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Show j CONQUERS THE TEETOTALER. The Impure Water of Our City Fore Scores to the Iluhi 1 11 ttl use at Stimulant. Kveryone must drink something either hot or cold. The toper take? his whiskey ; the epicure his wine: the more temperate man his coffee: Lhe old maid Iter tea; the teetotaler teetotal-er his water when he can obtain a good, pure article. Jlut here in Ilrigham City, at the present time, this is an utter impossibility pure, cool, palatable water is really out of the question, j .So what is the good, .self-sacrificing. I ever-exemplary teetotaler to do? He cannot consume the quantity of this impure water his longing stomach calls for, for fear of disease, sickness or death. Conse-olientlv Conse-olientlv he is forced much against his own conscience, to stretch a point on an occasional morning and take just a drop of weak tea or coJlee. Then lie takes a whole cup, rapidly increasing the number each week, until at last he takes with a relish three cups of coflee a day; twenty one a week; (llJO a a month; or 7,5G0 a year. That is equal to something like 2,000 quarts of this stimulant taken into the system of one person in one year. Think of it should all the people of Brigham City take so zealous a hold of the coffee-drinking habit, we would consume (5,000,000 quarts a year! Whew! But still we firmly believe this universal bad habit of eoHec-drink-ing would cause less disease and fewer deaths in Brigham City than the use of our present very impure water. We arc confident that for this matter of impure water and no othe; reason, the use of stimulating stimula-ting drinks is increasing in this City to aremarkableextentand that a, close investigation would deduce alarming results. Doctors instruct their patients to substitute imported beer for water and the patient submits with avidity. The use of home; brewed beer, is i increasing, rapidly increasing, and with good results from a physical sense. Our children, too, are fast learning to love these and other stimulants; men turn into the beet-shop beet-shop with less hesitation than of yore, and away the ball goes rolling down the hill to the world of intemperance. And this evil will continue to augment and grow strong and potent until we purify and better our water supply by getting a good system of water works. This is absolutely certain ; and we think our stand on this question is incontrovertible. |