Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-11

| bauch and to ruin Arc they a goou
! thing2 / suppose few men might De
/ found who would have the tcmcrlty 20
say they are a good thing, but thank
| God. those men are becoming fewer
and fewer every day, and they soon
win be looked upon as relic of
| bygone and barbarous civilization. Arc
the saloons a good thing Lot us take
| the testimony Of the saloonkeepeif
themselves I have asked scores of
them. and 1 never yet have had ga
| loonkeeper look me In the eye and say
that the saloon business is a good bust
ness morally-never Scores OF them
! have said 10 me: There Is good money
In il. and 81 / didn't sell liquor, Some
body else would But listen, ANA J
will give you the testimony OF an hon
est saloonkeeper. A little over Two
years ago. on board the train between
Deer Lodge and Missoula. Montana
while passing q saloon. q drunken ron
was ia progress. men fighting ike wild
beasts; a man sitting near me. looked
out of the car-window. and with
string Of Oaths as long as the moral
law. said "The saloon business IL the
blanketv blankest business on the face
of the earth" ] turned to the gentle
man and said: "Sir without the proT
family / quite agree with YOU, ana
then with another string of oaths ne
said. ~ ought TO know. ] have sold
booze for twenty five years. and II o.
the most devilish business on the facr
of the earth" That Us the testimony
OF a saloon keeper who, FOR 25 years, sold
whisky across the bar and when sa-
ioonkeepers themselves bear such test
mony. II ought to be competent testi-
mony that they are bad thing'
INFLUENCE FOR EVIL
Are they good thing socially?
What has been their influence upon
our civilization Perhaps we better
take IL from fundamental stand
point from the unit. Are the saloons
as an institution. a good thing TOT
men physically What is the innu-
cnce of strong drink upon the human
organization? Everywhere IL has been
demonstrated by science that intoNl-
eating drink i'm any form depreciates
human skin and the human brain al
the way from Pig to 100 per
cent. which is total Listen A
man dead drunk Is absolutely worth
less in any civilization and for any
purpose A man half drunk is only
half the man that he ought to be-
A man always and for ever Is az his
best when he is sober.
AWFUL RECORD
What has been its influence upon
heredity2 II has robbed the babes OF
every generation Of their righuul m
hcritance 70 life and usefulness ana
physically Tellman of the University
Of Bonn. gives some startling facts;
In 1899 notoriously drunken woman
died. At that time there We're $40
Of her descendants. Seven hundred
and sixty OF them have been traced,
with the following astonishing re-
suits. Seven OF the male descendants
were murderers; eighty seven were
habitual criminals six were beggarsi
cighty-seven lived upon aims of the
community: one hundred and eighty
one OF the women descendants were
prostitutes. This one line Of the DC
scendants Of a drunken mother cost
the government $500 600. / think 4
need not argue the proposition.
believe we win agree that the inhu-
ence of the saloon, AS an institution
is "a bad thing upon men and women
physically.
BLIGHTING CURSE
els the saloon a good thing social
I've Has il contributed TO the moral
bettcrment 10 the purity, 10 the en-
Hghtenment. and to the culture OF
our social life? Why, you say no, not
for one moment has IL done this. on
ing curse. the most whitening blight
In human history, upon the social
life Of the AnRlO-SaXou race. on. we
hear said today that the Anglo Saxon
race has been the race of progr ass'
and that the Anglo-SaNon race mas
always been "A race or drinkers. That
les partly true. and Vet the Anglo
saxon race has been the race of pro-
gress in spite of the tremendous
handicap of incompetence. Tho in
nuenco Of strong drink upon the weak
er nation Is for their speedy desuuc-
ton. Look az the red man OF the
forest The white mans rum has done
more TO destroy the red man and his
race from the history OF the world,
than am bullets and wars and famines
and pestilence combined What do We
find Is the influence of strong drink
upon "a negro race Fearful, awful
and demorailzing No, the Anglo
Saxon race by inherent strength has
been able 90 progress even with the
awful handicap of intemperance.
SALOON IN POLITICS.
what has been the Influence of
strong drink upon the civic lfe2 Now.
friends. we are coming 20 politics.
want 90 ask you N the influence ~
the saloons in salt Lake city has made
your politicians sweeter and purcr ana
nnNlrIs suppose "a llrNNfl hl hiiN
legislature should frequent the saloons
of Salt Lake city regularly twice or
three times "a day would Il make him
"a man more trustworthy Would II
raise him in the estimation OF his con-
stitucnts and the people Of his home
country? All friends, IT would ot once
raise a question as 10 his probity, as 90
his usefulness In "a law making body
What has been its influence on pole
ticians2 HAS II not always been to
brihe. 60 corrupt. 10 demorali1e ana
unmanG oh I would Ike TO tell you
thC story of men ! know, who have
gone out from their homes with honor
upon them. but who under the inuu-
encc of the saloon. after "a few years
of political life. have come back with
the chains of am awful habit riYetcd
upon them. bound In body and soul
to the deha sing force of the liquor
habit. having sold themselves, body