The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-06-14
The Temperance Annual.

A copy of the 1912 Temperance An
nual. published in Washington, D. c.,
has come to the Sentinel. 1t is very
attractive in appearance, and the in-
teresting and instructive matter COM
posing this issue gives evidence of its
having been prepared by some strong
temperance workers. From its COL
umns is CLEANED the following:
1.-THE Plain Truth. THE RESPONSE
bility for whiskey-wrecked lives, and
all the attending evils of intemperance,
rests primarily upon those who vote
for licensed hell-holes of temptation
and sure destruction.
lit Never Pays."-The saloon may
bring a large revenue to a town or
community, but in the end it costs
more in money alone, to say nothing Of
the sorrow, suffering and wrecked
lives, than it pays into the town or
community treasury.
: why the Liquor Traffic Still Exists
in America" AN ex-governor accounts
for the existence of the liquor traffic in
America in a most mastery treatise on
the important subject. He cites five
reasons: 1.-THE use of intoxicating liq-
uors a racial evil; Our foreign popula-
ton; The federal excise tax; Our all
absorbing, all-consuming love of money;
The colossal power of the traffic"
IA Physicians Experience "A pit
iful story of n young man to illus
trate the hundreds of similar cases that
had come into his personal experience,
where children had acquired a ruinous
craving for liquor through a moderate
drinking fathers" influence.
From a Lawyers Diary. MANY
instances given where crime was the
direct result of the influence of liquor.
Out of 1000 criminal cases, over 5000
originated from drunkenness alone. The
greater portion of the remainder could
be traced either directly or indirectly,
to this great u of crime. Out of Sc
cases of homicide, 43 were caused by
the maddening influences of strong
drink.
1.-THE Aim of Prohibition. ITO dis.
arm the murderer; to wrest the knife
from the hand of the would-be suicide;
to protect the wife from the brutal
blows of a drunken husband; to wipe
the tears of sorrow from the cheek of
the mother who mourns over the frail-
ties of a hayward son; to destroy the
grog-shop, and by its destruction pre-
vent its attendant evils, pauperism and
crime; to promote temperance, sobriety
and their everyday companions, in.
dustry and morality.
Questions for Voters. - Why de-
mand a "sane fourth of july" and
then license a traffic that kills thous-
ands? Why quarantine infectious dis
eases, and license a saloon which men,
aces every home in the land? Why, by
order of the Treasury department, re-
turn to the Orient tea that has been
colored contrary to the pure food law,
and admit into the country millions of
gallons of rum? Why build a tubercu.
losis hospital every t~wenty-four hours,
then license a traffic which p~redisposes
thousands of persons to the disease an.
nually?
"A River of Gold. "-$225, OO0, 900 an.
nually paid into the government by the
liquor tax, demands of the government
several times that amount in providing
for the criminals, the orphans, the in
sane and the paupers, produced by the
saloons paying this river of gold.
Saloons as Beneicent Institutions"
Saloons of no educational, spiritual
financial value to any community:
proved to be in every way undesirable
and a hindrance to peace and pros