NOVEMBER 1, 1915 



Oliio »-Miiiiot afford not to lose this revenue. This 

 license revenue equals $1.20 for each m.nu, woinnn, 

 iiiid ohild in the blate. The drink bill for a year 

 ei'uals $22.00 for each man, woman, and child in 

 the state. Ohio '«quatiders $22.00 per capita to get 

 in return $1.20 per capita. She is out of pocket on 

 this item alone $20 80 a year for each man, woman, 

 and child. Add to this the cost of carin? for the 

 product of the saloon, and the actual loss is at least 

 double the sum here quoted. 



'■ Ohio cities and towns cannot afford to loso the 

 saloon revenue which is now applied on their taxe.s," 

 says wet litcraturo. 



The more liquur revenue Ohio cities and towns 

 receive the greater their burden of taxation and in- 

 debtedness. Cincinnati now has a bonded indebted- 

 ness of more than $60,000,000, and a tax rate ap- 

 proaching the limit, and yet she receives $400,000 

 a vear in saloon revenue, and faces a half-million 

 dclicit on runninj: e.vi)enses. Her bonded indcbied- 

 no.«s is $105 for each man, woman, and child. Kan- 

 sas has no revenue from saloons, and her bond<-d 

 indebtedness is less than 10 cents for each man, 

 woman, and child. 



" Prohibition in Ohio will lose the farmers a val- 

 uable market for tkiir grain," says a wet adver- 

 tisement. 



Only about 1 par cent of the grain of the coun- 

 try is used in making liquor. As the dry area in- 

 L-reases, the price of all farm products advances, 

 because more people have mere money to buy every- 

 thing the farmer raises. 



" Bootlegging will be encouraged and speakeasies 

 will increa.se if prohibition is adopted," say weti 

 speakers and liquor advertisements. 



The annual report of the Ohio Liquor Licensing 

 Board bears out the contention of the drys that 

 license fosters speakeasies. That report shows tliat 

 fines imposed on liquor-law violators in the 45 di-y 

 counties totaled $14,850, and in the 43 wet coun- 

 ties $tl,3(>0. Tlie wets themselves say there are 

 as many speakeasies in Cleveland as licensed deal- 

 ers, and the saloonkeepers of that city appealed to 

 the Governor last year to protect them from the 

 horde of illicit sellers. 



AxswKR.s evi;ry wet argument. 

 The first Sunday Chicago saloons were closed, 

 arrests for drunkenness fell from 243 to 63, while 

 the crime record was the lowest in the city's history, 

 "■sere is no better evidence than this that the 

 United Stales Supreme Court was right when it 

 declared the saloon to be a source of crime and 

 misery. Chicago's record of a closed Sunday an- 

 swers every argument by the wets in favor of the 

 liquor traffic. 



MODKRATE MUXKIXG AND PROHIBITION. 



The }jreat arg-unient — in fact, almcst the 

 vnly areiiment the wets try to make, after 

 beinfr driven into a corner all over the 

 world, is that moderate drinking is belter 

 than downright proliibition. They are claim- 

 inir at tliis dale, Oct. 20, most vehemently, 

 that a man can do better work, and enjoy 

 iiiore health, by a moderate and reasonable 

 use of intoxicants: but the rej^orts from our 

 factories, railroad companies, schools, col- 

 le'jres, and everywhere else, are now eominj^ 

 like a mighty flood to prove the contrary. 

 In fact, this great flood is daily gathering 

 wciaht and vohiine to such an extent that 

 ai;y use of intoxicants, even in small quan- 

 tities, must and will be driven not only 



from the United States, but from the whole 

 face of the civilized Avorld. Our magazines 

 and periodicals of every sort, unless it is 

 those tlial still hold on to their liquor ad- 

 \ertising, are coming forward in every issue 

 showing that into:<icants in any shape for 

 old or young are always damaging and 

 nothing else. Here is something that T am 

 glad to see in the Outlook: 



ALCOHor, AND lOmCIENCY. 



One of the signiticnnt and unexpected results of 

 the new campaign for scientific efficiency in industry 

 is the movement against alcohol. On several occasions 

 The Outlook has called attention to this movement. 

 Now ooraes the report of the Methodist Temperance 

 Society, indicating how widespread is this movement. 



This society lias made a careful invcitigation of 

 conditions in the iron and steel trades of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, Illinois, and West Virginia. It finds 

 sixty-three large concerns that have taken steps to 

 determine the iniluente of the moderate use of liquor 

 on working efficiency. Without exception these firms 

 testify that the effect is bad. These corporations in- 

 clude such firms as the Youngstown Sheet and Tube 

 Company, the Harri&burg Pipe and Pipe Bending 

 Company, and the Illinois Steel Company. Eighty- 

 three of the concerns questioned, in employing and 

 advancing men, discriminate against those who use 

 alcohol. To quote one of thom, " Even the most 

 ' moderate ' use of alcohol is fatal to a man's chance 

 of advancement." Among these eighty-three firms are 

 the Oliver Chilled Steel Plow Works, the American 

 Steel and Wire Company, and the Pennsylvania Steel 

 Company. Ten great concerns have prohibited abso- 

 lutely the use of alcohol on the part of emnlo\ees. 

 Among them are the Reading: Iron Company, the 

 American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, and the 

 Lukens Iron and Steel Company. 



Under the old rule-ofthumb management this situ- 

 ation would never have come about. The e^e'-t of 

 alcohol on efficiency would never have been known 

 exactly. But when the new and supposedly infallible 

 methods of efficiency at times failed, the resulting In- 

 vestigation into the cause .showed that it was due to 

 individual unfitness caused by the use of alcohol. 

 And when it was shown that even a little alcohol — 

 as little as might be in two glasses of beer — was the 

 cause, the result was inevitable. 



In the scientific plan of efficiency it is necessary, 

 to use a military phrase, to hit the bull's-eye every 

 time. A bullet in the first ring won't do. In such 

 circumstances a workman need not be anywhere 

 near intoxicated to be ineflicient. A glass or two of 

 beer makes the difference between a byll's-eye and 

 a shot in the first circle. 



The new plan of efficiency is so profitable to both 

 employer and employee that whatever stands in its 

 way must go. Economic necessity is making con- 

 verts to prohibition. The Methodist Temperance 

 Society's report shows how fast men arc m.oving in 

 that direction. 



May God bless the Methodist 1'emper- 

 ance Society. 



Since the above was in type we find the 

 following in the Cleveland Dmli/ Press. It 

 is an attempt of one of the " home rule " to 

 defend the wets in the matter of efficiency. 



" PKOHIBlTlDXISTf; ARE FOR EFFICIKNCV.'^ 



If the laboring man drank no beer or liquor, even 

 temperately, his efficiency would be gri-.>tl\ increas- 

 ed. 



Somehow these prohibitionists are great for " effi- 

 ' iency." They want to make machines of men, to 

 produce as mtich as possible in the shortest time 



