Willmar tribune., 1900-03-07
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1E.5fRa1et COMMENT
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Iowa Commonwealth: It is becom-
Ing more aud more; evident every day
that public opinion is against: the IL
quor traffic, and all that is needed is
to have it expressed: that way at the
ballot box. -
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A womanxsaid, ''Let me talk to you
a little. I.want to show you picture
of my boy" 1t was beautiful face.
Weeping size went on to- tell how only
a year ago her only: son shot himself
In . SALOON. He was always good
boy--brought up in a Christian home,
but when about twenty he fell in with
bad companions: and the second time
be went into a saloon, while .frenzied:
with liquor" he shot himself. The
poor mother was broken-hearted in
her sorrow.
:;.Fathers and mothers, this may come
to any of our homes if the liquor
traffic is allowed to run riot in our
streets. In Chicago. every fifth boy,
according to statistics, must become a
victim to- this. curse in order to fill the
present ranA of the doomed. Will
you keep quiet and run the risk of it's
being your boy? Or do you hope it
will come no nearer than your neigh
boris boy, and thus you stand neutral
on sthis great question? God forbid.
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A missionary in Liberia writes that
he is only waiting for some one to
take his place there, to himself come
home and take the platform against
the liquor traffic. He says: 81 can
do Africa more good warning against
the liquor traffic here than 1 can
preaching and teaching the gospel
there Africa, with the simple gospel
of Jesus is sayed, but Africa with rum
is eternally lost; for the few mission
aries that can survive there cannot
overcome the effect of the river of
strong drink that is being poured into
the country.'
There are forty-fve counties in pro-
hibition Kansas where the poor-houses
and poor-farms are without a single
pauper, and at the last sittings of the
district courts there were thirty-seven
counties where no criminals were
found for trial. Prohibition satisfies
the great maj ajority in that state.
What license state can show one coun-
ty where there is not pauper in it's
poor-house or criminal for the
courts? We think we are safe in say
ing, not one.-National Temperance
Adv ocate
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The man who drinks because he hot
And drinks because he's cold.
Then drinks because uuack doctor thought
On life 'twould help him hold.
| The man who drinks for social cause
Or drinks for business gain,
Will later say, "A fool 1 was:
must have been insane.''
The man who drinks to make him cute
Or drinks to make him wise,
Will find he wears a misft suit,
TO chafe him tt he dies.
The man who drinks to drown the ill
Or drinks to make him brave,
Is quickly going down the hill
To fill drunkard's grave.
The man who drinks to stimulate,
Then drinks to sootbe his frame.
Though he be caled to legislate,
He'll bring his Ring shame.
The boy who drinks to ape the man
And thinks it booms life's chance,
Will find his folly in the can,
AS he and time advance.
The girl who drinks to flush ner face,
10 add to beauty's store.
Sees her delusion when disgrace
Has wounded to the core.
The dame who drinks that milk may flow,
Her nursing babe to feed,
Will lead the child to pain and woe.
Misguided mothers. heed:
And all who vote. expecting good
Will flow down with the glass,
Are senseless as the, adck of wood
That walloped RI 6SNs ass.
IRA {. SAKE, Chicago