GLEAXINdS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. 1 



well acquainted with our helpers, as 1 used 

 to be when bearing the burdens of our busi- 

 ness, but then it was a common thing for a 

 boy to say, "Mr. Root, don't you think 1 

 can earn more than ten cents an hour?" 

 In fact, I used to be glad to hear a boy ad- 

 dress me in this way. I felt like shaking 

 hands with him and talking the matter up 

 in a friendly way. I would often say, " Let 

 us see, John, are you always on hand when 

 the whistle blows? ' ' 



A reference to the time-clerk was very 

 likely to reveal the fact that John was often 

 tardy when he was needed urgently; and in 

 a dozen different ways the employer can 

 suggest to his help things that would enable 

 him to get a raise; and where such matters 

 can be arranged in a friendly way, the em- 

 ployer standing by the side of his helpers, 

 and treating them as a friend, a neighbor, 

 and an equal, such things would almost 

 make a heaven here on earth. And that is 

 exactly the way the dear Savior tried to 

 teach us to live together and to work to- 

 gether. I am glad to know, dear brother, 

 that you have been emancipated, and have 

 gone out into the country. Now I am long- 

 ing to have you say, as a dear brother says 

 in another column, that you have also "got 

 over on God's side." 



Temperance 



VOTING FOR PROHIBITION LAWS, AND EX- 

 PECTING WHISKY MEN TO ENFORCE 

 SUCH LAWS. 



Mr. A. I. Hoot: — Don't you think you would be 

 more " helpful and Interesting " if you printed less 

 bosh, such as voting for a prohibition law and at 

 the same time for whisky men and parties to en- 

 force it, as they did in Newark, in your State, and 

 give us occasionally some "straight goods," like 

 Mr. Chafin's speech in the National Prohibitioni'it 

 for Oct. 6? How many real enemies of the liquor 

 traffic hold office in Washington, D. C, New York, 

 and Ohio? 



Newport, N. Y., Oct. 10. A. L. Hines. 



My good friend, I do not know but you 

 are hitting the nail on the head, or coming 

 pretty near it. It is a lamentable fact that, 

 after the Anti-saloon League or any or all 

 temperance organizations have secured 

 some good and righteous laws, it happens 

 many times that the enforcement of such 

 laws is in the hands of men not in sympa- 

 thy with them. It is very unfortunate, I 

 confess; but I want to assure you that the 

 Anti-saloon League is doing every thing in 

 its power to get better men into office. We 

 are ready to vote for them and work for 

 them, no matter where they are found; and 

 if the temperance forces could be united I 

 think there is no question but that we could 

 readily put good honest temperance men 

 into office. I repeat, it is exceedingly un- 

 fortunate that all temperance voters can not 

 unite in voting for good men nominated by 

 the Prohibition party, and it is also exceed- 

 ingly unfortunate that it seems impossible 

 to get Prohibitionists to unite for the good 



men that the Anti-saloon League would 

 like to put into office. And there is still 

 another trouble: We have many times suc- 

 ceeded in putting men into office that we 

 thought would work for temperance; but we 

 found out many times, after it was too late, 

 that the joowers of darkness were too great 

 against us, for they turned out ^vet. It 

 seems to me that we ought to be careful, 

 each and all of us, to work more for men 

 who love God and his word, and in that way 

 depend on him to give us the victory as he 

 did in olden times. I fear we are forgetting 

 that one man, with God on his side, is oft- 

 en of more avail than a whole regiment, to 

 win in a moral conflict like this. See the 

 folio wirg from Wilbur F. Crafts: 



"wet" mayors fob "dry" cities. 

 The Superintendent of the Reform Bureau, in 

 the spring of 1910, spoke in 21 "dry" towns, and 20 

 of them had elected "wet" mayors. They had de- 

 creed that wolves should leave the flock and set a 

 pack of wolves to execute the order. This political 

 idiocy is partly due to allowing national politics in 

 city elections, dividing on the tarifif when toughs 

 should be the issue. When Riverside, California, 

 for once returned to its "wallowing in the mire" 

 of license, a David Harum of the town said: " Four 

 ( rs did it; the gamblers, the greasers, the galoots, 

 and some of tfie good.'" These " good for nothings"' 

 were led Into such company by the device of na- 

 tional politics. Moralists may thank ( iod for in- 

 surgency, even though it Is mostly a financial re- 

 volt, because it is breaking party chains. Law en- 

 forcement should be the supreme local issue. — 20th 

 Century Quarterly, Sept. 21, 1910. 



WHAT SHALL IT BE — MORE STATE PRISONS, 

 AND BIGGER ONES, OR FEWER SALOONS? 



From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican 

 we quote the following: 



With three State prisons New York is planning 

 for a fourth, as 4320 convicts occupy 3600 cells, with 

 621 out on parole. The increase in the prison popu- 

 lation is rapid, for it is note 961, greater than it ivas 

 two years ac/o." And this increase in the number 

 of prisoners is felt in other States also. 



If York State were only a sample of the 

 rest of the United States, it would be a ter- 

 ribly sad thing indeed. But I happen to 

 know that less, perhaps, is being done in 

 New York in the way of prohibition and 

 local option than in almost any other State 

 in the Union. Pennsylvania may be an 

 exception. See the wet-and-dry maps that 

 are being exhibited now in our temperance 

 periodicals. Ohio has been talking about a 

 new and larger penitentiary, out in the 

 country. If we succeed in getting State- 

 wide prohibition for the whole State of Ohio 

 (and with (iod's help we are going to do it) 

 we shall find our present penitentiary large 

 enough. I do not mean to say it is good 

 enough; but with the reduced number of 

 convicts, there will be an excellent oppor- 

 tunity for improving sanitary conditions. 

 Once more, shall the United States continue 

 building more and larger penitentiaries, 

 and, to be in keeping with such a course, 

 also continue building new, larger, and 

 finer saloons to keep the jienitentiaries, in- 

 sane-asylums, and infirmaries going fUu 

 blast? 



