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Show AUDIENCE IN SYMPATHY WimHIM rtev. A. S. Walk Ins. president of As-l As-l ury College, Kentnrs;y, and at on time candidate for vice president on the Prohib.tion ticket, gave a strong address on "The Case Against Liquor" at the Ogden tabernacle Sunday afternoon. aft-ernoon. The musical program was made up of selections on the organ by Prcf. Sam Whlttakcr and solos by C. f!. Purrington. and was greatly enjoyed. en-joyed. The speaker of the afternoon said that liquor was not only not a benefit, but a harm. He Impressed upon his audience that not less than two billion bil-lion dollars is the annual drink bHT of the nation This wns illustrated by saying that, if that number of silver j dollars were tr he placed flat against ! one another, fhey would reach from New York, through Ogden and San Francisco, several miles out into the racific. "There hare not been two billion minutes from the day that Mscs was bom until now." the speaker said He showed it to lo tne greatest economic eco-nomic question of our day. He attacked at-tacked the argument that the breweries brewer-ies and distilleries aided th farmers by furnishing a market for their products, prod-ucts, by showing that these institutions institu-tions simply extracted some r,f the eod out of th? grain, and then put it back on tbp market at the same price as it had been before. Of the lOn.non lives that Jro annually annual-ly lost by drink, many are taken of men who do no; drink themselves. It is a terrific toll In lives. Mr. Watkins said that Czolgnsz. who killed President McKin:ey. had been raised in a saloon a hoy and that h? belonged t-i anarchists that tnet; in a saloon and that Tie wpnt from a saloon sa-loon to the act. Insanity, povertv and crime were traced to the saloon Mr. Wotkind said that the merchant who was deprived de-prived of the trade of the drinker and the drinker's family was t'ue one who really paid the tax cf the saloonkeeper. saloonkeep-er. A large audience listened to the speaker and i'U were manifestly in sympathy with him In his declarations. |