The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-03-05
NO. 10


Anna Clark, Mrs. Margaret
Vance, Mrs. Kate Bohannan.
Messrs. Durrett Even, Guy
Grove, Clay Conlee, Morgan
Lyle, Troy Martin, Bert Grove.
JOuett Boone, George Derickson,
Marion Willoughby, Elmer Ora
belle and Marion Atkinson. Mrs.
Anna Blackburn assisted in serv-
ing the refreshments.
AT the present time there is
a mighty protest going up from
the people from all over the
world against the liquour traffic.
1t is being recognized as the
greatest outlaw of the age. II
respects no home, it has no re-
gard for law, it cares not ior hu-
man life, for tie widow or help
less children, it would take the
last penny from starving home
for trade, it would ruin every
home, fill every Jail, penitentiary,
asylum, poor house, make crimi-
mails of every man, woman and
child if necessary, make drunk
ards of every human being on
earth if it could, pauperize the
nation and every Inhabitant on
earth if the people allowed it,
fill our country with crime of all
kinds, corrupt and demOrdlIze
the youth of our land, uproot re-
ligion and destroy all that Is
highest, nOblest and best in the
world; it would debauch and
ruin every girl to a life of shame
ami send every last man, woman
and child to hell for an exist
ence. 1t is the greatest murderer
the world has ever seen; il hae
made more widows, orphans,
fiends, paupers, drunkards, pow
Eerty, ,idleness; crime of'ails do
scription than any other agency.
Here is a record for just one
YEARS work in our own beloved
country. 10000 murders com
mitted, made 10000 fallen girls,
caused $500 babies to be smoth-
cred to death, made 100, 600 pau
pers, caused 5000 wives to be
murdered, 1000 other murders,
madO 10000 widows, 100, 900 or
phaned children, 100000 insane
persons, 100 600 criminals, lOO,-
600 drunkards who die yearly,
100, 900 boys to take their places,
900, 900 drunkards made yearly,
100. 600 from boys l6 to 20 years
of age, there are | 500, 600 drunk
ards in the U. s., makes drunk
arde of 100000 every genera
tiOn, destroys tens of thousands
of homes, causes 50 per cent of
the crime, and for all this We re-
ceive the magnificent sum OF
$3.50, 900, 900. For the sake of the
Government getting this splen-
did sum of money We allow the
whiskey traffic to such terrible
work in our country. But there
is anOl her side yet to he reckon
ed with and that is, for every
dollar of revenue that we receive
from this cursed traffic, it cost Us
$40 as result of the crime thai
is committed, the maintaining of
our courts, building iails, asy-
lums, poor houses, charitable
institutions and maintaining of
same, the loss of manhood and
wOmanhoOd which cannot be
placed as money value but far
above it, the loss to the country
IN productive labor, and thou
sand other things that we cannot
mention for lack of space. The
people are getting aroused and
are determined to get rid of IL
out of the country. So there is
bill before Congress and one be-
fore the State Legislature for
National Prohibition and State
Wide Prohibition. AS you look
at these figures above and see
what a terrible enemy you have
for good Government and splen-
did nation, sit down and write To
your Senator, Representative, or
Congressman and demand that
he stand on the side of manhood
and womanhood for the utter
anhilation of the deadly liquor
traffic. Do il today.