The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-09

the LIQUOR men have not been able
to find a. man who would dare father
bin to repeal the Statewide prohi>
bition law.
North Cardinals Work.
North Carolina, next door to you.
has Statewide prohibition. Those
sturdy Tar Heels went down to the
ballot box slowly and quietly and
voted prohibition on themselves by
"A, 600 majority.
Those people who are trying TO
save the hell holes in Richmond say
that prohibition in North Carolina Is
a failure North Carolina says to them,
You're a liar The North Carolina
Democratic State convention, at
Raleigh last week. wrote into its plat
form these words:
1--WE stand for the strict upholding
of our laws prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicant liquors.
We are made glad by the evidence
that both drinking and drunkenness,
and the crime that they breed. are
rapidly decreasing, and that in the not
distant future North Carolina will
stand before the world as an example
of a Commonwealth free OF the curse
of alcohol
who's lying on prohibition In North
Carolina? those fellows up here or
the Democrats Of the Old North State
IN take the word of the Democratic
State convention. which says that pro-
hibition is a success. There's good
example for you to follow.
The argument that prohibition
won't prohibit is political poppycock
and whiskey tommyrot. The folks that
talk that kind OF stuff take you for
a jackass If you swallow that kind
of dope: you're it. Now be careful
what you bite at
Right to Say No.
9TH se alcohol people talk to US
about personal liberty r hey say that
we are trying to dictate what they
must eat and drink. The whiskey ad-
yocate will say that. We are trying
to say what he shall drink. ] suggest
milk, but he says he must have his
eye-opener In the morning: another
one wants his drink to give him an
appetite for dinner, and another wants
a dram to go to bed on. You see how
accommodating is whiskey. II Will
wake you up In the morning, give you
an appetite in the middle of the day
and put you to sleep at night
We are not after individuals, 7
do not care a continental red who the
man is that makes booze or who he -
that sells booze They all look alike
. 10 me. bul SS-SfA gill
going to get II after YOU pass the
prohibition law tell them then
| That's your Job, you fool. / haven't
/ anything to do with II. You may drink
what YOU please, but when you de-
mand me to license hundreds of bars
to sell it to you and / have the In
! difensible right 10 say no, II ] say
no and there's more Of me than there
is of him. he's got to dance 10 my
music and not me to his,
THE saioonKeepers are not re-
sponsible for the dastardly traf'ic. We
the people who vote and make our
government and its laws are tho
prime factors upon whom rests the
responsibility for the liquor business
/ We are the guilty malefactors--the
/ d3stjller, the brewer and the booze
vendors are only accessories after
the fact Every one of us who does
not want to be a copartner in the
/ liquor business has bat one way of
I escape aud that il TO fight and achieve
the total prohibition of liquor max
/ ing and liquor selling as pubic bust
ness
BAY Window" Personal Property.
/ Ave hear "a wall about personal
7 liberty. You will know those men by
/ the sound of their voice and the size
of their ears You will hear those
old Widowed fellows get up on "A
/ beer key and say (mimcking neigh
! ing iackass and waving his hands
: from TTs eaTsJ, 7 WITTY MY TFrs0TT7f
nherry' If you hear anything like
! that In Richmond, it's just one OF
those personal liberty fellows Since
! got religion, Joined the church ana
quit going 10 Cireuses those are the
I only kind Of animals / can have any
fun with
ooh. but a great pother is set up
( here in Richmond for local self-gov-
ernment But in the matter OF liquor
traffic. Richmond has no local self-gov-
arnnent Richmond could not license
mr. tomorrow TO sell or make liquor.
and make good on her license. The
state Of Virginia. even. has no local
iseIf-goVernment in the liquor business
line She cannot Issue TO me for any
price a license to make or sell liquor
that | would dare to act upon alone.
why? Because the liquor business in
4 America is a federal business ma
tfonaltzed traffic This Wanted local
enhancement for Richmond~-thss
claim that she should strip from Mother
virginia her robes of sovereignty and
deck the daughter in them defiant of
state will and State authority. Ia the
reductio ad absurdum of liquor insan-
ity. 1t is the clamor OF senseless
! fanatics.
The right TO prohibit is the only
right that you have as State that
! the United States cannot interfere
with.
$50 down to the ballot boxes in Sep
| TEN her, you Eireinians who love your
1 home, yonr native land. the sacred
memories of the Old Dominion. go
down man by man and write into the
laws of the grand old Commonwealth
I Of Virginia. once and for all that the
LIQUOR traffic is dead beyond all power
/. Of resurrection.
Method.