Show WHAT IS Written for The Utah Independent by Wanda i What is Temperance is Temperance is the belief in the good results obtained from indulging moderately in anything gratifying to the senses of smelling or Concerning the drinking of if a man tells us he is we are too prone to infer that he is a total is not necessarily He usually believes that the steps from the evils of excessive use of intoxicating to total abstinence are many and cannot be bridged in a day by carrying the vote for Prohibition today is the triumph of sentiment over reason it is a a noble desire within but lacking the patience which comes' from the consciousness that every permanent reform comes A Similar I do not make this statement without remembering the misery the crimes that are being the injustice practiced toward posterity by the general moral deterioration resulting from If a man takes the Keeley liquor is not abruptly denied physicians' know too well the fallacy of such a method what would be the Perhaps an attempt at committing any crime to gain the means of satisfying that a power which no one realizes the strength of except or it might result in hopeless he is supplied with as I it is weakened and doctored with drugs that are supposed to diminish and eventually eliminate the mad He is treated thus until he voluntarily refuses the Absolute prohibition today would mean not voluntary it would not be an evil but an evil Let us prefix the letter to the word and it means almost the for the Devil is Evil Through prohibition this Devil would only be he would still be our sides and sneaking in our furtively watching his chance to overcome What would be the result of compulsory abstinence from liquor for the thousands who have succumbed to its Would it not result in murder and other The Great Hall has appropriately called this devil of intoxication great It is a hypnotist luring humanity into its extravagantly promising much more than is in its power to only a paralysis of the nerves and brain and extending but a false and treacherous hope at best for the future it builds Fear into a masterful giant and finally its miserable victims into the belief that man is but an animal at that Nature is a and that the only ambition that truly wise aspire to is the speedy and gluttonous gratification of the or in other to wallow in I believe that the first and most potent step that can be taken toward the overcoming of this who is really only a monster in our is to train the children in such a way that they will fail to recognize the potency of this train so that lives will be so completely absorbed in the pursuit of higher and nobler that they starve this who feeds on of starve him until there is nothing for him to do but die your ear to the voices of And the music of the And your heart will turn to truth and As the plant turns' to the When the Time When the time comes that man believes that he is an immortal entity that he is heir to eternity that he is living in eternity when he daily lives in the consciousness that he is a spiritual being and hourly feels a profound gratitude for the blessings be stowed upon when he real izes that we must work for that an atonement cannot be made five minutes for the takes of a life time when he that reward and is not all reserved for a when he realizes the respect and reverence we feel for the gift of life even in physical it being the a part of Divinity when he becomes less selfish and is filled with a great love for ali created when he God-given reason to be his guile and worthy effort his faith then we will expect feeble-minded insane lums and prisons' to be reduced to a and the to be an object of and a efficacy |