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Show I T E M F E R AN C E f D E F ART M ENT f I CONDUCTED BY W. C. T. U. I i i -i -: EDITORIAL COMMITTEE j; ?: MISS FRIEDA DRESSEL, MRS. U- WAY. 1 THE LICENSE SYSTEM. (Extract from an address given by Hon. Soaborn Wright of Georgia be-foro be-foro Ihe National W. C. T. U. convention conven-tion reccntlv held In Denver, Colo. Ed.) The I rouble in this big republic of j our Is this wo are money mad. We I have the Idea in our heads that mon-! mon-! cy will make everything right. But It will not do It. The license Byatem breeds crime; bad government comes from It, as straight as a ball from the barrel of a rllle; and so long as you tolerate the system, these things will live and flourish Wc staud for tho total abolition of a system Inherently wrong, not for Ita reformation. You, as citizens, deliberately, delib-erately, for a hundred, or two tliou-sand tliou-sand dollars, plunt upon your street corners suloons, reaching out Invitations Invita-tions saloons with open arms, appealing appeal-ing to tho passion tor strong drink In your men and women suloons whose Inevitable end Is to destroy the great lrtues of manhood! You capitalize the passion for strong drink in your people. You deliberately set a price upon It. You turn over your men who are living today, you turn over the coming generation, to an instlfu-ilon instlfu-ilon and a system whoso basic princl-! princl-! pie is the destruction of tho great vlr- tuea of manhood. You do It for I money. The man who votes to keep a saloon In any city, or any state, or any nation, na-tion, who votes to keep It there bo-eauso bo-eauso of his part of the profit In tho saloon, stands upon a dead equal with the man w-ho robes himself in his white apron and boldly stands behind tbe counter and serves the drink. If I bring no other message to you from the south from my long experience of yiMrs In lb struggle against the saloon, sa-loon, I bring you this one at least that the thing that is holding the saloon sa-loon in this republic is avarice, avarice, av-arice, , Capitalizing vice! Deliberately selling sell-ing out the vlrluea of your people for . money! Slop capitalizing vice. Put a premium on manhood and not on dollars. "SHOW CONSIDERATION ? EMPHATICALLY, EM-PHATICALLY, NO! Not one syllable can bp spoken In favor of the liquor traflic that Is not dictated by self-interest. It poisons i the political life In every town and city In which It exists, disgraces public pub-lic ofilcos and betrays public trusts, defiles public sen Ice and degrades public servauts It has no legitimate place, because wherever It touches. It blights like fire, and leaves only the ashes of for-j for-j mer prosperity and former happiuess I in Its wake. It gives nothing, but ' takes everything. It builds nothing, but Is ever destroying. It panders to ' the weakest and worst traits of man, and Rtrungles every Impulse for good and decency. U g the father of mur-dpr mur-dpr and the mother of the ft, the sister of harlotry and the blood brother of degeneracy. It knows that It Is wrecking man-' man-' hood, debauching politics and binding people to a hellish slavery. It knows that It Is stealing the honor of man, the virtue of the woman and the future fu-ture of the child und it continues stealing them. hat thief In all criminal crim-inal history can approximate this record? have been slain during the last one hundred and lifty years In all the various wars which, tho United States has willed. 'Tor every one thousand killed In battlo, rum has dug the grave for twelve thousand." And dur; Ing 1907, besides these one hundred thousand, threo thousand wives were murdered In cold , blood through the Influence of tbe' demon drink; and lorty thousand women. are 6trujgllng and fighting the battle of life for themselves them-selves and tbelr children aloue, while their husbands All drunkards' graven. Sixty thousand pure girls were robbed rob-bed of their priceless treasure, their virtue, through tho dram drinker; and one hundred thousand children wero made orphans, being left alone to suffer suf-fer and fight for their existence, all because of drink. Some ono has esti-. esti-. mated that all the widows and orphans orph-ans b-rt behind by drunkards would, If they were standing hand In hand, belt the globe three times. Awful as this picture, the artist failed to reveal tho depth of sorrow and degradation into which liquor has plunged these wives and children, an dtbl Is the most dreadful work of the liquor traffic. traf-fic. Twenty-five hundred babies were smothered to dealh by careless, drunk-, drunk-, en parents; Ave thousand persons : took their own lives because of rum; and ten thousand others yielded up I their lives to the Jealous rage of the drunken assassin. One hundred thou-! thou-! sand persons were branded as crlmln-1 crlmln-1 als by the law, and one hundred thou-. thou-. sand more had their reason dethroned by the whisky Send, and were placed behind the grated window. Each year produces a similar pic-; pic-; turc, with entirely new lctlms Why allow this artist (lend to continue his I work? We already sense the evil of this nefarious liquor businebs eufTl- cicntly to know that It ought to be an-i an-i nlhllatod at once. Why, then, do we i not with every power of our being work together to this viid? Prohibition Prohibi-tion Slate-wide and world-wide prohibition pro-hibition Is the goal. Do niand It un-j un-j equivocally of your legislators. Accept Ac-cept nothing less than absolute protection pro-tection fiom the liquor curee. IN THE DISTRICT COURT Of the Second Judicial District of the State of Utah, In and for the County of Webor. In the matter of the disincorporate disincorpora-te of the Thomas Etherlngton & Sons Company, a Corporation. NOTICE is herebv given thai the THOMAS ETIIERINGTON & SONS COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Utah, has presented to ihe above Darned Court a petition praying to bo allowed to disincorporate and dissolve, dis-solve, and that Saturday, February 26th, 1910, nt ten o'clock In the forenoon fore-noon has been appointed as the time, and tho court room of the District Court of Weber County In Ogden City, Utah, as the place at which said application ap-plication will bo heard At any time before the expiration of said day hist named any person may lilo his objections objec-tions to the application of said corporation cor-poration and lis directors for the dissolution dis-solution thereof. WINESS the Clerk of said Court, with the seal thereof affixed, this HOth dav of January, A D., lOKi (SEAL) S. G. DYE, Clerk. Messrs. Richards & Boyd, attorneys attor-neys for Petitioner. NOTICE. The annual meeting of the shareholders share-holders of tho Ogden Troy Steam Laundry will bo held at the ofTlce of the president. Dr. E. M. Conroy, corner cor-ner of 25th St. and Grant Ave , ou Monday. Feb. 7th, 1910, at 7 o'clock p. m., for Iho purpose of electing a new Board of Directors and for any other buslncHA that might corbo before be-fore said mfetlnft. E. M- CONROY, President. - "Show this traffic consideration?" Emphatically, no! We hang the murderer It has manufactured, manu-factured, we ostracize the harlot whose livelihood It furnishes, and in-careerate. in-careerate. the thief whose, honesty It hajf destroyed. ''Show It consideration considera-tion ?'" What a travesty upon Justice! Nashville Tenneesean. Reproduced and Added to In 1908. Tho liquor domou dug oae hundred thousand new graves In this country in 1907, and In these graves wre laid tho lifeless bodies of the hundred thousand wretched men whose lives ended so In'lorlously. This number U uiM-sixih of tha number of men who |