Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-05
Dissatisfied with the Bill.

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Dear Sir,-You have been so kind in
publishing one article of mine on this
subject that hesitate to ask you TO
publish another. But great crisis has
arisen in the history of the temperance
cause in the State, and | deem it the
duty of every tempeTance-man, OF every
friend Of morality and religion, to rally
to the support Of the temperance cause
in this the hour Of its danger.
began to work for the temperance
cause thirty-three years ago, before |
had beard on my face. have grown
gray in its service. ] have chung to
and struggled with it in all its phases
and fortunes. have talked, and
prayed, and preached, and wept, and
suffered for it. ] hope you will allow
me room for one more article on the
subject.
| was not present last Monday at
either the Methodist preachers meet.
ing or at the Protestant Minister'S
A Association Of Richmond when the
resolution was passed requesting the
Legislature to pass local-option bill
excluding the cities from its operation.
Had | been present ] should have voted
against the resolution.
The local option bill which has passed
the House OF Delegates and is now be-
fore the Senate regard as worse than
worthless. | fear it will do evil itself
and prove bar to future legislation on
the subject. With no restraint upon
the dstilleries and Droweries-the
source of this curse of curses with no
restraint upon the cities, where the most
of the liquors are consumed, fear that
state of things will follow which will
Justify the title which Mr.. Fulkerson
proposed for this bill I" A Bill to
Multiply Distilleries, Increase Drunken
ness, and Decrease Revenue" The
bill certainly opens the way for free
whiskey in every county or district
which may vote against liiuor-license.
As soon as the bcr-rooms and saloons
are closed then parties may and will
erect distilleries and make and sell any
quantity of liquor without let or him
drance.
notice in the proceedings of the
Senate Of yesterday that Mr.. Rhea, CT
Smyth county, presented to the Senate
a petition from the Good Templars and
other citizens asking for local-option
bill applicable to distilleries and cities,
and that Mr.. Peters presented to the
House Of Delegates petition from the
citizens of Henry county asking for a
local-Option law and higher liccnse-taX
on Equor-dealers. Had the people once
dreamed that it was possible for the
Democratic party to 60 back on its
promise to give Us local-option law,
similar petitions would have come in
like food from. almost every county
in the State. Conscious of our own
honesty, we believed that the parties we
were dealing with were as honest a.
ourselves, and, as each party gave US
pledge to give us-a 'ocal-option law, we
left the matter liz their hands, not deem
ing it needful to petition and beg honor
able men to do what they had pledged
themselves to do. Such course would
have been a reflection upon their hon
eSty.
Whatever may be the wording of the
Democratic platform, we understood,
and / doubt not that their convention
intended us to understand, that the
PLANK in their platform was as wide and
as long as the lOcal-optiOn plank in the
Republican platform. They promised
us bread they give rs stone.
hope that my personal friend. the
Hon. James N. S;ubbs, and other
friends to the temperance cause will
endeaYcr to have some amendments at
tached to the bill that will at least pre-
vent it from doing harm until we can
pick our fints and Try again. We in
tend 20 try again and again until the
moral and religious men ofthe State are
allowed the rights OF freemen-to ex-
press at the ballot-boy their opinions
and preferences in regard to all matters
affecting their most sacred interests.
AS an Old temperanoc-worker, / wish
ration of tie gentlemen Of both parties
to express my thanks to and admi-
who conteGded to the est for a local
option bill applicable &c the towns and
cities.
Now, NJ. Editor, know you would
not injure good cause, nor harm a
southern sister city; | therefore call
your attention to the following matter.
You published in the DisDatch a few
days ago the following extract
Business MEN LEi9l ING AT
LANTA.-An Atlanta GA dispatch |
says the PFOhibitionists o. that city |
have been thrown into considerable con-
sternation over the announcement that |
four men who have more than million |
dollars in business there have made |
preparations TO move to Texas, owing
to the recent Prohibition Increment.
The men arePau. Jones, Louis Gholstine,
Charles CutTier, and William Heath.
Bradstreet gradoS their aggregatevsa.th
at : l ,250,00e, Nsy have just returned
from Dallas, Texas, where thsy have
arranged for purchase Of land anG will
erect an enormous foundry fox the
manufacture Of stores, iron pillars land
ak kinds of castings. Mr.. Gkolst:ne,
who is real-eCtate broker, says that
Atlanta real estate, has gone down %
per cent. since PROHIBITION was carried.
Babimere Sun"
Immediately w.ote to a leading
minister Of the Gospe. n Atlanta asking
him for tAe facts in the case. He sent
ne the following facts
lie called at Bradst:eet's TO inquire
nto the matter. They looked at tde
igures $3.50, 1000, AID, said "Strite
nut the one million anG you will have
hen about what they are rated with
Is."
Paul Jones owns about our .fjthS of
ae remaining $250,000. He was
iQuor-dealer, AID will leave the city for
he very good reason that he will be
ompelled by the operation CT the pro-
ibition law to ta.e his business else.
there.
Thsre is more disposition to buy real
state now than az any time since the