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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



l)Ossible. ivithout joy, without chaage, vrithout rec- 

 reation. 



In the first place such a course never will in- 

 crease wealth, and if it did, it would be at a tre- 

 mendous cost to the living manhood of the state. 



They next say that there would be no drunkards 

 and that the sobering effect on the workman would 

 save money uow lost in drink; that the money spent 

 in drink would be spent for groceries, etc. 



Well, if every man who drinks a glass of beer 

 were a drunkard, and had nothing left to buy gro- 

 ceries, there might be some point in the argument; 

 that is, if he can use more groceries than he now 

 eats. But the number of drunkards, unfortunate as 

 they may be, when compared with the number of 

 temperate drinkers, is so small that the argument 

 falls of its own weight. 



Graham P. Hunt, 

 Counsel Ohio Home Rule Association. 



In tlie above I have taken the liberty to 

 put in some italics. It makes me think of 

 the kind of joy these fellows enjoyed when 

 they got liome singing " We won't go home 

 till" morning." And it reminds me too of 

 the man who, under the influence of this 

 kind of .]'oy(?) murdered his hlind ivife as 

 related in our back numbers, and the other 

 one who slashed bis helples.s three-year-old 

 boy seventy times — see page 735, Sept. 1. 

 Do we want any more of such joy? And 

 does not the above plea for moderate drink- 

 ing or for the moderate use of liquor tend 

 to help the dry side more than the wet ? 



THE RIGHT TO BE BORN SOUND, WITH A SOUND 

 MIND IN A SOUND BODY. 



The following is something I furnished 

 one of our Medina papers. As it may be 

 interesting also tc the readers of Glean- 

 ings we give it a place here: 



An Ohio man, Mr. John J. Lantz, in an address 

 in behalf of good government, at Miivneapolis on 

 August 22, said something as follows: " W^c ought 

 to concede to our babies the right to be born sober, 

 with a sound mind in a sound body." They have 

 the right to be born in an environment that will 

 not deliver them to reform institutions in early man- 

 hood and womanhood, with a guarantee against 

 cholera and smallpox. Isn't it more important to 

 protect our babies against alcoholism? During the 

 past 60 years that I have lived here in Medina, I 

 have watched quite a few babies from the cradle to 

 the grave. I have seen them while growing in their 

 mothers' arms, and later I have watched their tod- 

 dling feet. I have had a glimpse of them occasion- 

 ally as they attended our Medina schools. I have 

 seen the boys and girls grow from childhood to 

 manhood and wDmauhood. One after another I 

 would hear of their marriages. A little later the 

 father and mother would show me their baby. Now, 

 it would be a pleasant thing, a glorious thing, if all 

 these little ones grew up and followed in the straight 

 and narrow path. I remember a very pretty-faced, 

 black-eyed German girl. She used to come to my 

 store freo.uently, and I got well acquainted with her. 

 One day she said to me confidentially, " Mr. Root, 

 I am going to get married." A little Ifiter she in- 

 troduced a young man, German like herself, and 

 said, "Mr. Root, this is my husband." Time passed; 

 and one day when I was tired of working at the 

 bench she came in with a bundle in her arms and 

 said smilingly, " Mr. Root, I got a baby." Of 

 course, I talked to the baby, and saw him frequent- 



ly until he coudl run about, and then I lost sight 

 of my good friend Caroline. I have never seen her 

 since. I will tell you what I did see, however. 

 Years ago one of the boys came running to me out 

 of breath and said, " Mr. Root, come quick. There 

 is a young man out here declares he's going to lie 

 across the trai k when the locomotive comes and it's 

 already whistling." I found a young man I thought 

 1 had never seen. He was beastly drunk, and de- 

 clared his purpose of lying across the track. He 

 gave as a reason that he had promised his mother 

 never (o drink another drop, and that he had repeat- 

 edly broken his promise. " Now," said he, " I am 

 going to make it sure. It's the only way." 



My good friends, the above is a sample of a 

 drunken man's logic. Finally. I asked his mother's 

 name. How do jou think I felt when I found the 

 boy's mother was my bright friend Caroline, of for- 

 mer years? I tried to go with him to his home 

 down north of Medina; but every time I left him, as 

 soon as I was out of sight he would get back and 

 lie across the track ; and to save his life I was 

 obliged to sit up almost until midnight, or until all 

 the trains had passed, before I could go home. 



The above is only just one little brief sample of 

 the work of our saloons. Shall we not, for the sake 

 of the babies, if for no other reason, put them out 

 of e.xistcnce when we come to vote November 2 ? 



DAILY PAPERS THAT REFUSE LIQUOR ADVER- 

 TISING. 

 "Oodlincss is profitaUe." 



It seems the W. C. T. U. has been making 

 investisration in regard to the altitude of 

 the daily papers of our nation toward 

 drink. The following is a report clipped 

 from the Ohio Messenger: 



LIQUOR ADVERTISING. 



The present attitude of the daily newspapers of 

 the United States toward liquor advertising and 

 prohibition is in.spiriiig. The investigation reached 

 every daily newspaper in the United States. Six 

 hundred and seventy-nine replies were received to 

 2100 letters. Five hundred and twenty of the daily 

 newspapers replying reported that they accept no 

 li(|Uor advertising. Three hundred and sixty of 

 them announced that they advocate national prohi- 

 bition in their editorial columns, while of the re- 

 mainder only 200 are wilUng to say that they op- 

 pose. Three hundred and sixty-nine favor state 

 prohibition, with only 193 opposing; 397 favor local 

 prohibition, with only 176 in opposition. 



Ten years ago no one could name half a dozen 

 daily newspapers in the United States which favored 

 national prohibition. Generally they treated it as 

 a joke; and it was a common plaint of the temper- 

 ance people, "If v,-e had only one great newspaper!" 

 Today, such great dailies as the Republican, of 

 Springfield, Mass.: the Tennessean and Banner, of 

 Nashville, ; the Times, of Detroit ; the Times, of 

 Indianapolis; the Journal, of Lincoln; the Oazotte- 

 Times of Pittsburg; the Intelligencer, of Wheeling, 

 and scores of other papers that are representative of 

 power and influence absolutely decline liquor adorer- 

 Using on any terms. 



When the Pittsburg Gazette-Times announced that 

 it would accept no more liquor advertising one issue 

 of the paper had two entire pages filled with fine- 

 print paragraphic expressions of approval, and it 

 nnnnunced that it was literally overwhelmed with its 

 laudatory mail. The Chicago Herald added three 

 thousand columns of advertising within a short time 

 after taking its stand. The Coshocton (O.) Trihurui 

 gives a detailed report of wonderful prosperity un- 

 der its dr\ policy, although they were "dead enough 

 to draL' out" when they were wet. A cheering fea- 



