Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-07-12
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

A whole county was made dry in
Oklahoma by the refusal of the county
newspaper to print the advertisement
which the applicant for license is re-
quired to make.
Vice-President Charles w. Fairbanks
has been elected a delegate to. the
quadrennial Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference, to be held in Baltimore next
May, but dispatch from indianapolis
indicates that he may have trouble
being seated. because he is alleged to
have served cocktails and three kinds of
wine at dinner given in honor of
President Roosevelt at the time of the
dedication of the Lawton monument. in
indianapolis, on May 80.
IL Is hardly necessary to say that the
murder trial at Houston has alreadv
developed terrible temperance lesson
Tor men and more terrible lesson for
women. Whiskey seems to have PLAYED
double part, if not triple part, in
this distressing tragedy. Had young
Estes been total abstainer there had
been no tragedy; if Miss Loving had
not taken a drink with Estes there had
been no tragedy; and the probability is
that had Judge Loving never been
addicted to strong drink Theodore Estes
would at least have been given chance
Tor hls life. -Times-Dispatch.
Hon. ]. d. Baker, of Frederick. whose
name is prominently mentioned in con-
nection with the Governorship of Mary
land, declines to be a member of a
certain political club on the ground that
liquor was sold in the club. When asked
for an expression on the subject Mr..
Baker said: Il think it is perfectly
proper that the people of MARYLAND
should know exactly where stand on
this matter. am personally a tenn
perance man and always have been. II
Is a fact that L have always declined to
be member of any club where LIQUOR
is sold. i would not sacrifice a single
Jot of my conviction and principle on
this subject to hold any office within
the gift of the people of Maryland. /
do not understand that it is necessary
for man to drink liquor to be a Demo
crat. If it is, they might as well count
me OUT
The missionaries in Japan are writing
OF the helpful Christian influence of the
Hon. William Jennings Bryan in his
visit to Japan last year. At BANQUET
given to him which was attended by
most of the japanese cabinet and the
heroes of the war between Japan and
Russia, he declined to take wine, and
respondedto the toast "Admiral Togo,
with the words: ''To the man who
conquered on the water, 1 drink his
health In glass of water" One of
our own missionaries says: az firmly
believe, from an intimate knowledge of
Japan during the past seventeen years,
reinforced by the opinion of number
OF competent missionaries, that Japan
has not had visitor to her shores dur
ing this period whose influence on her
people for good can at all be compared
with that of Mr.. Bryan" So NAV a
Christian statesman honor God.-Ex.
Too many Christian people are pref
udiced against anything that bears the
name of Temperance because of
what seems to them the violent intem-
perance of some that pose as the special
champions of the temperance cause.
How much wiser was he who said, 81
have a great dislike for hogs, but I
have a still greater dislike for snakes.
and hogs turned loose in field infested
with snakes soon utterly exterminate
them, and therefore / say, 'All hail to
the hogs!" Far be it from us to sug-
gest that there is the slightest analogy
between the beastly swine and the
noble men and gentle women who are
enlisted in the cause of temperance
reform; still, though they were as dis
agreeable as swine or porcupines, if
they only succeeded in trampling tC
death, as in many places they are doing,
the devils brood of serpents Matched
in the distillery and the brewery, we
ought to say Godspeed to them
Baptist Teacher.