The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-11-30

| temperance. lIlaI was lic SUI
| iect at the Presbyterian church and
that it held some interest for the
public at large was evidenced by the
splendid congregation present.
MIR. Clcmcnson read appropriate
verses from the scriptures, and then
proceeded to detail the magnitude OF
the rum traffic, which in round num-
bers amounts to tll0O, 10000 year.
lie elaborated on this in an effort to
create some realization Of Just how
much ~. 400. 600, GOO is but the sum is
practically beyond comprehension.
That 100000 men and women fall
victims each year to the drink habit is
another figure almost beyond rcalha-
ton. This does not include the
moderate drinkers, merely those who
have become drunkards, sOts. These
loo, 600 are probably from practically
| that many families representing no
less than 100000 people who are dis
graccd and plunged into grief because
of the waywardness and weakness of a
member of the family group.
That statisticians, who get at this
matter as correctly as possible, attri-
butte fully 30 per cent Of crime to rum
is rather astounding, yet it is probably
true. 1t is also equally true that a
VERY great number of the accidents on
railroads, steamships, in factories, and
all through the commercial world,
may be traced to the evil ctlortSoI in
tOxicants.
| This detail was gone into TO SHOW
the enOrmity, the far reaching effects
OF the liquor tratlc and TO prove that
society can not afford to countenance
it. Besides the cost in money, in souls
whose worth in dollars can not be
computed, in innocent lives sacrificed
by drunken men, besides the loss to
some good cause for which this enor-
nous expenditure might be made, The
very tratlic itself Is disgusting, and the
/ drunkard not only sacrifices himself,
but soils, olcndS and degradeS
| society"
To criticiSc acohdition IS sometimes
easier than to offer a remedy and in
this respect Mr.. Clcmenson was not
more fortunate than many Others who
have tried to find solution OF the
problem, lie merely told Of seven
different ways which had been tried
with more or less ellect.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CUT
ting OH ol the making anu Se'''"S Vi
'hloNlca'lVS,
Local opI'ou il"I co'u'Ilo'' WHICH
enables lhdlNluuaI toWt'S' cllieS com
muhlll'S' OF "arus 10 NoIe Oh IIe
matter ana declue whether liI'y want
saloons IN thcIr MIDST
The dlSpcnsary SyStem-Ihe same
as is now in vogue III south Carolina
There the state handIeSaII liquors ana
sells II through dlspenSarleN
Rum without reNenue-Ihat is,
make it Salablc at cost, 50 that the
dealer makes no profit Advocates OF
this claim that unless there is prollt
in it no dealer Will handle 1t, and be-
ing cheap and common few would
drink it,
Boycott The refusal OF employers
to engage any man who drinks. Labor
must be employed and If it cannot be
employed drunk, 1t must become ao-
Stemious.
State Prohibition In Maine, Iowa,
Kansas. this has been tried, but with
out absolute success.
High License The placing of such
a license on the traffic as to make ii
Improbable to the dealer.
This latter proposition served tC
warm the speaker to considerable
heat and he was rather strong in hi
statements concerning the city coun
CHS disposition in this matter lie i
| of the opinion that the present 500