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Show CLARENCE DARROW DENIED CONNECTION BETWEEN INTOXICANTS AND POVERTY; When the prohibition!! eeea the poor man die and his child fill a pauper's (rava beoauee of industrial condition, he crlea for prohibition- Two hundred thousand thou-sand persons are killed or maimed' an-nually an-nually In the rallroadn and the factories of the land beauae capital will not procure pro-cure safe machinery. Every life could be aaved if proper restrictions were Invoked. In-voked. But the prohibitionists won't, look at t he v c ( I ma of these Indus t rial crimes. They only shout of rum. lessor les-sor unions have never raised a voice for safer industrial conditions, but that voice has been drowned by the prohibition!!' cry of mm. For prohibition they think more than for the bread ami the liver of the work I us- man. Ulve the laborer safe tools and fair hours, and be will care fur his own morals without the meddling of the hypocrites who can only see In the darkness ajid who blink Ilk owls la the sunlight. "The prohibitionist's vow Is against fleasure. He tella you that you must Ive seriously In this world and look for your fun In the next, which he recards ashls certain heritage. But the rest of us are not so certain. It might be Jimt our fool luck to miss that fun both here and hereafter. It would be better that we get a little as we go along. 'Iet us get In the open. I-at us think for ourselves and not allow ourselves our-selves to be driven. If you strangle thought you ran never tell where truth Ilea. If you place fetters on the 11 tabs and mind of man you place fetters on the progress of the future. "It Is a long, dsrk pathway that the human race has traveled. Through ail of the agony and mlnerv and blood the progress has been guided only by lib erty. W cannot guard that liberty too closely." Clarence Derroer, prominent labor attorney at-torney of Chicago, denounced prohibition generally In draatio terms at tha Salt Laka theatre last night. Mr. Darrow poka largely from tha viewpoint of tha laboring man and dwelt on tha subject of personal liberty, declaring that In attempting at-tempting to deprive a man of his drink the prohibition!!", are attempting to de- rrlve him of his personal liberty. Mr. arrow aald: If tha prohibitionists" theory of life la right this problem of life Is of easy solution. If , men drink too much let us ca:i a town meeting and too much let ua call a town meeting and vote against their drinking too much. If they -eat too much let us call a town meeting and vote against their eating too much. By vote of the town meeting let us make everybody's views of life conform to our own. Let us paaa a law making tha vlewa of the people In tha (lrt row of this theater govern tha conduct con-duct of the persons In lha second row. Tha prohibitionist's theory of life beats any other scheme of social advancement yet evolved If it will .work out. All that will be neceseary 1o decide an Important, Im-portant, aoclal. moral or economic problem prob-lem will be to take a vote n It. The only trouble Is that tha Lord didn't make tha world that way. If he had wished ua to decide our problems In that manner man-ner ha would have made a different unl-veraa. unl-veraa. It would have been a world wlth-out wlth-out aln. a world without preachers, a V world without lawyers. It would probably prob-ably hava been a somewhat dull and monotonous mo-notonous place to live, but all of the economic social and moral questions would hava been previously solved. "But tha world waa created differently than tha prohibitionists would ha e devised. de-vised. It la a world In which we have he-! ta flaht torn out advancement. a world where our progress onward and upward haa been alow, but steadfaat. Nature left man frea to battle with tha prob-lema prob-lema that confronted him. to resist temptation and to emerge from tha contest con-test stronger and better for tha atrug-gle. atrug-gle. r Man', Bight to Breath. Tha Inherent right of man to breathe Is not mora sacred than Is his Inherent right to be free to eat or drink that which he may chooee. But the pmnlbl-tlnnlat pmnlbl-tlnnlat tella ma that I am a criminal because be-cause forsooth I choose to drink a glass "Why le It that the prohibitionist takes his stand t Why does hs seek to limit men's freedom and prevent him from taking a glase of llnuor? Because, the prohibitionist tells us. tha drinking of Intoxicants fills tha Jails and penitentiaries, peniten-tiaries, promotes poverty and makea widows and orphans. "Let me make thla declaration: Crime haa no more connection with Intoxicating liquor than It has with tha rhane-e of the moon. There Is Just one class that ever goea to Jail. Nobody goes to Jail but tha poor. What la the use of a rich man going go-ing to JallT He can go to the hotel. A few rich men may go to Jail, but theae usually because they are not rich enough. There are only enough exceptions to prove tha rule. Winter Causae Crime. "But perhaps wo may be toM that Houor produces crime In poor people and not In the rich. It may be that the atomacha of the rich are so acclimated to It that it dosen't send them to jail. "Perhape we hava the prohibitionists because it Is eaaler to make a speech than It la to study a question. I know, because be-cause I hava tried both. Did you aver hear any prohibitionist tell you there Is mora crime In the winter than in the summer? Not Well, it Is true, nevertheless. never-theless. Does It mean then that man's heart le mora wicked In the winter than In tha summerl No, It means that jails are electrta lighted and steam heated and that the habitations of the poor axe not. Theaa men who aeek tha jails In winter are not criminals. They are ths victims of social condltlona. "From the prohibitionist's argument kyeu would think that no man aver cut another's throat except because he had drunk liquor. We hava had three presidents presi-dents who were aaaaaainated. Not one was on account of liquor. One assaaal-natlon assaaal-natlon grew out of the fleree hatred occasioned oc-casioned by the civil war. Another resulted re-sulted from political and economical condltlona. con-dltlona. The third waa tha result of po. lltlcal conditions, probably coupled with a deranged mind. The governors of Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Tennessee and Idaho have been the victims of aasaaslns. It haa not been charged that liquor waa In any way re-spontlble re-spontlble for the death of any of theaa executives. 1 cannot recall a famous murder case In which Intoxlcanta In any way figured in the crime. What Makes Man Poor? "How does ths prohibitionist flfturs a titan Is poor because he drinks? He follow! fol-low! s man with overall and a hovel. He smells beer. Ah, ha! Ths overalls and the shovel because of the smell of beer. He passes the rich young msn In t automobile at the corner. He smells the champagne but mistakes It for gasoline. gaso-line. The poor man earns the cham- es;ne for ths rich msn but drinks beer, ut Intoxicants make poverty. "Did you ever know a rich man to drink? Of enures not. Do Morgan and Schwab and Thaw drink? Of course not. Because drink prod urea poverty, and If they drank tlien they would be poor. Therefore they do net drink. The only rich man I ever heard of who did not drink was Rockefeller, and hia dyspepsia confines him to soft victuals. 'I know that ths poor people waste their money. I've seen them eat. What business has a poor msn to eat? It Is only the Idle that can afford to eat. The poor ran work. The poor man gets $1.50 a dsy or perhsps $2 out here. Of this hs spends lb cents a day for five beers. The prohibitionist concerns himself with what becomes of that quarter. What does he dn witli ths other $1.7? I've seen poor people eat pie. What business has a poor man eating pie? For the same amount he could secure five times as much bread, which is five times as nutritious. nu-tritious. Pie produces dyspepsia and the poor man has no time for dyspepsia; he has to work. I've seen the poor man drink tea or coffee. He would be better bet-ter off without It. Coffee Is slmoat as bad as beer. Four hundred million dol- la is has been spent for tea and coffee In ths United States. It Isn't worth It. . Would Be GiTl&f Up Liberty. ; Ths worklngmsn's ancestors lived In caves and hut and the strongest usurped : the powers and held them. It was only1 by a struggis that the worklngman has , secured some of the comforts and many I of the luxuries of life. By ths struggle you have secured your food, and drink, your holiday and some of the luxuries of life. My advice is to keep all you have and to get more. This Is the working work-ing man's age. Would you give anything any-thing up? Today It Is beer. Tomorrow It la coffee. Then you concede longer hour. Finally the earth will pass com-oletely com-oletely from the control of the poor. Would you turn backward? On ths road you will encounter ths bleaching bones of taoss who have died for ths privileges you are giving up. "Will yoa become richer by giving up .he -4 rents worth of beer per day? To It and you will gala nothing. If -he poor are to become rich, the rich must become poor. As long as ths lumber lum-ber trust, the steel trust and a handful 1 of men control ths earth and the greet mass of humanity compete for a chance to serve there will be poverty, prohibition prohibi-tion or no prohibition.. "About as many people are struck by lightning aa die of drinking liquor. Would ths prohibitionists therefore, com-! pel every man to carry a lightning rod about with Mm? Any man who dies this; side of 125 Is cut off In his youth. He' dies because be has either eaten or drunk ' too much or not enough, or because hej has worked too much or not enough. ! Prfeot living should entitle a man to 1 lis years of lira. "Did It ever eceur to you that poor , people lived onlv 40 per cent as knr an rich people. The lives of peopto who work ss six-tenths aa long as those of people who don't. That Is not -because of toe much whisky, but because of too much work. One-half of ths children In I the tenement disirtcta die before they, are grown. That is stot because of too i much whisky, but borausa of not enough j milk. - -Prohibition anruaients made bi bo-1 half of ths poor ais the veriest, humbug. f |