OCTOBER 15. 1915 



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any minute to resort to any kind of trick- 

 ery or falsehood in order tliat they may 

 prevent their tratlic from being put down 

 and out, the temperance people, represent- 

 inii' our churches and schools, and the high- 

 est type of truthfulness and honesty in our 

 land, are obviously obliged to be above- 

 board. We are striving to benefit huvianity, 

 while our opponents care for nothing but 

 their own selfish money interests; therefore 

 it behooves us to be wise as serpents while 

 considering the things before us as people 

 of Ohio. I was reminded of this by read- 

 ing the following, which I clip fi-om Suc- 

 cessful Fiirmintj for October: 



OHIO VOTERS, LOOK OUT! 



Beware liow you vote on constitutional amend- 

 ments. Kead them carefully and learn what they 

 mean. For instance, the Constitutional Stability 

 Tjeague (smooth name!) proposes that the people 

 vote in Nos'ember on this amendment: 



" No amendment of the constdtution shall be sub- 

 mitted to the electors which involves any proposal 

 or part of any i>>''>posal which since September 4th, 

 1912, shall have been rejected more than once by 

 the electors, unless six years shall have elapsed since 

 tlie last rejection." 



Do you see the '"joker" in that? It is "or part 

 of any proposal.'' Suppose woman suffrage, prohi- 

 bition, tax reform, or any other good thing has been 

 twice rejected by the voters. Suppose the enemies 

 of these good things twice propose an amendment 

 which in pari a])parently considers one of these 

 good reforms, but so worded that the voters purpose 

 ly defeat it, don't you see that the amendment de- 

 sired in its good form cannot be submitted again 

 for si.x years because it contains " a part of " a 

 " proposal " that was twice rejected. 



This is a trick of the interests that do not want 

 prohibition or woman suffrage in Ohio. You ought 

 to know what lio do to any proposed amendment like 

 that of the Constitutional Stability League. 



" THE INTERCOLLEGIATE STATESMAN." 



The above is the title of a magazine now 

 in its twelfth year. -It is published by the 

 Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, 

 Room 303, 189 West Madison Ave., Chica- 

 go. Its object is to wake up the students 

 of our colleges to the importance of voting 

 out the liquor-traffic. One might readily 

 suppose that college students would be in 

 advance in making our states and nation 

 dry, but instead of that 1 greatly fear it is 

 true that they are lagging behind in the 

 way of temperance. A few years ago there 

 was considerable said in the papers about 

 banquets held by students of the gn'eat east- 

 ern colleges — I am not sure whether it was 

 Yale, Harvard, or Princeton. We read in the 

 papers of their banquet and of the quanti- 

 ties of beer they drank; but I had supposed 

 these things were matters of the past. Dur- 

 ing a very pleasant talk with Mr. Mark R. 

 Shaw, secretary of the association mention- 

 ed above, he informed me that such things 

 are still going on; and not only students 

 but some well-known professors are defend- 



ing not only the banquets but the beer. If 

 this is true, may Glod have )nercy on us as 

 a people. Mr. Shaw, as an illustration, 

 asked me how I could explain the fact that 

 so many lawyers and doctors are drinking 

 men. He said Ihey acquired their drinking 

 liabits in the college where they graduated. 

 Just thing of it, friends — fathers and moth- 

 ers depriving themselves almost of the ne- 

 cessities of life in order to have their boys 

 go to some celebrated college to graduate, 

 and find out afterward that such college 

 taught more iniquity than it did righteous- 

 ness. 



Since the above was in type we find the 

 following in the Plain Dealer: 



'• COIiLKGIAXS, VOTE DRY." TROHIBITION LEAGUE 

 OFFICER ADDRESSES OBKRLIN STUDENTS. 



Oberlin, O., Oct. 6. — "You Ohio college students 

 are going to help us win the statje dry this fall," 

 was the enthusiastic statement of David T. Shaw, 

 state secretary of the National Prohibition League, 

 in his address to the students of Oberlin this morn- 

 ing. 



He added if Ohio could be aroused to the pitch 

 of enthusiasm attained before some of the big foot- 

 ball games of the year a victory for the dry forces 

 would be assured. 



ALCOHOL FOR AMMUNITION^ TO RUN AUTO- 

 MOBILES, ETC. 



Even if our good friends of the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer did not show much enthusiasm 

 in announcing that South Carolina had 

 voted dry (more than two to one), it re- 

 joices our heart to find the following at the 

 close of one of their editorials : 



Perhaps after all the states have gone dry, and 

 alcohol is no longer iised to befuddle tihe intellect, 

 we shall find that it makes fine ammunition to rtpel 

 invaders. Or if war shall be abolished simultaneous- 

 ly with drunkenness, the arts of civilization may still 

 be served by this hitherto destructive substance, and 

 we shall know it only as a power to run machines. 

 Alcohols evil reputation may after all be like the 

 badness of small boys — merely a case of energy 

 wrongly directed. 



DRUGSTORES AND WHISKY, ETC.; LONG LIVE 

 DR. WILEY. 



Vfe clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



WILEY REFISED DRUGSTORE LIQUOR RULE; TRIES TO 



GET ORDER TO PROHIBIT DEALERS SELLING 



WHISICY WITHOUT LICENSE. 



Washington, Oct. fi. — Efforts made by Dr. Har- 

 vey W. Wiley to get a ruling from federal officials 

 that neither whisky nor brandy may be sold in drug- 

 stores after the new United States pharmacopeia 

 goes into effect, today proved unsuccessful. 



While tl.e pharmacopeia is recognized as the 

 olficial list of drugs for the United States, Commis- 

 .sionrr of Internal Revenue W. H. Osborn holds that 

 tlic ilropping of whisky and brandy from the list of 

 iMedicines does not ali'ect the situation with refer- 

 I iTo to the sales of those intoxicants in drugstores. 



At lea.st, the federal government has no interest 

 in that question. 



After Dr. Wiley, who is president of the United 

 States Pharmacopeial Convention, read the ruling 

 of the commissioner, he said: 



