The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

got to have two million boys. BY
the grace OF God, they can't have
them!
| 1t cocks the highwaymans pistol.
1t puts the rope in the hands OF the
mob. 1t is the anarchist of the
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body Of Lincoln; 1t nerved the arm
that sent tho bullet through Garfield
and William Mckinley, Yes, IL is a
murderer. Every plot that has ever
Matched against our flag and every
anarchist plot against the govern
ment and law, was born and bred. and
crawled out of the grog shop to damn
this country.
| Oh, the curse of God is on the
saloon! Legislatures are against it.
Societies are against 1t. F'raternal
bodies are against it. There are six
tyfour fraternal bodies in this coun.
try and fifty-six of them refuse TO
admit saloon keepers to Membership.
The Masons say, stay out! Stay OUT"
The Odd Fellows. stay out
The woodmen Stay out"
! The Tribe OF Ben Hur. stay out
| The Tribe Of Malta, stay out"
| Knights of Pythias Stay out
Junior Order Of American Mechan-
les, Stay out: stay out
| Catholic Benevolent Societies. Stay
out"
| Oh. hear me: There are 21s,.s3
saloons in this country. 70.eo0 whole
sale houses. 1874 hreweries. T43 dis
tilleries. 2,343 rectifying establish
nents, enough to make n solid street,
allowing fifty feet frontage. from New
York city to Denver. Col.
Five million women and children
today go to the grosgeries for drink
Marching five abreast, they'd reach
| $50 miles Marching thirty miles a
day, they'd be thirty days passing this
tabernacle. On the first day of Janu-
airy, sir. 100000 young men entered
the grosgeries to begin their public
dirty. Cod-forsaken Er.st grind for
twelve months. You let that heIlish
hold macerator chew up and spit out
the Drawn and the blood and the bone
OF American manhood, and on the
! 31st day of December / will so in and
/ will summon the brewers and dis
tillers and liquor dealers and their
| damnabIe henchmen. whoever they
may be. and / will say:
! ''On the first day of January I gave
/ You 100000 OF the brain. Drawn and
young manhood Of our land: you have
/ had them one year. What have you
TO show for their twelve months in
| your keeping? ] want them back
and have come In the name of father.
mother. sister. brother. sweetheart.
| home, God and native land. Give
/ me back what you have had. March
QUIT"
! i look around me and see lss. ooo
| OF them have lost their appetites. quit
and they have gone down. and there
they are with their filth and squalor
and I say:
Hey. what's that music I hesr7"
| Funeral Dirgo-
| An, ha. funeral dlrge! Yon-
der goes n funeral procession 5 600
miles long. from New York to Seattle.
Six hundred thousand hsarses in the
! body of a man that died a drunkard
last year in America. or a disease in
which drinking WAS the predisposing
cause
! There they go. Hear me minute,
will you7 One leaps In front OF a
train; oh. eighty every hour. 1000
every day. stumble into drunkards'
graves in America. In America In
America. One man cries. Mother"
and his life goes out Ike burnt
match. Another man leaps into the
| lake, the sea or the river. Another
man in front of a train. and br-r. br-r.
he is ground TO = pulp. On goes the
damnabie train Of misery. murder.
suicide. assassination and death.
! Did you ever hear of anybody that
died young because he did not drink
whiskey9 Ever hear of anybody that
committed suicide because he drank
j too much water? Ever hear OF
man who Killed his wife because he
drank too much coffee. Ever hear
/ of man being sent to the peniter
tiary because he drank too much but
termilk, Lemonade Oh. the saloon
/ is "A murder mill and a poison factory!
/ oh" said a fellow to me. '.Biii. tho
saloon you talk OF and the one i pat
ronize are different. ! attend high
i toned saloon"
| The only difference between hiwh-
| toned saloon and one that In town.
| down IL that one stinks and the other
smells bad. The only business that
a saloon helps 10 the revenue.
/ who comes from the front of a saloon.
| God Almighty himself can't give an
| Individual or institution the right to
i do wrong--never! And II there is n
/ heaven for fools, the fellow who
thinks the saloce, ia a good thing will
be there on the front seat. God may
let you out because you are an idiot
Another thing they say: well. pro-
hibition doesn't pay"
| Wait a minute! Since they closed
the saloons in Denver IL helped to
put them dry; they dumped nearly =
/ million dollars in Colorado Just to
! fight me). 1880 washwomen in Den
yer quit washing. send their laundry
to the laundries now. and the laundry
advertises. Let us do your dirty
work"
And tho milk business The dairy
business has increased So per cent in
Denver. One dairy has increased
$4,000 in it's sales In the first three
months after the saloon went out OF
business Daddy spent the money for
milk instead OF spending II downtown
/ for booze.
That isn't ALL In Colorado in the
last ten weeks they only sent thirty
six people to the penitentiary, and In
the same ten weeks. under the wet
regime (the saloons went ont the fret
day of January. 1s17), and in the last
six weeks they sent las. IN July.
/ 1915, when Colorado was wet. they
sent thirty-six to the penitentiary In
July, 1915. with Colorado dry. they
only sent three to the penitentiary.
One OF the wardens OF the peniten-
tiary in Canyon City said. "At the