Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-24

The Woman's Christian Temperance
union stands for the protection of the
home against the evils of the liquor
traffic. Its battle is for safety of the
innocent and helpless against the
forces that would destroy them 1t IS
opposed to the kind of race suicide
that slays thousands of babes yearly
as portrayed in the following. taken
from the youths Instructor Oh
Washington, d. c.:
For 1000 years the story of Herod's
slaughter of the babes of Bethlehem
has been passed down the generations.
Every age has been Mortified at TINS
brutal act of King Herod, but it is as
nothing compared to the ruthless
slaughter King Alcohol has made OF
the babes of our own land; and yet
we sit idly by and do comparatively
nothing to prevent this fearful slaugh-
ter of innocent children. Every year
500. 900 children, it is estimated, under
2 years of age, end their little spans
of life while mothers sit by and Watch
in utter helplessness. One-tenth or
these-60 000-are victims of the liquor
traffic. Some die of starvation, be-
cause the saloon has stolen the money
that should have fed them; some
freeze to death, because the saloon mas
the money that should have warmed
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stolen the intelligence and affection
of the parent; some because of the IN
famous diseases with which they came
into life--diseases which are the re
suit of the vice conditions that the sa-
loon and the saloOn-made government
have created and all these die be-
cause Christian men and women make
no protest, because they even consent
to this deadly work by voting to Ii
cense the saloon.
DEAD BABIES FROM HOVELS
ST wish I could show you a picture,
said Hon. John G.. Woolley in an ad-
dress given at the Chicago university,
that L saw a while ago. in city not
very far from here, where l was wait
ing for my train at a railroad station
In order to stretch myself and pass the
time away 1 went out and took turn
around a block or two, and without
knowing where 1 was going fell into
the wake of an idly moving crowd
that led me presently to the morgue,
where l saw what you women would
call a clothes hamper-a large wicker
basket-filled with the bodies of little
dead babies which the keeper of the
place told me had been gathered up
in the drunken novels of that one town
that one day-a clothes basket of ba-
deserving as ever were born, lying
there with their little shut fists up
raised where death had frozen them,
clutchng at love in the darkness
poor little things!-and calling to the
nation, Life! Life! Life! "
INNOCENTs SLAUGHTERED
"This Iife," says DR.. Hopkins,
"might have been theirs, for which
they mutely cried-theirs, unless
drunken parents murdered them, while
mutely still they slept. For, it is es-
timated by conservative statisticians,
250O babies are annually killed by
drunken fathers and mothers overly
ing them in bed. And two-thirds of
this slaughter of innocents, so statis-
tics show, occur on Saturday night
the awful pay day fruit of the legal or
illegal saloon.
And next Saturday night, after the
saloon has robbed the laborer and sent
him staggering home, thirty to forty
baby men and women-baby fellow
citizens of yours and mine-Will
stretch their little hands toward this
government and cry Life! Life! Life!
and hearing nothing but a drunken
snore will strangle back into the un-
known"
Every one who votes for the con-
tinuation of the liquor traffic, every
one who fails to do what he can to
destroy this nefariOus business, is an |