Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-08-14
LOCAL.
THE LOCAL OPTION
CAMPAIGN.
REV. SAM JONES TO BE HERE NEXT
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

KEW. SAM JUNES III BIZ HIKE NEKI
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
Ex-Auditor John (. Massey Estimates that
the State Pays 81 for every ST of
Liquor License.
THE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN-TIIE
DRYS HAVE A TABERNACLE ON Angus
Ia STREET AND THE VETS A TENT ON
MAIN STREET-BIG DRY MEETINGS
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHTS-A
STRONG APPEAL FROM THE COUNTY
REV. JNo. H. HECTOR AND HIS QUAR-
TETTE TO-NIGHT-CAAIPAIGN NOTES OF
BOTH SIDES.
&C, &C., &C.
The city was set humning last Friday
by a Geographic announcement posted on
the VINDICATOR bulletin board that Rev.
Sam P. Jones would preach in Staunton on
next Monday and Tuesday, day and night,
August 18th and 18th. He will arrive here
on Monday evening from New York and
will stay SO hours. A tabernacle which
will hold an audience Of 5000 persons has
been erected by the Drys On Augusta street
and he will preach there Monday night and
three times Tuesday. Tonight Rev. Jno.
II. Hector the colored Temperance orator
with his quartette Of singers will be at the
Tabernacle.
Ex-Auditor John E. Massey at the
Tabernacle.
The immense tabernacle of the Drys Oh
North Augusta street, was lighted Tues
day night with two arc lights. The speaker
of the evening was Hon. John E. Massey.
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, former First Auditor of the State, and
later it's Lieutenant Governor. He was in
troduced by Rev. DR.. James Nelson, who
in his remarks gave strong reasons why
all Christian men should support the pres
ing liquor licenses.
HON. JOHN e. MASSEY.
Mr.. Massey looked as vigorous and as
chippery as usual, and as is his won't
plunged with little preface, into the heart
Of his subject. After saying that he was
else but to give some arguments against
license, he went on to say, in part, as
follows:
When [ was boy and heard the great
evil of intemperance talked of thought it
could easily be stopped. [ thought it was
such horrible vice that after being told
of 1t nobody would follow it, and that after
that crop of drunkards passed away no
more would follow. But it has proved that
I was as simple as the man who sat by the
river waiting for it to run dry. 1 find the
crop of drunkards is not diminished but
continues. The river does not run dry; the
large army is still marching the same road
to destruction. But that does not prove
that it is useless to try and stop it. You
had as well say that schools are useless be-
cause you have to educate generation after
generation that follow each other. You
had as well say it is useless to preach the
gospel, because it has to be preached to
each rising generation.
am here to reason with you tonight.
IT [ give no good reason for your voting
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vote. What are the objections that are
urged against your voting against license.
One is that it deprives man Of his liber-
ty, his rights. No man has right to do
anything that will injure his fellow man.
There is no right to sell liquor; it is priv
ilege given by the law and which the law
provides may be revoked and gives you the
power to end.
Another is that it will not stop the sale;
that Prohibition does not prohibit. There
is no doubt that some men will have
liquor, but all experience has shown
that at the worst the difference
between open saloons and Prohibi-
ton is just the difference between barrels
of whiskey and jugs Of it. A good differ
ence ism t it
FOUR DOLLARS FOR ONE.
Another is the revenue. / have been the
Auditor of this State and my experience in
that Office conyinces me that for every dol
lar the State receives from liquor license
she pays out Four Dollars for criminal
prosecution and other costs.
Again they say, if you don't license re-
spectacle men to sell it, that disreputable
men will carry OH the trade in out of the
way cellers. Well, even that is a great gain!
When we have driven whislley into a coal
hole we have got it Oh the run.
It is great pity we can't have men to
discuss this question, but you can't get
them. You will find plenty OF men to talk
for whiskey on the street corners and with
their acquaintance, but you never find a
man who wants to come before a great and
respectable audience like this one and adj
yocate the sale Of whiskey. The evils flow
ing from the use of liquor are so great
that no one likes to upholdit. 1t IS great
mistake to say that liquor hurts nobody
but the man who drinks it. Look at your
jails, your asylums, your prisons and you'll
find the answer to that. 1t hurts wives,
brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, who
never touched it in their lives.
THE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE INDIVIDU-
AL VOTER.
1t has been said by some good men that
it can t be helped; that the law licenses it
and that the responsibility is not on them.
That reason Won't do in this day. The
legislature has passed this very law under
which you are to vote on Augusta ODD. to
remove that excuse. 1t puts the response
bility right on the shoulder of each individ-
nal voter. The Christian who-walks up to
the polls in Staunton and votes to license
liquor selling, takes the responsibility before
God and the world on himself. If he votes