Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-10-01

ssyS You can't make Il too strong.
Listen: Drink Is the greatest curse.
because practically ell crime and all
disaster are the result OF IL. Nearly
every great calamity in tine country,
barring accidents of nature, Is due to
drink. There's railroad accident;
say twenty people are killed. Some
man had case of nerves or went TO
sleep; aud | wsger that, 10 the truth
we're known. an empty flask could be
found near the cause Of the accident.
Ninety five per cent will make IL
no less ninety five per cent of 5eser.
tions and acts Of lawlessness In the
army IL due to drink, nut I'll speak
of that later. Vice 10 simply drink
In another form. Who ever beard Of
q saloon completely divorced from
the white slave traffic. or house Of
infamy without barr When see
man go down the street under tho Ia.
iuencs OF liquor know that man 10
not only q drunksrd, but he 10 NOR.
ally wrong--is incompetent, not de-
pendable, irresponsible. Drink 10
ialluring, is damnabls; IL is a mon
ster Of"
The general broke Off and quoted
that famous quotation OF Pope.
humping the desk before him at the
end of each word Ia tho last line,
eve first. endure, then pity, then
embrace.
eff could"-and this was sald
In q mighty flushed aud solemn voice
. EFF could, by offering my body a
sacrifice, free this country from this
, fell cancer, the demon drink, I'd
thank the Almighty for the privilege
of doing it,"
= "You mentioned moment rgo,
general, that ninety five per cent Of
the Gesertious, eto, CT the armv. is
due to drink. The official ststistics
!, OF 1905 give thirty FIVE For cent; do
= they not?"
The general reid up to view a
buncr, u hundred or more, OF court.
martial reports which be received
: during the month OF April.
70 "Let NE read few e the Il
you," he said. "Here IL Que, The
frat one. BY -tbi. report ve lsfrr
that Corporal B. has been alb .ent 70
thirteen days. His conduct heroic
fore has been good. No reason giveI
for bis action. Now. down here un
der the remarks we further lesrI
that he was moderate drinker.'
snow my experience tells me ihis
that while Corporal B. is under ID
y charge IF desertiou, 1t really IL drunk
euness. IL Is more than probabl
that, on receiving his last Pay, he er
tered some low joint. vas drugged
" or drank to excess, woke up neN
=, morning bis money zone, disgraced
: and not daring TO come back becaut
Of his Ices of self respect, took FrenC
leave.
''Take other cases. Private Y
- asleep on guard Private r.. 'diI
" obedient.' Both men were undoub
=. eddy drunk; because they wouldn
'' do that when sober. Bnt the chars
against them is not drunkenness;
~ is respectively Characterization an
a. 'dereliction in duty But know
both cases IL was drunkenness, an
- therefore put 1t down as such.
:. "Give me the sober man, the abs
:, lutte teetotaler, every time. He's d
=. pendable. IL had the greatest a.
- pointive power in the country" en-
=, phatically concluded the general, ri
ing, emo man would get even Il
= smallest appointment from mo unle
a. he showed proof of his absolute te
totailsm. As it is, my own appoin
ees, the mem bers of my staff not oil
- of them touches drop. They knc
better. National Prohibitionist.
em
The pleasant purgative effect expe