Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-03-25
CONCERNING PROHIBITION
BY Rev. CASTOR R. Coyner.


mean to fight him as long as l live,
God being my helper. But why these
opening lines for such subject?
For the reason that the devil is try
ing to get back into our land what
he calls light wine and beer. Remem-
Der now, | said the devil is doing
| it. 1t matters not who is working in
the nefarious business, it is at the
DEVILS bidding.
There are lot of people in our land
who may have just enough sense to
come in out of the rain, who are so
anxious to get their hides soaked full
of booze that they are working night
and day IN order to nullify the Eigh-
| teenth Amendment which has been
written into the American Constitu-
ton by the finger of Almighty God.
| 0, yes, since I've said this, can hear
the vets tuning and snorting. Let
/ them fume and snort if they think
I it will help to quench their hell-be-
4 gotten thirst. I'm on their trail just
now and when begin on the devil
| try to make the blue smoke roll.
have said that they are trying to
nullify the Eighteenth Amendment.
That is all they can hope to do It is
witten into the Constitution and that
means it is there forever. They know
they cannot do away with it but they
to destroy respect for the law until
in years to come it will not be en-
forced. But there are too many Of
US that win not sleep as long as the
devil is awake to let any such thing
happen.
These vets tell US that conditions
are worse now than in the days be-
fore Prohibition If that isn't lie,
then I'm. multimillionaire. If man
had as much gumption as little ant
he would never make such wild
statement. | know all about what
conditions were in pref Prohibition
days. | know how the trains and
trucks by the thousands carries booze
by the millions of gallons that men
made in the image of God might go
down to an eternal hell beneath the
waves Of the black, foul, stream of
soul-dcstroying stuff which was con-
cocted in the stills of satan. remem-
j Der about the millions of little child
rem, who, when they cryed to their
drunken fathers for bread only re-
ceived kicks and courses. remem-
Der the thousands of sad, tear-stain-
ed faces Of mothers who prayed
night and day that God would in
4 somehow save their husbands from
a drunkard's grave and drunkard's
hell. And then you dirty vets, cover
ed with the slime and filth Of hell,
come along end say that things are
worse now than formerly. If you
don't change your wicked ways the
devil win get some Of you before
twenty minutes.
You tell US that things are worse
because some jails are running over
Well, that's a good sign that law
is being enforced. | do not like to
see any one get into trouble, but be-
fore we'll let the Prohibition law fail
well build jails mile long.
The vets ar working through the
newspapers and magazines that are
as dirty and filthy and low-down as
they can get. One of the wettes1
papers I've seen in this part OF West
; Virginia is the Ciarksburg Tele-
gram. | wouldn't give four cents
car load for such an un-American
and un-Christian paper as that. The
editor ought to be naturalized. Per-
( haps he has taken out papers, but
/ said he ought to be naturalized. No
real American viii ever throw big
j headlines across his paper to try to
/ tear down the laws of the nation.
Let him go get outside the borders
with that rotten propaganda. No real
Americans want anything to do with
! it,
want now to give some statistics
to show that conditions now are so
far better than in the old days that
there is hardly any comparison.
Then, reader, you may judge for
yourself as to whether or not we
have prohibition in America.
Then before Prohibition) there
were l77,790 liquor saloons, most of
them selling after legal hours and to
minors and drunken persons; also
there were 100000 speakeasies. Now
there are no licensd saloons. There
are some speakeasies that exist as
filthy and criminal as in license days