Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-16
WIFI IL Pay?

4 Mr.. EDIroR:-I noticed an ominouS
silence in the last issue of your re.
spected paper on the question which
is of such vital Importance to US
citizens of lower Accomac. / had
Isomewhat.to say myself, but thought
[ would see if there was not some one
else who loves God and home and
] native land enough to lift voice or
| WELD a pen. Alas! l was dis
appointed. = r~;.s51 q.
VWhere are the ministers of the
gospel whose duty it is to stand in
the forefront of the battle between
the church and the saloon; between
Satan and God?
Brethren, if you are standing on the
walls of Zion and are failing to give
the battle cry-down with the saloon,
if you are failing to lead the men
Alright whose names are enrolled on
your church registers in this conflict;
come down and let others mount its
bulwarks who are neither afraid nor
ashamed to lead the cohorts of God
against the greatest device and surest
ally of satan-the saloon.
Thank God, brothers Purnell and
Robertson, Baptist and Methodist
ministers of Franktown district, had
the courage to preach from their pull
pits three successive Sabbaths before
the local option contest, such sermons
rs carried their district, to say we will
not be partner with the legalized
rum mills.
Allow me to ask a few questions.
"Will it pay to have scores of work
ingInen poor. ragged, and financially
ruined, in order that saloon keepers
may be dressed in broadcloth and
have plenty of money? Will it pay to
have workingmen live on half rations,
in order that saloon keepers may feast
on roast turkey and champagne2
Will it pay to have the mothers and
children clothed nrags, half starved,
living in novels, in order that saloon
keepers wives may dress in satin,
their chilren grow fat and happy and
live in bay Widowed parlors2
Will it pay to have our citizens in
jail to be supported by the taxpayers,
because we give other citizens license
to sell them rum?
Will it pay to have one citizen sup
ported by the tax payers of the coun
ty, in the lunatic asylum, because
another citizen makes him crazy by
selling him whisley?
Will it pay to arrest, try, convict
and punish man at cost of thous-
ands of dollars to the tax payers, be-
cause another man sold him liquor,
under the influence of which he COM
United murder?
Will it pay to have our smart, ac
tive, intelligent boys turned into
vagabonds and criminals to
enable one man to lead an easy life
by selling them liquor?
Will it pay for a paltry license to
allow any set of men to sell whiskey
to other men, then spend thousands
OF dollars of the taxpayers money in
prosecuting the criminals for crimes
committed while crazed by the
whiskey?
Will it pay to have thousands OF
hearts broken, homes blasted,ruihed,
defled and turned into hells of dis
cord and misery in order that liquor
dealers may live at ease?
Will it pay to have thousands OF
men, women and children in the pen
itentiaries, prisons, hospitals, lunatic
asylulns and poor-houses at the ex-
pense of honest, industrious tax pay
ers, in order that the rum mill men
may fill their Golfers for awhile7
Will it pay to vote to license traf-
tic which only results in crime, pow
erty. misery, degradation and DEATH
which never did, never does, never
can and never will do any good?
1t never pays to do wrong; your
sin will find you out, whether others
find it out or not. The sin knows
where you are and will keep you
posted of that fact. God knows where
you are and He says II will visit the
sin of the father upon his children to
the third and fourth generation"
Shame shame on the man who
calls himself christian and yet can
enter into league with Satan to il
cense such a businessl
God says, Cursed be he who
cometh not up to the help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty" You cannot take refuge
on neutral ground. To refuse to vote
against license is to provoke Gods
curse.
MRS. BETTE A. RUE,
Dist. Pres. w. G. T. o.