The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-05
l MUST BIZ a "CkANK."

To TIE EDITOR OF The TIMEs:-I
mus: be crank" to express myself ON
the Sunday law in the face of some OBJ
| lccting fanatics who want to pick the
notes out OF other peoples eyes and
allow their own sinful blindness TO
remain. So saith the objector We'll.
may be but unfortunately the power
who bestowed upon them the mighty
sense Of seeing the faults of others
without recognizing their own did not
ndow me with sucn one sided faculty.
| Every tub stands on is OWE bottom
and every man is the manufacturer of
his own habit. / do not believe in
st; aiming at poor, frail, imbecile light
weight gnat and then swallowing a
mammoth full grown Ara bian camel
whose own capacity is efficient to swal
low said gnat, but would no doubt get
chokeo and loose the bitterness Of his
gall in the digestion OF bundle of the
faults OF the more pretentious spirits
who are always looking after stones to
throw at other houses without carefully
examining their own doubtful situation.
Why suppress the sale of cigars, to-
bacco ana soda water on Sunday and
allow the sale of opium and such otLcr
narcotics that are million times more
injurious? This is nice little camel to
smoothe down, its drugs you know.
Why take advantage of the poor man
who works all the week and has his wife
and little children incloscd in hot closed
houses surrounded with smoke and Gin
ders, frum hiring team on Sunday to
take thcm out for fresh ai-,
this is religious n humanity. |
own and don't love the poor. You are
able to subscribe by the year for news
paper and read it every day. The poor
man wants to buy and read one on Sun
day, because he has the time and it
furnishes rest and enjoyment. lie can
not do it because you say it is wrong,
and yet you claim to love the poor.
This law has been violated for the last
several years. Why didn't the santiied
haters OF the unfortunates who bought
on Sunday prosecute on Monday before
the mayor, or before the grand jury, if
they were SO deeply Interested in the
faults OF pleibean humanity? Without
the sale Of cigars and tobacco on Sun
day the druggists can't make their ex-
penses. Now do you want them to shut
up and deny the filling Of prescriptions
to alleviate the pain OF humanity,
or do you want them to work for
nothing and what is the difference?
Will you stop the furnaces on Sun
day? 1t has been decided by y NJ.
Z a. experts that they can he stopped
without trouble and damage. Will you
stop the necessary force Of the Roanoke
Machine Works, tic bone and sinue Of
our city which works on Sunday? If
you stop one you must stop all. viii you
stop the freight trains ofour father the
Norfolk and Western railroad? If so.
and it is contrary to your exp, cted views,
why did you not stop them sooner. If
it is proper to prosecute don't make
pig of one and pup of anchorage the
whole hog.
We are not accountable for the sins
OF others. Therefore let us take care
OF our own skirts and in the opinion Of
the special individual whc interests
himself to the extent of this letter,
we will eat more sacred butter. II
| there is violation OF the law let the
State prosecute it. We are not expected
to Cypress necessity when taey do not
| CRANK.
Cleveland and German.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Reporters Of the Sun asked the dele
cote present at the State convention to
name their candidate for President in
1872. The total vote WAS as follows:
| Cleveland. .C5
/ Gorman. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. GO
-
Declined to answer. ................ 5
itlll ..... ............... ,
! Nhltney.. .................. /
! Cleveland and German. ......... |
| Cleveland and Campbell. ....
Undecided
Christians Charged With Killing Turks.
LONDON, Aug. A dispatch from
Crete says; 1.-The house OF Turkish
family in the village Of Ceramos was
recently attacked and two men woman
and child were murdered. Eigt.tccn
Christian subjects were arrested for tho
crime and were imprisoned with Turkish
convicts. While in prison they were
stabbed with knives and so seriously in
jurcd that they Icy Tor eight days III a
danl erous condition.
Eurglarics ut Danyi;ic.
DASvILLE, Va, Aug. 4 -i.rdfessional
burglars have been operating in this
city. They cracked TWO safes last
night, one belonging 20 the American
Iooacco Company and TIE other be-
!onring TO the Carte: Machine Company.
Inc losses wee fortunately small. Tho
c!azsns generally feel anxious ana
w"ichmcn wi! BE laced in Tho banks
10 night. .a~