SEPTEMBER 1. 1915 



735 



But you w'U 1 o tiild all aliout it — or as much as 

 yo>i can prol ul.l.\ loiniirelieiul at one reading — in 

 iinolhcr article wliich appears on page 9 of tliis 

 issue. It is real interesting work — weighing 2,128,- 

 4 32,226 gallons of booze. Whether you are a tiplcr 

 or a teetotaler you will surely read it with amaze- 

 ment and profit. It makes your ta.\ problems look 

 like thirty ccnt.sl Think of it — a hundred and ten 

 thousand drunkards die every year. And we put up 

 a hundred and ten thousand 1 oys every year to fill 

 their places. Would you rather sell two per cent of 

 your grain — that amount goes into the making of 

 booze — or push one hundred and ten thousand boys 

 over the cliff into a drunkard's grave? 



Read " Bamboo/.led by Booze " and learn how you 

 cannot only save those boys but sell your two per 

 cent of gi'ain too. This is business^ — not wishy- 

 washy sentiment. 



Jnst think of it, friends — and it is really 

 true — Ave as a nation are actually " pushing 

 110.000 boys everj'^ year over tlic pit into 

 drunkards' graves," with the absurd and 

 ridiculous notion in our mind that the 

 money we get for so doing helps us to pay 

 taxt'S or makes our taxes lighter, " What 

 shall it profit a man if he gain the whole 

 world and lose his own soul?" 



Later. — Since the above wa.s put in type 

 we have received the following letter: 



Dear Mr. Root : — ^ly father told me that you 

 were pleased with my article on " Don't be Bam- 

 boozled by Booze," which appeared in Succeftsiid 

 Fanning There were so many calls for this that 

 we reproduced it in pamphlet form, one of which I 

 a;n enclosing. I shall be glad to have you use this 

 in any way that will help you in your state fight. 

 Successful Farming, 



Alson Secor, Editor. 



Des Moines, Iowa, A.ugust 18. 



The eiitire article equals about three 

 pages of Gle.axing-S, and may be had of 

 the Successful Farming Publishing Co., Des 

 .Moines, la., at 35 cents per 100. 



WHISKY AS A MEDICINE. 



May the Lord be praised that the day is so 

 rapidlj' going by when whisky is considered 

 a remedy for snake-bites, or any other kind 

 of "bite," for tliat matter. Our most in- 

 telligent physicians have been for some time 

 past coming to tlie conclusion that whisky, 

 brandy, and all other intoxicants are not 

 only of no real value as a remedy, but they 

 say " the remedy is worse than the disease." 

 We clip the following from The New Ee- 

 public : 



DB. willy's final VICTORV. 



At the present time, the publication committee is 

 i-ngaged in the regular decennial revision of the 

 PharmacopcBia. and Dr. Harvey W. Wiloy is the 

 chairman of the revision committee. On the com- 

 aiittce are 51 representatives of the medical societies 

 and medical college-s of the United States. The sur- 

 ceon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of 

 the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Marine 

 Hospital Service, are ex-ofHcio members of the con- 

 vention, but not neces-sarily members of the publish- 

 •n"? committee having the work of revision directly 

 in charge. 



When this committee came down to " ppiritus 

 frumentii," the technical name for whisky, there 



was a great row. The admirers of President Taft 

 nnd followers of the recti fied-whisky crowd were 

 determined to revise the historic formula of the 

 I'liarmacopoeia so as to conform to the decision of 

 Pre'-.ident Taft, and recognize almost any old thing 

 as whisky that would bring the drunk and bring it 

 quick. 



Against this idea, Dr. Wiley and his supporters 

 stood like a wall for the standard whisky that had 

 been the standard for nearly a century. 



The contention ^laxed fa.st and furious among the 

 dignitaries until finally they reached the conclusion 

 that whisk}- is not a much used medicine anyhow, 

 and they might as well dump it out of the Pharnia- 

 copnria entirely. They finally agreed upon this, and 

 both whisky and brandy will not appear in the forth- 

 coming National Pharraacopceia. 



" We don't use whisky as a medicine anyhow, and 

 there is no more use of fixing a standard for whis- 

 ky than there is fixing a standard for garbage," 

 declared one of the wise men. 



SHALL WE KEEP ON VOTING IN " THE SAME 

 OLD way" ? 



The following clipping, source unknown, 

 was mailed us by a friend of Gleanings. 

 What do you think about it? 



Stephen Lukovitch, of New York, went home 

 drunk and cut his thn e-year-old son Louis seventy 

 times, making him the worst-mutilated lad in the 

 world. The child will recover, but will be disfigured 

 for life. You shudder at the thought ; but did it 

 ever occur to you that you vote to make possible 

 just such outra,2;es as this when you vote to permit 

 intoxicating liquors to be sold where you live? Fe- 

 lonious assault, inujder, and practically every other 

 crime, can be traced to the door of intoxicating li- 

 quor, and this will be true as long as the stuff is 

 permitted to be sold. 



1{AI = 1NG THE BANXKR OF TEMPF.RANCE, AND HOW 

 THEY DID IT. 



We have fought the wicked booze business to the 

 last ditch, and have wen — not by a very great mar- 

 gin, but by enough to serve all practicable purposes. 

 We now pride ourselves as being among the first 

 states to raise the banner of temperance, not merely 

 because it is an achievement to do the right thing, 

 biit because it is an achievement to do the right thing 

 when faced by huge unfair obstacles such as con- 

 fronted us. 



The liquor league this year realized that they were 

 losing power, and must regain a footing by any 

 means whatsoever were they to hold their own in 

 the coming election; so they were forced to resort to 

 deception, for Fairness turned her back on them. 

 They posted unfair comparisons of every description 

 between " dry " and " wet " states, some of which 

 were so disgustingly simple as to make one wonder 

 bow people of intelligence could be swayed by such 

 argrument. The bartenders circulated false state- 

 ments regarding the articles of the prohibition or 

 initiative measure, thus robbing us of many votes, 

 and, above all, the anti-prohibitionists went about 

 destroying our literature and posters. 



Notwithstanding all of this, we defeated them. A 

 number of high-school boys volunteered to carry pro- 

 hibition signs in front of the polling-places, and 

 others distributed " dry " literature, so that an ex- 

 cellent showing was made. This city of Pasco, long 

 notorious for her vulgarity, and known far and near 

 as the home of the vices, rallied its best citizens and 

 voted " dry •' by a good majority. This was a sur- 

 prise to thousands, and was brought about only by 

 church organizations and the determined efforts put 

 forth by a number of our prominent men, notably 

 Prof. E. M. L>orsey, principal of the high school. 



