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and railroad monopolies, yet voting for the con- 

 tinuation of the liquor traffic, put the foregoing 

 facts together! 



The hereditary and prenatal influence of the 

 poverty and suffering caused by the liquor traffic 

 is beyond estimation. The only way for us to 

 form even the slightest concept, is to look at a 

 single family and see the poverty and its influence 

 upon parents and children. A thousand little Poverty and 

 comforts that might be enjoyed are denied; in- Hewdtty, 

 stead of the pleasant home there is the rented flat, 

 tenement house or tumble-down shack. Instead 

 of good schools and a well stocked home library 

 for the children, there is the workshop or the 

 "sweater." Instead of the social advantages of 

 the temperate and well-to-do, there are the cruel 

 restrictions of poverty and the bad associations 

 that it too often brings. Instead of the mother's 

 being light hearted and cheerful, she is too often 

 downcast and discouraged. Instead of being well 

 nourished and full of physical vigor, she is usually 

 overworked, exhausted and incapable of the 

 proper performance of the maternal function. 

 The inevitable result of all this is that children 

 are unfortunately born and equally as unfortu- 

 nately brought up. Both the prenatal and post-^ ^^^ 

 natal effects are bad. Poverty robs offspring of the Inebriate, 

 what might have been a good inheritance, and 

 prevents the proper development of even the poor 

 inheritance it has received. Now, if we enlarge 

 this thought to make it include thousands, nay, 

 millions of families, we get some idea of the evils 

 wrought simply through the poverty that is pro- 

 duced by the needless use of narcotics. 



