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Show M STRIKING SENTENCES M FROM ROSE ADDRESS H The constant violation or neglect H of any law leads to a demoralization H of all laws, and I am here to make H the charge that whenever and wher- H ever prohibition has been attempted. H to be enforced It has been followed In M every instance with utter disregard i of law. H This Is not a church issue . . . H Jt would be a peculiar creed that would H deny me tho rlxnt of my conscience. H There (Michigan) they have county H option, the most iniquitous species of M prohibition that was ever conceived H in the human Intellect. H How proud vou have been of the H grand old prohibition state of Maine' H Sixty years of prohibition 1 Sixty 1 yo'ars of hypocrisy! Sixty years of 1 drunkenness and debauchery I Sixty H years filling their almshouses and H theiv Insane asylums! H I undertake to say that in tho city H of Salt Lake tho uncertainty of this H condition has effected your trado con- H ditlons horc. B ' I One mav not speak against prohlhi- H j tion without drawing down upon his H i Innocent head the anathema and vlllft- M cation of those who disagree with him H ' Blinded by their bigotry, led on by their Intolerance, they don't hesitate M , for one moment to destroy the one who H dares to disagree with them Mr. Prohibitionist, you have made M hypocrites and cowards and 'lawbreak- H era out of public officials. M And now they propose to ask you H to blight every prospect of the future, H t vas every city that has over been H , touched 'by prohibition haB been bllght- |