The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-03-31
Brother Vaught's Appeal.

= The Big Stone Gap Posr announces ~
/ election in the Richmond Magisterial Dis.
trict of Wise County, Va, TO determine
whether said territory shall continue in
the prohibition ranks or return to those oi
rum and ruin.
Some who favor the discontinuance NJ
Ioc"' option IN Big Stone Gap and vicinity
may consider MS as an intermeddler nav
that we no longer dwell in the midst of
local scenes. TO all such We beg leave to
say 'hat the whole Of the liquor world is
our parlsh-we intend to fight the ljouor
business just as long as soul and BODY
hang together; and when we shall have
gone the way of all the earth. our record
VIII possess one noble trait-Consistepcv
10 torsake the cause in Virginia because
we are now III Tennessee would be HIGH.
handed treachery we 90 to the ncedv |
everywhere. The local son of temnerance
does not hoe forever in his own littIo
patch, nor subordinate his goodIy efforts
to State lines. '"''''
furthermore, the writer owes an imper-
iSh"ole ueDt to those gallant men and
mo"heh Oh Big Stone Gap and vicinity
M"hy OF them marched with him under the
S."rry nag OF sobriety through three
stormy years. When we began work in
lhe town the principal street was owned I
ny the saloon. This inieuitous business
io"l'na'eu many of the policies of the (
o""' swearing and other vile language \
'eie .he order OF the day, emphasizing the y
'o'y sabbath. The Sabbath dissertations y
Continued its orgies till late hour. We y
ave heard the bacchahalian song and the /;
music OF the merry bottles" when re-.
ushihS from the place of holy praise and
rayer at night; and we-shall we write IN
'-have many times forsaken the side.
ak ana gone into the middle of the at
rect to prevent walking over the pros. tn
ate forms of drunk men; and the ladies
'Shali we proceedy-used to 20 down in,
"h IN fear frequently and travel a rim
uhGaDout way through sleet and snow cor
'ner than take unprotected chances on mo
slde OF the saloon. Shall we CON. fri
lue 10 tell the truth as the tall ongel
, u already recorded in heaven? OHlv
ce more will our faithful non tbrns, -
re at them-the two largest saIoons
re doing an enormous business ON rur -
sDIr OF THE METnoDIsr Eplscop.I Cyrenn a.
OiH' TWO OF our members were ON tho g
ldS OF the salooniSts WV x
- engage IN full account of tbe q
'es mat followed would be unnecessarv <
g out the threatened hostilities with X
IN ~ nave need to grow before thew stir q
onlteu states as men and measures z
9 stirred in Big Stone Gap and the x =
re maglsterial distri t. y =
election day "no saloons" won oI @ L
'"u brand new neighborhood directly X q
e ana good order prevailed ma q 2
,haru began to scrub his face and rnt q 1
'o'hes' his wife arrayed herself in X -
y gown and went again TO church o u
INC uear little children came r,on, g IT
I tue ped and trotted away to Sunday x So
Tue TWO years are drawing their last z e
n' ana few unwise men. NOT so,is * IL
mn the blood and horrors of formsr ri;
p, desire 10 return TO tbe
arm OF the writer is rather long & -
'"n quite reach you, Brother x sm
~ nearer friend must pat Won Il
ON pet accept the will for the 9 of
Lord, 1t viii remind them he a"I of S0 use & PHI
~ mere 'akea, to "renOunce the dAyiI o con
- "iS works They helped your x mo,
e : aud they will help Won, En- e..
''o.her Wampler, Brother .Iolns n'e
:, hsSer' aud Brother Wax, and cali q sire
pou OF sobriety. He who declared * feed
"a' 'he drnnkard should not In @ M,
- kingdoP is yet aliye.-UoI.ta z FNts
" Methodist, Rer. Jas. /. CgsI S sno