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Show (Conducted by the Nntlonal Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) m PERSONAL RIGHTS. Replying to the "personnl liberty" argument of the wets, Clinton N. IIow-n IIow-n nl, who Is characterized as .one of the bomli throwers In the prohibition ranks, puts it this wny : I "You have n personal right to eat putrid meat; I have no right to sell It. If your hog dies u natural death, ! or with the cholera, you have a personal per-sonal right to grind It up Into sausage nnd ent it; but you have no right to offer it for public sale. A mini has n personal right to corn his dead mule nnd serve it on his own table. You have as good n right to eat your cat ns I hnve my chicken, or your dog as I have my pig. The Chinese In New York have u dog fenst at their New Year's celebration and the police hnve never Interfered with their personal per-sonal right. But If you opened a meat market nnd skinned dogs and cats and exposed horse snusuge for public sale the meat Inspector would confiscate the entire supply, close up the plnce as a public nuisance and arrest you for selling what you hud n personul right to eut. "We hnve n law ngulnst the sale of Impure literature. We do not say that n man shall not read It, even though that may harm him ; because It is his personal right to damage his own character char-acter and corrupt his own mind ; but If he opens n shop for the dissemination dissemina-tion ifnil sale of such literature to corrupt the youth of the community, society steps In nnd Interferes not with his personal liberty to read what he likes, but with his sociul right to sell that which corrupts public morals. Fnder this law tons of Impure literature, litera-ture, licentious post enrds nnd Immoral books are seized nnd destroyed every year, without compensation to their owners; Indeed, they are prosecuted and fined or Jailed for the offense against public morollty and decency. That Is prohibition." MORE AND BETTER. The argument that the worklngmnn will lose his job if the liquor traffic Is abolished is based upon the absurd proposition thnt, if the liquor denier falls to get the money now spent for beer nnd whisky, nobody else will get It It Is assumed thnt the farmer who now aells his grain nnd grupes, his apples and cherries, to the liquor Interests In-terests will be compelled to destroy them ; when the fact Is that figures furnished hy the United States government gov-ernment clearly Indicate thnt the ability of the American farmer to raise enough grain to adequately supply this country is gradually decreasing. To listen to the defender of the saloon, one would think that nobody liken grapes and cherries nnd apples, unless they come in form of booze. There are millions of youngsters who wotlld be delighted to hnve nt least one chance to eat nil the fruit they renlly need. Charles Stclzle, Member of Machinists Union, and Secretnry of Church nnd Labor Department of Pres-byterlnn Pres-byterlnn Church. MODERATE DRINKING. Tho degeneration due to the so-called so-called "moderate" consumption of alcohol al-cohol is very similar to senile decay, in the opinion of Prof. O. Sims Wood-head. Wood-head. M. A M. D., F. R. C. P., F. It. S. XE., of Englnnd. "Alcoholic degeneration, however," Professor Woodhond points out, "does not proceed equally in every part of the body. The weaker tissues are first attacked and the patient gives way nt the weak link of the chain. "Alcohol culls' upon the reserve Strength which ought to be held like a balance at the bank to meet sudden and unexpected emergencies. If you have such u physical reserve, you are able to tide over emergencies and wear out gradually, but If you let nl-cohol nl-cohol withdraw your balance, exhausting exhaust-ing your reserve, you may become a physical bankrupt nt any moment." LET GO! The story is told of n man who one night f'll over a cliff. Thinking that bottom was hundreds of feet below, he clung to the edge as long ns he could, crying for help. When, exhausted, exhaust-ed, he let go, he found that tlie good Bra road was only u few inches under his feet Some there nro-who cling to the liquor traffic imagining that to let go menus a drop into industrial chaos. But community after community has tried letting go of It. No disaster has followed. The good sound road of industry in-dustry furnishes firm footing for ull, lnill itliinls or communities, who let go of bonze. And the drop to it Is so short as to scarcely be noticeable by those who muster up courage to tuko It. The Liberator. "NO, THANK YOU," LEAGUE. Sacrumeiito has u "No Tlinnk You" league, the members of which pledge themselves "not to take uu Intoxicating Intoxicat-ing drink In a suloon nt another's invitation in-vitation or expense;" and eacli member mem-ber weurs u "No Thank You" button. TWO VOTES. "Two men went up to the ballot to vote. The one a Christian, tho oilier a bloat j One bold in hiy hand the Word of Ood, The other a license to sell forty-rod; And the angel looked duwn In grief and bame, For the ballots they cast were exactly the ante." ' |