The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-13
TEMPERANCE.
BY MISS C. S. BURNETT.

mayor deW1LC, OF new 4Ork Clty, III
his message to the board of aldermen,
January 18th, said: "a visit to the
charitable institutions maintained by
this city, containing over IA 600 per-
sons, will convince the most sceptical
observer that the chief cause of crime,
sickness and poverty, which fill those
institutions with inmates is to be found
n excessive indulgence in Intoxicating
drinks"
During the last six months of license
in Providence, r. l., there were 4,194
arrests, and under prohibition in the
following six months only 1857. These
figures ought to be considered sub
stantial argument. 1t matters not how
strenuously people may deny the
virtues of prohibition, they dare not go
to the police courts for their evidence
that prohibition doesn't prohibit"
The pure grape juice that was ordered
by the request of the W. G. T. U. from
California has arrived, and can be pro-
cured from Sharp & Younger in pint or
quart bottles. It is very valuable as
medicine. but was especially desired
for sacramental purposes.
The chalk talk, given by Rollo
Kirk Bryan on Monday evening, was
the finest entertainment of the kind
ever given here. He proved that tenn
perance can be made so interesting
that the masses will want to hear. The
way he managed his chalk is marvel
Gus. Just when one was ready to weep
over some pathetic scene, few touches
of his wonderful crayons would make
one laugh, but all the while there was
the same lesson of the wrong to the
home and the injustice of the traffic.
A special car, bearing delegates from
California to the National Prohibition
Convention at Indianapolis, will stop a
day to see our beautiful city. Let as
many of the friends of temperance SIS
can do SO, visit them at headquarters,
their car, on the D. & R. 6. track. May
18th.
The only victory that the temperance
people have scored at Washington is in
securing report from the Senate com
mittee in favor of bill providing for a
commission on the alcoholic traffic.
Some of the ladies of the W. G. T. q.
held temperance meeting in the Tenth
Ward free schoolhouse on Sunday
night.
The inmates of the Colorado Peni-
Tertiary gather every evening in the
chapel where a regular school is held.
German, Spanish and other languages
are taught, besides all the common
branches of study. There is also a
Chautauqua class. The education of
the prisoners was brought about by the
w. G T. q. women, who visit the peni-
Tertiary every week and hold gospel
service.
The license law is great curse to this
nation. The government has no more
right to license men to make drunk-
ards, than it would have to license men
to break tine Ten Commandments.
The enormity of the evil of intemper-
ance is almost inconceiyable. There
are nearly 100000 druukards in the
United States, and 5000, 900 women and
children are suffering disgrace and
poverty on account of Drunkenness
Er.
Nearly 100000 men die drunkards
every year, and go to drunkards'
graves and, i fear, to the drunk ards hell,
as we read in Gods book that mo
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of
God" 1st Cor, 610. Statistics show.
also, that "a per cent. of all the crime
committed in this country is the result
of intemperanCe. How long shall we
tamely and quietly tolerate slavery
that not only debases the body, but de-
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