The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-29
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perance work at hear) is there q
need of the Good Templars Lodge In
| Ogden? Stop and think for just mo
ment Do you know what this order
is doing? II you know, can you an
swer otherwise than yes. n great
,necd? For the finished work OF
strong drink is an open page. The
milliner and dressmaker with pride
hang UP their finished work. Pro
| gross in other lines OF business dis
{, plays It's goods and advertise them 10
| draw custom, and all 1T represents
| for value received. But who ever
| saw q rumseller ever hang up In his
/ windows his finished work, OF ever
placard the same with, for value re-
ceived But the day of toleration when
drinking and selling strong drink was
not considered so bad. is past; pro-
| gross has revealed the business OF
| drunkard making in its true light, and
all men everywhere know In this day
| It's very fibre, and the business, IL not
| protected under a Jetestable license
| system. would be an outlaw and die an
early death. Then a Good Templars
| Order is needed. not only to rescue
| the fallen, but to train those who
have the opportunity OF righting this
wrong at the ballot box, in the right
| direction. Then there are many chill
| dren growing up in our midst who
| need TO have the awfulness OF the
drink curse instilled IN their minds
that they may always fight this evil
and stand for temperance all their
lives. How many young men, right
here and roundabout us have been
dragged out of respectability, out OF
purity and out of character and into
darkness by this internal stuff called
strong drink! Do you not see the
work to be done2 In spite of all the
reformation. we are yet terribly ours
ed. The cries of the suffering reach
unto heaven. The crime of the ma
ton calls forth the wrath OF an of
Tended God The wall of despair rises
from the pit OF torment. as every five
minutes new victim OF the scourge
goes down into the drunkard's hell
While good men are asleep touching
this great question. the enemy keeps
sowing the tares The rumbling OF
Gods chariot wheels are heard in the
distance. The iniQuity of the saloon
traffic is full. Armies of children with
banners, legions OF women with pray
erS and laborS, and an ever increaS-
Ing body OF men with Prohibition bal
lots in their hands, unite In the mighty
watchword. The saloon must go.
What Is worth doing at all is worth
doing well, and what is worth doing
well is worth doing at once, so that
you may have an early start to do
something better. The temperance
cause needs the influence, help and
support of the Christian people; in
fact, the Christian people should go
ahead III the fight. The great God
yearns 10 save this world, and He will
do 1t just as soon as His church Will
lend its cooperation, If the murder
Gus business Is ever to be outlawed
and pulverized, the Christian vote
must elect the men who will enact
the laws and see that they are en-
forced Good men will not always be
blinded to these things as they seem
to be now The time is coming when
our better class of people will awake
out OF this moral sleep and then the
curse will go. 1t is time now to
awake The night is far spent and
the day is at hand" Let us there
for cast of the work of darkness" We
invite you to share in our labors that
you may afterward share in our vic
tories.