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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



iielow is llic letter refoired to, from (!ov- 

 eriior CMpiJcr, ol' Kansas: 



State ov Kansas 

 Arthur Cappkr Govkrn'ok. 



Topoka, June '24, 1915. 



Dear Mins EHet: — I have your letter of June 22 

 and note the statement that Mr. C — attributes to 

 nio. Neither Mr. C — nor any one else ever heard 

 me say that " prohibition is a failure vk'horever 

 tried," or any other statement of a similar nature. 

 But I have said, and am glad to repeat here, that I 

 think one of the greatest blessings ever bestowed up- 

 <jn this state, and the law which is doing more to 

 maki- good men and women, and to bring prosperity 

 .'lud hapj'iness to the people of Kansas, is the 

 auuiidment to the constitution, prohibiting the traliic 

 in intoxicating liquors. 



Kansas has had i)rohibition for about thirty years, 

 and it may lie trutlifully said that the law was never 

 .-o well enforced as now, and never so generally 

 appi'oved by our people. Approval, indeed, is too 

 mild a word with which to e.vpress the attitude of 

 Kansas people toward this provision of the state con- 

 stitution. Most of them are enthusiastically in favor 

 of it. Tt is the portion of the fundamental law of 

 the state that is nearest their hearts. 



I an\ returning the clipping from the Union Sig- 

 nal I am correctly ciuoted in that article. 



I am eiH[jhati<-alIy and entluisiiustically in favor 

 of n;itioi!al prohibition, and am always glad to do 

 au.\ tiling I can to hasten the day when there will 

 not be a saloon in this or any other country. 

 With liest regards, I am 

 Very resi)ectfully, 



Arthur Capper. 



THE " ACIIAN -'■ OF THE LIQUOR-TRAFFIC. 



Rome of the friends thought, no doubt, I 

 was rash in suggesting in Our Homes for 

 June 1 that Grod permitted this great war, 

 with its awful loss of life and i^roperty, 

 because the United States and other nations 

 persisted in chevishing the licjuor-traffic for 

 the revenue, etc., it furnished. With this 

 matter in view it is a little refreshing to 

 find the clipping below, which I take from 

 the ('hieago Farming Business. 



BRKAD OR BOOZE. 



Great Britain uses more grain in the manufacture 

 of alcoholic liquor in one year than she produces in 

 her own territory in the same length of time ; so 

 that, in effect, her people are not working their 

 farms for the purpose of making bread with which 

 to feed themselves and their fellow-citizens. Rather, 

 they are working them for the e.xpress purpose of 

 manufacturing booze with which to destroy the eco- 

 nomic efficiency of themselves and their fellow-citi- 

 zens. The whole country is dependent on its imports 

 for its bread. 



We cannot conceive of any poorer business than 

 this, that a nation should use all the grain which 

 it produces in the manufacture of liquids which sap 

 the vitality and efficiency of its peoi)le without add- 

 ing to any one desirable or useful quality, thus 

 leaving the nation dependent upon the outside world 

 for its bread and cereal foods. Such a practice is a 

 fundamental economic error, and it seems to have 

 taicen this great war to teach Great Britain the folly 

 of such a method. 



The great war of the past nine months has taught 

 the nations of the earth, as no moral wave or relig- 

 ious campaign ever could have taught them, the 

 absolute uselessness of alcoholic beverages. It is 

 not a moral lesson which is being taught so much as 



it is an economic le.sson. And out of this war will 

 come the greatest good which ever yet has been done 

 to the cause of temperance and of personal and na- 

 tional efficiency, for it will have taught very force- 

 fully the individual and national damage which 

 comes from diverting the grains of the world to the 

 manufacture of harmful drinks rather than using 

 them for the manufacture of bread and other foods. 



When I wrote that Home paper I was not 

 aware that Great Britain used practically 

 every bit of grain she raised for making 

 booze; and I was not aware, either, that 

 Great Britain was getting toward the point 

 of starvation. See recent dailies in regard 

 to the way the ^' high cost of living " has 

 gone up in London. It rejoices my heart 

 to see the way in which our agricultural and 

 farming papers are standing up for prohi- 

 bition. It is a terrible punishment we have 

 been receiving, I admit; but I am firmly 

 convinced that out of this great war will 

 come one of the greatest benefits to human- 

 ity. I wish the clipping above might be 

 copied and sent broadcast over all the earth. 

 May God be praised that we have at least 

 one farm paper and one farm editor who 

 has enough breadth of character to look 

 ahead and recognize the le.ssons God has 

 been striving to teach the whole wide world. 



GOD S KINGDOM COMING; MORE EVIDENCES OF 

 IT. 



We clip the two following items from 

 Farmin;) Business^ of Chicago: 



IIOOZE OFF THE BOARDS. 



The -Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of 

 the United States and Canada will not take any 

 booze adverlising the coming year, according to a 

 lironiise by Donald Ross, testifying before Judic 

 Landis in Chicago for the bill posters. 



ARREST HOTEL-KEKPER.S. 



Chicago hotel owners and managers will have to 

 bow to the law soon, according to statements of the 

 anti-saloon leaders. Managers of the Sherman, Fort 

 Dearborn, and La Salle have been arrested for sell- 

 ing liquor on Stinday. 



And here is something from the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer of July 1: 



ALABAMA FI;GINS GRAPK-J UICE DIKT. 



Birmingham, Ala., June ^^0. — After trying prohi- 

 bition four years and then limited saloons four 

 J cars, this state again becomes totally dry on the 

 stroke of midnight to-night. 



Although extra police precautions were taken to 

 prevent any disorder at the wake of the liquor 1 usi 

 ness, the officers had little to do during the early 

 part of the day. 



The law which makes Alabama totally dry was 

 passed aliout six months ago by the legislature, and 

 allowed the liquor men until to-night to get their 

 affairs in shape and go out of business. 



-Along with this law nieasures also were passed 

 prohibiting the advertising of liciuor within the state 

 and making it unlawful for express or railroad com 

 panics to accept shipments to firms or individuals 

 in excess of two quarts every thirty days. 



These bills were designed to prevent the stale 

 lieing flooded with literature and wet goods by mail- 

 order houses out-side the jurisdiction of .Vlabaraa 

 courts. Both measures have been upheld by the 

 courts. 



