The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-06
WARNS WOMEN
AGAINST COCKTAILS
Captain HObSOn TrembleS
for Fate of the
Nation.

New York Dec. 5.-No more cock
tails for luncheon. no more champagne
for dinner for the members Of the Ma
tional Society of Patriotic Women OF
America. Capt Richmond Pearson
Hobson OF Merrimac fame talked to the
members at their meeting at the Wal
dorf- Astoria yesterday afternoon. one
half OF his discourse was q temper
ance lecture. with astounding figures
I'm battle array and denunCiatory elocU-
tion against the demon alcohol.
The women listened hreathlessly.
Captain HObson talked for two hours,
and then they were not content, and
Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner pro-
posed that the address be printed and
circulated among the members, and the
women voted yea as one woman.
The captain was not directing his
armed forces (his SMILES were most OF
them military against tho audience
to which he was speaking. The Patrio-
tic Society. like all other New York
womcn's clubs. is an abstemious or
ganization. and would be Mortified to
think of taking anything stronger than
black coffee. but the individual women
present who had occasionally looked
upon the cocktail cherry when IL was
red and heard the pop OF the cham
payne cork, gazed at each other with
expressions OF unveiled penitence.
The Patriotic Society is forming chill
dren's classes i'm citizenship i'm the
poorer districts OF the city. and IL was
In commencing this work and making
suggestions for its continuous and the
need Of sound citizenship that Captain
Hobson fired his statistics concerning
alcohol at the women
alcoholic poison is degenerating the
nation" he said He then gave the sta
tistics gathered by the British govern
ment after the Boer war showing that
alcohol was tho cause Of the soldiers
not measuring up to requirements.
Alcohol is a fundamental failacy.'
he went on Alcohol makes the white
blood corpuscles drunk. they cannot
fight disease germs. and In time they
themselves prey upon the gray mat
ter Of the brain. There are five times
as many killed In one year by alcohol
as there have been killed by war I'm
1900 years. Alcohol IS ten thousand
times as destructive as war, and not
| only destructive. but IL Is .degcnerat-
/ ing. II is a blight not only on the pos
/ terity Of the drunkard. but OF the
temperate drinker.'
| The women shuddered when Captain
Hobson told them that the hoof Of Tho
/ horse Of the yellow man would soor
/ be heard in the land
I'VE have got to stop it (the effect
/ OF alcohoD there or the nation vii
! not survive. The Chinese and japanese
/ want to come to this country They are
not degenerates. Don't despise the vel
/ low man. The Romans despised the
Il barbarian. Nature will not have a fam
/ ily Of degenerates. II we are not careful
before our grandchildren have left th'
/ scene they will hear the hoof of ths
/ yellow mans horse.
"In a sense we are making the figh
/ Of the race. II America falls. the rae,
/ will follow until the Almighty wipel
/ this cursed thing out. Each saloon OF
/ an average last year killed four men
/ It's an assassin. Absolute strict tota
| abstinence is necessary. Destroy thii
/ destroyer or the whole human race vii
/ be wiped out. The law can't do e.: 3
must be done individually. Take the vi
/ tai truth TO human beings and they'll
/ believe It."
The fight against alcohol Is only on
| large part OF the work OF making citi
Il zens that the captain wishes the WON
/ en- 20 take up in working among tn,
/ emigrants. He wants them to see I'm
/ cidentally that they are well fed. q
! get them away from cities into tn,
| country. where they can lead healthfu
| lives. and a primer is to be placed II
| the home OF each emiErant in city an
| country. These Captain Hobson suR
| gests should be printed in all Ian
! guaEes. There should be first a pag
| to welcome the emigrant TO the ney
land of great possibilities. and the FOL
! lowing pages VIII instruct him how {