The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-08-27

every uIuHhdIu 10 du IuuiNluudi ~
whom criminality is latent"
i This for the reason, no doubt, thai
! his moral senses are deadened by be
ing constantly subjected to abnormal
influences and conditions.
This accounts for the fact that mel
of high character and refinement, af-
ter becoming drunkards, will stooE
to acts the most debased and degrad-
ing.
Drink and Woman's Downfall
To my mind, the most deplorable
result of all those that can be laid at
| the door of the saloon keeper, Is the
harm that comes to womanhood.
| There can never be human esti-
mate of the number of women who
have gone astray because of liquor.
How many sweet, innocent girls have
/ taken harmless glass of beer to
their disgrace, or have been enticed
into wine room, only to find 1t the
yawning doorway to destruction.
If the protest of these thousands
of victims could unite, there would
be voice that would make the heav-
ems tremble, and move the wrath of
an OHonQoQ GOQ.
Appeal to Women Voters
! And these dangers confront every
mother in Bannock county today. II
you ever had it in your heart to do
something for your sex, now Is the
time to do it Let every woman be
brave and strike blow for woman
Your vote may turn the scale. Speak
now for purity; speak now for the
protection of those that are nearest
and dearest to you! May the Lord
pity those who timidly fail or refuse
| to do their duty now. In a sense
they assume part of the RESPONSE
bility of this awful crime; not to
speak of the homes ruined by drunk
enness, of children brought up in pow
erty and degradation, and turned up
on the world tobe its tramps and
criminals.
Drink and Divroce
If the many divorces in our coun-
try are amy Indication of decadence
in the morals of our people, then the
liquor traffic has much to answer for
in this respect.
The United States census bureau
puDllSneS the following.
Drunkenness was the sole cause
of 36,516 cases of divorce in the per-
iod between 1887 and 1906. 1t was
the cause in combination with other
causes, of 1876 cases, and therefore
caused a total of 54,2S1 divorces in
20 years. But, this is not the entire
story. The number of divorces trac-
ed to intemperance as an indirect
cause amounted to 130,287." One
home out of every 81 in the country
wrecked by drink is "a pretty serious
charge to be held against an institu-
ton that we are licensing!
Saloons Alluring Devices
If the evil of liquor selling were
passive one, and saloon keepers
were content to take the trade that
came their way by choice, then there
perhaps would be no Anti-Saloon
league or temperance reformers; but
| liquor men are in the business for
the money there is in it, and conduct
their traffic to make all they can.
They are advertisers from whom 9th :
er lines of business might take les
sons to their advantage. The most
alluring devices are adopted to tempt
new customers and to keep the old.
From behind their screens come
strains of beautiful music, the click
of balls, and the loudlaughter that
tells of sensual enjoyment, and the
thoughtless boy is drawn into this
dangerous whirlpool to be engulfed.
! Just as the insurance company must
live by the new risks it takes and
the new applications, just so the sa-
loon must feed upon the young and
innocent to keep its prosperity; and
as the insurance man looks upon
every inquirer as a prospect" so
does the bartender have his eye up
on your son today.
! Unnamebale Crimes Due to Drink
Arm in arm with the saloon inter-
ests, making triplets in crime, are
gambling and harlotry. Between
them there is close sympathy and
unity Of purpose. The befuddled
brain is an easy prey to the gamb-
Ter; and the half drunken boy, who,
when the sun went down could look
his mother in the eye and glory In
Ills flTLuG----dlLGT d ulBuL VI EcFcily,
beginning In the saloon, comes forth
a shamed and ruined creature!
4 1t is given as fact, by persons
who are presumed to know, that
houses of i'll fame could not thrive
without their system of treating and
liquor selling; small wonder then
that eminent physicians have esti-
mated that 70 per cent of the male
population of large cities are unvirt-
uous, when the current of drink
|, bearing upon its tide the sons OF oui
country, runs into this foul poo
! of immortality.
u Think then, you mothers of today
and you mothers of the future Of the
responsibility resting upon you! A
saloon is built in small country
place soon thereafter, like buzzards
, attracted to putrid carcass, there
4 comes the gambler, and as the place
increases in size, or IL 1t be the depo'
for supplies for many travellers,