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


friends, than of squalor and of want.
then. sir, there is only one thing to
do, and that is. when we get a chance,
TO put that business into perdition-
I Oh. the liquor interests OF this
country-they are still fat and
they. are sleek. and they are smooth
-A.>a/ ~ssAyl .arx 20 ~ a.. ~, h>---~s4--
city assS, Gfa.o and national, govegH~
ment <awning at their feet, and they
are reaching out with their damnable.
dirty clutches. and they are trying
to choke and trying to throttle and
trying to assassinate the characters
Of men.
Doom Is Scaled
! Oh, but i say to them that their
doom is sealed. II the people of this
country are fit for self-government.
] ii the people Of this country are fit
1 for liberty, their wrath will never be
qnelled until the putrid carcasses Of
/ the liquor traffic lie in the grave OF
public shame, and that's going to be
the case, as sure as you 1.-Two and
breathe.
Last year 1t coet $500. 900, 900 to run
! the public schools OF this country.
We paid in pensions to old soldiers
1854, 100000 II cost to run the post
ONCE department $33.,o0o.o0o. The
army and navy, $310.0o0.000. The
/
600. Gold and silver coined last year.
$34, 100000. 1t cost to run the uni
versities and colleges SOL, 900, 900. All
of these items make <2.631 900, 900.
and you subtract that from what the
whiskey business cost you and can
pay all OF those bills: can run the
government
can pay all of those bilh with tho
money that the whtskey business cost
I TasS nn1 ~sr;I .
| 600, 900 left. Almost enough to give
every man, woman and child in the
United States of America a n-dollar
gold piece.
| feel Il good deal like the Irtshman.
They were talking in community
where they were going to vote the sa-
loon down. They said, You know we
use the money from the saloons to
run our schools, and II we close the
saloons, we've got to close the schools.
Pat, you must vote for the saloons,'
J He said, by golly. won't" He
said, I'D rather nave my boy learn
his A B C's in heaven than to read
Latin in hell
| Last year the corn crop was worth
$2,2s6, 100000: the wheat crop ST.
026,000.ooo. the cotton crop $1,406.-
| 100000, that's including lint and seed.
And last year we spent the prices of
OF two wheat crops tor drink, and we
spent the price Of one corn crop.
| We are all Interested in eood roads.
The office of the public roads and
the agricultural department at Wash
| fngton tell me that 1t costs $500 per
4 mile. on an average, TO make a mile
of public highway sixteen fec wide
and seven inches thick. / will say
1t costs You $4,000 for a little over
lain .
make 100000 miles OF public high
way. Allowing the distance from
New York to San Francisco to be
1900 miles, II would build 100 paved
highways from the Atlantic to the
Pacific
Allowing the distance from New
Orleans to Duluth to be 1900 miles
it would build paved highway a,
each twelve miles from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. $50 that nobody would
live over six miles from a highway
that would take him from the Allan
tic to the Pacific i can do that with
the money that went into the wf1iskey
,hole last year I'm this country.
The railroads in this country arr
capitalized Mt $zo,247, 500 900. and ir
eight years the working men OF this
country spend money enough to re-
produce the railroads, as they stand
/.
just as they are today. We spend
money enough in eight years to re-
! produce the railroads in this country
, tuet as they are, with money dumped
into the whiskey hole
, The Saloons Harvest.
But what we really have got bach
from 1t is nothing but lot Of insane
feeole-Enfnded people, my friends
that are In the penitentiaries and in.
sane asylums. and the states cam
| contribute enough to build jails, peni
, teenttaricS and a1ylums to take car
, Of the human dereIictA
= We buih the Panama canal and W
, haven't got done talking ebout tn,
, engineering feat. 1t cost us $40o
100000. / can bufld sfx Panama ca
nais every year and pay cash for then
: dump into the whiskey hole ever,
twelve months can bufh Elk O
them.
There arc 1851 na.ionas banks II
! the United States, accordin- to tn,
last figures / got II haven't been ad
/ vfsed for year,. with a capital ant
! surplus of $1,7s2.ss7.2so. This is ;
, report from the treasury department
!, The money spent for whiskey i,
one year will reproduce the capita
and surplus of every national banl
, In the United States and leave me
balance OF s7oo.ooo. 900 in cash.
There arc 1870 other. banks witt
capital and surplus Of $1,000, 900,
600, and the money spent for liquor
: in one year Will represent their CAPT
tai and their surplus and leave m,
r $500, 900, 900 In cash. The amour
OF money spent for drink in Americz
, in two years Will represent the CAPT
/ tai and surplus Of every bank in tn,
United States and leave me 81 900.
, 100000 in cash in my hand. That
where the warfare comes an
. fighting for decency, sobriety ant
men. against their dirty money. ant
| they know IT.
? Now II you want to excel In crime
II you want something to rob you ply
sicaliy. mentally and morally: II yot
want to consort with thieves. thugs
blacklegs. pandercrs. degenerates and
, prostitutes, go to the saloon. That
the stem around which they all clus.
ter, in every community on earth
, And II 10 my personal opinion that thi
man who sells strong drink is a worss
citizen than a thief or A. murderer.
think he is worse than a thief, because
a thief simply steals your money
while the saloon robs you Of your
health, robs you Of your ambition