The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-02-04
THE HARRIS
NURSERY.
The License Question
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Ed Chronicle:
Dear Sir:-I enclose 81 90. for
which YOU will please give me credit
on my subscription To the Chronicle.
a paper which we cannot we'll afford
to be without, for indeed it is almost
like letter from home. a fen
weeks ago | read two communications
In your paper. very much opp D.e.l To-
the Legalized saloons. certainly
admire the spirit Of those contribution,
and while am not, at this time, a
resident OF Calhoun county, certain
ly would he grieved to hear of my
native county granting license tor
the sale of Ilquur-the greatest curse
of the Twentieth Century. There Is
not a county in West Virginia freer
from crime than Calhoun county;
then surely her noble citizens viii
not permit hel to be polluted by the
Legalized Saloon. The saloon is the
greatest poverty praducer Of the age:
( pestllence, war, and all the other ev.
. lis, sink into iusiguiiic ance beside il.
General Sherman said "War is hell, 8"
but the LOCALIZED Saloon produces
worse hell than war, because it in
vades the happy homes of orr country
and attacks and kills, or worse
than kills, helpless, innocent women
and children.
If h man was to take into your
community smallpox or yellow fever,
ne would, at once, Je quarantined,
or if a man was to take into your
community cargo Of venomous rep.
tiles and turn them loose to prey upon
the people, he would be treated as a
person wholly devoid of honor aud
manhood, and full vengence would
he inflicted upon him by justly en-
ragged people. Then the good peo-
pie Of Calhoun county surely will not
grant license to any person to bring
into the county serpent or disease
more dangerous and deadly than
any of these.
Granting license for saloon is
granting license to kill men, women
and children; and to ruin homes, de.
stroy character, debauch manhood
and dishouor womanhopd. The sa-
loon power of America is a dangerous
conspiracy against the home, against
thu people and against the govern
meut.
There Is nothing commendabe or
Praiseworthy to be said in its favor.
What has it done? Nothing but
leave homes cherries and comfortless;
hearts fororn and disconsolate; it has
brought grey-haired mothers down to
the grave in shame, and filed our
asylums with patients, and our State
prisons with convicts for nearly every
crime can he traced directly or indi.
rectly to the saloon--W ne and wretch
edneSs are its constant companions.
Who Is it that can look upon the
misery, vice and woo, the ruined
homes, the despairing wives, the
starving children aud the blighted
manhood Of our country aud not say,
Away with the saloon
Half Of the misery and woe Of this
LOCALIZED Monster cannot he realiz-
ed until we hive visited some Of the |
larger cities, and there Oh @ ri, |
pity the starving, homeless, pennies
children, whose parents have fallen
victims of the RUM Power.
Up from the hearts of thousand Of
wives and mothers, wives whose joys
have been turned TO despair, and
mothers whose love has been requit.
ted by drunkenness, goes prayer,
n pure noble prayer prayer IF devo.
ton to God for the men and women
# our country who are bartering
their souls T. the Saloon.
How long will the Christian voters
who have the power to annihilate I.
this LOCALIZED MONSTER, permit .
it TO g. on transforming the peacnble
homes of our country into vertible
pandemonums
God speed the time when the pray
ers " Christian men and women, and
the cries OF little children will be
heard and the evils of ir temperance
be wiped out IF exislauce.
r G. r..