The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-29


with your organization. would not be true
to the principle that has been instilled in me
from my youth up Il voted for continuing
the saloons in Virginia / consider the saloons
have been the curse of country, and
the curse of our country today I can count
twenty-five or thirty of good citizens as
have had in our magister1al district who have
Killed themselves drinking liquor since the war;
and If / to vote to continue the saloons
wouldn't you consider party to the
derfng of people who drink and kin themselves
from drink?
Don't you think that we ought to put men
above the dollar? AS It. you all consider
tho dollar above men. In looking over the
list of presidents, I see men on uhere
that while they say they believe In self govern
ulent. do they practice that? You take every
railroad man that In a vice-president, every
large business that is ice-president on
your list, do they allow the man to govern
himself IN every respect? VIII a president OF
superintendent of railroad allow man to go
into bar and drink If he knows it? VIII
he not discharge him? Do you think he should
discharge him? Shouldn't he have right to
90 In a bar-room and get liquor and get drunk
and run n locomotive and kill people? They are
willing to drink themselves but do not allow
The engineer or conductor to drink Is that
self government? If It IS ! cannot see Il. If
you We're to see O. man coming out OF BAR
room under the influence Of liquor, OF even
II he had only had one drink, would you
ploy him for any important position? Do you
believe there Is a listed vtce-presi-
dent who would give employment to man
that is n habitua1 drinker or a man that drinks
moderately? DO you believe young man
today could get position in Your city with
responsible business If they were going
along the street and him out OF
bar-room wiping his mouth? don't believe
there Is
1t frieves me to some this list
that are lending their influence to what / con-
s1der the greatest curse to the State Of Virginia
and the United States, and / might say the
world. 1t hurts me to see men who have the
highest regard for and would do anything in
reason for, lending their influence to such
cause as this; one to wreck homes and to de-
grade a community. Don't you think that You
and every other this list should take
stand for the right and try to raise up a
community instead of trying 20 pull 1t down
If the people in dry sections do not want
whissey sold, would you be willing to advocate
law not to ship It IN dry territory. and You
only buy and sell It IN your own city and not
put tho other peopler I can answer
this question and say, no. We would also like
to ask YOU who IL paying for all this litera-
ture? Isn't It the whiskey people? The drys
understand that the whiskey people are put
ting up million dollars In tho State of Virginia
10 carry 1t wet. I notice that Mr.. Cabel says
or intimate that there is wfhiskey drank
in dry sections by the advocating of proFibi-
ton than 1t when there were saloons II
that is true, why do the whisKey people make
such fight against prohibition I thought
every man spent money to advertise his bust
ness and II the prohibition dsa-s are
advertising the whiskey business and
the people to drink more why in the world
should the whislSey people be against prohibit
tlon? 1t looks to inconsistent, to say the
least for the vets to be making Il fight against
the drys If the drys them TO sell more
whiskey, because / reckon every man wants
70 sell all the goods he can and at a fair profit
You all doing this for the almighty dollar
and not for humanity, and you think It would
help your city at the detr11nent Of the ooun-
try.
Yours very truly,
p d. CAMP