Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
i this nation il the present conditions

CONTINUE. 5s
s. Experience has shown there is no sue
scessful way Of licensing or controlling
the sale of liquor; the higher the IL
cense, the more they have to sell ana
the more they have to adulterate; the
lower the license the more saloon keep
ers. AS liquor interests grow in wealth
aud power they will lay their strong
hands upon every department of our
government, and the price We will pay
Will be the manhood of our country.
When that time comes it is the begin.
ming of the end of our nation. Thank
God that this fear has been put into
the hearts OF good men irrespective of
religion, and indeed, with no formal
religion. and I cannot do better here in
conclusion than quote the words of
Col Ingersoll perhaps the most clo-
nuent ever uttered against liquor
5INCiERsOLL's pHILIPPIC AGAINST
TRAFFIC..
ut defames benevolence, hates love,
scorns virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
Ii incites the father to butcher his
helpless offspring, helps the husband to
ma ssacre his wife, and the child to
grind the pahicdisl AK. 1t burns up
men, consumes women, detests life,
curses God, despises Heaven. 1t sub
orncs witnesses. nurses perjury, 1etiles
the jung box and stains the judicial
erminc. 1t degrades the citizen. de-
bases the legislator dshonors the
statesman and disarms the patriot. Il
brings shame, not honor misery not
safety; despair. not hope; sorrow, not
happiness; and with the malevolence
of n flend it calmly surveys its fright
full desolation and unsatiated havoc
& tt pospns felicity kills peace, ruins
aprals. hlights confidence, Stays rep
utation and wipes out national honor,
then curses the world and laughs at its
ruin.
1t does all that and more 1t murders
the soul. 1t Is the sum Of all the vii
lainics, the father of all crimes, the
mother of all denominations. the devils
best friend, and Gods worst enemy"
And then to think that all these
crimes against humanity, are justified
by the liquor interests--in Heavens
name how!
Because it may save ynu dollar in
INSULT TO MANHOOD.
This Is a most unspeakable insult to
every parent! And To think that for
the sake Of a paltry measure of parton-
age from the liquor men, men of bust
ness Will lend themselves to this in
fanny, They will pay YOU well for
the privilege of debasng your children
and running your lives! Are you the
men and women to barter your flesh
and blood for money?
Granting for arguments sake CAL
though do not believe 1t to be trua)
that taxes will be higher under mo-
shbltion--wll 1t not be money well
spent, and will it not come back to you
In other ways Il thousand fold? They
boast Of what they will do for the
schools. What sincere interest have they
in the schools! AS well think of satan
I, l,,,i1l "a,
may turn out eighth grade pupils by
the hundreds by their assistance, and
tho saloon stands there ready open
jawed to receive them Better to license
horse stealing, for you can put com-
bination locks on your stables, and pro-
tect your animals, but you cannot save
your boys from the wiles of men who
make their fortunes in their rllin!l If
we cannot do better. give our boys a
simpler education, and with 1t, give
them morality and manhood, and then
send them into the world and they will
possess 1t against any number Of educ
Gated inebriates
MISDIREcSrED8 SYMPATHY.
3 Are not these considerations sufficient
to harden us? You tcnder-hearted peo-
pie who think pityingly of tbs money
at stake with the liquor j; who
think OF the soft handed iender.
forced into the shops, or out into the
hay field you women who have friends,
the wives or liquor men; you temper
ate men, who are upon good terms witch
the genial saloon keeper, and hesitats
to harm them; think Of your own
.tireside and remember that Charity
begins at home think er Your coun-
try and remember, that the highest
form OF patriotism is that which does
not shrink from duty to the flag,
whether upon the battlefield Or in the
quiet streets of your own town, then