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Show V ILK CRKATl KKS lty X. Lund, Jr., in the Sevier Valley Val-ley (all. We want to pay our respects to the . bootleggers and the carriers who will j sell or give liquor to start a poor drunkard on a spree. Live or die. we are going to do it. They are the : meanest and vilest creatures that ' ever crawled out of the pit of hell, i They have no more manhood than j the slimy jelly fish. They respen ; neither childhood, womanhood nor ' manhood. They are a curse to this' city, a curse to themselves. We feel to curse them with all the power at our command and pray that the curse may follow them all the days of their lives; and after death we shall be at the bar of justice to plead eternal damnation of their souls. Thieves. ! robbers and even murderers would better be tolerated at large in the. community than these sellers and givers of liquors. They are a standing stand-ing menace to the children of the community. They are serpents that crawl in the paths of virMious girlhood girl-hood and womanhood. They are a ' pohuion to all the manhood of the' community. They lower the standards stand-ards and the work of the schools and the churches. They are responsible for a generation with which the future fu-ture will have a terrible reckoning. Hereafter we shall expose them whenever we have a hint of evidence. The guilty ones will have lo cut it out. What kind of a future are we going to have if these conditions continue? con-tinue? Think of the children who must face a present and a future spoiled by the curse of drink and the withering blight of it all. We appeal to the city officials, political po-litical and religious of Salina and of Sevier. This paper is willinir to do : ill in its power to blot out the damnable damna-ble traffic. We are willing to loose' business. We are willing to sacrifice my friendship that stands in the way of doing away with the liquor traffics. traf-fics. No living man in Sevier can ' offer to do more. Shame on the men. high or low-, who stand for the dehauchment of the boys and girls and men and worn- , en of the community. There is law enough to handle them all. One lone man, with unflinching courage and intelligent action can change the whole condition if he was set to do it. |