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

REV. JOHN NJ.
those who vote their districts dry.
I The right to limit and Curtail carries
the right to prohibit and exterminate.
If 1t curses one it curses all. A State
wide evil appeals 10 Statewide suf-
frage. We believe IN state sovereign
ty, State rights. and We are simply ex-
arcising constitutional guarantee
under federal government when we
ask for and obtain the privilege to
call for vote on saloon or no saloon
in all the State. AS true Democrats
we are simply asking for a vote and
want to know what the majority OF
the people desire and demand. BY
that we shall abide. Render unto
| Caesar the things that are Caesar s.
/ Ours is a republic and not an empire
Our king is the people.
Power of Public sentiment.
This is what the church and State
parties tried to bring to bear against
/ the divine teacher when the Pharisaic
and Herodian parties united and put
| their entangling question, is 1t law
1 ful to give tribute unto Caesar, or
not ." If the voice of the people is
not the voice Of God then the voice
I OF God should be the voice Of the peo-
| pie Rights never conflict. Every
! philanthropic patriot IS a loyal citizen
of TWO governments at one and the
same time. The disloyal fellow is the
one who ignores divine principles as
t the bases of human government.
/ Duties never conflict What | owe
my church | owe my State. | am
! called To render Anta- each Its due.
and so-called by HIM who Is the king
Of both But If State law is in con-
hlct with church law then the state
has brought on conflict. and /
/ claim a conscience right 70 protest
against an invasion and perversion OF
ethical obligations lying in the very
foundations If all righteous govern
ment Whatever ts morally wrong
cannot be made legally right.
Take notice. please, that behind
this great movement liz the power OF
public sentiment educated in the social
ethics of governments. human and
divine. One IT the most suspicious
and propitious signs Of the times Is
the awakening Of the moral sense OF
mankind among all the nations OF
earth; and the world wide revolu-
ft{ans start in the moral realm led by
reason and conscience enlightened ny
the sacred fires kindled on the hills OF
Our Christian Zion. There is no war
between things sacred and secular
between patriotic politics and philan-
thropic religion IheY are ha1Nes
Of the whole estate of mankind II
I render unto Caesar his dues and
ignore what is due to God am q
partizan. not Il patriot. and / render
unto God his dues and ignore wha'
IL due my State | am sectarian
bjgot. not a patriot, not at All
phnantropist, The cause OF mora
humanity is greater far than the
cause of mere locality.
let Caesars due be ever paid,
To Caesar aud his throne;
But conseiences and souls were maze
To be the Lords alone.
AS they ala in the days OF the sor
of Man SO they are doing in this oui
dav The two parties, once oper
enemies made friends IN common
cause of evil political sycophants' at
tempt by representations to con
fuse the issues involves and TO MAKE
partisan politics of greater SIG mn,
canoe than the underlying principles o.
self defending self preserving moral
government Does Mr.. X. h. Caneli
LAWYER and former officeholder. be
1ieye that the common intelligence anc
honesty OF the people of Virginia car
ben insulted By false statements ane
that they VIII hlindly submit to sucf
leadership? He says, For nearly
thirty years the people or virgins
have dealt with this question IN &C
cordance with a definite temperance
policy: that is, local option, thus ap'
plying TO the question the Fundamental
nrinciple of local self-government." II
is not so II Mr. Cabell did not know
any better he ought to have kept quiet
If he knew better he is guilty or pont'
ical hypocrisy. The Mann law and thef
the Byrd lawn took away the rights o.
any county to decide BY majority VOTES
whether intoxtcants shall be sold II
that county. Only the cities and towns
with over five hundred population car
vote on the licensing of saloons, ant
even then the circuit judge may Sc
| aside the verdict of that vote. Thu
rights OF nineteen twentieths of tins
State have been set aside by prohibi
tory legislation. SHAFT the presen
law extend to the State at large? tina
is the question. And that is the issue
Shall local option continue its un
Just Determinations against the VII
and interests of nine-t1nths of TIL
peope? Local self-government In
deed, very local" indeed: and sci
hsh government. self-centered mis-
called democracy. alias demon crazy
No self-respecting Democrat adopt
such a theory as his political creed
This is no longer partisan Issue, bu
h peoples cause, whatever. thei
creed. religious or political,
Another Nisstatement.
Did DR. Mcguire know that PreSl
dent Woodrow Wilson Is not oppose'
To Statewide prohibition when he SAT-
5 that the president was so opposed be
| cause IL was not a Democratic doc
, trine? II he knew it, or did not know
| II, why did he say 1t? The presiden
l says: II believe that for some States
| Statewide prohibition is possible an
desirable"
! Again. Why do these advocates o