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all the religious and educational institutions in the 

 city." 



Our cities are growing much more rapidly than the 

 whole population, as is the liquor power also. If this 

 power continues to keep the cities under its heel, what 

 of the nation, when the city dominates the country? 

 Such a powerful organization, resorting to such un- 

 scrupulous methods in the interest of legitimate busi- 

 ness—mining, railroading — would be exceedingly dan- 

 gerous in a republic ; and the whole outcome of this traffic, 

 pushed by such wealth, such organized energy and such 

 means, is the corrupting of the citizen and the embrut- 

 ing of the man. 



And if the liquor power is a peril at the East, what 

 of the Rocky Mountain region and beyond, where 

 mammonism is more abject, where there is less of 

 Christian principle to resist the bribe, and where the 

 relative power of the liquor traffic is two and a half 

 times greater than at the East^ 



