The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-14
.,,oleTIAN CITIZENSHIP.

CHRISTIAN clTlZENSH'r.
 Excerpts from an address delivered ,.toro the National w. c. T. U. sonvention by Mrs. Frances E. Beau ebamp of Kentucky)
 Why do we have blind babies? We l, mi have blind calves, blind colts, s,nd nies. and blind lambs. While .so nroblem confronts us the statis- .ieian steps up behind us and tells us ,hat sS per cent of all the children tbat are born blind come into this world thus hampered because the ,rimv hand of the liquor traffic, .hrough the drink habit of the parents or srandparents lifted itself out of the mast and projected itself into the fu- ture and closed the eyes of the chil- dren before they were born. The sci entists tell us that so far as the beht upon future generations is con-. corned a man would better get hilari- o,slv drunk now and then and stay sober the rest of the time, than to be constant, moderate thinker, contin- uallv taking into his system small quantities of alcohol.
 ask you to estimate how many blind children we have in the United States count the cost to the state of maintaining its institutions for the blnd and then put it down as part of the tribute We annually render to King Alcohol that he may go on in his work of putting out the eyes of generations that are to come.
 Why should America have deaf chil- dren? As you are pondering upon this problem the statistician again steps up behind you and says, as in the case of the blind, that about 6S out of every 100 (taking the average throughout the land) of all these chil- dren who are born deaf. are the vic tins of this same great destroyer, the liquor traffic. If the lower animals were fed on alcohol as is the higher animal, they would have deaf colts, and deaf calves and deaf pigs. and deaf lambs. Did you ever think what this means? What it means in eco homie loss to the nation
 From 20 to 50 per cent of all the insane in this nation are victims of alcohol used sometimes on the pre- scElption of the physician; sometimes constantly in patent nostrums: often h moderate quantities, and frequent y to excess
 Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York. fennsylvania and Kentucky are the SIX great whisky producing states of aS nation. Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, fenhsylvania, New York and Ken 'DCAy nave the largest percentage of insanity or any of the states of this la!on' Do you call that coincidence?
 uOnt call 1t cause and effect. iOu cant trample Gods laws under ''C. and go unwhipped of justice.
 'O'ne.imes get a good deal mixed wy On 'he question of who the crim- aals are Often am quite convinced ,ua' 'he poor fellow behind the bars 1m no' half so bad as the man who ',As .sa oown the street, brides himself VII HIS strength. and puts into the box
 0aot to enthrone in office men ,,u .uO he Knows will not enforce the ,,,. won't you to go with me to the ,h. r,,'OA TOT a little while at the time cs,. r men Tall in line to march to their sna,s @ a. night If you have such a h'uu'o Christian warden as we have ,,, uuf U, Kentucky state reformatory mv ,a a var state penitentiary, you can to " nim. Won't you call that line e,n. nat and order every man who vhs1 % nere for ofrenses committed .lcos.u ne was under the influence of d,n.s 'ns hquor, as shown by the evi- Of th., .uuuced in the trial. to step out no, a. as i'ne over here." If you are sns,as on statistics you will be Ren,uo.aa'' a' 'ne results. If you were in men .uay sas ss out of every 100 of these cou,ts '.oraihg to the decisions of the new n,. would step out and form a accora,n. II You were in New York. Court. s1s as to the decisions of the torv,,a' '1 out of every 100 would step O, c,, l ask you. which Is more es,sh'ss hv's,sminal, the man who votes to hal, 2. an institution to make crim. audd,aa 'ne poor fellow, who with for vh,o, VIa'n commits some ofYense 'eatlary, e 'S sentenced to the peni-