SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 



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the crook and tlie crooked policeninn is in a saloon ; 

 that the professional bonilsinan and character wit- 

 nesses for thieves and holdup men are saloonkeepers 

 or bartenders. 



Boo7e has caused 200,000 divorces in the United 

 States in the last twenty years, and adds 25,000 

 more to this number every year. It divides more 

 homes, fills more jails, and empties more churches 

 than all other inlluences combined. 



■Judges, legislators, mayors, governors, and even 

 presidents sit dumb or quail in the presence of this 

 moiiiter which enters millions of homes and leaves 

 them desolate. 



1 have witnessed daily its ravages after it has 

 spent its wild fury upon the helpless bodies of 

 women and children, or after it has reaped for a 

 night, in the public dance, its harvest of virtue, 

 now dead forever. I have observed that the last 

 man to be employed and the first to be discharged 

 is the victim of boo/,e. 



)?ooze never built a park, a playground, a school, 

 or a church, but is th^" enemy of them all. 



AVar may be hell; but where it slays its thousands 

 booze destroys its tens of thousands. — Chicago Her- 

 ald. 



The way in Avhioh the various raih'oacl 

 companies are coming' out for prohibition 

 is certainlj^ a cause for thanking- God. Be- 

 low is something that, if I understand it, 

 applies to all the railroads in the United 

 States, or pretty nearly all of them. Read 

 it, and thank the Lord for it when you get 

 through. 



I have before made allusion to the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad Co. The following, which 

 T have clipped from the circular the Penn- 

 sylvania road is sending out, ought to be 

 given to temperance workers for their en- 

 couragement : 



A.S TRAINMKN .SEE ALCOHOL. 



(From the Ra'Iroad Trainman, official organ of the 

 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.) 



Railroad men throushout the United States have 

 received a document dedicated to " the well-being of 

 the general public." It is from the pen of a "safety 

 first " advocate. It is a New Year's pledge, circu- 

 lated by the Frisco system. Summarized it is as 

 follows: 



''Alcohol: It is bad company iind unsafe to be 

 with. It throws switches wrong ; it reads orders 

 wrong; sends orders wrong. It receives orders 

 vvTong; it calls red white; it never calls white red. 

 It makes caution orders without effect; it makes 

 slow flags without color. 



" It makes one meeting-point another. It makes 

 wakeful men sleep}'. 



"It makes duties dangerous, hot boxes cold, rough 

 journals smooth. It makes pilots and footboards 

 deathtraps. It makes good men bad men; it make.s 

 two limbs one, and it makes widows and orphans. 

 It is against safety. Unsafety is its name. 



" Statistics show that it has killed more people 

 than all the wars of the world since the dawn of 

 history. 



" It has been said and proven that it sank the 

 Titanic." 



THK PENNJVLVAXIA RAILROAP .SYSTEM; INFORMA- 

 TION FOR EMPLOYES ANr» THE PUBLIC. 



The Potinsylvan'a Railroad System carried ap- 

 pro.vimatel\- 160,000,000 passengers in the year end- 

 ing .lune 30th, and not one was killed in a train 

 aiijdent. 



The feat of carrying about half a million passen- 

 gers (on 26,19S miles of track) every day without 

 a single serious mishap cannot bo attributed to mere 



good fortune. — Philadelphia, Pa., Press, July 13, 

 1J15. 



WHERK " SAFIOTY FIRST " REALLY STARTED. 



Many people and railroads claim to have started 

 the " Safety First " movement. To prove its right 

 to this distinction the Cumberland Valley Railroad — 

 a p.'irt of the Pennsylvania System — quotes from 

 the Minutes of a -.uceting of the Board of Directors 

 held in 1838, which said: 



" The following preamble and resolution were 

 olTered by Messrs. Berlin and Watts, and agreed to, 

 viz. : 



" 'This Board deem it a consideration of the first 

 importance that every possible precaution should be 

 taken for the protection of the lives and safety of 

 individuals tviivoling upon our road, and that, as a 

 primary step to the attainment of his object, habits 

 of intemperance should be discouraged in all persons 

 who have any connection with conducting business 

 of any kind upon the road. Therefore, 



" 'Resolved, Tliiit no person shall be employed or 

 continued in the service of the Board whose habits 

 ot intemperance, either permanent or occasional, are 

 such as to hazard the safety of passengers upon the 

 road or property carried upon it — and that the 

 Board hereby charge the Chief Engineer and his 

 assistants with the special duty of enforcing atten- 

 tion to this resolution.' " 



From the above you will notice the man- 

 agement of this road has firmly shut dow:i 

 on all employees who even occasionally get 

 drunk. Let us patronize the Pennsylvania 

 whenever it is po-ssible to do so. 



Our daily papers are also coming along 

 slowly into line with God's wishes and God'.s 

 commands. ¥7e can rejoice also, and thank 

 God, for what the leading pliysicians and 

 boards of health are doing. Read the fol- 

 lowing: 



Since January 1, 1915, twenty-four daily news- 

 papers, according to the records of the Temperance 

 Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, have 

 barred from their columns liquor advertisements. 

 This is in addition to the 520 newspapers previous- 

 ly reported to have eliminated liquor advertising. 



SALOONS PROMOTERS OF DISEASE 



Indiana's Board of Health will fight the evils of 

 alcohol. The legislatui'e of 1889 passed a law mak- 

 ing it unlawful " to ir.aintain any conditions what- 

 ever which may transmit, generate, or promote dis- 

 ease," and gave the Board of Health full power to 

 enforce that law. 



The board is now considering closing the saloons 

 in Indiana as "promoters of disease." That means 

 progress, whether the attempt to close the saloons 

 succeeds or not at this time. It will finally succeed, 

 and each battle puts us further on the road to 

 victory. — New Republic. 



The suggestion in the above, that the 

 saloons in Indiana are " promotors of dis- 

 ease," is almost a joke. Now, here i.s a 

 clipping below that I hope may, througli 

 God's providence, get into the hands of the 

 English people. Is it really possible that 

 England thinks more of her beer than she 

 does of the perpetuity of the English na- 

 tion? Let her answer. 



Knsland stands before the civilized world in the 

 l>-)sition of having her affairs ruled by an interest so 

 scllish th;it il prefers German success rather than 

 lo-p the profits on beer and whisky. 



The number of drinkingplaces n France is so 

 great as to astonish Americans. Paris has a drink- 



