Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-23

to walk up and vote, whisky has got TO 60
out, and if the other crowd don't like ii
they can emigrate, God bless them!
Laughter and cheers. One brother said,
Where will they emigrate to?" There
was fellOw-a legion OF them-that emf
grated once They went into herd OF
swine. But | wouldn't want to put that
crowd off on the hogs this time. Laughter.
Now, brethren, if ever sold whisky, and
| will never sell it, but if / were l would
want to go to n town like Wheeling.
would want Presbyterian elder
for Mayor, couple of MethO-
dist stewards and five Baptist
deacons for councilmen, and then would
walk up and say, Il want license and
get them all to sign it; and when | come
to die would say: Wife, put my license
in my coffin; and the first thing when
walked up would think of my license,
and wfsn the Lord took me to task for
selling whisky would say: Here is my
license; | am poor ignorant creature,
didn't know it was wrong to sell whisky,
and here is my license signed by PreSby-
terian Mayor, Methodist Stewards and
Baptist Deacons;' and God Almighty
would put the
WHOLE SHEDANG IN HE'LL TOGETHER.
Sow whisky, reap drunkards. | say, in
the name of heh, that people with families
to raise have been sowing that kind OF
seed enough. don't think We have ever
contemplated this traffic in its right light.
! said i'll Chattanooga, Tennessee: That
nobody but an Internal scOundrel would
sell whisky, and nobody but an Internal
fool would drink it, | raised row, sOt
course, and they cursed me all around
town-when wasn't there. .,.
said | would bc fair with anybody,
even to you liquor dealers. | said nobody
but fool would drink. That is Il hard
thing to say, but only some kind of ham
dies will fit certain things. Now, dOwnin
Georgia, in my city, a gentleman walked
up in Jail one morning Just as the jaiIer
walked in. "Whcrc am I?' he asked.
"You are in jail, was the reply. 'What
ior?' For murder"
"wHO HAVE KILLED?'
'Your wife, sir, )" and the fellow staggered
back and fell on the floor and it WAS IN
hour before he came to consciousness, and
then he said, go out and get mob, and
tell them to take me TO the first tree they
find and hang me; for / have killed the
best wife a man ever had" II whisky
would make man do that would anybody
but an Internal fool drink it! (Cries OF
"NO," ''No.") They say make reckless
assertions. If l don prove my asSer-
tiOns | will take them allback,
now, said |, "You liquor dealers, | will
have to attend toyour case. You have been
damning me all around here all day. You
have sold whisky here for years, and
drcnched this town from center to crcum-
ference Ifyou will come and meet me in
the study Of this church tomorrow morn
ing and We will 90 up street and see that
dcSOlate woman, with her dcSOlate children.
Look at the bare floor and the Scanty furni-
ture and the rags that hang on her and
then and observe her swollen and tear
stained eyes. Then we will have her tell us
how she was raised in peace and plenty;
how she married steady and industrious"
man; and then will get that woman 10 tell
you how her husband commenced TO drink.
and went from bad 10 worse, until he
would
STEAL THE FIFTY CENTS
out of her basket that she had scwcd for
the day before, to buy whisky with, and
leave her and the children without u bite
to eat that day; and how he was convicted
of felony and sent 10 the pcnitcntiary for a
long term of years; and then we would put
our ears one by one To the poor woman'S
heart and hear the blood drip aud drip,
and drip, and then would ask you to say
whether anybody but an Internal scOun-
drrl would do that kind Of work. If you
%ly yes" | will take back what ! said,
on my knees They didn't meet me-
Cries Of mo, "NO.' | am going To
stand up for the precious women and
children OF this country or die in the at
tempt (Crics Of "Amen.')
In my city | WAS dcnouncing the blind
tigers We have voted lor prohibition
and You are selling on the sly, you internal
scoundrels, and | will put you in Jail or
the pcnitentiary or 20 there myself "
They got mad, Of course, and said: Il
would rs soon 20 into
\ FIGHT WITH \ NANCY ErLL DOG
rs to fight with YOU. Thirteen years ago
you could have got anything out of me
you wanted, and got it quick. And they
put dynamite under my buggy house and
tried to blow il into eternity, and said they
would put dynamite under my dwelling
and blow il up and my wife and children,
if didn't shut my mouth, and told my
wife what they said, that if didn't stop
whisky they would put dyna-
mite under the house and blow II up, and
she said: "DcnOunce il. If | have To die
| would rs soon go by the dynamite route
rs any other" Thank God for a wife who
has grit in her soul see lot OF lies in
the newspapers about prohibition in At
lanta. There are two places that have Ii
cense that last till the first OF November,
and then we will have prohibition right.
They wrote me letters and cursed me, and
damned that old tent, and made their
threats what they would do if | came
down there And my little boy, Bob, said:
'Do YOU reckon they will hurt you, faith
er." / said: Il don't know. But | would
RATHER BE a DEAD LION
than TO be thousand live dogs"
The only way you can get rid Of me will
be by the hand Of the assassin, and If you
stick your blade in my bosom when | am
asleep | will he in heaven before you get
home, YOU Internal hounds of hell, you.
What is a man going to growl about if he
gets to heaven a little ahead OF time?
i'm going 10 stop InIS ueluge oil damnalOn
if can. All the church of God needs to
wipe it out is her conscience aroused and
sand in her gizzard. ! am like Malone;
W hen they asked him what he weighed he
answered: "A hundred pounds, but ninety
pounds of that is back bone, Many a !
fellow in this country gets little ourrant |
Jelly run up his hack, and that is all lac has
in his back bone. Let the Methodist !
Church say to her party in politics: "lf
you don't give us prohibition we will stay
with YOU no more forever These brewers
and whisky sellers 90 to the political par
ties and say to them: We demand so and |
so" and that party says: ''We-e-e-e'll !
give it to you" Better tell them, if you |
don't stop your internal business we will
bury you forever and stick up
A DENIJOHS At YOUR FEET
and a whisky barrel staye at your head. "
There are more members in the Christian |
church in this country than liquor dealers.
Let us pick them up and shake the devils