Show I5TE3IPEBAHCE I Dr Felix Oswald in the December l number of one of the American 4 reviews vigorously discusses the I question of intemperance and pertinently per-tinently asks What shall we do to I be saved If a person will take the trouble to stand upon the corner of one of the public streets to day and and count the people young and old who reel past him or manifest other evidences of having begun the year I I by taking the enemy into their I j I mouths he will be frightened at the t total and will appealing repeat What shall wo do to be saved I And yet Salt Lake is not afflicted by I intemperance more severely than l t other cities of equal population Indeed f In-deed we believe the facts will bear I oat the exertion that intemperate portion of the community here ia considerably i con-siderably less ia proportion to hoi t whole pogulation than in tho average American town But whether the ratio is higher or lower there is too much drinking in Salt Lake as there ia everywhere in the republic and in tho world According to statistics I the consumption of distilled and fermented I fer-mented liquors has increased in England Eng-land since 1850 at the annual rate of 3J per cent in France at 2 per cent in Germany including AlsaceLor raine and Saxony since 1866 at the rate of 100 per cent in the United States moro than 20 per cent making allowance for the rapid increase in-crease of population It la said that in Norway Poland and the Danubian principalities the manufacture of distilled dis-tilled liquors is the only branch of industry in-dustry that is growing Nearly nine tenths of the internal revenue of the United States is derived from the tax on intoxicating beverages Again the deplorable waste of grain in tho manufacture of liquor is something truly shocking taken in connection with the want and hunger that prevails in different parts of the globe In 1879 there were famines in Ireland in Brazil in Persia in Syria and in several of the Asiatic and cast European principalities princi-palities these caused much euOerinj bat many thousands of people starved ID death and the starvation is still oing on in some districts Yet since the harvest 01 1879 400000000 bushels of grain has been converted into intoxicants Russia is noted for its vast grain yield it being the only formidable competitor ia the field witb America for the bread trade but enormous as are the Russian harvests onefourth of them are used for strong drink The same is true ot Denmark and Australia Stringent laws are enacted against the rum traffic the preachers denounce it from the pulpit temperance lectures I lec-tures are traveling about the country painting in bright colors the evils of drunkenness and eloquently pleading with tho drunkard and tbe moderate tippler the newspapers teem with accounts of murders and other crimes directly traceable to drinking and notwithstanding all this intemperance steadily and rapidly rap-idly grows In Salt Lake where there are ten drunkards today there was but ono tan years ago Laws will not prevent drunkenness Maine Massachusetts and other states have gone as far in prohibitory legislation as reason would permit but they have drunkards and drunkenness in those states Religion does not save the man for church members drink and get drunk It sometimes teems as 11 intemperance were a disease with which the race had been afflicted almost from the beginning be-ginning There was drunkenness in earliest times and there has been drunkenness ever since If it be a disease it has been transmitted from father to eon for centuries and become o be-come bred in the nature of man and this may account for the difficulty in eradicating it and affecting a cure But whether the disease be inherited by the race or simply developed in tbe individual it is i apparent that more vigorous efiorta looking towards a cure should be taken and we believe be-lieve parents may do more in this matter than all other agencies combined com-bined In the first place they can teach their children that it is wrong to imbibe intoxicants They find no difficulty in making children understand under-stand that it is wrong to lie or ateal and with equal facility tho little ones may be shown the evils of intemperance intem-perance But it will not do for mothers and fathers to say it ia bad to drink and at the same time tipple It would be hard to make the child lice how it was wrong to drink whisky when his father drinks before his 0 eyee Parents may not be able to make the world temperate but by well directed effort they can lessen the consumption of rum and improve im-prove the present and encceeding Generations Tbey can do more than I strict laws and I vigilant polica may accomplish We believe that much of the drinking by young men and lads in this city could be stopped by parent If each parent will do his whole duty there will be a marked decrease in intemperance and the evils and crimes which spring from it |