Show DOES TT PROHIBIT BENEFITS THAT FLOH alie liquor toffic for i SO r cent of all crime among other parties in tho field with candidates for president and vice of the united states the prohibition party is actively pushing forward its candidate ana agitating with great earnestness 01 tho prohibition of alcoholic drinks its advocates claim that it is a growing party and that it will make itsell felt in this coming election there is no doubt tho question ot prohibition is one that is receiving considerable attention tho magnitude of tho drinking jiabin in the united states appeals very strongly to lovers of temperance lor some ao tion of a prohibitory character it is claimed that the suppression of tin liquor would involve alie saving to american fi resides of than fifteen hundred million dollars annually it is stated that since the beginning of the present century the abuse of alcohol has taken the lives os moro than tour millions of the american people has destroyed more than forty thousand millions of dollars of the fruits of national industry and has multiplied vice crime insanity poverty ignorance disease degradation and misery in all forat a 1 places beyond all power of com pu the advocates of prohibition assert that thore are six hundred or dollars at least gathered in by the liquor dealers of the united states abr intoxicating they state that there are ono hundred millions more spent for beverage than there are for bread etutus ahey also state that four hun atad thousand men are engaged in tho manufacture transportation ana sale of intoxicants and that there aru thirty three millions of doll irs worth of gram destroyed as food to alcoholic they claim thai those engaged arf the business 01 manufacturing these alcoholic beverages add nothing by their labor to the bodily intellectual or spiritual advancement of a siglo human being one writer goes so far as to say tho world would have been no worse jhb count ryno poorer if every man 01 them had been buried on the ast 1st oi january of the preceding year foi that groat body of workers do noi enhance the property of the country by the amount of one solitary dime another writer aborts that the liquor gramc is responsible for 80 per cent of all crime lor au per cent 01 lunacy 45 per cent of idiocy 75 to 90 per cent of pauperism and exper cent of deaths gladstone ho eminent english statesman is credited with the statement that the use of intoxicants inflicts more harm on man fehan the alree great historic scourges urges war famine and pestilence combined the lord chief justice coleridge is attributed the remark concerning the liquor traffic being ao intimately connected with crime in england that if wo could make england sober we would shut up nine bentha of her prisons these are frightful statements but observation confirms conri the most 01 atheni everyone who has paid attention to this subject and has had any experience admit that the sale of intoxicating beverages is the most fruitful source of all the evils which mankind the growth of this habit in our settlements tle ments gives pain to every lover oi zion it threatens the destruction 01 many souls wherever the habit ot drinking is contracted itsell with a deathlike grip upon its victim and the cases aro very few among ite where people who have once acquired this pernicious habit are ever able to master it in our climate the effect of using intoxicating drinks seems to be more deadly than in other places men may tipple for years in thu states or in the old countries and continue the habit without bringing them rapidly to the grave but in this climate as overy one who has tadeu botica must admit tho tippler soon finds a drunkards grave this ma bo doe to our altitude and to tho baci that stimulants quicken acari action and speedily exhaust the vital forces but whatever the reasons may be 11 is easy 10 predict the fate of a man in this country who commences to drink stimulants the only safe rule for our children chil drin to adopt is to totally abstain from the uso of all beverages of this character young people may think that a glass of beer will not hurt them but will it do them any good are they not better without it if they never drink the first glass they would not want a seconda young man may trunk that a glass of wine would not hurt lii a suppose that it would not would it bo wise for him to take if assur adly not if he never drinks the first glass ho will never bo tempted to drink the second the boy who resolutely refuses to drink the first glaab of boor or wine or liquor will cover become a drunkard and in that resolution to never taste beverages lies the safety of many souls there are boue men who are so organized that it they taste stimulants they cannot stop until they become intoxicated no one knows until he trios whether this may be his disposition or not therefore lest ho should have when aroused become ungovernable er the safest course for every boy and young man 10 take is to tice total abstinence and to resist all persuasion and importunity and soli citation in eaury for partake ol 01 any beverages of this character I 1 know there aro prohibition and n favor of omo other method of restraining the in liquor aih license has osen urged in our city as the best nett iod of managing this awful practice liquor selling is licensed it becomes legal arid being legal t becomes to a certain extent in many respectable there are people who argao that honses of ill fame be licensed what would be thought in conr community of persons who urged the licensing of houses of ill fame there an fn beas be as many reasons brought forward in favor of this probably by a certain class as there are now in favor of licensing liquor saloons one writer who argues in favor of prohibition put the liquor saloon in ahe same category with slaughterhouses bone factories powder mills and other concerns which are dangerous he says we prohibit the guilding of frame houses inside the tiro limits why not because the building of such a house is sinful out because it is dangerous he would have saloons prohibited for the sane 0 reason they are a menace to che public welfare if a government VHS be bays in prohibiting anything that was dangerous our government would be justified certainly in prohibiting the liquor traffic these views are worthy of consideration era tion the moral tone of our community ought to bo strengthened by every possible sible means moral suasion and careful teaching be used to impress the rising generation with the evil results which follow the use of those drinks but it would be a great help in addition to have the baw assist in this by removing from our young people the temptation to indulge in these bad habits where drinking saloons abound many people drink because the facilities for drinking are so convenient many would nover think of drinking be erwine or liquor if it ware not brought close to them I 1 am aware it is that people should exorcise self con arol and expressions of contemptuous pity are used concerning those who must have saloons prohibited to keep them from being drunkards it is undoubtedly true that a strong and a perfect man is able to control his appetite and to refrain from indulging in drink in the midst of pressing solicitations citations soli to join others and aai ablerto do this bui hero are men who either cannot or will not exercise this self control they need help A law prohibiting ae sale of intoxicating liquors would belp them but it is an important question which the opponents of prohibition ask in this connection why should men who can take a blass of beer or a glass of wine or a glass of spirits and be content with mat without drinking any more and never use these articles to excess be prohibited them because here are some persons who will make fools of themselves and get drunk ahe opponent prohibition urge that their personal liberty would be interfered with by a law prohibiting iho sale of intoxicating drinks but are there not many other eawh which are restraints upon personal liberty in the gratification of appetite besides the spread of this vice oi drinking is so rapid in the world thai it is plain that those who can exercise self control and confine their use ot stimulants to an occasional glass are greatly in the minority even in our community where religion copies to aid in repressing he use of intoxicating drinks ana every one professing to be a latte rd saint should bo a total abstainer the spread of the abbit ol 01 drinking these b averages eve rages excites the concern every man who loves his fellow man or has any regard for the weli aro and prosperity of the race would oe willing I 1 thinly to be put under the restraint of a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants for the sake of the results which would bo likely to I 1 ollow it is not contradicted that the traffic in liquor is responsible for four fifths of the poverty and seven eighths of the crime of the country and it would require the pen of an angel to describe the wretchedness and misery which it has brought ti the family of man oceans of tears have been shed by women and children who have been tho innocent victims of the slaves of the vilo habit ot drinking liquor brokenhearted broken hearted and plunged in the depths of woe their piteous cries have ascended to heaven in such continuous volume as to bring down the curse of the lord upon the unholy traffic it is argued I 1 know that prohibition does not prohibit that laws will not prevent the use of liquor but aill who are familiar with our settlements since wo came to these valleys know that there is more drinking of liquor where there are saloons than there was when there were no saloons ahe vice spreads more rapidly where there are opportunities to acquire and indulge in it for the sake of the rising generation tho young the thoughtless the inexperienced therefore would it not be a blessed achievement to banish the sale of liquor from every place oliero the latter day saints reside and can exercise control in afew ortho benefits that would follow I 1 think so juvenile instructor tor |