The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-27

perhaps he has seen 1t like-a roaring
lion deveuriug his beyhood friends or
business assooiatesj perhaps he has
seen Its sharp blade opening the bleed
Ing hearts OF innocent womeni per-
haps he has heard the pitiful cry of
the druukard's children. perhaps ne
has felt the sting OF the venomous
serpent as IL thrust Its poisonous rangs
into his ewn bosom.
Some ,fiow'rets of Eden have es-
capped the fall,
"'But the trail Of the serpent ip over
them all.
Third. because reason convinces
us. We know that what is morally
wrong cannot be legally right; that
government should make 1t easy for
men to do right and hard for them
to do wrong; that II ID folly to establish
mischief by law: that the water OF a
foul fountain is impure; that the Com
monweRith should seek the greatest
good for the greatest number; that 1t
Is sin to cause a brother to stumble.
Like warp and woof, all destintes
are woven fast.
All linked together, like the keys of
an organ vast.
Tear one thread and the web We mar,
break but one
OF O thousand keys and the paining
jar
Through all shall rum
Fourth. Because investigation con-
firms us. Waving all moral considera-
tons and looking at the cold facts, the
prohibitionist discovers that the liquor
business is sapping the strength of the
country.
National Liquor Bill.
The national whiskey. wine and
beer bill for 1913 was silica 900, 600.
The gold and silver production OF
all the mines OF the world for 1910
was sos, 100000.
The total income of the National
government for 1910 was $4,000 600
The public debt OF the United
States is $1,000. 900. 600
The bar bill for one year would
pay the National debt and leave $780,
600, 600 in the treasury.
1t would pay the cost OF the army
and navy six times over.
1T would give four-year college
education, including room board and
clothing TO SEQ, 900 young men and
women.
1T would give ten acres OF land and
a cottage to 100000 families.
Filth Because human testtmcny
satisfies us. What e the liquor traffic.
Let dozen proninen. witnesses an
swer
"sir Wilfred Lawson testIfies; The
devil in solution
Robert Hall testifies: Distilled
damnation.
Lord Chesterfield testiaes: Artist
In human slaughter
John Wesley tcstifles: Prisoners
general. driving men TO hell like
sheep
william r. Gladstone testlhes:
More destructive than war. pestilence
and famine.
abraham l. pcoin testifies: A cam
Ger in human Society. eating out It's
vitals and treatening It's destruction
Cardinal Manning testities a pub
lie, permanent and ubiquitous aeen-
cy OF degradation
THE United States Supreme court
tcstiffes: a business that tends 10
produce idieness. disease, pauperisn
and crime
"Robert G. Ingersoll testities: That
damned stuff. called alcohol
Charles w. Elliot testities: No OBJ
servant porsen can travel through the
East for a year without being shocked
hv the manifest tendency of the Nhlte
race temporarily resident there To
DESTROY itself through alcoholism.
That Tobacco Warning.
sixth. Because We believe in
fair fight. The liquor people will not
meet the issues involved in this cleo
ton fairly and sauarely They turn
and dodEa like fox when holly pur-
sued by the pack They are exceed
ingly foxy. The last attempt TO divert
the issue is the warning sent out 70
tobacco growers and manufacturers
About those resolutions of the Rich
mond Tobacco Exchange Sin things
need 20 be remembered;
First They were not passed by
a majority of the members Of the eN-
change Out Of thirty-seven voting
members only fifteen were present
and SOME Of them opposed the reso-
luton Indeed. il is reported that the
president declined to sign the reso-
buttons ana will vote for Statewide
prohibition.
Second. The resolutions were in
troduced by "A member Of the Local
f-Government League, and will
have no more weight than the prev
ionsiv expressed opinions of that now
famous organization 1t is the same
voice speaking twice, The hand ls the
hand OF a tobacconIst. but the voice
il the voice Of the Local Sef-Govern-
rrtent league.
Third Many ardent prohibit
tiOntStS are NOT opposed 1T AcSs1LNe
and a large number of advocates Of
prohibition in Virginia use tobacco
The recent resolutions are untrue 10
the facts and attempt to divert the
minds of the voters from the indie
tensible llcnor traffic The prohibit
tionists of Virginia have not COM
mitted themselves TO but one thing
and that is the destruction Of the
legalized liquor traffic. The Anti
Saloon league would have to change
Its name and platform to fight the
tobacco growers of Virginia.
Once Fooled Negroes.
Fourth In 1855. when local op-
ton election was held In Richmond,
the whiskey people worked this same
old trick about tobacco. The DIS
patch, the day after the election, in
giving an account of the votes, said
the antis caught the negroes By
pamphlet which charged that the pro-
hibitionists would destroy the tobac-
co industry and the workmen in the
factories would be without jobs They
fooled the negroes then, but they can't
deceive the tobacco growers now. They
can't fool the negroes again. The in
dependent voter will resent this at
tempt to raise a foreign question as
an imposition upon his intelligence.
Tear the mask from those tobacco reso-
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