Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-06-01
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Sun.
Crazed by drink and by disappoint-
ment in love affair, James H. Clark.
telegraph operator at the little town
OF Chamblee, dozen miles north of
Atlanta, began one day recently q
rampage of crime. Inless than twenty
four hours he killed one man, severely
wounded three others, slightly wounded
fifth and clubbed sixth with a shot
gun, set fire to the home of one of his
victims and when surrounded by posse
shot himself through the heart.
Louisa county officials are pushing
speak-easies to the wall. Five sellers
were heavily fined Monday in magis-
trate's court and dozen others are
yet on trial. The State is growing rich
from the fines imposed for illegal selling
in Louisa county, the regular court on
Monday having imposed fine of $3.50
on Julia Baugh, white woman. and a
fine of $500 on Jacob Shelton (colored)
and his wife, making $3.50 in fines for
selling whiskey within week, and four
more cases yet to be tried in the cir
cult court
The Spring Valley Ql.) Press. a
weekly newspaper, which was bought
by saloon keepers in that city from
Isaac Heller six months ago, has sus-
pended publication. Heller conducted
vigorous campaign against the saloon
men, causing the arrest of those who
sold liquor on Sundays. To rid them
selves of this foe the saloon men bought
the paper at a high price. Lackin o
the support of the reform element. IL
failed to obtain sufficient patronage to
enable the new management TO main
tain it.
The arrest and summary punishment
of band of white men in south Dakota
who were lesgued together for the pur-
pose of supplying Intoxicating beverages
to lndiansis an admirable piece of work.
For a period of 260 years the Legislative
powers in this country have endeavored
Co prevent the Indians from obtaining
stimulating drinks but the white man
has persistently evaded these laws.
The Massachusetts Bay colony legislated
against such traffic in 1867, and its ex-
ample was followed by the other colonies
of New England and New York. Here
is an example of restricting socalled
personal privileges" or individual
rights for the common good. There is
large class of whites that abuse these
privileges as much as do the Indians
and are menace to their neighbors.
WI Ting Fang, former Chinese min
lister to the United States, has fallen
before the strenuous temperance crusade
of Mrs j. B. Henderson, wife of the
former senator from Missouri, and now
trails complacently along in the white
ribbon ranks not only as a total ab-
stainer, but as a vegetarian. More
than that, Mr.. WI threatens to convert
every one he can and says he has al
ready begun on the Empress Dowaper.
Even the spectacular performance of
Mrs Henderson last week in taking all
the rare wines in her husbands cellar
up to the roof of the famous Henderson
Castle in Washington and then pouring
them out into the gutter pales into
nothing before the vision of Wu Ting
Fang and the Empress Dowagerl leading
I. A. b. battalions in old China, and
whole ranks of Celestials marching about
with the white ribbon on their pigtails.
LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
Editor Civic Sentinel:-Pl Please let me
cali your attention to the evil of LIQUOR
advertisements in some of our news
papers. A leading weekly paper which
circulates among the country people reg
ularly, has liquor advertisements. eight
being counted in one recent issue.
Since many of the saloons have been
closed in the rural districts liquor
dealers in cities seek to make custo-
mers in the dry districts by advertis-
ing in papers known to be read largely
by the country people. ] wish to sug
gest that in an early issue of the Civic
Sentinel you call attention to this mat
ter and urge our temperance people who
subscribe for papers that contain LIQUOR
dealers advertisements to write per-
sonal letters to the proprietors of those
papers protesting in kindly way a.
gainst such advertising. I recently
addressed such a protest to the pro-
prietor of one of our leading secular
papers and received a courteous reply
stating that mine was the first COM
plant received that there was any
question as to the propriety of adver-
tising this class of business.
Yours for temperance,
w. B. JAMES.
Too long have we kept silent regard
ing the flaring before the faces of our
families the glaring liquor advertise
ments too often seen in nearly all clas-
ses of publications. Then. too, these
advertisements are doing much to un-
dermine the no-license sentiment in the
rural districts. They are making it |
easy for people to procure intoxicants
and usually offer some special induce
ment to purchasers. 1t is true that
liquor men have the right to advertise
their intoxicants and the newspapers a |
right to accept such advertisements.
But the people also have rights, and
they can protest against the introduc-
ton of such matter into their homes end
make the protest so strong that they
will conyinca fba r,axyer>ovo xLok A.