Show curse of drink and spread of temperance to drinking says lecky must be attributed most of the crune crime and and an immense proportion of the misery of ins his nation and what is true of E eng ng land is true of the united states we drink said an english writer of 1657 as if we wore were nothing but sponges 11 in the following century retailers were accustomed to bang out cut announcements noun cements that their custo customers m could be made drunk for a penny dead drunk for two ponce pence and could have straw to lie on for nothing and they furnish dens in which they could recover sufficiently sufficiently y to drink again those acau accursed d this territory is public opinion sufficiently strong to make prohibition hibi tion a success when it its is a success life will be brighter for the wives and childen child en or of 11 hundreds undress of thousands thou sandi of fath 4 ors ers and husbands s s spirituous liquors wrote one observer from london in the eighteenth century which to the shame of our government are so easily to be had and in such quantities drunk havo have changed the very nature of our people and as the beginning of most violent crimp crime on a bim big 0 scale in E inglish english Iii history story is s parallel with the spread of strong drink so iu in our country crimes of violence crimea of debauchery political corruption the waste of wages the ruin of families all have bave their home borne and origin in the saloon Civil izat ion will not bo be a success until the saloon is but a memory of if what men inen once endured west and south bouth in the united states today the path to temperance is being followed with more determination than ever iu th the e history of our country in ui more inore te territory critor y is the saloon made 1 illegal I and in a greater part of |