The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-03

ANAa AAMMWAE AI'E
been excluded for engaging IN tnis u
christian. dcyilish and destructive busl-
ness. But were they not engaged IN Il
lawful business Did not tho very men
who did the excluding act vote with ana
for Il political party that put the license
on the market? Are they not partners
will their two brethren? Gould these
have sold intoxicating liquors, by law II
there were no such law? Really are not
these excluded saloon keepers the agents
OF these church members, who authorized
by their votes the legalization or the
whisky traffic. The bar-room Keeper
who buys his license is responsible Tor
his one bar-room and the death a d
damnatiOn which IL produces, but the
voter for 4 whislty-licensing party is re-
spOnsible before God for all OF the bar
rooms and their awful work OF ruin.
In fact. these voters are the principals
and DroprietOrs.
i challenge any man 10 q swer the ar
gumcnt OF fine saloon keeper who sought
admission INTO u church and was refused
on the ground that he was engaged in Il
business that was sending souls To he'll;
that the Bible said. NO druakard shall
Inherit the Kingdom of Cod n that
therefore no drunkard maker could. that
the church had said, 1.-The liquor tratiic
cannot bee licensed without SIN To
which the saloon keeper answered, 81
got my license from Judge Grant. Die
and YOU Mr.. Preacher. and the large ma
ioIitv of your church, voted for Alr.
Smith for the Legislature. who helped To
pass the liquor license law. 1 voted Tor
Mr.. Smith. too / thought that You were
al in favor Of license. Now ] am i'm
politely told that l canno join this
lleaven-bound band. But for yOn three.
i could not engage in this business. We
are partners. You, Mr.. Preacher. voted
for Mr.. Smith to enact "a law which COM
ucls Judge Grant TO give me "A license
to 90 10 hell. You are going TO Heaven
and wear golden crowns. while shall
go to hell and suffer the torments Of the
damned.
Gentlemen. If your Bible Is true, and /
do go 10 hell for selling whisky. YOU will
goswith me 10 hell for voting 10 give me
the legal right of doing So"
The voter, the legislator and the saloon
keeper, form three links in the chain Of
iniquity which binds the poor drunkard
and MS family, n keeps them i'm want
and misery. If Christians. and all good
and moral men. and true patriots will
cease to support any political party, or
my candidate who fayors tax or license
laws, then this chain Of iniqulty will be
broken, no tax or license legislators can
then be elected, no saloon men be autnO-
rizcd 10 carry on their business. and JIG
more drunkards made 50 by law"
Henry w. Grady. n Democrat, and an
idolized favorite OF Georgia and the South,
said. in almost his last public utterance:
THE saloon IS the mortal enemy of peace
and order, it IS the despoiler Of men, the
terror Of women, the cloud that shadows
the face Of little children; IL is the demon
which has dug more graves than all the
nestilence which has wasted life. since the
plaques fell upon Egypt, and all the wars
since Joshua stood before Jericho
William w. Window was a Republican.
and The honored Secretary Of the United
states Treasury. lie said OF the saloon
issue: There is no question now before
the American people which is at ali com
parable in gravity and importance TO TINS
one. six hundred thousand men in our
nation. rendered worse b "a useless stag
ger along in the triumphant procession
OF the saloon 10 %dlshOnored graves"
Judge James Wilson. Of Iowa, recently
eaid I'm the calm utterance Of a court de-
clsioa: THE saloon system is the centre
around which all the forces revoive which
put at defiance the better sentiment Ok the
country"
Archbishop Corrigan, n Catholic pre-
late. I'm the Worlds Fair Congress. said;
"A dreadful evil IS upon the people. II
debases and degrades: II gnaws away the
foundations Of civil society. and defies
strong governments whose hands Il para
ives. II annnuls the potent ministrationa
OF religion by locking against them
minds and hearts. Yea, il transmits be-
vond the grave its fatal curse. Having
Knocked and racked its victim IN this lite'
n casts him deprived Of reason, sln-laden
and u%nshriven. before the tribunal OF
Eternal Justice.
F., The National Convention Of the Chris
tan Endeavor Society declared at Cleve-
land. O.: 1--WE recognize the sale and use
OF Intoxicating liquors as the greatest evil
OF the times"
tions, Presbyterian Assemblies Chrlstlan
conventions. Catholic and Protestant
bodies, have passed the most ringing res
olutions against this sinful business.
Brethren IN the ministry, Tor the sake
NJ suffering humanity; for the sake OF the
Church OF Jesus Christ; In the interest OF
me neopla whose homes are wrecked. and
whose hearts are broken by the rum-trdt-
tc nreach sermons on this gigantic crimc
and curse. and remind your congregations
~ the terrific denunclations Of the liquor
saloons nv these representative bodies OF
Christian men and women.
.Tift mn your voice like a trumpet, cry
aloud and snare not. Show my people
,heIr trausgression and the house OF
Iacob their sins" F~raternaliy and
N L. A, CUTLER.
Sergeant Epps Sick.