Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-04-10

Parkersburg. w. Va, is bone dry
so far as Sunday selling goes. The
State law providing imprisonment for
violation of the Sunday law has it's
effect, for while fines are easily paid,
the prospect of spending month or
more in jail is too unpleasant.
High license goes into effect in Balti-
more, the Governor having signed the
DILL just passed by the Legislature. 1t
VIII cost saloon keeper from now to
the end of the year $500 for license:
next year it will be raised to $3.50. and
IN 1910 the cost 'will be $1,000. The
price of drinks will remain as at pres
ent, but patrons are promised that ster-
llized water will be used to dilute the
liquid fire.
A NEW TRICK FOR ANTI-SALooNISTS.
In Chicago April 9TH 500, 900 women
and girls arrayed in white assemble
at the polls. These formed in double
lines and voters were obliged to pass
between ranks to get to the polls. Each
to use whatmental telepathy they DOS
sed in confusing or abashing the voter.
When a saloon advocate is to speak
the women go to the hall in force and
exert their silent influence in thought
waves, and it is said that on at least
one occasion speaker had his thoughts
so muddled that he made a dismal
failure
LIQUOR WAR IN THREE STATES.
Twelve hundred towns in eighty-four
counties In Illinois (there are 1O2 coun-
ties IN the State) are united in a war
to abolish the saloon. Chicago is belted
with outlying districts, and if these 90
dry the great city will be environed bv
dry belt. In this area are about 900
saloons. There are only about eight
cities in the State exempt from this fight.
Decatur, ILL.,, where $4,000, 900 bushels
of corn are annually made into grists
for the breweries, is one of the storm
centers.
Fourteen counties in Michigan will
vote on local option this week.
Danyille, Va, will try again the local
option issue for the third time in six
years. The election comes off April
18th, and the struggle is, if anything.
more bitter than ever.
NO NEED TO BE UNFAIR.
(Clinch Valley News.)
Where IN all newspaperdom or in the
history of the most heated, not to say
fanatical campaigns, will you find such
an Incorporate, misleading and unfair
statement as this from the Times-Dis-
patch:.,
They 1.-THE prohibition adyocates)
believe that the devil makes all the
liquor; that hell is liquor on fire; that
every drop of distilled liquor is drop
of distilled deviltry; that the man who
drinks drop of it commits sin. that
the man who drinks glass of it COM
mits crime, and that the man who
takes drink every day is fit for trea-
son, stratagem and spoils, and In the
highest degree an undesirable citizen
The most Incorporate, long-haired,
ignorant temperance advocate in the
widest days of the temperance cam
paign never surpassed this wonderful
utterance from paper priding itself
ON being supreme" in Virginia. Sup
pose such Misrepresentation and mis-
statement had been made by prohi-
bitionist or the Anti-Saloon League.
what would the papers in Richmond
have said?
+ The temperance advocates can be as
sured. however, that such manifestly
unfair and exaggerated announcements
as the above will do their cause good
rather than harm. The position of the
Anti-Saloon people is pretty generally
understood now-not the man but his
businessmen fight against liquor per
Sc. but against its sale in open saloons.
Not against the man who takes his
drink. but against the manner of his
getting it. But every time a paper
representing the liquor interests, or
saloon keeper himself has anything to
say on the subject they attack the men
who are fighting the open saloon. they
proceed to ''fling mud'' at individuals.
The above clipping from the Times
Dispatch is surprise and disappoint-
ment to the many friends of that excel
lent paper who are conscientiously and
honestly opposed to the open saloon
citizens of high standing in the State
as well as in Richmond. The truth
becomes more and more apparent at
every turn that the saloons of liquor
soaked Richmond have ardent and
warm supporters in the Richmond daily
papers, and the temperance and anti
saloon cause must fight the battle with
out their support.