Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-03-30

Option movement in st. Louis, AM
intend to give the saloon and it's in
cidents, sucll us Sabbath breaking
and II thousand forms of evil, F;
sound thraShing We may not sue
ceel III the first onset, but we viii
TRY, try again We are educating
the people for II more terrible onset
upon the WhiSkcy Devil, which is
IN the near future. The forces are
being airayed for the struggle
Victory iiiGy not como for time
No great evil, of long growth, was
ever ovcrtlrown i'll II single grapple
Local Option was given us lust win.
ter by tho Legislature as sop. 1t
vas The traditional stub thrown 10
tho whale Tho politicians are
afraid of prohibition. To keep from
facing the music on that question
they asked us to accept Local Option
and keep the question of prohibition
gut OF politics. We did so. AS n
result, over fifty counties out of sew
enty voting on tho question, have
abolished tho saloon. Now the poll
ticians do not know what to do, MS
they see that The State, ut this rate,
will soon be ria of the curse of the
whiskey power. The rummies are
looking out for some party to save
them from tho wiath to come. Both
parties are afraid to touch the dirty
devil, and yet they fear that tho
whiskey power may hold balance
that may turn the scale in closely
contested elections. Politicians are
Il queer set of fellows anyway. Mis-
souri, will, i'll ten years, be plohibi
ton State. Mark The prediction.
Tho worst blow tho saloon element
has yet received in Missouri, came
f'o;a The Masonic Fraternity last
year. The GralM Lodge, for years,
has been moving up on that line, well
towards the front, :hid had proclaim.
cd in positive terms its opposition to
what ever might be derogatory to
the trce dignity and character of
this ancient and honorable ins!itu
ton. We had been educating the
fraternity for the conflict. last scs
sion. October 1887, the battle was
joined. 1t was ,i fight to the death
Both sides knew the temper of the
other, and no quarter was to be
shown. 1t was struggle between
Tie powers Of evil, represented by
the worst element in our land, and
the best n.tn OF the State. l[oncy
was used to carry the wliskcy devil
rough shod over the Grand Lodre.
That body voiced the sentiments {
twenty seven thousand Mlsons of
mature mind and Judgment. The
outcome was grand, and the over
throw of the saloon in Masonry WAS
as complete as could have been ask
cd Tor. No saloon keeper can be
made Il Mason in Missouri, and those
who are i'll "have the option of either
quitting the business or of quitting
Masonry SO said the Grand Lodge
And they are being put out as fast
as the lodges can get ut them Grand
old institution. Never in the hist ory
of American Masonry has there been
such II triumph OF tie moral element
over vice and mean, deviiish powers.
POLITICS.
Not being a politician, thank hcav.
ell Tor the Tact, can not say much
about the Questions that appertain
TO paityism in the West. You are
aware that ST. Louis is to have the
great convention of the Delaocratjc
party. 1t will meet hero in June.
There seems to be but one opinion
i'll The West rs to the nominee of
that convention. President Clevc
land has tho fullest confidence OF his
party and will receive the votes of
the delegates when assembled here
next summer without doubt.
There is a wide spread and deep
feeling of satisfaction among all
classes OF our people i'll the great
West, that MI. Cleveland is a nation
al man in feeling and purpose, and
That his administration has been far
morn national than political. This
feeling is shared in by many of tho
good and true men of the onnoe;t q