Senator Mattingly: "Full 90 per cent of the crime can be justly traced to liquor."

   Father Doyle: "Of all the evils that have cursed mankind, nothing can be compared with the evil of intoxicating drink."

   Cardinal Manning: "The chief bar to the working of the Holy Spirit in the souls of men and women is intoxicating drink."

   Henry Watterson: "Every office from the President down is handed out over the saloon counter."

   "The saloon is the damndest business on earth." -- Saloonkeeper Opelt.

   Archbishop Keane: "As a man and a Christian I say, 'Damn the saloons.' If I could cause the earth to open and swallow up every saloon in the world, I would feel that I was doing humanity a blessing."

   John Jay: "To tax a thing is to tolerate it. And vice in its nature is not a thing to be tolerated."

   Judge Butler, Cairo, Ill.: "The case at the bar is the 76th murder case I have tried, and in 75 out of the 76, liquor was the exciting cause."

   Terrence V. Powderly: "The damning curse to the laborers is that which gurgles from the neck of a bottle.

 

"Saloons are bad, and that is why I want to vote Nebraska dry; And there will be less doubt and dread, More hungry children clothed and fed; More weary hearts to hope inclined, More men industrious and kind; More pleasant homes in this fair state, More hope, more help, and much less hate, Shall we not court this happy fix For Mollie and the babies?      Bix."