The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-31

l IS per cent were feeble. Of ten in- temperate families F per cent were normal, S25 per cent were feeble. Of the latter group 43.S per cent died in infancy and of the first group S.2 per cent died in infancy.
 Alcoholism weakens the body to such a degree that disease finds it its best friend. Consequently, in the United States in one year four times as many people die from the effects ! of alcohol as due from cancer: seven and half times as many as die from | typhoid and eight hundred times as l die from smallpox. Alcohol is a poi son, narcotic, it impairs strength and endurance, it promotes sickness and death, it is a source of misery, it costs our government many times it's revenue, and is a fruitful source of crime, law breaker, q defer of law and curse to any community.
 2. Its Effect on Society. - Scien- lists tell us alcohol possesses no food values, and no wthe U S. Pharmaupeia Society says alcohol is no longer re | cogntzed as drug. This knocks it's last props from under it, since it is neither food nor a drug, it is only habit forming poison, why continue to indulge to give money to men who de- sire a living without hard work?
 The saloon is the licensed poison house of the community, whose busi- ness to make an easy living without respect for law, order or regard for the welfare of men, women or child ren. The saloon is social parasite. It rObs men and women of their hon or, homes, friends, business, wives of their husbands, children and mothers of their support, the home of it's peace, happiness and prosperity; the world oi gifted and talented men and wo- men, of life and reason.
 The saloon produces paupers. luna ties, beggars, criminals, dead beats for sober and industrious people to support. The saloon agrees to cause mothers to forget their infants, child ren to grow up in ignorance. young women to lose their priceless purity, young men to become loafers. swear CTS, gamblers, skeptics, lewd fellows of the baser sort and murderers. It further agrees on short notice to send fathers in a condition to reel home, break furniture, beat wives, and kick children out Of doors. It fits mechan- ics to spoil their work, be discharged and become tramps. It makes corrupt politicians of the raw, base Alaska type The saloon fills orders for fey CTS, scrofula, consumption or deIirium -tremens. It's products fill our poor houses, asylums and prisons for you. Mir. Taxpayer and sober laboring man.
 The total number of paupers in li- censed states for 1910, S3,662, and in non-licensed states 4,65l. Of the pris- oners committed to the work house in Allegheny county, Pa, in fl years, 91 per cent were drinkers, only g per cent abstainers. In 1913, 3,79S were committed, and of this number 3,4S2 were drinkers, or more than 91 per cent.
 Our society and government rests upon the home, the church, the school and the ballot box. The liquor traffic destroys the home, flinders the church, lobs the school and corrupts the ballot box.
 The liquor traffic is responsible for 30 per cent of our insane, 60 per cent of our paupers, 70 per cent of our criminals Destroy the traffic and reduce the cost of living and your taxes, which go to support the courts, asylums, almshouses and prisons.
 Must the parents of our school children become drunkards in order that our public schools may exist? Think it over, parents and taxpayers. Which is more valuable - children or dollars?