Show f SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION 1 II Every E thinking woman In Utah will vote against the saloon was the tho statement recently of oe one on of the leaders among women who take au an interest In public questions And a similar claim is of often ton ma made for the men of or tile the state slate Whatever else elso may be said of Colonel RObert q agnostic orator I an and he has ever Cier been credited with being a thinker Yet to him bUn Is duo one or of the moz most matt terR terrible ter ter- ter- ter x R arraignments t the o liquor traffic ever received receIve Hero it Is I am arc aware that there is a pr Judice against any man who m manufactures alcohol I 1 believe that 0 I from the tho hc time it from the coiled and poisonous worm In Jn the distillery until it empties Into the ja jaws of death dishonor and crime It demoralizes everybody th that t touches it from its source to where it ends I to I not believe anybody can contemplate the object without being prejudiced against the liquor crime All HAil we h have n e to do gentlemen I Is to think of the wrecks on either cither bank of tho the stream of death of the suicides of the thet insanity of the ignorance of the destitution of the little children tugging at the f faded d and withered breast breut of weeping and despairing mothers of wives s asking for bread of the men of It I has h wrecked the men struggling with Imaginary serpents produced by this devilish thing and when you think cf the j jails ils of oj the Im of the asylums of the prisons of the scaffolds upon either cither bank I co do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this damned stuff called alcohol Intemperance cuts down doin youth in Its vigor manhood in its ftc It strength old age in its weakness It breaks the fathers father's heart bereaves the doting mother extinguishes natural affection crase erases conjugal love blots out filial attachment blights parental hopes brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave It pro pro- weakness not strength not health death not life It makes wives widows children o n orphans fathers fiends and all of them paupers and beggars It feeds feed rheumatism invites cholera imports im 0 V ports pestilence and embraces consumption It covers coverd the land with idleness misery and crime It fills your jails supplies your almshouse and ind demands your asylums It engenders engender controversies fosters quarrels and cherishes riot riots It crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes victims for your scaffolds It ItIs Itis itIs is the life blood or ci the thc g gambler the element of the burglar the thc prop of the thc highwayman and support of the midnight incendiary It countenances the lI liar r respects the thief esteems the bl blasphemer It violates obligation reverences fraud and honors infamy It defames benevolence hates love scorn scorns si virtue and slanders innocence It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring helps the husband to massacre his wife and the child to grind the patricidal ax It burns burn up men consumes women detests life curses J God despises heaven It suborns witnesses nurses perjury defiles the jury box and stains the judicial ermine It degrades the citizen debases the legislator dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot It brings shame not honor misery not safety despair not hope sorrow not happiness and with the 0 malevolence of a fiend It calmly surveys its frightful desolation lation and an 1 havoc havo c It poisons felicity 0 kills peace ruins morals blights confidence slays reputation and wipes out honor then curses I th the world and laughs at its ruin S I It does all that and more I It t murders murders the soul It Is the sum of all the villainies the father of all crimes the mother of all abominations the devils devil's best friend and Gods God's worst enemy cn my v |