Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-14
THE TEMPERANCE
CAUSE.

The matter in this column is edited
and prepared by ladies' OF Ogden inter.
ested In temperance work,
LISTEN, BOYS,
This is the true story Of the cigar.
il is fun Of deadly poison
Il VIII master your will-poweT dwarf
and enfeeble your brain.
IL VIII impair digestion, cause dys-
pepsia and heart disease.
IL VIII give YOU an unnatural an
petite which may lead TO the use Of
alcoholic liquors,
II will make you Incapable OF hold
ing any responsible position.
II VIII lead you into the society Of
the indolent and vicious,
II viii waste your money and unfit
you for making Of more.
II goes hand IN hand with impure
literature, liquor, morphine and other
habits.
It cuts the life short Of thousands
of boys who might have lived long ana
useful lives,
1t will interfere with a successful,
prosecution of your studies IN the
school
1t makes boys become dishonest, un-
truthful impure and criminal in their
lives,
II makes sneaks and towards Of BOYS.
who learn to smoke I'm hiding.
II makes law breakers. for in al
most every state It is against the law
10 sell 10 minors,
1t keeps many a boy and young man
from getting a position in the business
world,
II has prevented tens Of thousands Of
boys from becoming Christians and
landed them in perdition.
II is, In short, the curse Of the boys
body mind and soul, the bane of so.
cety and the enemy OF all true man
kind
Sign the anti-cigarettc pledge and be
free
HOW TO SAVE THE BOYS.
A banker IN Aregan county, Mich,
voted 10 license the saloons, and they
were brought back into the county. Tx
Senator Humphrey was I'm hotel In
AlleEau, and looking about he saw
the banker walking back and forth IN
front of the hotel baToom and look
ing In when anyone opened the door.
The senator went out and spoke to the
banker.
The banker said; Senator, am UNI
easy about my boy, DO YOU think he
may be in the saloon? Did you see any
thing of him?"
Yes, saw him in the back room OF
the saloon playing cards and drinking
said Senator Humphrey,
The father seemed spccchless for a
moment, and then from a heart full Of
distress cried ont; o, God how shall
/ save my hoy from ruin?'
You have a grave problem 10 solve"
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destroy every saloon IN the country
said the banker.
"Ah! II seems cruel 20 remind YOU
of It now, but you should have come
to that conclusion when we wanted YOU
TO join us IN the fight to keep them
out Of the county. Now they have
your boy, and I do not know what you
can do, May God help youl"
why should not the father expect his
boy to fall IN with what he indorsed2
Lot each citizen where the saloon Is
seeking entrance, remember now, be-
fore II Is too late. that IT'S coming means
ruin to somebody's boy and let each
father say TO himself 1T may be my
boy."-John Il. Hill, y, d.
TELL THE BOYS.
George Adams was boy sixteen
years Of age. one day he was taken
very III, The doctor came every day
only to find him growing worse
DO you think | win ever get well?"
whispered George TO the doctor AS he
sat by his bedside,
lie replied. 81 am sorry to tell you.
my boy, but there is no hope for you.
You cannot get we'll"
Was II the cigarettes" asked
George
YES answered the doctor, sadly
When George could speak again he
said; Send for our pastor The |
minister came with his dying |
breath George said call I'm AN the |
boys. Tell them how | died Tell the |
boys not TO smoke cigarettes. Have
my Sunday school teacher tell the
boys. oh, tell the hoysl' These were
his last words George was dead.
Cigarettes killed him.
Wil you tell the boys not to smoke
oigarettes7