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

ssVoH, ana the money spent l0f VI INN
year would build a railroad 1873
mes, across the state of New YORK.
nd for every mile from Buffalo to
Ioany a house of ill-fame with sixty
Urls In each. For every mile there
onld be Jail with zT5 whiskey pris-
2frz I -. =. y HI ) - - =, St.
Axra.s ns.''ay fEsepdsx every year
pr drunkards.
Fifty thousand people died in
ew York last year. ard thirty
Pur h on s al d of them from
rink, directly. and Il cost the
|eople of New York state twenty
billion, one hundred and ninety
|aree thousand dollars last year. in
txcs. to support the products OF the
aloon In state institutions.
Oh! Why not put the daurnabie sa-
Ponr out of business, and then vote
an $2e.fS3,000 in pensions to the
orthy people Of the state who cant
Arn money because of ago or decrept-
ade? Why not give them the money
Tho whiskey business costs the peo-
z. of New York s64o.o0o,ooo year.
anne people say that is q plain case OF
Ealing. but ! guess II isn't. because
. saioon pays back s2o.ooo,ooo year
that 100000, 900. Ha! Ha.
6incs the Rank law went into az
~, thN Tom rlatt put through IN
80, which disfranchised nearly 3.0co.-
~ voters In New York state and never
lowed the people tho right to vote
nit the state has raised. since that.
Fnce 1895, since the Rank law went
to effect. $28s,eos.oe IN license from
70 ssaloon. That's according to the
ewsrs' year book, page ~.
Now walt minute, 30 that's the stun
hey try to hand out to the folks OF
ew York, but why don't they tell
hem what II cost the taxpayers since
1857 1t cost them $4,000 0oo.ooo more
han the amount OF szss,ooo,o 900 which
pcs gave back In license. It's cost
3 twelve billions more than that AMI
br every dollar they paid back in
cense, they took $40 to support their
Foducts. Forty cold dollars.
sums Up Propagation.
That's the proposition all over tie
,lntry. and wherever they are going.
costs it Ia said. in WATERFOWL. New
|ork, $1,000 day. Syracuse, $4,000.
uffaio. 100000. New York. a $1,000
.0
October /, 1915. there were ss.sss in
ne people In the state of New York.
ne to every ese of the population. One
pit Of every ass in New York state is
kr1y One out of every c66--all right.
hd one out of every four or that num-
BIZ was made insane by drink and its
arse and blight and infamy.
Oh! read the names. Will youe Read
DO names over the breweries, of those
treIgu booze makers in our land.
ighty per cent of the brewers In this
euntry are, according to the United
Eates census in 1910, eighty per cent
the brewers OF this country were
Their foreign born OF born of foreign
Arents and SO on, I am an American!
And so. as John Mitchell. OF the
rnerican Federation Of Labor and my
ienG. w. s stone. grand chief JUS
Zee of the locomotive engineers said.
Ee engineers of this country and other
CARNATIONS are not only all temper
10, but they all favor nationwide pro-
hilton all over the country. lie said
lat at their last convention. they
Xsted unan mously for nationwide pro-
biticn, all over the land.
Now you VIII find, John Mitchell. OF
e American Federation OF Labor
Inn said. Il am not Impressed with
II arguments OF the liquor traffic"
3 said. "You shut up distillery. up
ses n factory. You close q saloon and
eu Install grocery store"
/ believe as the labor movement
rows. so viii the Temperance move
ent The labor movement was not
arfsd simply to give a man more
bor or shorter hours, but to give
An better living conditions and make
IN happier.
The railroads of the country are
xainst IT. The New York Central
|ackawanna. the Pennsylvania. Erie.
Aitimore. Rock Island. Northern Pa
he, Great Northern, Milwaukee. North
sstern, Burlington. ali OF them against
The Michigan state law doesn't
low 4 man to nave anything to do
eth the operating OF trains who isn't
4tutal abstainer why doesn't the
surch get busy and vote her out.
Twill tell you. whenever every man.
htholic and Protestant. votes against
he saloon. that day the saloons will
70 hell win tell You. I'd rather
. devil In hell. than to be man
earth with my name on the church
keords. standing sponsor for that
Isty business. TIL tell you. hell win be
fun of that kind OF church men,
- their feat will stick out of the
hAovs. take II from me.
New. am going TO show you some
ktag. Look here Here's q silver DOL
i. The whole question Is money,
snsy. money. am going to show
bu how we are burning II up. Why
bn't the churches and tho legislatures
"a because they are afraid to peep.
~ sTAank Gedg It-s q Li~.-
gQ0w, 20 here's . dollar. All right,
taA to me- I am a hard working
m End work all week. get my
II on Saturday night, I've got n wife
IA sfx children-fthank God it's all n
rye got a wife and four children.)
nat here I am for the argument, I
ID John n drunkard. rve q wife and
< children. / get my pay. and I go
bvn to . saloon I throw down my
blfar. Ny dollar buys quart OF
htskey over the bar Ten cents n
Ink WIN bring about -. but when
10 = get through mixing. blending,
veetening, adding oils and such. as
kctifyinE fellows are allowed to do
paying Uncle Sam 100 bones . year.
vim bring nearer SIT than 81 Just
~ the argument, throw down my
Dalar and / say. ..Give me quart,
All right Here's the saloon end of
9 whole proposition we are up
rafnst THE nation, evervb o q v
enay! That is all. They don't give
rap. Az . saloonkeeper said to me.
Aon't give a damn for men ar wo-
-. ali I want 10 their money"
III right here's their proposition so
Thrown down my dollar. I've got his
hart of wiiskey. s''o.r.a ~, 'r'.ss.-- +.
Mare's the working mans end Of tho
~ - Yonder are my wife and chill
N waiting for H. drunken husband
bAsfather to come home. What good
ri that whiskey dot Reduce my earn
- capacity, burn up my manhood. take
ha nH ~ -