Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-24

the cause Of almost all the poverty, and
almost all the crime, and almost all the
misery, ard almost all the ignorance,
and almost all the irreligion that dis
grace and afllict mankind"
Professor Moses Stuart, ID. d., An
dover tls30: 1.-THE time IS coming
when those who use intoxicating liquors
or traffic in them will not be able to lit
up their heads in a Christian Church
which has any good claim to elevation
and purity Of character. They will be
as really and truly stigmatized on ac-
count of unchristian conduct as those
who are guilty Of vices that are now
deemed palpably disgraceful."
Wilbur Fisk, ID. ID. Qo3N: The
drsm-shop is the recruiting rendezvous
OF hell And shall Christian consent
TO be the recruiting officer? The Church
must free herself from this whole busl-
ness. 1t is all a sinful work with
which Christians should have nothing
TO do. only to drive it from the sacred
Enclosures of the Church, and, 1t posi-
Bile, from the earth"
Hon. Henry Wilson, ex-Vice-Presi-
dent tlS75): "All other issues before
the American people dwindle into in
significance compared with the issues
involved in the temperance question"
Gladstone: We suffer more year
by year from intemperance than from
war, pestilence, and famine combined
those three great scouTges ofthe human
family"
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,. of Maine "The
liquor-traflic is the gigantic crime OF
crimes"
Hon. Noah Davis. Chief.Justice of
New York Among all causes of
crime intemperance stands out the I'M
approachable chief"
Hon. Robert G. Pitman. LII. D., as
scciate justice Of the Superior Court
of Massachusetts, : When the State
writes criminal over the doorway of
the most elegant drinking-saloons as
well as over the lowest grog-shops ;
when 1t places at the bar of Justice the
tempter by the side of his victim, and
when it stamps every package of liquor
as a dangerous beverage, meriting de-
structlon as public nuisance, it has
done much to warn the young and un-
wary and to turn their feet aside from
the downward path"
Canon Wherefore, OF England g
have seen in my own experience, mis-
cry, sorrow, crime, desolation, cruelty,
and tyranny arise from intoxicating
drinks"
DR.. Howard Crosby, an advocate Of
high license "Put down the saloon.
1t will not stop intemperance, bat It
will stop the principal breeder of in-
temperance, pauperism, and crime
Robert Ingersoll " Intemperance Is
the sum of all yillanies-the father OF
crime, the mother Of denominations, the
devils best friend. and Gods worst
enemy
respectfully submit that Joseph
Cook. Robert c. Pitman, Brougham,
Gladstone, Wilberforce, John Wesley,
John Adams, Chalmers, j. G.. Holland,
Oliver Goldsmith, Moses Stuart. VIII
bur Fisk, Henry Wilson, l.. NJ. Nor
ull, Noah Davis, Crosby lDgersOll,
ChiefJustice fancy, and the editors of
the London Times and the New York
Tribune will not be callel temperance
fanatics. All these speak Of the liquor
traffic or ofintemperance. Allofus know
that intemperance Is largely produced
and greatly promoted by the liquor
saloon all Of US know that the bar
room is the principal breeder of in
temperance, pauberism, and crime -;
all Of us know that the liluor-salOon /
is a curse to any COMMUNICATIVE |
nothing noble Is ever born Of it,"
This being an indisputable fact, can
Christian vote to license liquor-saloons, |
and by his vote sustain that which pro-
notes wrong and crime? My Christian |
brother, if you vote as you pray You
will vote for the prohibition of the
liquor traffic in Richmond.
l.. 4. CUTLER.