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Show SALOONS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN POISONED WATER FOUNTAINS. Mr. Rose in his speech on the liquor question at Salt Lake City the other evening stated that people die of typhoid fever contracted by drinking" water containing typhoid gorms, therefore, there-fore, ho says, "we will prohibit prohibitionists pro-hibitionists "from drinking water " How brilliant, logical and STRONG tho above argument1 Does a person knowingly, wilfully, drink water containing con-taining typhoid gennB? The water we drink we generally be-llovo be-llovo to be pure, but how about the liquor usually sold over the bar7 Does the saloon keeper recommend it to bo perfectly harmless7 Does tho drinker not know that this is the demon that has so often over powered his will, destroyed his manhood, man-hood, extracted from him the money that should have been appropriated to the support of his family, and which will ultimately send him to the gutter and to prison? There are several drinking fountains foun-tains in this city Suppose these fountains foun-tains were sending forth water laden with typhoid germs, causing "more death and. devastation than war, famine fam-ine and pestilence combined," what would our health officer do7 What would our city officials do? What would the citizens of Ogden do? Regulate them? Close one or two spouts In each fountain and let the others flow? Or would he have us tax or license the agent who supplies the water to the cltj, and then charge up the cost to the poor victims who, knowingly or unknowingly, drink the deadly water? No! Every citizen of Ogden would say Close "those fountains; shut off that deadly water' The saloon is far more dangerous than would be the poisoned water fountains, for the reason that in the latter case the people would rise up and demand that tho deadly typhoid ,germs be destioyecl iby the closing of the fountains. In the former case, many men and a few women are willing will-ing that tho source of delirium tremens trem-ens may keep their fountains running, that the poor victims through depraved appetites may continuo to pay unjust taxes, tho taxes that tho business man and the property owner of the city should cheerfully pay. |