American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-06-27
PEAKS AND VALLEYS
OF TEMPERANCE
Reasons Why The Temperance
Cause IS Growing.



W. c. r. u. of Utah, delivered an sd-
drc~s entitled Peaks and Valleys at
the ~ L. Church last Friday night. 1t
was the most entertaining and one Of
most instructive Of the series of tenn
pcranea talks that have been made here
this year, ard the church WAS crowded
To It's capacity and some turned away.
Saturday afternoon she gave a purity
talk to women and organized W. c.
7. U. with twenty eight members. Sat
urdny night. by request, she remained
and delivered purity address 10 men
only. Her talk 10 men was not SO en-
ter,aining, by any means. as that Of
the previous evening. but was not the
less enjoyea. After the close Of the
meeting she remarked that when she
faced such large body OF men as
greeted her. she felt the responsible
iiy resting upon hvr and talked In a
serious vein. Her talk could scarcely
have been Il 4er. however. ard more
who heard her eould have had other
than = serious view Of life for the rmc
h~sng. at least.
The subject Of her lecture. Peaks
and Valleys. ~As taken from the story
of the Kings, In the Old Testament.
where Hcn-hadad. the wicked King Of
the syrs.ns. made war upon Ahsb. king
OF samaris- Ben-hsdad's followers met
those Of AhAh In the mountains and
wsfw sirfaats.t with great losses. Ben
hsd.d attribut~si h.s defeat To the fact
: tas- sA~ isssslr sss feagas l. she
mountains, Next year he said. We
viii meet them in the y,lIeys. ard then
we viii BE- victorious Ard so the next
year the battle was fosrhs in the val
ieys. and B~n-hsdad Wa defeated worse
than before. This st.ry. Mrs. Shepard
said. Illustrated the .tus Of the war
fare between the temperance forces
and those Of King Alcohol. All the
great strategic peak. have surrendered
to the temperance fause. and the Rrc.,
valleys Of Maine. Kansas, North Ds.
KosA. Oklahoma. Georgia. North Caro-.
lima, South Carolin and Alabama have
eapitulated. There are but few o,
The enemy htdins in the bru.h Of lowe
and Kentucky. sad King Alcohol is los
ing ground in every valley in the land
Mrs. shepat told of the capture
of Church peak the FIRST one 10 fall
OF how. throuhaut the centuries unit
within the pat hundred years. minis
ters OF the G'spel ard members of tn.
various religAus orders, kept liquors OF
their tables ard pHtronizcd saloons
But an awakening to the evil effects o.
intemperancs aroused ore organization
after anothe until all had been srrayes
against the rink evil. Az showing th'
growth OF sntiment she stated that i
school ehilten were asked To deeid
which werethe better man. Washing
ton or Liilefu. they would be unable I,
determine. Yet Washington, areligiou
man. dranl patronized and organizes
lotteries, tfd owned slaves. Lincoll
was oppose to all of these. Washing
ton was a. representative of the though
OF his time a Lincoln was of his day
seventy yets later. Washington wa
right In hi relations with God. bu
wrong IN ht relations with his fellow
man.
The next,eak taken by the temper
ance people was Scientific peak. Til
scientists the world began discussing
the queste lis alcohol food?. A
first most all accepted the prevsilin,
theory tns it was. A few expert
mented att found it was not. The
told Of thir experiments upon anims
life. STU the scientists doubted. bu
year afte year AZ they met and debated
and as Apartments were made. the
gained ncruits until the scientific me
OF the world as body declared ths
alcohol not food. Thus the peak O
Sciencesas taken.
Next anne Legislative peak. A cam
paign WIS begun for better liquor laws
Restriction after restriction was place
on the rai'ic. Eight states now hav
prohibition, and local option prevails |
many ohers. One third of the territor
Of the 'nited States, and forty-five pc
cent ofshe people, ere living under prt
hibitor laws Of one kind or another
and te movement 10 still spreading
Eduational peak was taken and tn
effects of alcohol and tobacco on III
syster are taught in the public schoo'
Of al >c states although, she said, "a
Idaho H.. w.rs mt wall enforced.