Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-06-23
(From the Murray Eagle.)


many miles from Murray, a middle
aged man who had received his
months wages, was carried out into
the back yard in the rear Of a certain
saloon and there lay with his head
upon dirty broom for a pillow, in
tho most filthy, degraded and democrat
izing condition that the man could
possibly be found in. He had handed
most of his money over the bar TO
the saloon keeper, drank the miser-
ably whisky he gave him in return,
until his brain was swimming and
senseless and his stomach and physi-
cal organs a complete wreck.
He could neither walk nor stand,
and in his deadly drunken condition,
the bartender had no more use for
him, so he was Piven the tender care
Of the other misguided mortals who
we're present and was escorted to the
rear and deposited like a dog, yes
worse than dog, among the dirt ano
filth that accumulates about such
places.
And yet Il is q fact that there are
those among Us whose sense Of JUS
tice is 10 clouded that they are asking
for the return Of this kind of a miser-
able institution to the city Of Murray.
They say, it will bring business,
a,,J tbaea z, aop,atL,nn oleo tbot x,.o
can tell them it will bring It will
bring misery and hell, and legalize
it and sanction it in Murray, city
that Is capable of being made into one
of the most beautiful clean and entic-
ing home communities in this fair
state.
Our educational system equals any
thing in the state; our JUNIOR High
school has led the state, yes led the
west; and what are we, the parents
of clean, moral children in Murray
going to do? Will we legalize an in
stitution Of misery and degradation in
our midst that our boys and girls may
enter after they have graduated from
the High school and there be taught
the very opposite to that clean and
elevating spirit which they have alb
sorbed in that beautiful institution Of
education? Will we turn them over
to the bartender and saloonkeeper to
tutor them in the ways of vice and
immortality and finally finish them as
candidates for the brothal and den?
AS far as we are concerned we an
swer No! and echo brings thousand
answers Mol We have no daughter
to sacrifice and furnish as food for the
hopper Of the brothal. We have no
son to voluntarily give as sacrifice
to the county Jail, the state peniten-
tiary, the insane asylum or the county
infrmary. For this Is exactly what it
means when we legalize the miserable
saloon. Their path is as plain as day
and the work of the saloon results In
but one thing, and that is degeneration
and immortality. We defy any man
who is following this line of business
or ever has followed II, to prove that
it is otherwise.
And it will help Murray in bust
ness way and make us money, Ell :?
but you can never create business in
volumes large enough or stack money
in alues high enough to ever pay for
the lives and souls Of those who will
be ruined thereby.
Just bear with us, dear friend or
reader, while we sight you TO few
more observations we have made dur
ing our ten years journey in Murray
We met man the other night who
was loaded to the boards, a perfect
picture of physical perfection, but
equally as perfect model of moral
imperfection, caused by the excessive
toll he has paid for many years to
booze.
Ny heart was saddened for him be-
cause / remembered his beauty, clean
illness and neat appearance with his
promising aspirations when first met
him ten years ago. But booze has
done its work, suppose to the COM
plete satisfaction of the saloon keep
err who has continually taken his
money while at the same time he has
known that he was stealing from the
man, his very soul and from his fami-
iy the JOY and support of life.
Yes, we met another man the same
day with down-cast look and an UNI
satisfied expression on his face, sort
of yearning for home, for peace, for
contentment, for joy, and the satisfac-
ton of a loving wife and children's
carresses. He, some eight years ago,
had all of these, but booze came in as
usual, through the hands Of the good
fellow and false friends the saloon
keeper; his mind was clouded, his
morals shattered and finally the de-
struction reaped havoc in his home,
And what beautiful wife he had,
Kind, sweet and industrious with sew
sral happy, rosy faced children, but
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