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Show to bIiow that they vote aa they profess pro-fess to believe." '"Today I am crying out for tbe liberty of the babiea of Utah ; for the children still unborn in Utah. They have a right to be well born, well cared foi and well educated. Ali the money that comes from the I saloons in the way of revenue, could not balance the lost characters ci men and women." The Cause of Temperance. Extracts from the address made by Mrs. Lulu L. Suepard in the Salt Lake tabernacle Sunday afternoon last, on the occasion of a big mass meeting held under direction of the Salt Lako Anti-Saloon League: "It is unfair to the city, because the impurity and crime of tbe saloons becomes the crimes and the impurity of tbe city; every disgrace of the saloon becomes the disgrace of the city that licenses it.'; ' You fathers and mothers cannot escape the responsibility that is yours If you vote to coutinoe these saloons in business, then you have a part in every crime that is committed as a result of the saloon evil," '"Th9 saloon is unfair to the home. Every city is proud of itself as a place of homes. No matter where you travel you will find the eeutitneDt deeply instilled iu the hearts of the people the iov of their home city. Anything that harms the home, anything any-thing that does not conduce to the to the benefit of the home, is not a binefit to tbe home, and I declare the saloon the greatest enemy to the home that was ever couceived." "Some of the wise men in the city might say; 'O, Mrs. Shepard, you prohibitionists will kill the town if the saloons are done away with.' ' Well, I want to say that have seen some of the liveliest dead towns in the country. If prohibition haB kill ed them, then good people should pray that there might be more dead towns in the United States." '"It is unfair to the hom6 and unfair un-fair to the oity and it Is unfair to the drinker himself fot it takes bis money, bis reputation, his courage, his skill of hand and his happiness, as well as his hope of eternal life. It takes from him his mauhood and his God and gives him nothing iu return " "Those who aim to go to the polls and vote to keep the saloons because of their interest put themselves on a level with the man who puts on his white apron and deals out this liquor of destruction. 'As ye ,bow so shall ye reap.' " "There is no place in ths United Stales that has more Christians ac cording to the population than h?s Utah , aud it is up to the people here |