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Show Not at All Mealy-Mouthed Under the caption "Xice, Kind Words to Bootleggers" the Sevier Valley Call, published at Salina and edited by C. N. Lund, Jr., has the following: "We want to pay our respects to the bootleggers and the carriers who will sell or give liquor to start a poor drunkard on a spree. Live or die, we are going to do it. They are the meanest and vilest creatures that ever crawled out of the pit of hell. They have no more manhood than the slimy jelly fish. They respect neither neith-er childhood, womanhood or manhood. man-hood. They are a curse to this city, acurseto themselves. We feel to curse them with all the power at our command, and pray that the curse may follow them all the clays of their lives; and after deatli we shall be at the bar of justice to plead for the eternal damnation of their souls, Theives, robbers and even murderers would better be tolerat.d at large in the community than these sellers and givers of liquors. They are a standing menace to the children of the community. They are serpents that crawl in the paths of virtuous girlhood'and womanhood. They are a pollution to all the manhood of the community. They lower the standards stand-ards and the work of the schools and the churches. They are responsible for a generation with which the fu- ture will have a terrible reckoning. "Hereafter we shall expose them whenever we have a hint of evidence. "The guilty ones will have to cut it out. What kind of a future are we going to have if these conditions continue? con-tinue? Think of the children who must face a present and a future spoiled by the curse of drink and the withering blight of it all. "We appeal to the city officials, political po-litical and religious of Salina and Sevier. Se-vier. This paper is willing to do all in its power to blot out the damnable traffic. We are willing to lose business. We are willing to sacrifice any friendship that stands in the way of doing away with the liquor traffic. No living man can offer to do more. "Shame on the men, high or low, who stand for the debauchment of the boys and girls and men and women wom-en of the community. There is law enough to handle them all. One lone man, with unflinching courage and intelligent action can change the whole condition if he was set to doit." |