| Show following prohibition 13 the cone portion of mrs maria alien pap r read at the recent temperance meeting in castle dale ahe first portion was published august 8 multitude multitud Multi a of promis nr youths have blasted then hopes of the future and lost all that is most valuable in char acter ard 1 f because thy had not tl e strength to sly no i confronted by temp aann Is t ro the part of abdom to profit by theae examples ird edke the path of one of the m t important subjects on which to stand just i is the matter of dm g foi of all the terrible curses that have humanity intern perance 13 the n ost sn mathow hale one of the oldest ch ef justice justi cs of england and one of tie buiest of mei declared as the re su t of is observation during his long experience s justice that four fifths of the cumps which had been committed proceeded from strong drink charl a kingsley the celebrated di 0 and writer of london who had for close tion said that if dyspepsia and liquors ere banished from society there would be no crime or at least so little that we should not consider it worth mentioning As much money is spent in our country every twenty years for liquors as the entire property of the country is worth how much would be done toward redeeming our earth if a vice which causes four fifths of the crime and this fearful waste of prop erty could be removed drunkenness is the shame of nature the extinguisher of reason the ship wreck of chasity and the murderer of conscience this beverage kills more than the cainnon it causes catarrhs es and d oplies drink per nd debasco the moral nature it anal es a man chaise brutal and cepul sive and seems to cast out every ele anent of manliness and principle of honor I 1 take it for granted that a large ma jonty of the eizens of this state are in favor of prohibition they know as well as I 1 do that no argument can justify its use as a beverage among mankind they also know it is the roost powerful producer of sins of all kinds it originates and fosters dis eases of almost every organ of the human bod destroys homes blasts the 1 ves of people who would other wise be br cliant and very useful makes desolate the pledges of love and un scrupulously squanders fortunes homes and estates no doubt you are wonder ing how e can best remove this curse from among us so I 1 will endeavor to point out the way that seems to be the most effective foi no number of tern perance lectures will avail any progress in eliminating th s evil unless we ac company them with works and carry out our efforts along this line in a republican form of government the majority of the people have a right to enact laws foi the governing and welfare of the people and where evils exist they are responsible for them if they fail to perform their duties in this refard charles Sumner said that the citizen who neglects his public duty is a public enemy there is a large class of such es and they are the most serious mer ace to the purity and pros penty of our government they are men and women who hold pol tics in re because of it ions and rot tenness but who instead of doing their part to purify it scornfully take up their skirts and say that they will not descend into its mire forgetting that they themselves are responsible for such deplorable conditions by their neglect of du they may be so absorbed in their own private interests that they satisfy themselves with the excuse that they cannot spare the time in an address to students the earl of derby said if there is one thing more certain than another it is this that every member of a community is bound to do something for that corn in return for what he gets from it and neither intellectual cultivation nor the possession posses bion of material wealth nor any other plea whatever except that of physical or mental incapacity an excuse any of us from that plain ind personal duty man or woman who neglects this duty is guilty of a moral wrong for society alfi the nation is made up of an aggregation of individuals each of whom is under a tacit obligation to sustain and preserve them in as pure a state as possible in return for the protection and benefits he derives from them R W dale an english divine said I 1 think it possible that the time may come when men who refuse to vote will be subjected to church discipline like men who refuse to pay thir debts was a of pythagoras which pronounced every man infamous who in questions of public moment d d not take sides and well were it for us to day if we were subject to such a law rev spurgeon said the fact is a certain class of people love to be amet and aie ready to sell their country to the evil one himself so that they may live at ease and make no enemies they have not the manliness to plead for the right for it might cost them a customer or a friend and so they profess a superior holiness as a reason for skulking an able writer of our own country has spoken words which are worthy of reflection he says in our day it seems that men who are almot completely destitute of all proper ideas of their relations to free institutions have a greater influence than those who fully understand this relationship men of refinement of high social position of the highest mental culture ministers of the gospel have in a very large measure stepped back and given way to the preponderating forces of ignorance and personal advantage so that now our officers to a great extent hold their positions by the votes of those who fail to comprehend the real significance of the ballot because politics have become so miserably corrupt bearg almost synon amous with fraud are the cultured the refined and the ministers justified in holding themselves entirely aloof and by their very refusal to become inter ested in these high concerns of public interest making an increase in borrup tion still more possible the government is for all for the artisan who lives and earns his bread and clothing by manual labor and for those who obtain the same results by mental efforts evera citizen is equally brought under all tha advantages thit may be gained by the form of govern ment which has been agreed upon which has been established with such agreement and no class is or can be justified in ceasing to exert individual effort for the maintenance of every institution which has grown out of th form of government under whose protection we live and this is still more true when these institutions are in their very nature free therefore liable to be misused and very liable to work out an entirely different result from the original intention this end accomplished by the neglect or agnor ance of the very ones who should derive a large share of benefit from their con ti nuance in a pure state conr duty of each political issue begins n the precinct primary or caucus where every citizen should meet and see that delegates to the different con mentions vent ions are chosen and that these delegates are men of character who will not sell barter or trade the authority vested in them for any per bonal advance ad vange after the primary is over generally speaking the question is out of the people s hands until the time of voting the delegates chosen in the primaries meet in the coulty district state and national conventions and there in behalf of the people nominate candi dates to fill the different offices of the country here is the place where money plays a part and if the delegates are not true bias they can be bought over or tride for some personal favor etc many times certain factions have everything planned before the an manes and meet there agreed on elect ing a certain number of delegates whom they know will carry out their purposes and having everything planned before meeting they are ready and without delay nominate their delegates and then move that nominations cease and in this way bulldoze the primary into a compliance with their selfish purposes providing Provi bing they thus succeed they meet m the different conventions and nom mate men for the different offices who they are sure will comply with their desires while holding office thus are nominated our state re es and senators these are the people who make our law s and above all we must be careful to see that the state legislature is composed of men who are in favor of prohibition and who cannot be tempted with money for if money can play any part or find a weak depre tentative senta tive or senator those opposed to prohibition will furnish the ance therefore when the work in the an comes on do not despise or shirk it because it may seem unimportant but be on duty and if you are elected a delegate to one or more of the convan eions accept the trust and perform your duty worthily remember that eter nal vigilance is the price of liberty and though to meet in a convention may conflict with your ease or even your business it may be the means of I 1 preventing your son from becoming a drunkard or your daughter from be coming the wife of a drunkard and if you must lose either your son and daughter or a or customer lose the or customer but provide wholesome for your dren bear in mind that our eions cannot be maintained without the support and active cooperation of all in and high minded citizens and then when we pet the right kind of men nominated for office do not for get that we must vote them in on elec tion day and it will be our duty to be at the polls and cat our vote for them this question of prohibition must come before the citizen for them to decide by vote whether or not the liquor traffic shall go on as it is be sure you are there and cast your vote when that time comes what const tutee a stated not h fh raised battlement or labored mound th k walls or boated ate not t ea proud w th sp res and turrets crowned not beys and broad armed ports where laugh at the storms rich navies rde not starred and courts where low baseness wafts perfume to arde no men h eh m men men who the r dut es kno v but know their rights and ne ma n tan prevent the long a med blow and crush the tyrant wh ie they rend the cha n these constitute a state |
