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Show 1 V 1 J I (Conducted by the National Woman's 1 Christian Temperance Union.) I FOR PROHIBITION NOW. , Mr. Aloxandcr Ncsblt Iiub been sher- .Iff of Donvor for 12 years and ho didn't vote for prohibition. Horo aro Bomo of tho many things ho said about jp Jtho good offocta of tho law In an In- 2 I "Torvlow published In tho Puoblo Chief- J jtaln: "Tho habitual loafor hoB dlsap- (pearcd. Tho crowds that usod to hang ! jarouud tho lower ond of tho city at freo lunch countors havo gone Where, jl haven't tho least idea. Llko laBt 'summer's fllos, thoy just disappeared. Again, tho wtno rooms aro no mora 'and tho 'aftor tho theater' dlnnors aro over. Thero Is no placo to go except to the plcturo shows, and then for a light lunch and then homo, unless thoy go to tho pool halls. You know It doesn't tako long to get a lunch after tho theater now. Few peoplo say 'havo another' on a glass of water, And tho old slogan, 'Let's havo another' an-other' Is a mlsnomor In Denver. Nolthor do vory many peoplo say: Lot's havo another lunch' and thoy Sot through and go homo. . . . "Wo haven't had a caso of murdor ,Blnco tho flrst of tho year. Our suicides sui-cides aro falling off to a groat extent; tho mllcago of tho ambulanco and patrol pa-trol wagon Is less than CO per cent of what it formerly was; our officers on , tho boats aro treated moro courteous ly; thero 1b a bettor air morally around tho city; tho places whoro crlmo was formerly hatched aro gono and tho city is bettor off in ovory way so far as its polico department and tholr work is concorned. . . . "Lot mo tcir you another thing, tho can-rusher, tho old soak who camo homo with a quartor in his pocket and sent his eight-year-old, ragged, barefooted bare-footed girl to tho saloon for a can cf beer and then tossed hor a crust of 'bread whilo ho swigged tho beer and snarled at hor through his drunkenness, drunken-ness, is no longor a resident of Donvor. Don-vor. You can't got n photograph of ono of theso fellows in tho city." DIVORCE LABOR FROM LIQUOR. "Tho sooner tho labor movement and tho labor press divorces Itself (from tho liquor business, tho quicker real organization will bocomo possi-blo," possi-blo," says tho Qalosburg (111.) Labor " ' iNows. "Our movement advocates tho education, tho elevation of our membership, mem-bership, tho securing of hotter condl-; condl-; , tlons and wagos for our membership. (Wo cannot socuro them by affiliating' with tho greatest powor against thom." Another labor paper expresses itself "in much tho samo strain. It says in (Part: "Many trado-unlon Journals and dozons of tho best-known labor leaders lead-ers in America havo como out oponly for prohibition. According to tho Plumbers' Journal, tho liquor interests aro finding out that 'a lot of men who (drink whisky won't voto for it.' Tho llocomotlvo engineers, 70,000 strong, jhavo gono on record for tho abolition Iiof tho liquor traffic." Mr. E. J. Koenan, president of an organization or-ganization of dry labor union men in lOhio, says that vlth tho exception of 'tho brewery workers and bartondors lovcry labor union 'in Cincinnati is lined up for prohibition. Tho follow-Sing follow-Sing plcdgo is used by Mr. Koenan: "Wo boliovo tho labor movement ,will not develop and grow as it should juntll the influonco of tho liquor traffic is removed." 1 (DISARMING THE BODY. 1 Wo may point out that alcohol, as , Ifar as tho digestive organs aro con cerned, not only interferes with tholr normal dlgestlvo functions, but also 'destroys their natural powerB of projecting pro-jecting tho body from disease. A per-. per-. .son who 1b Buffering from alcoholic 'dissipation, mild or sov'ero, is less ablo ' ;to destroy tho microbes of discaso .which may be taken in with tho food, 'and Is, thcroforo, far moro suscoptlblo ,to typhoid fovor, cholera, and similar diseases. Tho vital resistance to both I 'heat and cold is also diminished, as - i well ob rcslstanco to infection, and tho I (body is thuB disarmed to a largo ox- 1 ,tont of its natural roslstivo and fight ing forces, and thus becomes a moro 'easy prey to sickness, disease and I death. A. B. Olson, M. D D. P. H., Cuttorham Valley, England. BEER AND BALL PLAYING. i It is Btatcd that tho Baseball Play- j ors' Fraternity 1b to prohibit boor I ' drinking among its mombors. Ed. IRuolbach, pltchor of tho Boston Bravos, says: "I havo seen many f stars whoso careors woro cut short by tholr intomporato habits. Conserved Con-served energy is tho only thing which will prolong a diamond career. Tom-poranco Tom-poranco among tho players will add , years to tholr tlmo on tho playing m field." BEEF INSTEAD OF WHISKY. I K "My husband used to bring homo t j a bottlo of whisky on Saturday night , if I gavo him tho money for it. Last $ week ho brought homo a rib roast $ and ho earned tho monoy that bought .' T r. ,nn ti1Cbo words of a washerwoman f1 ,of Denver, Colo., Bums up tho prohl- .bltlon situation in that city, says the Donvor Post. r , j NOT INTERESTED. i Did you over know a saloonkeeper v to bo invited to spoak to tho school i children? ! |