The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15
DELIVERS CELEBRATED SERMONS ON THE

lail the crime, the misery and sQuaior
that's what they did
Brewers Put Up Howl
A few years ago when We talked
Iabout Dragging the saloon out of the
tcountry, the brewers put up the howl
that they used 30 much of the grain
Iof this country, that II we did there
would be a financial panic. for there
l and tses n nav ss sae up
and 20 ont bf businesuf 1sow they
come out In their advertisements In
the newspapers and say that 81 per
cent of beer Ia water.
| Now, you big fool. what you want
Ito pay FIVE cents for a glass Of water
forr And they say that 4 per cent OF
it IL alco hol and the rest is pourish-
that in the manufacture of beer, they
extract from the grain. that part Of 1t
which the animals do not like and
! then when they sell Ii back to the
| farmer, that part Of II they did not
| like in the raw state has been eiimi-
mated and It Is more nutritious to the
animal So they make It into beer
and let us drink what the animals
won't eat Take that!
ARE THE LIMIT.
! They are the limit. Now, wsft a
minute and win help you. Last year
| the corn crop In this country was
valued Mt s1.zss,o 900 and the
/ brewers used less than per cent of
! It I win say they used per cent
| I will be generous with the dirty
bunch. Two per cent would be $45,-
/ $40, oo0-all right.
| And they howied and said, as told
you, IF you vote the saloons out Of
! business, you'll have to close ND the
be any demand for the farmers pro-
ducts and you'll see the biggest fpan-
ciai panic you ever heard Of"
| And they are the biggest pack OF
liars this side of hen, and they know
TT
| n you shut UP every brewery and
every distillery and saloon in America,
II wouldn't effect the price OF corn
two cents n bushel Furthermore the
children of the drunkards, that haven't
had square meal for a year, they'd
eat ny that extra amount In fiapjacks
and corn =Spones In forty eight hours.
Last year the entire income from
the United States government every
state and every county and city in
license. my friends, and revenue was
$33S, 900, 900. will be generous. I
enough to pay Uncle Sans revenue
officers. so he won't have to pay them
TO collect the money. win pay them
and | viii lay the cash down.
All right, sss0.o00. 900. You say,
Gentlemen. that's a lot of money"
Last year the working men in this
country spent s2,ss0. 500, 900 for drink.
Last year it cost $1,200.000.oo0 to
cover our judicial expenses, pay our
ra GtN nd he
criminals behind the prisu. bars In
, other words the whiskey business cost
. the taxpayers last year, in cold money
. Il am not talking about any reduced
: efficiency or moral proposition or crime
! lit cost us $3.4s0.500.0 600. Substract
.. from that the income of s350.000, 900
: and / have s3,140. 500, 600 In favor OF
: knocking the saloon into hell and
> keeping on a monetary basis while ]
J am putting it there.
You hold a dollar in front OF some
|, fellows eyes and he In blind to every
thing that rs decent in the neighbor-
hood. Any man that will weigh iY
. the scales human misery. sQualor
: want, degradation, drunkenness, crime
:. murder. outrage, pandering, tremens
y and all that that dirty business causes
!. insanity, feehle-mindedness in tn,
= scales by the side of a few dirty, rotten
;, whiskey. beer soaked dollars, which
:, are n revenue and license from tina
!. business. he Is so low down, / wouldn'
spit on him. and he'd need AN airshiy
!. to get into he'll
!. II I'd take the money that the whis
= key business cost us last year and coir
1t into twenty dollar gold pieces ane
! pile them one on top OF another, /
= would make monument 1875 miles
70 high. Money-you wait a minute. tina
= isn't all. And If could coin 1t int
"a silver dollars and lay them side b,
side, they would reach from New YoYl
= city to San Francisco and back again
to Sah Lake city. my friends, 3,s3,
miles, just lying that way
The money that went into the III
= FOR the whiskey business. last year, il
the country, II made into dimes, woult
! make ribbon that would rap thi
old world twelve times around. Witt
the money that the working mel
: spend for drink In this country. ant
1t costs rs in eight yearn. I could built
4 An automobile path to the moon stx
teen feet wide and three inches thicl
out of silver. There's where GU
= money Ii going
That isn't all Working men her
n need It, 1 am fighting your battle
too. sir. can take the money tina
:. you dumped into the whiskey hole. has
Z year, and ] can build 1870. $50 house
I and pay $4,000 for each house. II
other words. ] can take I.S7o.25
!. working men and pot them into ,
d house with family. also. that will
n cost $4,000. and give them a quit CLAIM
deed for the house.
read the other day Of a million dol
= lar loss In Milwaukee. I said, Gentle
\ men. did have they have a flre 2" Thei
= ! began to read. In some communi
: ties where they had voted out the "a
= loon. where they used to sell bee
made in Milwaukee. they say the Nil
waukee brewers lost a million dollar
r by IT. II the Milwaukee brewers los
| a million dollars because they didn'
l. sell their beer. then the commupitie
r that voted the saloons ont, made
y million dollars. They can't both Ios'
, on proposition like that.
0 l tell you II is immoral. And al
. the rivers of the universe fiowinJ
through the whiskey sections, couldn'
wash away the filth and dissensior
, that exist there. They are the black
[ est spots upon the American nation
today wish TO God / could arous.
= all the people in an uncompromisinS
9 fight against the liquor traffic. and b.
D. me grace and providence Of God, tax.
~ from me I am going tn live Ions