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Show H "(Conducted by tlio National Woman's I H Christian Temperance Union.) M WHO 18 RESPONSIBLE? Judgo Pollock of North Dakota, pro- pouncing Bontcnco upon a man con- a3witl to Bpond tho remainder of hl8 i natural llfo In tho stato penitentiary, tnado a scathing denunciation of tho liquor trafflc. Tho man had murdered his wlfo whllo under tho Influonco of liquor procured across tho river In Moorhead, Minn. "I do not know, and under tho pres -ent stato of our law I never want to "know," said tho Judgo, "who sold you tho liquor under tho Influence of which B .you committed this unnatural crime. Lot that man's consclenco bring such romorso that its energizing power will novcr let go, until the largest posslblo reparation bo made. Whoever ho was, and wherever ho may bo at this sad I moment; whethor his place of bust- nesB is In tho well-adorned and highly-I highly-I decorated room whero tempting viands Appeal to tho tasto, whero sweet mualo I delights tho ear and lulls to sleep tho reasoning facultlos; or whethor It was I In tho lowest, dirtiest, man-abandonod, I 'God-forsaken and death-dealing char-I char-I nol houso of despair, whero only abides tho thoughtless and sullen I greed for gain, It mattors not; bc- foro tho bar of God, If not of man, B. ho stands nllko with you morally re sponsible for this horrlblo crimo. Tho I troublo Is ho is not hero with you to I recelvo a merited punishment. I "If your partner in this offensowero I lioro ho would plead by way of do- I fenso that ho did not 'by fraud, con- I trlve or forco' occasion your drunken- I noss a plea which would havo to bo I UBtalnod. An enlightened and long- I suffering public will somo day, and I that day very Boon, rlso in tho majesty I of its power, and demand that tho leg- I Jslaturo strlko out the words 'by fraud, I contrivance or forco' and 'for tho pur- poso of causing him to commit any :r!mo,' and boldly dcclaro that ho who In any manner sells intoxicating liquors to another, under tho lnfluenco of which a crimo, whether of murder or tit somo lessor offenso Is committed, commit-ted, is equally guilty as a principal in .any BUch crime committed. " BREAD OR WHISKY? "What shall wo now plant, barley or -poison and kill our citizens, our young .mothers and tho unborn, or wheat, to I grow bono and brawn and blood and brains and bravery for Britain?" asks Dr. C. W. Saleoby, P. It. S. E., tho not-I not-I ed English medical authority, In an . artlclo In tho Dally Chronicle of Man chester, England. Ho deprecatos the worse than waste in raising barley to inako beer and whisky, and turning food material into poison. Ho quotes tho words of tho czar of Russia to his minister of flnanco, "It is not moot that tho welfaro of tho exchequer should bo dependent upon tho ruin of tho spiritual and productive energies of numbers of my loyal subjects," and urges his fellow-countrymen "in this opoch-yenr of 1915" to "plant wheat instead in-stead of whisky; breaH Instead of beer; llfo Instead of death," adding that 'never, perhnpo, was there a more fateful choice for tho English nation." |