Show N OPINION we took occasion to sa say last W w ea ek that some of our mining kings in this s tate state have hae declared thit the liquor must go because it was mas inter fering with tie the efficiency of their amplo employees acs and was therefore an economic om ic w N isle we quote now the following bioni some of the vi worlds great men hon hen william JI taft president Pies ident of the united states has declared that henceforth no intoxicating beier beer ages shall ver pass be between teen his lips emperor Empei or william of germany german one of the most conspicuous rulers 0 of f modern times has alpo alo taken the total abstinence vow ow this will undoubtedly have a most wholesome holes effect upon the german laton of the whole world horld as well nell as upon others andrew Caru carnegie egic whose financial hn ancial success and choai benefactions bene factions are so well ell known d himself as fol follows loAb the arst di ai d most seductive peril and the of most aoun coln mn MD esthe is the drinking drinkin of liquor I 1 am no temp temprance temperance rance 1 courtr r im disguise but a man who knows and tells you ou what ole observation ration his aroen to him and I 1 my gay to that vou ou lie ale more likely to fail in dour our career from acquiring the habit of drinking than from all other temptations likely to assail you ou you may yield to almost ana an other temptation and ref reform orm may brace up and if not recover lost ground at least remain in the race and secure and maintain a respectable position po but from the insane thirst for liquor escale is almost impossible I 1 have known but few exceptions to this rule abraham lincoln our first letyr martyr i president speaks for himself more eloquently in the following quotation than anything which could now be said whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by the total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now an open question three fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues and I 1 believe all rest ledge it in their hearts it if the relative grandeur of revolutions be estimated by the great amount of misery they alleviate and the small amount they inflict then indeed will this be the grandest the world has ever seen hon hen william J bryan has always been a total abstainer and when visiting in foreign lands elicited the commendation of the temperance world by adhering to this principle while associating with crowned heads the above examples s are convincing con vincine ahe prominent men in nearly all lines linc 4 of life are a unit on the matter of the liquor traffic |