Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-08-19

presses and destroys them.
Do you want a gin-mill to grind up you
sons? A gin-mill can no more be run withou
your sons than a saw-mill without logs.
True manhood hates to see the strong take
advantage of the weak, and that is what the
liquor traffic does,
They say whiskey is sold for the public good
Then why do they prohibit 1t on the day Of
election. If saloons are doing good. why close
them on the day Of election? They are good
to get you in Jail and make you pay fine.
The Supreme Court has decided that there is
no inherent right to sell whiskey-that 1t is a
breeder of crime and the destroyer of health
1t is a clear-cut issue between Gcd and the
devil. and you should choose which side to
take. You are at the forks of the road and
should take the right one.
A country that gets its revenue from the
blood. the tears. and the woe of its people can
never be successful. Some advocate high
license to make 1t more respectable. You may
thus diminish the number OF the saloons but
not the number who will patronize them.
If SO buzzards are feasting on two dead oxen,
and one of them be removed, the so buzzards
will then be found on the one that is left. and
SO If half the saloons be closed, all the drinkers
Will go to the half that are left.
agreement with hell for low taxes. You sell
your sons to the devil for price.
He declared that he would rather be as poor
as Lazarus and SO black that you would have
to get a light to find him, than to be a mill
lionaire by the sale OF whiskey.
He had taken his position against the sale OF
whiskey, and no intended to stay there till he
took root and bloomed. and when he bloomed,
he would be q night-blooming cereus. You
should cast your ballots in such a way as to
show that you love your boys. and would save
them from ruin.
But you say the saloon-keeper has his
property and you don't want to interfere with
mis- property rights. When you were property
10 be bought and sold, and the master had q
lt gal right to you, you did not object to being
freed-you did not then plead for the legal
rights Of your owner, and say 1t would be
wrong to free you. and that you preferred to
remain in slavery.
When he arrived in Staunton, one of the
first things he heard was man positively as
sorting that prohibitory law could not be en-
forced. Why. government that cannot en-
force rjghtful law is no government at ALL
But 1t can be enforced and will be. r. s. Hap.
good, of Illinois. during the war, said he would
not be drafted-he would wet his farm with
his blood before he would submit to draft;
but when the government authorities ordered
him to be drafted and sent the officers for him
he soon changed his mind.
Our constitution declares that one OF its
chief objects is to ensure domestic tran
guilty" What kind of domestic tranquility
does the liquor-traffic ensure? His wife knows
what life she led for the seven years when he
would come home filled with such domestic
tranquility" as he got at the saloon.
In Brooklyn. New York. he had seen boys
manufactured of iron. and the people de-
manded protection to iron. He wanted pro-
lection for the boys of flesh and blood, who
had souls in their bodies.
In California they wanted protection tor
speckled trout, and he initiated speaker who
advocated 1t. They wanted pro
lection on iron, wool and many things. he,
too wanted protection on wool. but it was the
wool that grew on the head of his boy. and he
thought the whites should be after having
hair protected.
But they say Local option Will kill a town.
If SO. let it die-he is already dressed In black
for it. When the town is dry the people
from the country who do business In 1t will be
sober. get through with their trading and re-
turn home. When it is "wet," they will get
drunk and stay all day. and that they call
business
He said that he had come here at a sacrifice
that he had left two important assemblies to
be here to help his race in this contest The
negro race Is here and 1t is going to stay here,
and it is rapidly increasing, and 1t becomes
the people of this fair Southland to have them
improved mentally and morally-that sober
and honest black labor would ensure the
of the Southland, but If 1t is to be
drum ken, dishonest, poor and degraded, 1t will
destroy its prosperity.
Womanhood should be uplifted and should
lavish Its care and affection upon the children
instead of ugly, blacknosed pug dogs. Women
suffer from the liquor-trafiic and If they had
the ballot they would drive whiskey to hell in
"a hours.
do right as God gives you the power to see
it," as did Abram Lincoln when perple1ed in
the darkest hour of our history. His closing
remarks, which we will not attempt to re-
port. were very eloquent. His speech occu-
pied one hour and was well received. and
frequently applauded. It combined good argu-
ment, wit, humor, and eloquencs.
In the afternoon on Sunday in the Taber-
nacle, Hector preached very able discourse
to very large audience of whites and colored.
on the text-Psalms XCIV:2g-"Shall the
throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee.
which frameth mischief by iaw?"
He preached the same day in the M. E
Church (colored) In the morning and at night.
He had expected to preach in the Tabernacle
at night, but in consequence Of the rain in the
afternoon making uncomfortable in the Taber-
nacle, he preached in the Church named. The
sermons in the morning and at night We did
not hear