Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-06-15
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

FlanS VIII be LAID at the meeting of
the U. S. Brewers Association, which
convenes in Indianapolis, to enter upon
campaign of education to combat the
movement against saloons and the sale
of beer, declaring it to be time for
brewers to make determined effort to
overcome the opposition of the Anti
Saloon League.
Judge Thomas R. Purnell in the North
Carolina Federal Court created consid-
cradle sensation by charging the grand
jury that it would be their duty to re-
turn true bills for selling liquor without
license against any parties who received
samples of whiskey from distillers or
wholesalers elsewhere and sold by these
samples to the Raleigh dispensary or
private individuals. The Judge declared
that this practice was more reprehen-
sible than the blind tiger vender who
slipped around the corner and sold
whiskey by the pint.
Jno. B. Henderson, one time u. s.
Senator. from Missouri, is described as
very wealthy man with heavily stocked
wine cellar. Some time ago he became
converted to prohibition and Joined the
local lodge of Rechabites. One night
recently ne gave party to his fellow
Rechabites, the chief feature of the
function being the destruction of Mr..
Henderson's entire stock of intoxicants.
The cutters ran with costly wine and
liquors to the tune of many thousands
of dollars. Musty and cobweb covered
bottles with priceless vintages of cham
pagne were soaked in the soil of Wash
ington city.
LIQUOR DEALERS WANT TEMPERANCE.
The National Liquor Dealers Asso-
ciation, in annual convention recently
in Louisville, KY, issued an address to
the people of the United States in
which the belief of its members in tenn
perance is expressed; obedience to the
law is endorsed; the work of the vari-
Gus temperance societies is commended,
and the statement made that intoxica-
tion should be considered crime. The
address says, in part:
Waves of public sentiment antago-
nistic to the manufacture and sale of
wine and spirits and other alcoholic
beverages have passed over this country
leaving in their train state, county and
municipal legislation of more or less
drastic character entirely out of SYM
pathy with the spirit of American in
stitutions-legislation that was bound
to fail of its purpose in practically
every instance-and this because the
sentiment that compelled it was a
sentiment engendered by agitation and
totally unripe for it's enforcement.
Experience has shown that when a
man votes for prohibition it is invari-
ably for the benefit of others and not
for himself, for no man seems really
to believe that society can order his
life more wisely than he can order it.
and for this reason all prohibitory laws,
be they passed by the people of Maine
or of Kansas or of Iowa, have in each
and every case become dead letters on
the statute books, demoralizing to
order. destructive of revenue and at
war with common sense and good citi-
zenship.
The White Ribbon movement, the
Blue Ribbon movement, the Prohibition
movement and the Anti-saloon League
movement, were or are protests upon
the part ofgood men and women against
two of the greatest evils connected
with our drunkenness and
those saloons which are conducted in a
disreputable manner, or else in such
way as to demoralze rather than to
elevate those who patronize them-and
we, the delegates to this convention of
the wine and spirit trade, desire to ex-
press out entire sympathy with the eff
forts that have been put forth to ex-
terminate the evils and our willing
ness to lend cooperation and assist
ance. Baltimore American.