The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-13


! its revenue from a system that bar
ters and sells away the welt-betng ana
! the happiness of the American people
tho grog shops!
! In my opinion it'a against the con-
stitution of the United States, and
they -Psve no right to, lot II existY and
.&ssN..A~ n. <>4sAe >.s;A S>s~ Il. wsxiiss.
defytng. rebeilious, Anarchistic, and
in its schooihouses Of infamy. 1t II
educating the people in disrespect OF
law. and It gathers around II a. It's
allies in crime the gambling dens. the
| hrothels and wherever men meet to
plan crime. Here the ycgg comes to
divide his swag after he has crack
! ed the safe, and the liquor trAf1c
, liz political and it is a commercial
machine-coioesal, sagacious, rich.
powerful beyond any personal en-
treaty or rebuke. or ostracism, and it
has dropped into the federal and In
municipal and the church plate humid
reds OF millions Of dollars, but tho
liquor trafflc, thank God! Is folding
Its tents and preparing to creep into
hell out of which 1t wriggled its car
cass.
BY the grace OF God I'm going TO
live long enough to preach its funeral
sermon
The Day is Coming
Oh, hold on. old buil-neck. Wait q
| minutei Some day you'll meet your
counter between you, when your
damnabie. diabolic. dirty work on
earth is done, and you enter the just
reward of your business which is
| eternal damnation, and then all the
| souls of the men and the women and
! the children that you have damned
will crowd around you and they will
i hoiY ir3t.
and they will show you their wounds
and say.
You made them
And they will point to their I'M
quenchabie thirst and say.
You! Damn you. You kindled it,
They will show their clanking
chains and say.
Damn you! You forged them, sir"
And then with their fiendish groans
shifting your ears, and with the
| hands out of which you picked the
| nickeis and the dimes and the hard
earned money, they will push you to
the verge of the yawning abyss OF
hell. while rolling up from the in
ferno of eternal damnation their
shrieks and screams will break among
| the crags and the peaks OF death and
they will cry. Woe unto him that
putteth the bottle to his neighbours
lip
It's almost certain to lead to drink,
they say. II grinds q mans win IN
to powder. racks his nerves. ruins his
heart deadens his sensibilitfes. You
see him going up the street with n
hacking cough. pale face. yellow
fingered. anaemic- It'a getting to be-
one of the greatest obstacles and bar
r1ers to getting a Job nowadays.
| Every young man applying In tina
great institutions in Chicago-Mar-
-
and Morris, the International Har-
vester company and other institutions
! lis asked three questions:
| Do you drink? Do you smoke
| cigarettes? Do you gamble?
Therefore, a fellows got to be
passably decent to hold a good joi,
i down. There was a time when the
travelling man that could put away
the most booze and had t. ti
stock of dirty, smutty sto. - aa+
get the biggest orders. Tt 3sS
| fellow is wearing out sho -.as
| looking for Job. haven't seen "a
travelling man drunk in ten years
! Last year we spent eight hundred
million dollars for amusements. Well.
can't go around with a gloomy face
all the time. (f am Just showing
you the wealth we've got, my
friends)
Last year we spent two hundred
million dollars for dogs. Well,
like good dog. My favorite Ii an
Atredale. But / don't like to see q
fool woman hugging and kissing d.
pug nosed doug. A woman must love
something but don't call a pug dog
something. Perhaps that's one rea-
son why your husband isn't more af
fectionate. Any man with good rich.
red blood in his veins don't care to
play second fiddle to a bow-legged
bull dog.
Last year we spent eight hundred
million dollars for jeweiry. All right.
/ love to see nice jewelrv II you can
AFFORD it. I love to see 1t.
Last year we spent six hundred
million dollars for autos. I wish
everybody could afford an auto. +
think it is one of the grandest In
ventions for the comfort. the happi-
, ness, Of the American people. 1t
makes a man forget He spins out
into. the country in the motor and
forgets his cares. I wish we all could
afford it.
We spent three hundred mfllion
dollars. last year for candy: thirty
six million dollars for soda-watera
twenty-eix million dollars for chew
gum than we give for missions Of all
churches OF all denominations. why
why call We me Lord. Lord. ana do
not the things say" -
Have the Money.
So we have the money. NlMeteen-
twentieths Of the wealth Of the United
States IL In the hands OF profess
ing Christians. Catholic and Protest.
ant That ought to mean that God
has 1t, that it's at the dispoaal Of
Gods cause and Gods kingdom.
why cali ye me Lord. Lord, and
do not the things say" In your per-
sonal conduct? believe the law al
Moses was the best law evGr 4tyen.
The law Of Moses said. IAN sya for
an eye and q tooth for tooth: limb
for limb: the man that sheds blood, by
man shall his blood be she'd
Jesus Christ in his teachings did
not abrogAte the law OF Moses He
"A. Love your neighhoe- ~ yoAe~-
SELF" and II you did there'd b M
"eye for eve. tooth for tooth. or
limb for limb
II everybody loved God and ssrv-
ed him, what a happy place this old
world weuid he. and II exsfybodN
could do this win Of God! Everybody.
my friends, has some verse in the