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servants wish to drink, and we choose to allow them, let them pay for it. It is a public disgrace that the Congress of the United States should be called upon to pass appropriations for the liquor bills of men appointed to do honor to the memory of the lamented Garfield. It is enough to make an Amer- ic in citizen blush to think of it. A few years ago I was a member of a committee appointed to visit the Naval Academy at Annapolis. We were accom- modated in a government building and supplied with rations by the Government. When I entered that house and was introduced to one of my fellow vis- The Siaie and Tempcrcmce. 201 itors, his first statement was that in a certain pLace I shouhi find free access to all kinds of liquors. Morning, noon and night there were liquors on the table, furnished by the Government of the United States, and paid for out of the revenues of the Gov- ernment, and the people were taxed to pay for the liquor used by eleven men out of the twelve w^ho made up that committee. I say that it is time that Government liquor bills should be stopped. Now, what is our duty as men and women? In the first place, it is our duty to speak out, stand up and work for temperance. Let us keep men familiar with the evils of intemperance. Let us keep them familiar with the dangers of intemperance, the rights

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