Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-11-21

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persistent. prayerful effort tc
live according to the require.
ments of Gods will and word
He is divinely taught: "When
you pray" pray for the coming
of Gods Kingdom, pray for the
doing of His will; pray for daily
bread; pray for the grace of for
glveness; pray not to be led into
temptation, and to be delivered
from evil. The effort OF the
Christians life must be. and the
trend of it will be, in harmony
with his prayer.
Civil government and Divine
government are not the same.
Civil government demands obe-
dience to civil law. Divine
government requires obedience
to the laws of God. and enjoins
subjection to the higher powers.
The best civil government on
earth is the one that most effect
ually achieves the highest and
most sacred interests of it's sub
jects, based upon the eternal
verities. and administered in the
spirit of righteousness. "Sin is
a reproach to any people," ours
IS a government by the people,
and is, therefore. Just what we,
the people make it,
Some few still try to justify
their opposition to the prohibi-
tion of the licensed saloon by
claiming that such laws are
sumptuary in their nature and
effect; they constitute a re-
strlctiion of personal liberty; Il
am democrat, and therefore
cannot be prohibitionist." "
This is a slander upon one of the
great political parties of the
country, and should the saloon
interests ever succeed i'm pro-
stituting the democratic party
to such pernicious ends the death
knell of the party will then have
been sounded. There Is no more
valid objection to the refusual
to grant license for the selling
of alcoholic poison, than there is
to the pure food laws already
enacted. These objectors we
think should look nearer home
for interference with personal
liberty. Last year the legisla-
ture of Virginia adopted the
enabling act, and the whiskey
oower in the senate killed the
measure, thus denying the right
of the people to vote on a.
question vitally affecting their
interests.
Another argument is: The
whiskey traffic yields large
revenue and we can't get along
without the revenue.
Not 80 long ago but that the
memory of 1t is still fresh in the
minds Of the reading public, a
great stencil was stirred in the
city of New York. The papers
were full of it, 1t developed that
certain of the police Of the city
had conspircd to grant pro-
lection to such of the lawless
class of evil doers as would pay
the price for the immunity In
other words, tho police in viola
tion of duty licensed crime and
disorders for the money they
could get out of it. That was
called "grafting," and looked
upon every where as q crime
against good morals, against
decency and against organized
society,
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens,
President of National w. G. w.
says that the maintenance of
alcoholic beverages in the chan
nels of trade always causes their
wide spread use among the
people. entailing incalculable
economic loss in productiveness;
turning out multitudes of slaves
and solons Of drink; lowering in
an appalling degree the average
standard of character of the
citizenship upon which the
nations institutions and liberties
must rest; bringing about the
untimely death Of many thous-
ands of citizens exceeding in
number all those destroyed by
war, pestilence, fire, flood and
famine combined. This indict-
msnt is strong one, and that
It'll 9 a True Bill" cannot be
gainsaid. Yet all the forms of
our government, county muncip-
al, state and national permit,
license and protect the evil sole
ly for the money that is in it,
and that called revenue-not
graft. Think about it.
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