The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-09-15

terested in the perpetration ~
crime, three.fourths Of which is for.
eign.
While the population has in.
creased 20 per cent, the criminals
have increased 80 per cent.
With this alarming increase of
criminals, three-fourths of which
is caused by the saloons, is it not
time to call a halt2 Isn't it tims
to put out these alcoholic fires, that
are Kissing and roaring beneath
this seething cauldron of crime
before they are utterly beyond con.
troll, and our nation in ruinsP And
yet the heather population have
just began to come. Let war break
out in the old world, as it is liable
to any day, and how the hordes Of
serfs and infdels and anarchists
and nihilists would swarm in upon
US, millions upon millions, who
know nothing and care nothing
tor self-government. Escaped from
monarchs and tyrannies, they will
brook no restraint. They come ig.
norant and outlaweo, and we meet
them with this liquor traffic slim.
ulating their passions, and fitting
them for paupers and criminalsl
Millions of them and their children
are wandering our streets today,
without education, in a darkness
as dense as the jungles of Bengal,
like seething volcano, ready to
burst forth in rebellion any mo-
ment. Fit material this for
RIOT, BLooDsHED AND BURNING.
We may we'll pause to-day, and
inquire how long can this free Re-
public stand, based on such tumul-
tous hordes as these? How long
can we afford to pour out this vast
tide of alcoholic death, impoverish.
ing, degrading and maddening
these millions! How long can we
afford to carry the burden of 100000
foreign paupers, $4,000 criminals,
insane, with $4,000 idiots,
which these saloons are vomiting
forth upon us every year?
THE CHRISTIAN HEART AROUSED.
This question is agitating the
Christian heart of this nation as
never Beforehand men are every
where inquiring as to what is the
best course to rid ourselves of this
terrible and growing calamity.
All are agreed that it ought to be
done away.
PROHIBITION VS.. REGULATION.
The general position OF the
Christian Church now, regardless
Of all political parties, is entire
Prohibition of the Traffic. 1t IS mot
strange indeed that efforts at regu.
lating this traffic have proved
failures for whole century and that
under regulation the business has
Increased fearfully. For in fact,
the principle is contrary to tho
divine order, which is to prohibit
crime; not to regulate it. And
yet the wrong in this principle
of what is called License is not
clearly understood by the masses
and needs to be discussed, and
more clearly set forth that all
may see and understand what
Christian duty and responsibility
is regarding it.
VOTERS FOR LICENSE ARE MURDER
ERS.
There is no question in the
mind of any sane man today but
that the rum traffic is somehow
murderous one-(a business that
kills 100000 annually wherever
the responsibility may rest.
To deliberately kill a man TOR
the sake of his money is murder
This is just what the highwayman
does-not that he has any spite
against his poor victim, or that ne
wants to kill him, but he wants
his money and murders him to
obtain it.
ALCOHOLIC AND LEADEN BULLETS
This is just what the rum-seller
does. That it is as criminal 70
m II rdar q mon with an alcoholic