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

some little difficulty in carrying his
load, bat was finally led to hts seat,
which happened to be just in front OF
Billy Sunday. Just as Sunday was
again warming up after the Interrupt
tion caused by the bay windowed
ones entrance, the red-nosed gent
aroused himself and said. MIR, San
dag hic, why don't You, hic, try to
regulate the liquor business
Regulating the Traffic.
"a ] had just as soon Try TO regulate
a powder mill in hell shouted Billy
Sunday, so far as anything can DO
done with the liquor traffic by law,
one newspaper Mr.. Small said,
e+7t-t r7rr7rr- rr-r7rr11r7g T71Hr MY. Sun
day was a little eXtrayagant III his
reply.
Now let's see If he was 'extrava-
CANT The first law designed 10 reeu-
late liquor was passed in 1642 by the
colonial assembly of Massachusetts,
Maryland followed two years later
with ii similar law. From then down
To now we have been passing laws
every year and placing restrictions OF
the sale Of liquor. and after 2725 years
We have got ths liquor traffic regu-
lated down 10 what it is now. Ain
she a dandy? You We got It regulated
"a queens taste here in Richmond
Every saloon in the United States IS
a regulated saloon. and that's why
the people are looking at the regu-
lated saloon and waking up with a
determination that If this Is the best
we can do after 275 years, We won
regulate 1t any longer, but will strang-
ulate it on the spot, That's the only
thing that will drive the devil out OF
tho saloon now--strangulate it at
once
Then we hear the advocates OF
iletiof- put -aP the argument OF hiSh
license. want 10 give YOU what high
license is. II is nothing more than
high lie without the sense of any kind,
except dollars and cents.
High license coins for us the buz-
gard dollars 10 put on the eyeiid of the
corpse to make IT look respecta BILE.
High license in the figure of the hrtbe
that you and are willing TO accept to
give the devil the liberty to debauch
even the flesh OF our own loins The
higher the license, the lower the mo-
ralty Of the town.
Prohibition Prohibits.
II had rather be Judas Tscariot,
dead. and in hell. than to walk about
the streets OF this Christian community
ana know that my hand was black
sending of souls into hell for the sake
OF little money. Thems my senti-
ments.
i like to tell the man who says pro-
hibitlon won't prohibit 10 go on back
10 the house with that cd rag; chew 1T
and swallow it himself he can't force
ii down my neck Prohibition can and
does prohibit. only where the officers
of the law are pusillanmous' puppies
or set of cowardly ours and scoun-
drels can the Illegal traffic in liquor
thrive Prohibition cannot fail where
men offered to pay into the State treas
their oaths.
"The people of Maine have said for
sixty years that they are satisfied with
prohibition. Only at ~ recent session
OF the Legislature the Boston liquor
you elect officers who will uphold
ury $4,000. 600 annually il they WOULD
substitute local option for prohibition
In the State constitution These liquor
men were tod to go hack TO Boston
and their money perish with them.
IF one of these fellows who say
that prohibition won't prohibit ven
ture into Kansas to carry that news.
would suggest shat he put on pants
half-soled with oak-tanned leather
before he starts. Those old fellows
out 1nefe Wouiu T1ue nun out OF the
State on barbed wire, 1t would be
the best way ] know of to commit as
sault and battery on yourself to tell
those fellows out there in Kansas that
prohibition won't prohibit. Not once
has Kansas swerved from prohibit
ton, and i would be ashamed to
compare the moral. intellectual,
spiritual and financial progress and
welfare of that State with some Of
the wet States that l could mention
North Dakota came into the Union
with her robes of statehood absolutely
clean and dry from end to end, and
has stood by prohibition for twenty
four years and South Dakota is
swinging into line.
mississippi would politically
slaughter any man who offered to
substitute saloons for Statewide pro-
hibition there. and you don't hear
nf any politician trytn< to do It. eithsr,
Georgia has been dry since l9o7 and