WHY I HATE THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 370, 18 April 1926, Page 14

WHY I HATE THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

1 have seen so much of the evils of

the liquor traffic, so much of its ccouo|nic waste, so much of its physical ruin, so much of its mental blight, so much of its tears and heartache, that I have come to regard the business as one that must lx* held and controlled by strong and effective laws. I bear no malice

toward those enguged in the business, but 1 hate the traffic. I hate its every phase. 1 hate it for its commercialism. I hate it for its greed and avarice. I hate it for its domination in politics. I hate it for its incessant effoit to de-

bauch the suffrage of the country. I hate it for its utter disregard of law. I hate it for the load it straps 1o labour’s back, for its wounds to genius. I hate it for the human wrecks it has caused. I hate it for the almshouses it peoples, for the prisons it fills, for the insanity it begets, for its countless graves in potters’ fields. I hate it for the mental ruin it imposes upon its victims, for its spiritual blight, for its moral degradation. I hate it for the crimes it has committed. I hate it for the homes it has destroyed. I hate it for the hearts it has broken. I hate 't for tlie grief it causes womanhood—the scalding tears, the hopes deferred. the strangled aspirations. I hate it for its heartless cruelty to the aged, the infirm, and the helpless; for the shadow it throws upon the lives of child ren. 1 hate it ns virt le hates vice. <is iruth bates error, as righteousness rates sin, as justice hates wrong, as liberty hate;tyranny, jus freedom hate's oppression.— Ex-Governor Hanly, of Indiana.