Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-09-22
TO THE VOTER!

Some months ago when candidates
for the fall election were being
thought of we heard great deal
through the papers and otherwise
about the whiskey question. Now that
the candidates have been nominated
or otherwised announced and the bat
tie is on the papers and public in gen.
eral seem mute on the question.
Why is this? Has the public become
Indifferent to this great question or
have they given up hope and turned
the matter over to the whisky peo-
pie? 1t would seem that the latter
were the case when we look at the
state of affairs in our national gov
eminent as we'll as state and county.
Maine, the great prohibition strong
hold has been bought by the whiskey
people. We say bought for we can't
believe that it is the free will vote of
the people who have for fifty years
voted dry.
AS the result of the recent primary
in Virginia, Swanson and Martin both
machine men, and the machine in Vir-
ginia represents the whisky force,
will be Virginia's national representa-
tives. according to the reports of the
papers the whiskey people have gain
ed in the state.
What are we going to do in our
own county and district? Let us at
least find out how our candidates
stand on this question. 1t is not
enough that our representatives in
both houses vote dry but we want
them to put forth their efforts to
bring about reform measures on this
question.
Are we going to set with folded
hands while the whisky people are
tirelessly working to gain ground !;
they are not sitting idle tell you.
Voter, beg of you to awaken and
cast your vote against the whiskey
people, put down the man who is go
ing around over the county buying
votes with whiskey. Honest voter, do
you want Il man like that to handle
your public affairs? That is actually
being done in our county. Not only
is whiskey being given to the drink
ing men by candidates but our sober
young men are being presented with
bottles of liquor. This is a dry coun-
ty but you see how the whiskey peo-
pie are thriving.
To many of the voters in the coun-
ty this year it may not make much
difference which candidate he votes
for. Honest voter, christian voter,
let me plead with you. don't vote
for the man who is buying votes
with whiskey. You have the power
to put that down, won't you do it?
Young man shun the man who would
vote with bottle of whiskey, he is
not your friend, if he will do that he
will do other things to harm you.
If whiskey is wrong and the tenn
perance people are right and they
have God on their side then why is it
that the whiskey people have such
power and gain so many victories
over the temperance cause? The ques-
ton naturally arises isn't God all
powerful? Why does he permit this
evil to 90 on? The reason is very
plain - God has always worked
through his people. He is ready to do
his part but the christian people are
not doing theirs. Either we are for it
or against it, and when mother and
wife serves wines and whiskey OH her
table and in deserts to her husband
and sons she is violating her christian
duty and helping the whiskey cause
And when christian man votes for
the man whom he knows is using
whiskey TO get votes and in other
ways helping the whiskey people,
that man is not doing his christian
duty and we need not expect God to
give US the victory as long as this is
the case.
ON YOU VOTER RESTS the re-
sponsibility, and what are you going
to do about it?
A NON VOTER.