GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



passenger-carrying vessels of the great 

 ocean have been overhauled and looked into 

 better than ever before. J have not learned 

 yet, however', that England has made any 

 such law or rule as Secretary Daniels has 

 at Die head of our navy. 



And now we come down to the Eastland. 

 1 said as before, as soon as I got the par- 

 ticulars, that it was Chicago beer, and the 

 Chicago fashion of having it on board our 

 excursion steamers that was at the bottom 

 of fhis terrible disaster; and, as with the 

 Titanic, it seems our daily papeis generally 

 have been induced to. keep the full truth out 

 of sight. Our Anti-saloon League organi- 

 zation, however, is not afraid to let the 

 people have the truth. See the clipping be- 

 low, from the New liepul lie, published at 

 Westerville, Ohio : 



EASTLAND DISASTER RKVKALS SCANDAL. 



That promiscuoiks drinking, gambling, suggestive 

 dancing, and general immorality was permitted on 

 board the ill-fated Eastland and other excursion 

 boats running out of Chicago, is the conclusion of 

 the investigators for the Juvenile Protective Associa- 

 tion, within the last few weeks. 



The report further reads: 



IMMORALITY. 



Conditions bad; young couples embracing public- 

 ly; liberties taken; staterooms used frequently un- 

 der suspicious circunistances ; men and women of 

 doubtful character mingle with girls for purposes 

 which are not considered good. 



Two of the engineer's force were drunk, and one 

 passenger passed two bottles of beer to the engine- 

 rooin. The watch was right there and saw this, but 

 did not interfere. 



Four cases of drinking were noticed on the upper 

 deck, two of the parties being minors (motorcy- 

 clists). Two other young fellows wei-e intoxicated 

 also. 



The girls who did not appear to be 18 drank beer, 

 lieer w^s sold in two places. There was a regular 

 bar in the front of the hold. There was another bar 

 in the rear of the hold. Beer was sold on the floor 

 below the dance-lloor. 



Here is something more from the Plain 

 Dealer : 



BLAMES BEER FOE trPSET. 



It wasn't the crowded condition of the Eastland 

 that caused it to topple, and it wasn't faulty con- 

 struction of the boat, according to one survivor of 

 tlie disaster who lias communicated with investiga- 

 tors. It was the falling of a three-ton refrigerator 

 filled with beer, he argues. 



" When the refrigerator upset, the boat began to 

 list," he said to. day. 



You will recall the management of the 

 boat was severely censured, or is to be cen- 

 sured, for having the ajjartments that con- 

 tain the water ballast empty — especially at 

 a time when it was so very much needed. 



From the above we see that two of the 

 engineers were drunk when the women and 

 children were overloading that great vessel. 

 Yery likely it was Die business of these two 

 to see that the ballast was safe and correct 

 t'ji- such a time, and properly cared for. 



There has been quite a little argument. 



pio and con, as to whether our labor unions 

 should vote wet or dry. May (^lod be prais- 

 ed there is at least one journal — the journal 

 that I'epresents the blacksinillis, tliat is not 

 afraid to speak out. 



A LABOR .JOUK.N'AL HITS TltS SALOON. 



Our law-makers have legalized the whisky busi- 

 ness (and one of the most inhuman combinations 

 known to man is the Whisky Trust), and made our 

 national government a partner in the business. It 

 seems strange that, after tracing so much poverty 

 and crime direct to the saloon, the American people 

 dr) not rise en mas-.-.e and obliterate it from the face 

 of the earth. No one who keeps pace with the times 

 can deny tliat the saloon is respon.sible, either di- 

 rectly or indirectly, for nine-tenths of this poverty 

 and crimi'. No one can deny that it is whisky that 

 has made the coward a demon who took the life cf 

 his fellow-man. No one can deny that in nearly 

 every walk of life its baneful influence can be 

 traced from the United States to the almshouse and 

 the penitentiary. No well-advised trades unionist 

 can deny that a greater part of the internal quarrels 

 and bickerings among trades unic.nists have been 

 concocted in the back rooms of saloons. The great- 

 est curse to the labor movement has been the sa- 

 loon, and it is high time that the labor leaders get 

 together and forever divorce the trades union move- 

 ment and the saloon influence. — Editorial in Black- 

 mitiei' Journal for December. 



" GOD GIVW US IMORE SUCH JUDGES." 



Just of late good people have lamented 

 (he fact (hat we have even judges who are 

 on the side of the wets; but, may God be 

 praised, the judges, (at least some of them) 

 are " coming our way." The following was 

 sent us by Miss Minnie -J. Ellet. She puts 

 on the heading. 



JOHN B.VRLEYCORN, A DESTROYER OF 



HOMES, HAS CAUSED 200,000 DIVORCES 



IN THE UNITED STATES IN TWO 



DECADES. 



Bp Wil.liaw. N. Gemmill, Judge of the Mnnicipnl 



Cuui't of Chicago. 



Booze is the mother of crime. It gives life and 

 sustenance to slums, gambling-dens, and "'pay-off 

 .ioints." It nerves to his deed the homicide, the 

 stick-up man, the burglar, the thief, and the 

 tliug. It fires the brain of the prostitute and the 

 jKiuderer. It feeds and inflames the passions of the 

 weak-minded and the degenerate. 



I have tried an army of 50,000 human derelicts, 

 most of whom were booze-soaked. With faces red 

 and bloated, with eyes dull and languid, with bodies 

 weak and wasted, with clothing foul and ragged, 

 this vast army is forever marching with unsteady 

 step to the graves of the di-unkard ancl the pauper 

 or to tlie prison and workhouse. 



I have looked into the tear-stained faces of a 

 still larger army of fathers and mothers, brothers 

 ana sisters, wives and husbands, as they have plead- 

 ed for the miserable wrecks that booze has made. 

 I have seen with this army ten thousand pale-faced, 

 hollow-cheeked, ragged, hungry, and starving chil- 

 (lieii, cursed by booze. 



A IJKtOEDER OF CRIMINALS. 



1 have observed that every bandit crew that goes 

 forili to murder starts from a saloon ; that every 

 panderer has his rendezvous in a grogshop; that 

 every den of thieves makes its victims drunk before 

 it robs them; that every house of prostitution has 

 its bar or is in partnership with booze; that every 

 gambling-den either is in a saloon or sustains a close 

 relationship witli one; that the pickpocket "trust" 

 i, tionsed in :i saloon; that tlie "pay-off joint" for 



