The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-03

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change in forms ot government
the coalitions OF tribes aaa nations.
fhs risa and decline nf empires the
one movement that has Steadily
grown throughout the ages has been
expressed ia the widening oi human
sympathy. the extension oi comforts
rights and safeguards 10 larger ana
larger numbers of mankind The
FIRST murderer fait the Impulse be-
hind this movement when replying
Am my brother Keeper he
realized In his guilty soul that ia
truth ne was And as the blood OF
the first victim of human violence
cried out from the ground, so to-
day the widowed and the orphaned,
the aenants of desolate homes, the
drunken and the crazed, the ghosts
of biiehted ambitions and broken
lives the victims of hunger, power
~ aud disease cry out with the same
accusing force against society that
through the liquor traffic deliberate
Nv licenses the damnation of human
itv What a contradiction is IN
vofyesi in the fact that society con-
dennis its criminals and isolatos it's
insane on the one hand, yet encour-
ages "A traffic that produces them on
will be definitely shown whether the
love of man for fellowman, the sym
patby of one for all and all for one,
the sense of keepership that should
inspire what is best in government
and holiest in action is sufficiently
strong to prompt the people of Tex
as to step to the forefront OF the
movement that is leading humanity
upward
But there is another and more
material phase of this movement TOT
the elevation of mankind. The pro-
lection of defenseless women and
children. the safeguarding of men
against the ravages of a vice which
they are too frequently powerless TO
resist are not the only reasons that
should prompt the state to prohibit
the liquor traffic. Alcohol is a pol
son of the deadliest character. 1t is
the ferment of decay; the liquid eN-
erection of rotten matter. 1t will Kill
every living tissue, every living Or
,anism with which it comes in con-
tact
1t will destroy the vital element in
men or plants. II fruit tree is
sprinkled with water and alcohol
combined the fruit will fall before
its time. Taken in the human sys-
TEN alcohol will paralyze the white
corpuscles of blood, the sources of
life and health and strength, pro-
ducing degeneracy of mind and
body, disease and death. 1t has pro-
duced a million confirmed drunk
ards in the United States, Keeling
and besotted mass Of human wreck
age Think OF the homes they dark
en- and destroy: the lives they ruin
besides their own; the Jafls they fill,
the asylums they crowd, the eco
uomic and moral loss they cause,
Add to this army of hopeless drunk
ards the 100000 heavy drinkers
and the 100000 so-called temper
ate, but regular drinkers in the
United States and you will gain
some conception of the menace OF
this frightful evil When we realize
that the chances of the children of
the moderate drinkers alone to die
in infancy, or to grow up consump-
tive, deformed, idiotic, insane, con-
stitutionally subjest to disease or
physically frail, are almost doubled
by reason of the hereditary alcoholic |
faint we ought TO welcome as a dis
pensation from heaven the opportun-
ity to stop the sale and manufac- |
ture of this terrible drug. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that 80 per
cent of the crime, the lunacy, the i
poverty, the vagabondage in the Unit |
ted States is traceable to the use of |
alcohol The effect on the living is
terrible enough. But when We con |
denim babies yet unborn to prema-
ture death or to lives of agony and |
shame, how can we as state ex- |
cuse the crime? The destruction OF |
individual character and efficiency |