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Show At Pocatello the United States au-! thorities have just arrested a man charged with furnishing the Indians with liquor. The native loves the ardent, ar-dent, and when he secures it he becomes be-comes a trotib'esome creature. This is an old, old story the fascination that liquor has for the savage sav-age stomach, There is no difference, perhaps, between the stomach of a savage sav-age and that of a civilized man, but the latter is to some extent regulated by the mind while the former knows no restraint. The love of intoxicants has characterized the savage from the earliest times of human history. In the United States liquor has been the curse of the Red man ever since he was in- troduced to it. In nouth Africa a proposition has been made in all gravity grav-ity to give the natives all the liquor that they could consume, in order to kill them off and solve the growing race problem in that region. Away back in the early centuries when our ancestors, the barbarians, of the Gcrmau forests, were harassing Rome, the same rule held good, and we are told that drunkenness was an ideal condition in the minds of those people. They gave themselves over to debauchery debauch-ery whenever the opportunity presented, pre-sented, and with many of the tribes the ruling idea of heaven was that it was a place where liquor flowed like water and where life would be one long "spree." So the people who seek to throw the veil of refinement about the drinking habit, and who would excuse its excesses and plead for it against the demands of temperance sentiment, will lind, upon examination of the records of ancient and current history, that they place themselves in the position of special advocates of the barbarous characteristics which linger about the human make up as an inheritance from the savage ancestry of the race. |