The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-18
TEMPERANCE.
BY C. 8. BURNETT.
WHY OUR CAUSE SHOULD WIN.

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The temperance cause should succeed
because it is the cause of the people. N
other question so vitality concerns US a
individuals or as a nation. In its issu
is wrapped the hopes and happiness o
large portion OF our youth. Temper
ance to them means good name,
good home, financial prosperity, and ,
prospect of happiness here and hereafter
Intem perance means infamy and dis.
grace, great physical suffering, poverty
a'd misery, with no ray of light beyond
the grave, for lC is written mo drunk.
ard can inherit the Kingdom of God"
We have said the question involves
largely the financial prosperity of our
| people and consequently of our coun-
| Try. If there were no other reason we
would say We cannot afford this more
Than useless waste of money. AcCo. =
ing to the last census 600 900 900, gallons
OF liquor were consumed III single
year, at cost of $500, 100000. The rum
bull OF our country amounts to SIS for
every man, woman and child 10 it.
The grain wasted would feed the hungry,
clothe the poor, and pay the teachers for
their instruction. Five times as much
is spent for drink as for education and
religion combined. But we must add
to this the loss OF time of our 600 900
drunkardS which at a low estimate is
real loss OF $3.50, 0O0,000, to the nations
productive power Add to this that
million and a half OF our people must
be supported at the expense OF others,
since paupers, idiots, insane AID GRIM
inals are nearly all the direct results OF
drink. In view of all this, we say the
loss is too great; we cannot afford it.
But there are other weightIer con-
siderations. In our free Republic the
the grandest possibilities open before
every young man, an education free of
cost, home for the asking, fame and
fortune for the seeking. Yet what
avail are these to him who has fastened
upon him the habit of drink Ambit-
ion dies, the mind is uncultivatt d ; the
farm is uasought, fame ana fortune
give place to poverty and infamy the
form divine" loses the image of its
Maker: the counterauce that tells of
inward peace gives place to
the haggard and wretched look that
says all peace is gone and its
IT'S stead Is hatred, remorse, and all the
vile passions that demons are heir to.
Yes, the happiness of our people pleads
loudly for the success OF our cause.
Then, think of the thousands of limo
cent SutfcreIs-Women to whom exist
enee is very buy den. Love and hope are
dead. All the swse of lie are turned
to gall. Death only can bring release;
and over the unmarked graves we might
well place slab bearing tn, Sc words,
Rum Killed thsm" The eye that never
ClnGnS
and in the hereafter the blood of these
innocent victims will cry for ven
geance on their destroyers.
Then, the children elpl:ss limo
cents-fo: whom their father has provi-
ded no heritage save one of infamy AID
shame. How dare you face them and
say this traffic is RICH eous one?
Prohibition IT, IMPLIES upon tn rights of
free American citizens, says the rum
seller. Yes, he might say, We have
right to impose criminals, paupers,
.d!ers, and tn diseased upon The peo-
pie for support. We have right 10
enter every home, blight every fair pros
poet, break every heart, rob heaven of
its rlghtful heirs and people hell with
our victims. For these we pay govern
ment license. Shame on government
that receives an income from the blood
t lX of souls Friends, will we longer
listen to such reasoning? Reason, did
| say? Rum and reason travel different
roads and he strives in vain who tries
to make them even seem parallel. |
Reason demands that temperance pre-
vail, and that right early. Let US
listen to its voice and aid on the grand !
day with that which takes away the
brain and hardens the heart of man
shall be forever banished from our land. |
To this end let US all give our influence,
our voice. our pen, our votes if all are
necessary. You say it cannot be done;
men always have drank, they always
Will do so, No one expects to wholly
put off the drink habit, but it is the
traffic we expect 10 stop. Make it
criminal otfense to train our bows to be
iruAkards. Protect them till they are
Of age at least. Do not say this can't be
done. "There is nothing that ought to
be done that free people cannot c, o.
This IS the cause of humanity, the cause
Of right
And right the day shall win
So doubt would be disloyalty
To falter would be sin.
The Dow Liquor Law of Ohio, which |
granted local option" to municipal |
ties upon certain conditions, in the two
years OF It's operation resulted in SO |
much good to the State that the present |
legislature has extendtd its proYi- |
lions to townships. Under this many |
many whole counties will soon be free
rom the saloon, which has heretofore |
xIsted largely because the public sem