Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-06-23
WHAT SALOONS DID
FOR MURRAY, UTAH

man. oh, drop the curtain; what q
picture, and yet It is true.
Another man we met with the marks
of whiskey's ruin upon his face, as
good-hearted fellow as we ever met.
We saw him marry sweet and pref
ty girl, yet in less than eight years
time he has succeeded in running his
home, driving his wife to the dogs and
later had the stain Of suspicion, as IL
was supposed he who murdered his
former wife's sweetheart. Law this
one, II you please, at the door Of booze
and he saloon keeper.
Next, we find an auto loaded with
drink crazed youths, both male and
female, tearing through the streets Of
Murray and finally crashing into
telephone post. The boys were shak-
en- up and mangled, but one of the
girls was killed. We need not men
ton names, most every school child
knows who they are, and further know
that the boys were not the guilty par
ties, but the full grown man who has
reached the age Of accountability, who,
previously handed them the booze ny
which they were fired with the spirit
Of hell until tbcy had accomplished
the terrible deed Of killing the girl in
wreck.
| Not long since an old couple riding
in buggy were crashed into by a
load Of drunken sots. The automobile
attempted to climb telephone post
after the occupants escaped 1t was
never learned who they were, but the
rear Of the auto was filled with booze.
4 Two other boys from Murray tried
the same stunt as far as the telephone
pole was concerned, except in differ
ent locality and stated with their own
lips afterwards that they were drunk
Il Likewise an auto load just south OF
, Murray which came near costing the
lives Of several of the occupants.
Il For the sake of our feminine friends
and readers, we will refrain from
J writing the story of wreck and ruin,
we have seen the lives Of half doz-
en- of the fairer sex, that we have OBJ
served during our journey of ten
years in Murray. But the stories If
told, would make sad reading, indeed
It would touch the heart of many a
: father and mother, who has suffered
} under the strain, and we believe hun
dreds of others should profit by their
, experience and if possible save their
children from such terrible expert
ences.
Il When we first came to Murray we
: met the brother of a certain saloon
, man, a big fine looking fellow, capable
} Of making as clean and stalwart o
) man as we have met, his brother per-
mitted him to tend bar. He took t.
: drinking, quite naturally we suppose
men who would sell booze to your
, children and my children to poison
: their souls and ruin their morals, IT
} seems has no scruples of permitting
the same practice among their own,
kith and kin. Later this unfortunate
} fellow, often pitied him, died the
most terrible death human being
can imagine, from the effects of the
booze he had drank. Deirium ire
mons, or more plainly speaking
Snakes in his boots" finally claim
! ed him as its victim. You would nat
: urally think this experience would
have been enough. We believe the ~
binary brothers cup would have been
: full. But not so. This same party
has remained in the business. And
still further advocates and is no doubt
selling to those who are weak and
} foolish enough to drink it, the same
kind of deadly booze that wrought
havoc in the life of his own brother
and killed him.
l Oh, why don't men quit? Can they
never get enough? Finally we must
tell you 1t was Chas. Thied, saloon
keeper of Murray, who murdered his
wife and buried her mangled BODY in
the yard nearby, while his children
cried for their missing mother. But
thank God, those are past days,
Charley Thied was executed for his
terrible deed. The first man hung in
the state of Utah. And so we say
again, why not put an end to it? Why
not completely stop its deadly traffic
among the children of men? And why
not the people of Murray remain true
TO their children, to their loving sons
and daughters and stand a monument
of honor and integrity, challenge to
the world against the demon whisky
and his CONSCIOUSNESS companion, the
saloon.