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Show EVILS OF IHE LIQUOR TRAFFIC EXPLAINED Third Presbyterian Church tho Scene of Temperance Rally. An enthusiastic temperance rally was held at the Third Presbyterian church Sunday night. Rev. R. G. McGill, denn of Westminster collego, presided and gave a graphic account of temperance progress throughout the countiy. Renwick McNiccc, of tho High School facultj, was tho first speaker. In speaking of the liquor question, he said: "This is a commercial ago. If we can prove to people that the saloon does not pay financially, it will bo a great gain for tho betterment of humanity. hu-manity. The United States sponds $1,-100,000,000 $1,-100,000,000 a year for liquor, and this amount is doubled if, we include tho cost of prosecutions, jails, asylums, etc., j in as far as they aro mado necessary by the uso of liquor. American people spend more for liquor than for clothes. We enact legislation to keep out criminal crim-inal and dependent people, and license th'c saloons to make our own people criminal and dependent. All money spent for liquor is wasted, for otherwise other-wise it might be. apont for real needs. Tho average saloon in the United States takes in $7000 per year. On this basis, then; is paid over ihe bars of Salt. Lake each year the sum of ?770,000. Dr. William M. Thorno was next introduced. in-troduced. He spoko on the physical effects of alcohol from a physician's point of view. Ho said: "Alcohol affects af-fects all animal tissues when it touches them. It is good as a preservative for specimens, but is hard upon living tissues. tis-sues. It enlarges the blood vessels and hardens their walls. Lt hinders the flow of such secretive juices as the gastric: it makes rupture, apoplexy and paralysis easy, and it causes ' overstimulation over-stimulation of the heart and liver, thereby resulting in harmful fat. It causes the nervous system to become abnormal. The brain degenerates under the influence of alcohol, and cannot, act as it should when at a normal condition." condi-tion." Rev. Herbert E. Hayes, pastor of the church, also spoko oh tho moral and spiritual effects of alcohol. Ho said: "Man is a unit: whatever injures one part of him injures all parts." He said that tho effect of alcohol could bo traced on both tho bod- and the pocket-book pocket-book of everyone who drinks. "Drinking "Drink-ing makes men unreliable and slovenly. Under its infiuencce men become lustful lust-ful and carnal. Alcohol accomplishes evil results in whisky, wine or beer, wine and beer drinkers consuming much more alcohol than whisky drinkers for the reason that they use such quantities. quan-tities. Things associated wdith liquor are always degrading; social impurity, for example. The character of a whole nation is affected by tho drink propensities pro-pensities of its inhabitants. Lecky, the great historian, said that the gin drinking in England during the eighteenth century had a more far-reaching far-reaching affect than all of the wars and political . crises combined. Intemperance' Intemper-ance' "is transmitted to future generations." genera-tions." , |
