Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-04-20

Philadelphia, April IL, 1906.
Mr.. Adrian Posey, Publisher MARY

Philadelphia, April IL. iJVo.
Mr.. Adrian Posey, Publisher ''MARY
LAND ISnErENDEST,"
Dear Sir / received a letter this A.
NJ. from my son, Mr.. VIM. B. Linton
who resides near trayton, in your
County. stating the "iight is on for
} either "local option or 'high license. 2
and he desired me to write an article to
your valuable paper giving my views
on this question. Would like to say
I Just here Pm the son Of Samuel and
Maria II. Linton who resided near
Doncaster, in your County for a number
of years Il lived there for a time) whose
memory is very sweet to me, and now
having son and his family living there
want to add my voice, and il there,
would gladly vote for "local option
Myself and family at this time are
members of The Torrey-Alex. Choir Of
this City, and to hear from to thou
sand persons sing and hear DR.. Torrey
preach seems about as near Heaven
as | can get here on this sin cursed
Earth, and in one of his sermons on the
Ten Commandments he emphatioally
stated that any man that sold rum to his
neighbor or dealt in it in any way was
iAulutIfi III Nut SIX III VI 1Nu 1 uNu
shalt not kiln and I'm sure no man
wants to be called murderer I've
been a Prohibitionist for the last -
years and for the life of me can't see
what GOOD there is in the rum business.
Horace Greedy once said "the way to re-
sumo specie payment was TO resume
The same may be applied to the liquor
questionable way to stop selling rum is
to stop. There is only one thing the
people see in it and that is the MONEY
so it's simply money against the loss Of
SOULS, and ifthe same amount Of money
spent for rum (which is worse than
carelessly SPENT was turned into mer-
camille pursuits. would make the world
more happy and pros porous here and
would fit them for mansion in Heaven.
As it is it's sending over 100000 souls to
Hell every year.
To think we're living here in this 20ih
century and this curse is sweeping this
fair land ofonrs and making more desc
lation than Mt. Vesuvius is at the pres
ent time, for that IS only destroying a
few hundred when the liquor traffic is
destroying thousands Of precious lives
Citizens of Charles County, awake
Arouse yourselves in your might and
crush by your votes this Internal curse
from your County. You all know its
evil effects as we'll as ! do, and that you
have the opportunity to crush it, DO so,
and thank God it has come, and that
You have an opportunity to save your
neighbor, or father, or son from this
terrible curse. | think there has been
enough printed and and said about this
curse to convince any one. One word
to those who think of voting for high
license-reminds me of the old story Of
the Snake Box which perhaps all
your readers have not heard 1t is thus
take a box full of snakes, bore it full
OF holes--that's free rum; stop up half
the holes-that's s'high license" stop
up all the holes-that's ''local option
or prohibition. Can you see the point ?
Then vote for local option. do sin
eerely hope Charles County will stand
before the country redeemed from this
curse, after your opportunities to vote
on the 24th inst. Let us all pray God to
bless your efforts and vote as you pray.
Yours very truly,
S, B. LINTON,