The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-01

office has oeeasioned more injury to the public service and more trouble to me than any other circumstances which has occurred in the internal concerns of the country during my administration"
 President Hayes said: 'sNo person ad- dicted to drinking can expect to be trust ed with any public duty"
 President Mckinley said: "Fhe traffic In intoxicants is a great wrong, the most degrading and ruinous of all human pur- suits"
 President Roosevelt said: "It is not like other business. It tends to produce crim- inality in the population at large and law-breaking among the saloon keepers themselves"
 Gladstone said: "The liquor traffic has been instrumental in destroying more lives than war, famine and pestilence com bined.'
 Chief Justice Fields of the supreme court said: There are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dram shop. Statistics of every state show a greater amount of crime and misery to society attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these retail liquor sa- looms, than to any other cause. There Is no inherent right in any citizen to sell intoxicating liquors by retail. neither Is 1t a privilege to the state or of the Uni ted States, and as it is a business at tended with danger to the community 1t may be entirely prohibited"
 Chief Justice Coleridge of Great Britain said: "The judges are weary with call ing attention to drink as the principal cause of crime If they could make Eng land sober they would shut up nine-t tenths of the prisons"
 Is Chief Bar.
 Cardinal Manning of the Church of England said, "The chief bar to the work H. souls of men and women is intoxicating drink. It is mere mockery to ask us to put 1t down by moral or religious suasion when the legislature multiplies saloons on every side Cut off the supply of tenn tation and I will by the help of God. control the drinking evil"
 Archbishop Ireland of Minnesota said We have seen that there is no hope of improving any shape or form of the liquor traffic, nothing remains now to be done but to wipe it out completely"
 Pope Leo XIII said, 'The liquor traffic is perpetual incentive to sin and a fruit full root of all evil, plunging the families of the incorporate into the direst ruin, and drawing numberless souls down to everlasting perdition."
 Dr. O. w. Holmes said, If all intoxicat- ing liquors were emptied in the sea the sick and diseased would not suffer the loss. but l would not vouch for the welfare of the fshes
 John Burns, the labor leader said. Drinking dssipates the social force, de- stroys industrial energy, and political strength of the people,"
 God said, "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth the bot tie unto him and maketh him drunken also" Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, at the last it blteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. These all prove that the organized demon ized, legalized sale of intoxicants is de- structive to men and nations.
 Must Be Destroyed.
 But you hear it said: 'Liquor is a ne- cessity-men are obliged to drink" It is a falsehood. In San Francsieo from April IS, 1906 to July S. 1906 those people were not allowed to sell or use it. while the Call and the Examiner paid tribute after tribute to the sobriety, honesty and in- dustry of their citizens they heroically struggled to recover their terrible losses. In Atlanta in the recent riot, every sa- loon has been closed, aid is yet. In Doth an, Ala, in their recent trouble when perils surrounded the5.., the Mayor ordered every saloon shut up and it was done for safety, for the public good.
 Again you hear it said, Let liquor alone and it will let you alone"
 That is another falsehood. A man is said to have sent for a physician the other day who was drinking. An operation was necessary. But when the task was completed, the thing was hungled by the doctor who was drinking, and that pa-