Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-16
Local Option.
To our brother voters:

,ovs to cast a vote and we should
vote intelligeutly upon all questions
will you not give your earnest atten-
ion to the following points,
Do YOU not think that business,
that lowers mankind to the level oil
q brute in it's consequences, and Is
the cause of seven eights OF all the
crime two-thirds of the iusapity,o ne
half of the alienation between man
and wife and four lftbs of the extreme
poyerty of the land is wrong ana
should be broken up? If 1t ought 10
he broken up and is upon us by the
vote of the people, and can DE re-
moved by the vote of the peopi" ana
YOU are one of the people, ought you
not to vote agaipst itY
If by your vote you help to put this
evil upon the people are you not
partly responsible for all the crime
and poverty resulting from it?
When you vote to license saloon
ought you not to stop and think tna'
von are placing an irresistible temp
tation before drunkard which be Is
nowerless to resist, and which Will
end his liteY-thus making his poor
ba,nless wife a woman OF tears, sor-
sow and i'll treatment; you are taxing
awav her living, making her poor
and her children, orphans Dependent
mon the cold charities of the world
Will not a just God, the Father 81
the Orphan" hear their pititu' cry
and the sad wall OF the dependent
mother. and hold you responsible iol
q business that made them soT
Is it right to build churches to save
mon and then license saloons TO de
stroy themf
Is it right to license a man to sci
that which makes a man drunk an'
then punish the man for being drunk
Is it right to license man to make
paupers and then tax sober men ''
take care of them?
Is it right to license a saloon u
teach vice, immortality and indoienc'
and then tax people for schools q
teach virtue, morality and industry
Is it right to teach your ooy not u
drink and then license saloo'
where he may be taught to drink
You say you have no boy, the'
would you put temptation oefor
some other boy that you would no
;have put before your own boyf
Is it right to teach your boy 10 d
honest, sober and patriotic, and tue
license a place where he may D
. made gambler, drupkard and al
archist?
Is it right to teach your boy to Re
strain bis passions and then vote
license a place where his worst pas
sions will be iDflamedY
Is it right to take care OF your ow
how and vote to ruin your neighoor
how? Is it right to advocate Justi'
: and charity and then license pls'
l., 70 rob the tempted, make widows
q their wives, and orphans of the
e children. to rob their mouths
/. bread and their homes of peace an
harmony?
/ Do you say the question OF inten
perance and it's evils do not affe
d Won? That was what Joe Simpso
81 Of Jllipois. said. His wife, son al
daughter started home on train
the engineer was drunk a wreck re
suited. Joe Simpson started to tn
scere, he met the train at a depot, IL
it was his wife dying, his daughte
crippled for life and on the front o
the engine was the bruised flesh an
clothed blood of his only son; it dit
affect him and no one is free from 1t
pernicious influences.
Il Is it not wilful wrong to licens
!, anything that is wrong in its prln
ciple and effects? Can any moral cit
izen vote to shield vice and immoral
ity by voting to license saloons? Doe
he not class himself with the immoI
al when he helps to license immoral
ity?
Do you think that the God Of love
Justice and mercy could have IN
tended to license den of infamY,o
to approve of the actions of a peopl
who do such thing, when In hi
word He curses the man who puttet
the bottle to his neighbours MOUTH
Then If you vote for license ar
you not inviting every form Of crime
immortality, vice, poverty, sorrow'
sflictions, accidents and ignoranc
that follow the use of alcohol, an
, arc you not voting against every hoI
est, sober life that is lived, ever
man, woman and child of your con
munity, who are trying to better tn
condition of human life? Are 20
not voting against the greatest II
terests of the bar-keeper himself, wh
will see the result of his works in b
own person or that of his familyY Al
you not voting against the law
your conscience, against the law
morality, against the law of God?
10 voting for license on accour
y of personal friendship for man a.
+ YOU not placing yourself on the Ii
of moral towards by doing what yo
!. know to be wrong?-and you are est
d mating the friendship and interest
Qua man above the interest of q