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Show I FAMOUS WOMAN AT THE BALLY IN THE ! M.E. CHURCH 1 The second section of the flying snuadron held two wonderful meet ings in the First Methodist church yesterday afternoon and evening. Dr. lindrlth spoke briefly in the opening of the afternoon session, aay i nc in part : ' When right meets wrong ou have no right to pray for peace; you can ! only fight for peace and pray for victory. vic-tory. "The church of God could do what it wou'd, ir it would do what it could "If we church men had saved all of the ammunition we have fired at each other over water and predestination predestina-tion and forc-ordlnation and apostasy and apostolic succession and church government, and a hundred other things thul do not mean, everything In this world, and that will not mean anything in the world to come if we had saved all the bullets we have shot al each oilier and had turned our nns on the ncmy we'd have had the devil on the run a long time ago. Wf are rlone now with such fratlcidal wal and the saloon must go." fififc :i iiiM sm JOHN B. LEWIS. Dr. Carolyn Oeisel of Battle Creek, electrified the audience with her intense in-tense enthusiasm, and convinced them with her array of scientific facts As a physician who has studied In post graduate work with the greatest spe-cialista spe-cialista In France and Russia, she spoke with authority, and as a woman with ;i heart aflame for the relief of thi race from the curse of drink, he fired the enthusiasm of her hearers. I She is a really wonderful speaker ami th meeting last night Is declared to he the besi prohibition meeting held in Ogden The singing of Mr. Fred rick Butler, the bass soloist, was very unusual, and his leadership of Hie , one;recational slnniR was in Splfing He certainly got the aud-lence aud-lence to singing "We'll Make Old Og-den Og-den Dry." Dr. Geisel told how the Bquadron were so far traveling largely large-ly at their own expense, to say noth Ing of not receiving salaries. D. O. I'ohng has mortgaged his home, Ex-Hovernor Ex-Hovernor Hanly has closed his law oflice for a year, and Mr. Ix?wis, the treasurer, lias contributed of his own money (10,000 to help pay expenses. It is a most remarkable movement The third Bection arrives this afternoon after-noon and ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly Han-ly and the Hon. John B. Lewis, formerly for-merly member of the Massachusetts legislature, will .speak and Miss Vera K Mullen will be the soloist. Ex Gox-ernor Gox-ernor Hanly is one of the most powerfully pow-erfully eloquent speakers on the American platform. Meetings at L':4'i p m. and 8 pm. Admission free. This afternoon Hyrum Belnap is to preside and this evening Joseph rhez Last night W W Browning, as chairman, introduced Dr "arolv-i Geisel. who spoke on "The Business of Home.' ' She said in part: "It is a woman's business to raise men. The saloon Interferes with her bui mess. Has the government the right to license the manufacture and sale of a poison that ruins this busl-i ness? "America doesn't nepd more lanns. more mines, more minerals or more money she neds more men and the merii hi home can produce ni'-n when the business of the American mother is protected by the American government. We can no more raise sound men In wet territory than you can raise round swine in an unsanita.rv pig stye. "Awake, ye careless women' The punch bowl and the alcoholic medi cine bottle are feeders for the saloon, sa-loon, the devils kindling wood. Shall we continue to destroy our own sond with our own hands0 "Alcohol Is not necessary as medicine. medi-cine. The Medical Institution, with which I have the honor to be connected, con-nected, treats an average of 800 patients pa-tients a day, has an international reputation for curing incurables, and nas aever used one ounce ( alcohol as medicine In the fortv eight years of Itg existence "Teach the sacredness of self; for If the body is reverenced as a vehicle ve-hicle of the creator it will be kept free from shame. "In the twentieth century with Its tnucb talked of 'rights,' shall the ja loon be permitted to continue its ruin of babies' rights? "Shall the mature, the masterful: bt always permitted to trample upon the life of the Immature, the unborn'' "At least r0 per cent of all forms of race degeneracy in America will be wiped out by nation-wide prohihi-tlon prohihi-tlon 'Prevention of the marriage of the unfit; a clean bill of health with the marriage license; belter baby eon-tests: eon-tests: child conservation studies: anti-child labor laws these nnd all other plans for combatting race degeneracy de-generacy are but means for correct ing die ruin wrought bv rum. "Sixty years Bince America begun her partnership with alcohol and In that half centurv insanity, imbecility and clime have increased by 500 per cent, sixty-two out of every" hundred persona in the penitentiaries of the United States are there on account of drink In the first, second or third generation "A child Is product both of its in heritance and its environment. Blood will tell. "You think a man pays for hln glass of beer when he passes his nickel over the bar. He does not. His baby pays. The law of inheritance inheri-tance is inexorable. The baby is what the father was. If a man destroy' his brain by alcohol. If his bod wastes and degenerates through drink, his children and his children -children will have dwarfed minds and degenerate bodies. Kill the saloon and save the baby. Carolyn K Geisel's night addres3- "Drink makes the lowest element of society, but it does not always begin there. It begins appallingly . frequently with the highest "We hae reached the third stage of race degeneration. Out of every two persons born into the world, one dies before reaching maturity. Remove Re-move the cause and save the nation. "Seventy-two out of ever) hundred babies born in Munich, the greatest beer drinking city in the world, are unsound America has far too many I itles that arc close seconds to Munich Mun-ich in the beer drinking question. In prohibition Maine 7112 per cent of the babies born are sound 'Environ ment is Destiny-' The drunkard cannot get a 'job' even as a barkeeper to dispense to other men the goods that finished him. "The drunkard cannot get his life insured even to keep his credit good at the saloon. "Forty per cent of arteriosoclerosis is produced by nlcohol and is not curable. Sixty two per cent of Bright s disease is produced b alcohol and Is not curable Ninety-two per cent of cancer of the stomach is produced by-alcohol. by-alcohol. Cancer of the stomach is not curable. Destroy the saloon and save the man! "The saloon is defeating woman's business by cursing the unborn. Tht saloon is destroying the American home by defiling the American man. The American voter is called the defender de-fender of the American home Onlr called that often When he votes to license the saloon he Is the de-stroyer de-stroyer of the home. "The American home Is threatened with destruction because the American Amer-ican Is destroying himself ' Alcohol is not a food it Is a drug. It injures the blocd. It retards the digestion It is the worst enemy of the brain worker It hardens .the liver It destroy? the kidneys. It furnishes no support to the body. It is a depressor It is a most destructive destruc-tive agent of health It deadens the body and the senses. It effects the mental and moral side of nature. Alcohol Al-cohol users show death rate 20 per tent greater than non-users " rrt |
