Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

To my mind, the most deplorable re-
suit 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 a human esti-
mate of the number of women who
have gone astray because of liquor
How many sweet, innocent girls have
taken a harmless glass Of beer to their
disgrace, or have been enticed into a
Wine room, only to find 1t the yaWning
doorway to destruction
If the protest of these thousands OF
victims could unite, there would be "a
voice that would make the heavens
tremble, and move the wrath of an of
Tended God
APPEAL TO WOMEN VOTERS.
And these dangers confront every
mother in Rannock county today. If
YOU ever had 1t In your heart to do
something for your sex, now Is the
time to do 1t! Let every woman be
brave and strike a blow for woman!
Your vote may turn the scale. Speak
now for purity; speak now for the pro-
lection of those that are nearest and
dearest to YOU May the Lori pity
those who timldly fail or refuse to do
their duty now, In sense they as
sumo a part Of the responsibility OF
this awful crime; not to speak Of the
llUtllGS VI Ghii.
dren brought up In poverty and de-
grldation, and turned upon the world
to ze its tranips and criminals
DRINK AND DIVORCE,
If the many divorces in our country,
are any indication of decadencc in the
morals of our people, then the liquor
traffic has much to answer for in this
respect
The United States census bureau
publishes the following.
Drunkenness was the sole cause Of
36, h16 cases of divorce In the period be-
tween 1887 and 1905. 1t was the cause,
In combination with other causes, of
17,765 cases, and therefore caused a to-
tai of 54,eS1 divorces In 20 years. But
this is not the entire story. The mum
ber of divorces traced to intemperance
as anEindirect cause amounted to $780,
.2S7" One home out of every Oh in the
country wrecked by drink is a pretty
serious charge to be held against an
institution that we are licensing!
SALOONS. ALLUR1NCi DEVICES.
If the evil of liquor selling were a
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 advertis-&
ers from whom other lines of business
might take lessons to their adVant-
age. The most allurlng 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 loud
laughter that tells Of sensual enjoy
I, ;e, Al
into this dangerous whirlpool to be en-
quilted. Just as the insurance company
must live by the new risks 1t takes and
the new applications, Just SO the sa-
loon must feed upon the young and
innocent to keep It's prosperity; and
as the Insurance man looks unon every
enquirer as prospect" so does the
bartender have his eye upon your son
today
#uNNAMABLE CRIMES DUE TO
DRINK.
Arm in arm with the saloon interests.
making triplets IN crime. are gambling
and harlotry. Between them there is a
close sympathy and unity of purpose.
The befuddled brain Is an easy prey to
the gambler; and the half drunken
boy, who, when the sun went down
could look his mother In the eye and
glory in his virtue--after night or
revelry, beginning in the saloon, comes
forth a slammed and ruined creature!
1t Is given as a 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 emin-
ent physicians have estimated that
10 per cent of the male population OF
large cities are unvirtuous, when the
current of drink, bearing upon its tide
the sons Of our country, runs into this
foul pool of immortality.
Think then, You mothers of today,
and you mothers of the future of the
responsibility resting upon you! A
saloon is butt in small country place
soon thereafter, like buzzards attract
ed to putrid carcass, there comes the
gambler, and as the place increases
in size: or if It be the depot for sup
plies for many travellers, "a Wanton
Woman plies her trade, and a straight
path to hell IS marked out for your
boys: Sometimes. as has been the
case more thar once in our county
there come disagreements and drum
ken brawls, and then murder is
committed. on the morrow, the blood
stains are covered up,--the dead
buried, and an open mouthed public
straightway forsets, and fools drink
from the glass that the murderer used
the day before.
PROHIBITION TO PROTECT THE
INNOCENT.
We demand prohibition in our coun-
ty for the protection of the innocent.
These neural BILE topers may not truth
fully flatter themselves that all this
worry and agitation is about them,
while we pity them we do not con-
slider them likely patients. We look
far ahead. we want to save the young
from their fate. Great reforms are
not accomplished in a moment or a.
day; we are building for the next
generation. Seventy years ago. Horace
Mann. the great educator said
S.There are thousands and tens of
thousands of inebriates who never
would have been so had the tavern