The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-03-31
FROM EASTSTONEGAP.
Our Appeal for No License.


We are nearing an election which il TO
say whether we shall have license or no
license, and is to say. whether We shall
enjoy peace and happiness, or the horrors
OF having saloons in our doors. Voiersof
the Richmond District; hesitate before
Won vote liquor back into this district. |
Now 1t is shut out, don't trust it, IL is |
/ powerful, aggressive and universal in its
attacks. Tonight il enters the peaceful
homes to strike the roses from w0mcn's
cheeks, and tomorrow il challenges this
republic IN the halls of Congress. Today
1t takes the bread from the lips of starry
ing children, and tomorrow leyies tribute
from the government itself. There il no
cabin in this district humble enough to |
escape II no police strong enough to bar
1t out II defes the law when it cannot I
coerce suffrage. il IS the mortal enemy
OF peace aud order, the DESTROYER of men .
the terror OF women, the cloud that
shadows the face OF children the demon
that has dug more graves and sent more r
souls to hell than all the pestilences that t
nave wasted life since God sent the
plaques to Egypt, and all tia wars since X
Joshua stood beyond Jerico. Oh my
;ountrymen, loving God and humanity, do
not bring the quiet little towns of Big
stone Gap aud East Stone Gap under the
dominion of that power. What can it
'front.' any man by its returnf What in "
Iustry can it bring? What interest can
reyveY Can it remedy any wrong? \,
We know that it cannot. 1t comes to so
urn, and will tell you how it will profit, Ga
will profit mainly by the ruin of the tn,
Dung men and boys Of this district. Ii da
ONES TO mislead human souls and crush me
carts under its rumbling wheels, it comes del
bring our gray haired mothers down in sec
iame and sorrow to their graves. 1t FIVE
'me to turn the wife's love into despair, Brl
comes to still the laughter on the lips thr
little children. Ii comes to stine all pet
e music of the home, and fill il with par
Ience and desoation. 1t comes to ruin thr
r bodies and minds to wreck our homes. to
ID we know that it must measure ITS top
osperIty y the swiftness and certainty fast
tn which it wreaks this work. Now refr
tiers OF this district you hold the power and
your hands TO say whether or not this r
ably enemy shall come back into our effe,
DIST. appeal to you in the name of in :
d to consider well before you cast vote SIN,
favor of whiskey. What good can ~.
ne OF It, Show me a man that has ever
N nro6fed hv wb;sLo, ova, ,, "'s nam
4 ont that Co.. lid .. '"o'0 wv volv
mankiud9 What oon Co.,, 49, ac '' ,,n card
1butes? Can any man ,S;,L alo 10 thou
science and with the love and fear of
In his heart say that it would he good
us to have whskeyY Yes, it is good.
III tell you how il is good, it makes the
to hell two hundred thousand miles corr..
tier; nils our insane asylums at the
OF thousands annually, and fills the or'
cts of our quiet littIe to,,na ,;u pecul
ken. filthy. foul mon,hod n 49,, of the
but little better tban hut ". .C to the
ote for license we cant LIa,no ,L, 49,, Of the
rhen we voted II ve nlacod ,ho ,.o fellow
cir hands with which IN taLo ,Lo;- an up
liVes' The weapon which is to sever tue Ut
very heart strings Of tba fond and emplo
9 wife. and fade the roso ,in, 60 Of equ
heekS OF their children and sewers oeeh
tIe mat holds them TO anything that - Jar
ID. most
ters, don't do if in tbo no,,o oc ca only p
uHerIng humanity don't do il. The Una. VI
: OF heaven emplore you not to do il. having
he voices of those wLo La,'o en-, -, ployer.
'aru graves ring out from the fiery "uu'''O
! HeIi peglng YOU to not place that "'''"
liquid i'm the doors of tboir ILL. name is
C them TO that nIaco of oro.Ia''.;' out of
lmenf Fellow citigors o:s6 the mar
,efore YOU cast tbo voto - 49, next Isl
yes, demons. Of tLe dram i, d,;' %"Ne decided
district. In the name of God don't The :
this curse back into our midst hail in
break the peace that we have en-. the salo
Tor the past two years by placinr Rev. 5.
lemon where our young men and organic
ave to pass it day after dav going The r.
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