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Show Mrs. Shepherd, the Utah dry speaker speak-er with all the dramatic force at her command, relates the story of the drunkard and the poverty of the drunkard's wife and children. It Is a sad story of a man yielding to his weaknesses, and when with it the speaker plavs upon the heart strings of her audience she performs what spell-binders call "a trick." That is to say, the audience is swayed purely Tjy the emotional and by an extreme illustration. il-lustration. For every drunkard with a family in rags there are a thousand men and their families who, through no fault of theirs, are in poverty. Thoy are ictims of our social fabric, thoy are the crushed portions of society, the inevitable results of a tremendous struggle for existence under the competitive com-petitive system and yet how many of our prohibitionists aro inveighing against those conditions and demand' Ini; a reform. If vthe' 'prohibitionists arc right in , saying, that -you should apply the rtor(ih to the 'manufacturers of drink because out ofho frailties of human nature men ?whp patronize tho pro-'rlucts pro-'rlucts of those'factorlesI now and then fall, what oxcuse can they offer Jon not following the logic of their doctrines doc-trines and by demanding the destruction destruc-tion of all property rights which are at the basis of poverty, join the anarchists? anar-chists? Why, I have seen men In Ogden struck down by misfortune good, sober, so-ber, honest men whose families have faced the worst of all uncertalntlpa, the "pinch of poverty, the wife In the plolnett of clothes and the children bhooless and In rags, and their fearful mental state and physical privations call forth no response from anyone until a saloon man, in an unsigned note, conveyed to tho family a message mes-sage of hope, enclosing a few dollars But that which 19 an e very-day occurrence occur-rence becomes commonplace. The widespread poverty which is told of In the "Song of the Shirt," the horrible fato of the department store girls in P'jansas City, Kansas that prohibition prohibi-tion state cannot bo expected to stir up the city that is aroused by the story of an" occasional drunkard The unusual holds our attention, the commonplace com-monplace Is given no attention. Although there are countless heart; aches that come from commercialism there Is only one class that propose to remedy the wrong b,y tearing down the pillars of tho business superstructure superstruc-ture and that class Is made up of anarchists They point to the horrors of poverty, hunger and despair and declare that they will burn and Slav until desolation shall prevail. They are the prohibitionists in the world of affairs, they respect no property rights, acknowledge no compromise, yield no consideration to those beyond be-yond their pall; they reject the measures meas-ures promising to evolve better conditions, con-ditions, they ignore the lessons of experience ex-perience with human frailltles and proclaim a revolution. With red oan-ners" oan-ners" flying and fire brands blazing they march ont to reform tho world. That is prohibition rampant prohibition." prohibi-tion." "Reverend Brainerd Jn his address , in the Tabernacle last Sunday In de fense of tho "Drys" said the people of Kansas appear to better advantage than the people of Utah, that they look happier and feel more contended " "Arid that ig a prohibition argument The people of Ogden, where Mr. Brainerd Brain-erd has gajned his impression, challenge chal-lenge the correctness of that statement. state-ment. It looks, In physical- make-up, In -financial worth; in moral suasion, the, people oP.Ogdpn are the equal of not' only Mr', Brainerd's people, fbut iahy people on' earth'."' - - 'f "Why dd'-he prohibitionists, to bolster bol-ster up a Veak cause, rssort to theso slurs on the people of tbis eft and the west; J-Jave they.no other proof to offer7" . "' "But If. the men, women- and cliti dren in Ogden waste some forty dollars per capita each vear in drink, as tho prohibitionists declare, and the people of Kansas save that forty dollars becauFe there are no saloons In Kansas, why Is not Kan3as just that much richer for each year for the past twenty years? In other words why has not Kansas eight hundred dollars per capita more wealth than tho people of Utah? Why? Because the Juggling of figures cannot put money that they have not got into the pockets of the Kansans, As a matter mat-ter of fact the people of Utah are as prosperous as the people of Kansas and there is leas real poverty here." "As to the monoy spent In Ogden saloons, more than one-half of that stream of wealth comes from the outside out-side from drummers, stock men, m.ln-prs, m.ln-prs, tourists, occasional visitors, and It Is money that would go elsewhere and never be spent In Ogden If "Blind Pigs" displaced the open saloon."- Worklngman. nr |