The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-17

decorate 1t with the picture Of one
legged veteran OF the Confederacy
hurrahing for Home Rule and Local
Self-Government,' and saying I fought
for this In 1911 will vote for this
in 1914
Nothing moro insulting to the record
and disgusting to the honor OF the
Confederate veteran has ever been
leveled at him by any jayhawker OF
Kansas or coffee cooler of the North
ern armies, who never faced a gun
or smelled burning powder. 1t ID =
stringing shame that modern pothouss
politicians. defending the liquor traf1lo
of Virginia would descend to tho CON-
temptibie decd OF seeking to array the
heroic remnant OF the armies Of Lee
and jackson behind the barrooms and
beer-kegs OF the alien army of King
Alcohol.
Those paIladins in gray did not light
In 1861 for tho sacred right OF the
lisuor dealers to govern Virginia and
debauch her people--the sons and
daughters Of Confederate fatherA
They did not face shot and she'll. the
bullets of battle and the hell Of the
crater, to defend and preserve the in-
alienable privilege of distiliers. brew
ers and saloonkeepers to drunkardixA
the State and damn her generations.
II stigmatize as an unpardonAblo
Islander the charge that Lee gave his
stainless sword to Virginia to perpe-
tuate the liquor traffic with inviolA-
BILE rights, and I denounce as an I'M
forgiveable insult to the memory Of
Stouewali Jackson the inference that
he gave his priceless life that the So
loon might ave unchallenged forsvee
on the soil of his beloved State.
MY father, leading his gray-claa
men on Marye Heights, shed his blood
for Virginia and the South, and II
any man tells me to my face that no
fought under the Stars and Bars four
awful years to give the devilish liquor
traffic years to give the devilish liquor
homes of this State. to spoil Its men,
break tho hearts of it's women and
immediate its children. I viii ram hts
teeth down his dirty throat!
President Wilson's Posit1o..
Yet another fraud 10 perpetrateA
upon your intelligence and honest faith
by this published quotation from .
letter written by President Wilson
during the campaign OF 1919 to 4
Jersey man. In II President Wilson,
writing as governor Of New Jersey.
said he was IN favor of local option
in New Jersey! why? Because In
New Jersey. with &c per cent OF her
population foreign-born and 60 per
cent of her voters OF oreign extrao-
ton and liberal liquor prejudice, local
option would be moro available and
practical than an effort at Statewide
option. And I fully agree that he was
right.
But when he wrc.e to a friend In
Texas. where the population Is home
generous. immensely American. with
common history. ideals and convictions
as to liberty and government. Presi-
dent Wilson said: I believe Statewide
prohibition is both practicable and
desirable Those Identical conditions
that he delineated in Texas exist alsb
today In Virginia and no man can
doubt that his views on Statewide
prohibition for Virginia would be tho
same as they were for Texas.
President Wilson Is not friend or
defender of the liquor traffic.
President Wilson would not stand
for a doctrine OF local self government
whose sole purpose Is to cloak, armor
and make immune from sovereign
State authority this alcoholic anar.
chist of the ages"