The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-04
AN ALARMING APPEAL.
Rev. Mr.. Cntler Says theNation will be
DESTROYED Unless Rum IS Banished

ihtfs WI Chiitf says AhtNdiiDh VIII ne
Destroyed Unless Rum is Banished
To the Christian Voters Of Virginia:
Tho liquor traffic has legal permission
and protection to carry on its Infamous
business. IL causes the waste of more
money annually than all of the gold
and silver coin I'm tho nation. IL Stays
| more every year than were killed any
year in the civil war; IN both armies
Tho gold question. the silver question.
the tariff question, the free trade Ques-
tion the social question. an combined.
are not as important to the people as IS
this liquor question. Tax and license
laws protect and perpetuate the drunk
ard factories OF our country The liquor
traffic must be destroyed, or our nation
Will lee destroyed.
Every ballot cast for a tax or license
party is a ballot that keeps the saloon
in politics. Let an good men. moral
men and Christians, band together, and,
regardless Of party, vote for the pro-
hibitiOn Of the cXecrable liquor trade.
The saloon will be taken out Of politics.
The rum tyrant will die and be buried.
and never be raised from the dead. Let
country before party" DE embiazoned
on our banner. and it will never again
be said by the religious press $40 cleo
ton can be carried without the liquor
vote"
The Democratic and Republican parties
are slaves Of the rum power. Neither
can hold Office without the aid Of the
liquor vote. Oh, good men I'm these old
rum-soaKed. whsky-licensng parties,
come out OF them and be loyal 20 your
homes TO your country. and 20 your
God. Don't let the liquor traffic control
our politics, debauch our people, ruin
our homes, and destroy our nation The
saloons neither fear God, nor regard
man. but support mOnstrOus mOnOpolies.
which Cypress the laborers and grind the
toiiers with unspeakable cruelty.
You cannot reform these rum-ruled
parties They are beyond redemption.
a drunken man, a fallen woman. a
heather nation, may be reformed, but a
political party governed by the saloons
and slums, can never bee reformed Use
your ballot to help Kill the diabolical lie
quor traffic.
A Prohibition ballot says 10 the Gov
eminent. Protect our homes. our chill
dren, our churches our country from
the saloons IL says: Whatever is
morally wrong can never be politically
right, and should not have legal right
to exist"
How a Christian can vote for a party
comprehension. Such a ballot gives your
consent for the lesalized continuance of
a traffic that costs our people four millions
OF dollars day. that kills 250 people
every day, that spreads ruin and death
all over our, land
Votes are the only thing that will reach
the ears Of our lawmakers. Our petit
ti0ns and prayers will DO of no avail
but our votes against the traffic will
always be heard and needed.
Every liquor seller I'm the country votes
either the Democratic or Republican
party ticket. because he knows that that
party viii protect his business. Please
explain how a Christian can consistently
vote either ticket when he has the op-
portunity Of voting the Prohibition
ticket?
Churches and saloons cannot flourish
side by side. But 95 per cent. of the
church members Oncluding preachers)
vote for license parties, and thus help
10 legalize tho greatest foe Of the church.
No brewer, dlstiller saloon man, will
vote for the Prohibition party. Let no
Christian gentleman vote the liquor
mans ticket. The church and the saloon
are az antagOnistic as heaven and hell.
The ono is right, the other IS wrong.
The one is good. the other is evil. The
one IS on the side OF God and the other
Is on the side Of the devil.
If you want the saloon, vote for a
liquor-licensing party. II you do not
want the saloon. vote for the Prohibition
party every time. Don't say, 1T Is
right. but il cannot win" 1T Is right,
but the time has not come yet" What2
Ii IS right, but 1t isn't the time to do
right? When is the time 70 do wrong?
The man who will not vote for what he
believes TO be right, is a coward; thinks
more OF party than he does Of principle,
and should not exercise the right Of SUI
frage. one with God Is a majority.
Oh. men Of God, Christian men, stop
the great sin Of voting with license par
ties. Stop the great sin Of legalizing the
LIQUOR trafHc the greatest foe OF the
home. the Shool. and the church. Stop
helping the devil 10 curse our homes;
break the hearts OF mothers. wives.
daughters and sisters, impoverish our
people. and bring sorrow and suffering
upon all classes OF our fellOw-men.
Let your ballot record your honest con-
victions. Let your vote bo I'm harmony
with your prayer. Let ii be cast every
time for God and home and native
land"
Yours, for the truth and the right
always. H. \. CUTLER.
Louisa, Va, Nov ), 1885,
yOp pISElSES OF THE LIVER