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

age OF the people. for the people, and
, by the people, and when a man goes
away in the morning with hts dinner
bucket to work and labor until the
whistle blows him out At night. If he
can return home a sober man, to a
happy wife and children waiting on
J 6ettsr' man. '1asthsr Ne y AHiae Il
black. native or Foreign born. t1an
the man who comes homo drunk
And whatever breaks up the
home, whatever tnvades its sane
the comforts is tins deadliesi
foe to homo. church, state, morals
d e Q cy, and prosperity, and
IL all the demons in he'll tonigh,
lshould assemble in conclave, II they
try and conceive and bring forth the
deadliest institution to man. they
could find nothing worse than The
saloon.
/ oh. You go in with your pockets
full of money and with a good char
{acter, q good position. and delirious
iyou sstagger out money gone, charac-
tier gone. job gone. and all they ever
pay back, sir, Is disgrace, degradation
disease, and they will give you an
extra dividend in delirum tremens ia
old boxers, and they will give you a
free pass to hell when you die. They
win bury you in a potato tield and
then send your children to the or
lphan institution to be supported by
the sober TAX payers OF the COM
lmunity.
But" you say, we will regulate
lit by high license" Regulate what
by high license? You might as well
try and regulate a powder mill in
hell
Like a fellow, he gave kid AN ex-
ample and he said, Figure II out
kid. Ii frog crawis out of a well
one foot a day and slides back two
feet every night how long will 1t take
him to get out?"
! He figured for two weeks and come
around and said, I've got that frog
within mile and bali of hell and
he is sliding yet"
Can Smell Sulphur Fumes.
And we've tried everything under
heaven and they've got the United
States SO close to hell, We can smell
sulphur fumes
In some insane asylums. they have
a queer way of testing the sanity of a
man who wants a parole. They have
a room where they put the candidate
for parole and then turn on The water
from IA faucet and tell him to mop the
floor dry. IL he tries to mop the
then he ia nuts.
! Gosh. We must be bughouse
gang. Why, we are trying to mop
up the products of that business with
jails, penitentiaries. Y. M G. As and
Y. w. c. A & and / say there il only
lone thing to do. Shut Off the supply
then we can clean house believe
lit is almost impossible to maintain
"a clean economical administration
on a saloon policy. Why? will tell
you why l think SO. Because nl-got-
and immortality
| There have been, and still are men
who are honest in their belief thai
it's the way IL can be done and they
, iare sincere, but however sincere and
|, honest they may be, they are all
, forced 10 admit that they are wrong
IH they investigate.
The saloon is q coward. 1t viii
. count its iu-gotten gains behind stain
ed glass windows and sneak its Gus
J toners in through a blind door. II
will hire senunels to watch for the
: approach OF u set OF officers. sworn
to enforce the law against it II
strikes under the cover of darkness
and it will stab unarrned. 1t will assas-
lsinate characters 1T Will tax defense
less women and children
y The saloon Is a thief. / don't mean
"A court offender VINO steals money
oh, the saloon robs you of your man
, hood, clothes you In rags, takes away
your friends. takes away your health
lakes away your occup patton. burglar
ICES our home, robs your family. i'm
pcyerishes your children, brings sui
eide and insanity. furnishes victims
,, for the scaffold and electric chair. IL
, excites the father to butcher lfs help
less children, it will rap the shirt of
, the back of a snivering man, it will
, Toxic the coat from a deaf and dumb
, man, it will take the last drop Of milk
from the breast of a nursing mother
1t will rob your daughter OF hex
, virtue. It will take the last basket
: OF coal out OF the cellar, it 10 the blood
sucker OF community, and never
! in the history of a nation. has there
! been equally an institution as rotten
= and low down and damEable and vile
: and destructive as the saloor--no, no.
The saloon is an infideL 1t il an
: iufidei. Oh, IL has no faith in God!
: it would close very church. Catholic
or Protestant where the preacher or
The priest Is brave enough to put his
fist under their dirty nose And il
would hang, my friends, its whiskey-
soaked, beer-soaked rag from the
. abandoned altar. 1t despises heaven
,, Oh, it respects the thief 1t esteems
, the blasphemer, IL hates love, il
: scorns virtue, il assassinates limo
cence. 1t builds its temples and pris
ons in insane asylums and reforma-
tories for the feeble minded. Its
. music is a parody on religion and /,
wraps the mantle Of crepe abou,
| every home in this world or every
= home in the world to come. Its tables
: are full OF the vilest literature, it min
> listers to the basest lowest passions
of men and women, il is the clearing
house for all the moral sewerage and
filth and degradation and rot thai
} curses and bhgnts this old world.
| Saloon Is u Liar.
The saloon Is liar. IL promises
you good cheer, 1t sends you sorrow
1t promises you health. 1t gives you
disease. 1t promises you prosperity
it picks your pockets. 1t promises
you happiness, it gives you misery
LIT sends the husband home with LID
On his lips to his wife. 1t sends that
boy home with u lie on his lipe to
his mother. 1t sends the working
|, man with lie on his lips to the fac
: tory. 1t defiles the Jury box and
, ibribes the witnesses 1t stains The