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Show TEMPERANCE LECTURER WHOOPS TH Mrs. L. E Italic)', for thirty jeais I an active worker In tho temperance I cause, as a public lecturer and organ-I organ-I izer for tho Women's Christian Temp-H Temp-H erance Union, talked to a laigc audi- encu at the Logan tabernuelo Sunday H evening. During Mrs. Railey's thirty M ycais of work along this lino she has M pcn 'n every state of the Union, ma-BJMnrTy ma-BJMnrTy foreign countries and came hero tilled with Information and experience H obtainable In no other way. Her talk H was most Interesting and Instructive H and calculated to stir up no little in-H in-H torcst in the cause. Tiik Rkpuiilican MM regrets the inability to produce tho Mm lecture In full as a synopsis must nee-M nee-M essarily do the cITort gicat injustice. Mm Service was presided over by Pros. Mt Joseph Morrcll and opened by the B choir singing "How Firm a Founda-BK Founda-BK tlon," followed bj, prayer from Illshcp MS Geo. L. Farrell, after which the choir H sang ' Softly Reams, etc." H Mrs. L. E. Bailey, WM being Introduced by Mrs. Mary L. HE Hcndrlckson, began her talk by ex- R pressing her pleasure, etc., etc., and E launched out on her subject: "It is HH said you educate a man, you educate MM an Individual, and In educating a wo- Jj man, ou educate a family. In tho HB march of civilization wo aro confront- H ed by tho problem of suppressing the H liquor tralllc. Whllo we aio saving B ono individual from that evil, forty such aro fallen overboard and ate lost. B "We complain ugalnst t") heavy E taxation, but moro than triolein va-,Crvlues va-,Crvlues Is expended for this so'., debasing WE habit. Think of tho worry of the H wife of the drunkard, the cries of thousands of almost naked chlldicn. I am, dear friends, living to see, from the Eastern states to the Western states, not a saloon In existence (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) In the state of Maine there aro but live open saloons. So severe Is tho penalty for violating the law, that there are but few there In tho drug business that do not absolutcly'rcfusc to carry tho accursed stuff in stock. VlNot only men aro violators of tho liquor trade, but woman, who have been caught with girdles containing wine. v No Saloons, No Police. "In cities where there are saloons tho taxes are high and the vices arc many, but In cities where thero aro no saloons Ihe taxes arc low, and In some cases vices are almost unknown. In the former, Sundays are unknown, while places of amusements arc wide open, but In tho latter you will Und a icllglous class of people. Tho three largest resorts on the Paclllc coast liavo ncvorhad a saloon, whllo at Prohibition Pro-hibition Park, N. Y., a city of 10,000 Inhabitants, the services of a policeman police-man are never required. "Farmers of means throughout the country aro sending their sons and daughters to towns of educational facilities fa-cilities possessing no saloons, and In fact tho fewer saloons In a city of schools the better for tho surrounding towns. Prohibition prohibits where tho peoplo want It to do so, and does not prohibit where tho people aro against It. Some Great Victories. "Nover has this party gained so MRS. L. E. BAILEY, of the W. CT. U. many victories In this countiyaswc have during the past twoyears. President Pres-ident Roosevelt has helped the W. C. T. U. so successfully, and It is to ills personal Inlluence that so much has been accomplished. Saloons have been abolished from all tho emigrant stations on the coast. The Union has been tho means of abolishing tho canteen can-teen from the army, and thu mother can now send her son to thu army without fearing the dangers of the canteen. If you visit the manufacturing manufact-uring towns, you c,an readily sec the result of child-labor; children scarcely able to walk, tolling day after day, sup-porting.iu sup-porting.iu a majoi ity of cases a drunkard drunk-ard of a father, sometimes a mother. Hut these towns aro beginning to feel thecllccts of Prohibition, and, with the aid of the W. C. T. U., that great ovll, child-labor will bo blotted out of civilization. Interesting Figures. "In tho state of Tennessee, out of 04 counties, but eight have saloons; In Mississippi, out of 175 counties, but ten have saloons; In Texas, tho slate has piohlbltlou. Tho biggest brew-cry brew-cry and distiller) in tho south, located at (Ft. Worth has quit business. In Gcor, la, thoro arc but two counties and In Florida thero are but live counties coun-ties having saloons. Cadiz, Ohio, the wealthiest town of Its size in the world, has no saloon. Edmunds, 111., has no alms houses, nor poor farm. Tuxes are one-half less than any other county In the state, and today theie Is a $10,000 surplus In the county treasury. treas-ury. This Is attributed to tho fact that the town has had no saloons for years. Tuscola, III., a town of 5,000 Inhabitants, has not in 33 years recorded re-corded a single murdei. This town has hud local option and no saloons In the 33 years, Mississippi and North Dakota have laws making It Illegal to sell patent medicines containing liquor. Arkansas and Alabama have been under a tempcraneo wave. One-half One-half of each state Is now piohlbltlou, and In twoyears the remainder will be so." Mrs. Halloy conslduis the greatest wprk accomplished In past twojears Is the abolishment of the saloon fiom the capital building and erection of thp statue of Francis E: Wlllard on tho spot occupied by tho saloon. Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arlona, New Mexico and Oklahoma are the only states In which there arc not cities, towns and counties where liquor Is not sold as a result of the activity of temperance interests. Last year 250,000 people In the United Unit-ed States voted for Prohibition candl-dates, candl-dates, and Incidentally elected throe hundred of them In Pennsylvania, 500 in Illinois. The Catholic Total Abstenenco Un-Ion Un-Ion has a membership of SO.OOO; the INGS UP A LITTLE I W C T V 150,01)0: Good Templars 500,000 in the matter of local option, Illinois Illi-nois heads the list with 700 non-di non-di inking communities. A Sad Story. Tho speaker Illustrated her lemaiks by citing an incident that happened In a town where prohibition had been enforced for 30 years, but which at last granted picmlssion for an "open town." A farmer, not a drinking man, took his two daughters to the town, and meeting companions took :i fow drinks. After getting drunk he was not able to (hive home. Ills two daughters attempted to drive the team home, but while crossing the railroad the Empire state express ran them down, killing -both girls and horses, but not injuring tho parent seriously. "In your city of lino educational facilities, try and band jourselvcs together to-gether as one, with he ono object In view that of abolishing the liquor trallllc. If not entirely, then do It step by step until your object bo accomplished, ac-complished, and I think success will bo yours." Rev. Norllcet: "1 endorse the high sentiments of the previous speaker and 1 consider tho subject of "Temperance" "Tem-perance" as being the most Important question of tho dav. 1 am not a native na-tive of this state but I am pioud of being a lLsldcnt of Utah. Judge Hrown.of tho Salt Lak jiivenllocourt told me that the majoilty of cases brought before him for trial can bo traced directly back to tho saloons as their agency, and It Is surpilslng how much inlluence the liquor tralllc has H with the young people wheie a saloon ' H Pros Joseph Moi roll. "I can truth- IMM full coincide with the speakers' re- H marks. In my travels through south- H oi n California I can readily recall cir- H cumstances that happened In towns H where I spent a short time while en- mM Joying a vacation. 1 went to places H where there were no saloons permit- H ted, and to obtain a drink of intoxl- H cantswasan Impossibility. In another H town ou could only hav e one drink in I a saloon. When you had partaken of H same you must leave the place at once, ; H us no loafing or lounging is tolciated. 1 H I should, for ono, be glad to say tho ! H same of Logan in a short time from H Mr. George Fairell related an anec- H dote on "Buy Your Own Cherries," H und made a hit for prohibition. The jMm choir sang and benediction was pro- H nounced by Rev. Norllcet. H A well-informed writer says: H "Woarc still under the head of "un- H llnlshcn business," of course, so far as H the liquor question Is concerned. H Our drink bill for gne year would H build three Panama canals. Hut H drunkenness, as a national American H vice, has become a thing of the past. H Tho habitual drinker Ilnds himself 11 barred from employment on railroads Mm and in stores and ottlccs. It has be- H come a business necessity to be sober. H And tho whole forco of social disap- H proval and ostracism Is directed to- WM day, not against tho abstainer, as it IH was a century ago, but against the IH weakwllied unfortunates who allow jH themselves to bo mastered by a ruin- H I ousappetlte." H rlMA |