcomitants,
and we may say, the surest occasions of
riot and rapiDe in America. There, on
! that corner,'' said our informant, was
where the bomb fell" We looked, and
were satisfied that he was telling the
truth, 1t was such a place as the ennis
saries of Satan would most properly choose
for their infamous work On the first COR
ner was a saloon on the next opposite a
saloon on corner across the bisecGirg
street, a saloon and onthe corner opposite
! to that saloon There were no more sa-
looms on the corners. because there were
no more corners. but liquor halls were
strung up along either side of the street,
as if whiskey-drinklng were the principal
occupation of the people OF the vicinity
| Verify, if America has All arch enemy it
is the grog shop Happily the people OF
the States are beginning to realize it,
Standard.
When Cyrus the Great was a boy he
acted as cup-hearer, one time, for his
grandfather, King Cambysses, but omit
| ted to taste the liquor before presenting
| it to the King. Cambyses reminded HIM
of what he thought his forgetfulness.
mo-" replied the youth, 81 was afraid
to taste it, for not long since, at an enter
tainment which you gave 1 noticed that
the lords of your court became noisy,
quarelsome and frantic after drinking it.
Even you, sir, seemed to have forgotten
that you were king.
How can men without blushing ask in
one breath to believe that prohibition does
not prohibit. and yet that high license
shuts out low..whiskey.- Christian Inder..
Two thousand English physicians have
signed a declaration tilat alcoholic drinks
are inimical to the health, prosperity, NOR
atty and happiness of mankind Phil.
Presbyterian.
The To-Day, in commenting on the pro-
hibition convention in New Jersey says
"Fiye hundred and ninety-nine delegat es,
and not cigar OF Whit of smoke visible
no wrangling Or swearing was heard !,
peace and harmony reigned.
A newly formed mission church among
the Zulus Of South Africa. has this among
it's regulations : mo member of this
church shall be permitted to drink the
white mans grog, nor native beer. nor
touch it with his lips.
IT. has been estimated that one-6fth of
the wages earned in the United States
goes to pay for liquors consumed, or in
other words two hours toll are performed
each day by every person employed to
make up the enormous amount expended,
viz, s946, 100000
The Hon. B. II. Hill, of Atlanta, Ga,
saws that of the 700 criminals he has con-
victed 800 committed their crimes while
under the influence of whiskey
The dlstillers of the country are in ar
rears to the government with their taxes
to an amount exceeding $15,000,000.