The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-21

local option repeatedly appeal to the
money question on a great moral issue
when they know full well, or ought
TO know, that in every state where
prohib ton prevails pauperism de-
creases banks increase their deposits,
jails are emptied, and taxes are les
sened? Revenue from whiskey mas
never balanced its expense account, IL
costs more to any State than 1t ever
makes The figures all show this to
be true. The few are enriched at the
sacrifice of the many.
Again. Virginia has found out that
the saloon is in her State by the rule
Of a very small minority. and that Is
not democratic. She has found out
that she need not have the saloon I'M
less she wants IT. and that II makes
a great difference TO have an outlawed
evil, with its debauching revenue. con
troll and corrupt state without the
consent of~the governed majorities,
and run In the interest OF the unlaw-
/ full minorities. We owe debt 10
Caesar we have been slow to pay, but,
before God. we are not to blame Tor
! It, Caesar has not been true TO his
sovereign citizenship. With Louis
/ XIV, of France. America has proclaim
/ ed Il am the state" The reign Of the
common people has come States don
make folks. hut folks make States.
That is the ruling conviction today;
! and 1t Is giving to every nation OF
/ earth constitutional form of gov
eminent.
King Alcohol Us Doomed.
we are the heirs of Runnymeade.
| and King Alcohol must sign the Magma
Charta of our freedom from the reign
Of the rum tyrant The die is east.
/ Beneath our republics flag of NIB
. .SD,,
Redeemer's cross OF Righteousness,
temperance and judgment, and in the
{ palace Of the Caesars proclaim the
principles Of the Christ. the Prince OF
/ Peace, who came To reveal the father
/ hood of God and make possible the
+ brotherhood Of man. NJ wooden horse,
fllled with traitorous soldiery, shall
/ enter our Troy. No heather revelries
at baeehanaiian banquets shall startle
! us with the ominous handwriting on
the walls We live in Virginia A. ID.
1914. not in Babylon. p. G. 500, King
( Alcohol must bite the dust. The King
OF kings and Lord OF cords has decreed
tho downfall Of the tyrant who has
recllessly abused his power and for
feited his throne. Breadless orphan
age and homeless widow hood from the
! hopeless graves of their buried lost
ones demand the tyrants death. Mourn
ing m0lHSfncod hHesitHE ny vic N'A'ARS
of her withered hopes. demands the
death of the tyrant whose hands are
red with the blood of her slaughtered
finnocents An advancing civilization,
holding aloft the torch of civic right
eousness wearing upon her bosom the
: cross EN- blem of vicarious love and
victorious faith, demands the death OF
the tyrant FortysiA millions of
American citizens. occupying over two
tory, already enjoy freedom from the
! lawieas reign of the merciless tyrant:
and millions more are annually falling
into ranks and keeping step to the
music of the union. King Alcohol
must bite the dust. He sits in ter
ror upon his throne of nsurpation. The
Supreme Courts of the emitted States,
and the Supreme courts of every
= State of the Union, have decided in
favor of the peoples rights to put the
tyrant to death Belated and benight-
ed champions of his Satanic reign are
mentally incompetent and morally un-
fit and socially untrustworthy to adj
vocate n cause outlawed by every prin-
ciple of Justice of human happiness,
Of divine righteousness. King Alcohol
4 must bite the dust, for his palace Is
built of the wrecks of human hearts
and homes cemented with the blood of
martyred WofnAHhoou ana murdered
manhood, filed with the helpless cries
of childhood, and refraining the hope
less Urge OF 1ost and ruined souls
So long as our state holds dear the
cherished ideals OF an unsullied pa
triotism. so long as nome holds dear
the cherished ideals of social purity,
so long as man holds dear the cher
ished ideals of unself1sh loyalty to
God, and home, and native land a gov
eminent of the people. by the PEG.
pie, and for the people" will ever abide
the reversal of the unittest and the
survival OF the fttest. To this end we
shall pray and preach and practice.