The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-06

honest money Is revenue from
liquor honest money! No. it's
'blood-money. 1t comes to build up
public institutions, and 1t is soaked
in the thil blood of starved women
and children None but a brute VIII
vote for 1t The high tariff men want
protection against foreign powers.
want protection against the saloon
powers. The wiley politician Is seek
Ing protection for American Indus
tries / am crying for protection for
American homes. This is then the
greatest question before the public to-
day.
Must Stir Conscience.
-. Individual responsibility. Every
man for b.mself, and the devil take
the hindmost.' The individual con-
science must be stirred. Each citi-
zen must recognize his relation to this
tremendous issue and take a positive
stand. Some say. / am for temper
ance. but--there's always a but
And you keep on butting until you
but the saloon down or your wicked
ness out. Such people remind me Of
the man whose house was built or
the county line. He claimed he lived
in both ard would pay taxes in Meth
err. The tn @ sheriffs of the respective
counties agreed that the tax should
be collected in the county in which
he slept, At night they went TO de-
termine his citizenship, when to their
surprise nc was asleep with his head
in one coGnty ;sd his feet in the
other. This is the picture of many
church members. They are asleep
with their head and heart in the
saloon and their heels in the church.
No wonder we have so much kicking
in religious gatherings.
The Critics.
''One says he wants personal lib
erty But no community is safe with
these long red gentlemen Mt liberty
For while they want their liberty. it IS
only to deprive dry counties of theirs,
according to their own testimony
through Strauss-Gunst IL Co. 1t isn't
personal liberty. but the hlood-stained
dollar they want. OF course n Ger
tain. doctor wants liquor when he
knows that his hospital will lose sup
port when the liquor poison ceases to
wreck the bodies Of men.
Some say prohibition dosn't pro-
hihit. No law does. But do your duty
and have a coed conscience whether It
prohibits or not. We have laws
against theft. But the Richmond post
office was robbed. Another believes
in moral suasIon. Some peoples moral
sense is SO dead that mustard plaster
than a dose % moral suasion. Let all
good citizens raise a cry against the
saloon that shall be heard in heaven,
and there will be joy IN the presence
4 God and His angels over another
State that mas gone dry
- The ballot. The public CON
science must he awakened, Pubic
sentiment masters legislation. Liquor
is the chief actor in lawlessness, The
business often operates without
license. IL breaks Sabbath laws.
Drunken mer, women and minors buy
H. The citizen IS responsible And
it seems strange that Richmond cent
have even one man ~ho will stand for
measures Of morality in the halls 81
the Iegislatude. Even wicked Norfolk
has lef, us far behind.
\ just Verdict.
AT Princeton, Ind. s. man while
drunk, attempted 10 board a moving
freight train. fell between cars and
was Killed. Here is part of the cor
onerfs verdict:
/ find that at the time az
his death said Miller was Ia a drunken
condition an was attempting to beard
said train while it was in motion. that
his attempt &c SO board train was due
10 his then drunken condition. that
his said drunken condition was caused
by tho drinking of drunk making
liquors. fUfDl&Hed by I01n W iTfs sHt4
Patrick Golden. both of said Princeton.
said Writ and said Golden, each
maintaining aud operating saloon
for that purpose at said city hy au-
thor3tv Of thc license laws If the
State Of fndinna; tfat the response
biltty for the uutimely death IL said
Miller rests upon the citizens OF the
State 81 Indiana. who framed and au-
lhoriged The framing of the said liacnse
laws. ana wise assent to authorize and
uph ald the operation of said license
laws ln Th@ county or Gibson, Cntt
city of Princeton and that said citizens
OF the State of Indiana, by thei~ per-
verified use of the right of suffrage ave.
together with their .plaatarv agents.
the said saloonkeepers, guilty ef the
killing of thu said Lewis Miller
GEORGE w. GORDON
=" 'Corone~ Gibson county. Ind. "
To license a saloon Is To pervert
the use Of the right of suffrage Let
The manhood ~ Virginia cast the d!e
ma the Pend day Of September. 1914,
haJ shah vii out this curse that be-
longs 10 the days ot Nero, and til. Viz
ginia once mora 10 her original posi-
tion Of leadership ard purity of Ems th-
erhood among the States. The haalot
determines all I"
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