GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the Park Continent during the past few months has 

 "been nnpreteclented. The Charles Whittemore sailed 

 June 12, and the schooner Orleans April 22. The 

 three vessels will land nearly 700,000 gallons of the 

 fluid at ports along the west coast of Africa." This 

 is the trade that the Rev. Charles Satchell Morris 

 has said " has turned the entire west coast of Afri- 

 ca into one long bar-room." 



Years ago the United States saw fit to 

 pass a law keeping intoxicants entirely 

 away from the Indians. "".Vhy it is that a 

 similar law has not been enacted in regard 

 to the colored people, and especially the 

 inhabitants of Africa, is a puzzle. Right 

 in connection with this, from the Sunday 

 School Timca we make a clipping that also 

 touches on alcohol as a medicine. R^ad it 

 and ponder over it. 



DRIXK AVD SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. 



Dr. Fisch, for twenty-five years a medical mis- 

 sionary in the Gold Coast of East Africa, writin? for 

 one of the European journals, points out that the 

 slave trade as formerly carried on cost the lives of 

 hundreds of thousands, broke up families, and de- 

 prived them of liberty; but the injury that the 

 drink traffic has done to the negroes is worse. This 

 Gold Coast country has a favorable climate, and 

 is wonderfully rich in vegetable and mineral prod- 

 ucts of many sorts; but as di-inking has increased, 

 the living conditions and vigor of the people have 

 constantly declined. Negroes who are not drinkers 

 easily reco^•er from pneumonia ; but the drinkers die 

 of heart failure in spite of all that can be done. 

 Tuberculosis, once a rare disease, now runs a rap 

 idly fatal course. Degeneracy in the offspring df 

 drinkers is shown not only by their lowered resi.st- 

 a nee to tuberculosis but by frequent loss by mothers 

 of power to nourish their children, by carious teeth, 

 by a special form of infantile paralysis, and by a 

 considerable increase in idiocy and epilepsy, all of 

 which were formerly rare or entirely unknown. The 

 character of the people also is changing for the 

 worse. Crime and immorality and disease are in- 

 creasing, and the possibilities of spiritual uplift 

 are being endangered. On the other hand, although 

 the living conditions are much harder in the adja- 

 cent territory of the Togo, but where the liquor 

 traffic is prohibited, the people are vigorous, muscn- 

 lav. amiable, and apparently free from degeneracy 

 •' The alcohol trade poisons the race to its roots ar.il 

 menaces its future." 



UTAH ox THK WATER-WAGOV. 



My father drank to all that drink calls for; but 

 I had a Christian mother who stayed with us boys 

 until the last, and not one of us drink or use it in 

 any form. I am the olde.st, 41, and am blessed with 

 a good wife and five nice boys and one girl. We all 

 enjoy good health, and are ready with our good 

 clear minds and strength to fight the liquor and 

 tobacco habits in any form to the last ditch. Since 

 looking bark on my boyhood days I often think of 

 the liquor traffic as it was years ago, along >he 

 Ohio River and its small streams. Then therr ^-ore 

 but very few persons who would dare raise a voice 

 against its use. But to-day I am blessed to see the 

 time when very few will dare raise a voice for it. 

 My mother's last prayer and talk to me about it was. 

 " My son, I may never see the day. but I pray that 

 you will, when a inau will be iishamed to uphold its 

 cause;" and, thank the good Lord, it w coming to 

 pass. 



We all call you here in our humble home "Daddy 

 Root;" but I do not really think you can compre- 

 hend the temperance cause and its effect as well as 

 a man who has seen some of tiie liquor men's wcr.st 



evili. I am hoping and praying that you and all 

 gO"d men and women will live to see the liquor and 

 tobacco evil put out of the way to stay, and then 

 may we be able to do better for those who are dear- 

 est to us. 



Now, Mr. Root, I must tell you that, in the last 

 twelve years, I have not heard twelve good old-fash- 

 ioned sermons here in this part of the world. I 

 almost envy you and a great many people who en- 

 joy such blessings. When we get Gli-anings we 

 first turn to the Home department and read your 

 writings first, and then read it from cover to cover. 

 Nothing is left out. 



Remember the mothers in this state can vote on 

 these and every other cause that comes to a vote. 

 Now, if we all will put our shoulder to the wheel 

 and give one good lift, even if we do not lift the 

 load, let us keep on until we do lift it. Tliat is my 

 moito, and I fully believe it is the motto of millions 

 of good people; and so with all of our prayers and 

 votes directed right we can do something for the 

 cause of goodness. 



Taft. Utah, Aug. 5. W. J. Justice. 



SHALL THE LIQUOR BUSINESS PREVAIL 



AGAINST THE UNITED EFFORTS OF OUR 



SCHOOLS ANT) CHURCHES? 



We clip the following from the Chicago 

 Advayice : 



The saloon forces can never stand against a unit- 

 ed attack of the army of .Jesus Christ. When we 

 cease to call on God we shall cease to advance. 

 ■Wlien the United States becomes a saloonless nation 

 we shall have become the best-prepared nation on 

 the face of the earth for war or peace. The muiti- 

 i)li<ation of war munitions and equipment, and the 

 incresse of army and navy, will be likely to foment 

 trouble and induce war. 



Real preparedness is mental and moral rather 

 than material. \ saloonless nation is an invincible 

 nation. 



WHISKY ANt> WAR. 



Farming Business hits both of these twin 

 evils a tremendous clip at one blow as fol- 

 lows : 



BOOZE IS NOT medicine. 



Boo/.o is on its last legs, and they are !-haky. The 

 druggists have cleared their skirts of its dirty 

 touch by refusing to include it in the list of drugs 

 and medicines. Reliable druggists have not cared 

 to handle whisky for some time, but tboueht they 

 weic compelled to as long as it was liited in the 

 •American drug list. In levising it the last time, 

 however, the committee decided that the ancient fake 

 of calling whisky " medicine " was no longer worth 

 their support. Hence, they put the ban on whisky. 

 The leading medical and scientific men of the world 

 for some time had clpfsed it as poison, and only a 

 stimulant at its best. It was merely a stiff-necked 

 form of hypocrisy to carry it in tbe drugstores as 

 .•nedicine ai.., more Now the boc:c supporters are 

 without their main argument that whisKy is some- 

 thing that doctors need in their work of saving hu- 

 man life. 



As a stimulant and a poison, booze is still a 

 winner. .Tanc Addams, after her return from Eu- 

 rope recently, where she visited all the monarchs of 

 tlip warring nations, declared that officer after officer 

 had told her that before a bayonet charge men w^re 

 giver big drinks of akohol in the form of the va- 

 rious national ■•oncocticms in order to " fire them 

 for the killing." Even in war, wh_pre men are ex- 

 pected to kill each other if they happen to be wear- 

 ing different uniforms, they have to be poisoned to 

 kill each other at close range. A bayonet charge 



