Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-25


dry whenever the opportunity PFC
sorts is + rhs heads O. ron. ; are
beginning to realize that liquor is the
greatest curse that comes into u
home. They are seeing it in differ
ent light and from higher and uobler
standpoint.
Then again, the evil effects of al
cohol are taught in our public schools.
Let the rising generation of boys and
girls have impressed upon them the
terrible effects upon the body, mind
and heart, day by day in the school
room, and when they become heads of
f1milies they will be better prepared
t. combat the liqour cause than their
ancestors have been. Temperance in
auctions are given from our pull
pits and in our Sunday schools all
oicr the land The Sunday school
:hoairs study temperance lesson
every quarter. The positive stand
taken by business men and corpora
tions in not employing drinkers is an
incalculable help to the temperance
cause. This is one of the most power
full agencies in loosening the liquor
grip. Let men who hope to rise in
the business world realize that to
drink will be suicidal, and they are
not near SO apt to do it, This may
not d Ter those who already have the
hsbi; hopelessly fixed, but it will be
great restraint to the beginners
a II avenues are being closed against
those who drink. The drinker is
watched, weighed and found wanting
as never before! Thank God for it
Public sentiment will no longer sand
drinking school teachers, physicians,
preachers, engineers. etc
If the young ladies of our country
would consider it gross insult for
men 10 seek their company when
drinking, and express to such men
their feelings on the subject, be-
lieve such treatment would be a |
mighty detergent to many man. If |
some men are made to believe that
they are considered bclow par on nc
count of their drinking. they will
quit it. Tn1 hopclessly enslave,! are
to be pitied and helped in every way
possible. A few years will remove
them from among us.
The temperance organizations, such |
as the AntiSaloon League, the w.
c. T. U. and other moral suasion So
cieties are strong and effective
enemies of the liquor traffic.
These organizations are powerful
producers and crystalizers of public
sentiment. One person may not be
able to do very much, but if thousands
of good men aud women combine into |
organized bodies they can bring |
about revolution for virtue, truth |
and righteousness. The growth of !
public sentiment against the liquor i
is largely due to such organ
iZations.
Let no one be fool enough to think |
that the liquor interests are going to
without titantic struggle;
they are dying hard and will fight up-
til the last vostige of hope vanishes.
Their bitter opposition to woman
suffrage shows they arc more afraid |
of the good women than they are of
the men. The fact That they unani-
mously oppose this movement is help |
ing to make me think it is right, for
one can't go far wrong if he goes in
an opposite direction from TO the
liquor crowd.
Encouragement for the temperance
cause meets us at every turn of the
way. The tide is certainly rising
occasionally there may seem a slight
backset, but on the whole higher
ground is being reached, the temper
ance grip is Tightening. the saloons
loosening. Let us hope that the time
is not far distant when the three
great political parties OF our country
will have their national platforms a
prohibition plank. The battle now
waging will put to the test the brav-
est and strongest soldiers. Apart
from the devil. the liquor men have
three powerful allies, namely, ap-
petite, avarice, and the apathy of the
temperance people.
Fight on, perservering, couraeeo
comrades God and right are on our
side, and, sooner or latter, victory
must GOMEZ The day is not far distant
when it will greve us to know that
our great government remained so
long partner in the saloon business,
nov" it is fact; but maybe, ere
we depart or with our posterity, it
shall be only sad memory.
Tazewell Va. Il. Fl. CAMPBELL.