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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



news. The national income from the sale of dis- 

 tilled and fermented liquors fell off very materially 

 during the past year. The loss of revenue to the 

 government may seem an unfortunate thing to some 

 people. But the thing which it indicates will be 

 good news of far more import to others. 



ITie ordinary revenue collections on distilled 

 spirits fell off practically seventeen million dollars 

 during the twelve months. During the same time 

 the collections of revenues on fermented liquors was 

 ajjproximately six million five hundred thousand dol- 

 lars less than the year before. This means that the 

 national consumption of distilled spirits for the 

 year was fifteen million gallons less than for the 

 year before — a decrease of one-eighth. This means 

 that as a nation we consumed only seven -eigiiths as 

 much spirituous liquors last year as we did the year 

 before. 



Would it not be a good thing if we were to keep 

 up that decrease? If we did, at the end of another 

 seven years we would quit consuming spirituous 

 liquors, the greatest destroyer of wealth and per- 

 sonal efti.ciency — and even of human life — which 

 operates in the world. Some people claim that 

 General Sherman did not say that war was hell ; 

 but somebody started the statement, and it is a very 

 true one, as we are learning this year. But all the 

 wars fought in the entire world during the past 

 century have not killed as many human lives or de- 

 stroyed as much property and wealth as has the use 

 of spirituous liquors during the same length of time. 

 Let us keep on marking off that same internal rev- 

 enue deficit each year, adding to the national and 

 personal wealth to a far greater degree. 



We also clip the following from Farming 

 Business: 



THE RESULTS OP PROHIBITION. 



Prohibition gets results; it actually does prohibit. 

 The best sort of proof a skeptical man could ask for 

 was furnished the other day in the office of the 

 board of tax equalization of Indianapolis. The 

 representatives of the Capital City Brewing Com- 

 pany of that city went before the board and asked 

 that their assessment be materially reduced. In 

 support of their request they claimed that the spread 

 of prohibition during the past few years has greatly 

 reduced the value of brewing stock. The receiver 

 for the company said that he received letters every 

 daj" from breweries begging him to buy their stock 

 and equipment at 10 cents on the dollar of their 

 normal cost or value. 



SOMETHING FURTHER PROM GOVERNOR CAP- 

 PER, OP KANSAS. 



We cliiD the following from the New 

 Republic : 



The state convention of the W. C. T. U. which 

 was held here this year gave Governor Capper the 

 opportunity to say a few good things about prohibi- 

 tion in Kansas that will be heard for miles around 

 outside the boundaries of Kansas. 



The Governor has heard from various sources 

 that the liquor interests are busy telling the people 

 who will listen to them that conditions in Kansas 

 under the di-y regime are not what they ought to be. 

 That the people are unhappy, taxes are higher, and 

 that the wheat does not grow so fast since the sa- 

 loons were thrown out of the state. 



Governor Cappci said : 



" Kansas, under the enforcement of her prohibi- 

 tory law, has made such marvelous advancement in 

 every avenue of progress and well-being that the 

 powerfully entrenched liquor interests, alarmed lest 

 all the states, or the nation, follow its example, have 

 made Kansas the target of their various publicity 

 bureaus. They have covered the entire United 

 States with pamphlets and reports in which statis- 



tics are adroitly massed, manufactured, and distort- 

 ed lo prove that Kansas actually is damaged by 

 prohibition, and that there can be no real prosper- 

 ity, no actual progress without the saloon. One 

 side of their argument is as convincing as the other; 

 but the plausible and apparently conclusive and 

 autlioritative array of their alleged statistics puzzles 

 many persons who realize at the same time that 

 tlicy cannot be true or entirely true. 



K.'VTION'.AIj pkohibition co.ming. 

 " National prohibition is certain to win. Its coui- 

 pleto victory may not come as early as many of us 

 are hoping it will come. But no matter about that. 

 You should keep on fighting. The enemy is sti'ong 

 and resourceful. In a meeting of the National Anti- 

 saloon League two years ago $30,000, seemingly a 

 generous sum, was subscribed in 30 minutes to fight 

 tlie liquor power. But the liquor power raised four 

 mhlion dollars with which to fight prohibition. This 

 should not discourage us. Neither four million 

 dollars nor four liundred million dollars can stop 

 the onward march of prohibition in tiliis country." 



THE METHODIST CHURCH AND THE SALOON 

 TRAPPIC. 



The following, also, came to me without 

 any indication as to what paper it was 

 taken from: 



Federal action is the only way to curb the liquor 

 traffic, declared Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Kansas 

 man, general secretary' of the Temperance Society of 

 the Methodist Church, at the temperance meeting of 

 tile conference sessions Saturday night. 



" We must have federal prohibition imbedded in 

 the constitution," he said. " Because the alcohol 

 traffic is defended by inter-state commerce and op- 

 erates under federal protection. Tlie national pow- 

 er that stopped dueling, polygamy, pir.icy on the 

 high seas, cannibalism on distant islands, unlocked 

 the sealed gates of Jajjan, uprooted human slavery, 

 drove the lotteries from Louisiana, and their adver- 

 tisements from the mails, must now be invoked to 

 defend the American home. 



Dr. Wilson scored the Home Rule movement, de- 

 claring the people of the county and state had a 

 right to determine moral conditions in the cities, and 

 that " the pure stream of country morals and town- 

 ship sentiment was needed to flush out the cesspools 

 of the cities." 



The speaker had no patience with the suggestion 

 that the liquor men be comper^sated for lost proper- 

 ty rights. 



" No man has a natural, inherent or constitution- 

 al right to debauch the American people," he said. 

 He added that there was not money enough invested 

 in the liquor business to pay a millionth part of 

 the bill it owes civilization. 



" It is time to serve notice," he concluded, " that 

 no man can be mayor of our city, sheriff of our 

 county, attorney for our district, represent our ward 

 in council, go for us to the state legislature, speak 

 for us in congress, answer for our state in the 

 s.maie, or get a Christian man's vote for president, 

 if he stands committed to the liquor interests." 



Please notice the concluding sentence. If 

 vv-e continue to put men into office, or let 

 liiem get into office, who are in sympathy 

 with the liquor traffic, how are we going to 

 have law-enforcement ? 



don't LE ENTRAPPED. 



Perhaps there is one point the great wide 

 world does not sufficiently recognize. It 

 is this: AVhile the liquor partj^ are ready at 



