NOVEMBER 15, ]915 



ular customer, that we are overstocked with 

 es'gs. I do not see how we can allow you 

 over 15 cents a dmcn." But I laughingly 

 i-ejilied, " Why, Mr. Burnett, you need not 

 feel worried at all. I just enjoy tlie fun of 

 selling" eggs at 15 cents a dozen. You see, 

 what is my loss is somebody else's gain ; 

 and joor people who have been finding it 

 hard to meet the high cost of living now 

 have a great plenty of the best and most 

 lieallhful food in the world so cheap that 

 the whole family can live on eggs if thev 

 wish to." 



The whole plea about vacant stores, peo- 

 I'le out of employment, etc., is just what 

 Mark Twain said about the report of his 

 death — it is " greatly exaggerated." 



On page 912 of Gleaxings for October 1 

 1 gave you a number of illustrations show- 

 ing how the claims of the liquor party were 

 '• greatly exaggerated." Suppose, dear 

 friends, I had kept on getting a glass of 

 beer everj- night after dark, when I was 

 tired out after a day's work. Suppose I 

 had followed it up for fift}^ years. This is 

 a ridiculous supposition, however, for I 



probably should have been dead and gone 

 (like the doctors) years ago. While I write 

 these words on election day, Nov. 2, I feel 

 so sjiry and so well I have been thinking I 

 should like to take a foot race with some 

 of my grandchildren — with Ralph, for in- 

 stance, one of the Boy Scouts. He is about 

 a dozen years old, and I rather think I 

 could beat him now on a short run. 



Now notice where the first one of my 

 texts comes in, and the last one — " But the 

 path of the just is as the shining light, that 

 sliineth more and more unto the perfect 

 day." This illustrates why I thank G-od for 

 having permitted me to live and be in touch 

 with, and have a place with the best men 

 and women of the present day. I am thank- 

 ing God that he has enabled me to have a 

 voice in pleading for temperance, right- 

 eousness, and purity as I have been doing 

 for months past. And if I should be per- 

 mitetd to live long enough to see Ohio dry. 

 I shall feel like saying with Zacharias of 

 old, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant 

 depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen 

 thv salvation." 



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TEMPEMANCE 



Today, Oct. 28,* while I dictate these lines 

 before starting for Florida, and before 

 election, nobody knows what the outcome 

 of our voting here in Ohio will be; and of 

 course the following clipping from the 

 American Issue, when it comes before you, 

 cannot affec4^ the outcome of our Ohio elec- 

 tion; but it can effect the elections that are 

 to be held in the other states over the coun- 

 try. The clipping is headed, as you will 

 notice, " A Startling Comparison." And 

 indeed it is startling. As I read it over I 

 pondered and wondered how it is possible, 

 with these sights staring us in the face, we 

 have put up with it, all these years .since 

 Lincoln's death. Read it. dear reader, over 

 and over again. Read it to your wife and 

 children, and explain its influence. Make 



* The outcome of the Ohio election, as probably 

 every reader of Gleanings knows by this time, was 

 a victory for the wets. The prohibition amendment 

 lost by a majority of a little over 57.000. With all 

 the votes counted, the drys found thpy had been de- 

 feated by a majority of 30,000 voles lesn than the 

 majority which defeated the similar amendment last 

 year. Fortunately for the cau.se of prohibition, the 

 wets' propo.sed amendment entitled " Constitutional 

 Stability " was overwhelmingly defeated. This pro- 

 vision, if it had been pa.ssed. would have made it 

 impossible for the drys to brine a vote upon state- 

 wide prohibition within six years. It is not prob- 

 able that this notorious measure will be heard of 

 again. The majority which defeated prohibition this 

 year came, as last, from Cincinnati. 



them understand that permitting the traffic 

 to go on as it has been going on is worse 

 than war, smallpox, bubonic plague, or any 

 thing else in the whole wide world. May 

 God help us. Here is the clipping: 



A STARTM.XG COMPARISON. 



The June, 1914, bulletin of the Ohio Board of 

 Charities and Corrections gives a statistical report 

 which shows a full year's experience of all Ohio 

 counties with and without saloons. For that full 

 year there were 45 dry and 43 wet counties. Sepa- 

 rate the countdes into two groups^ the wet and dry, 

 and tabulate the cases of crime, incorrigibility, and 

 jail experience, and take into account that the wet 

 counties have three times the population of the dry 

 counties. This is the result: 

 The 45 dry counties sent to the Boys' 



Industrial School during the year 76 



The 43 wet counties, entitled by popula- 

 tion to send 228, actually sent 260 



The 4 5 dry counties sent to the Girls' 



Indu.strial Home at Delaware 31 



The 43 wet counties, entitled by popula- 

 tion to send 93, actually sent 89 



(With large unreported number from 



Cleveland to add to wet side.) 

 The 45 dry counties sent to the Ohio 



Penitentiary 106 



The 43 wet counties, entitled by popula- 

 tion to send 318, actually sent 609 



The 45 dry counties sent to the Mansfield 



Reformatory 83 



The 43 wet counties, entitled by popula- 

 tion to send 249, actually sent 582 



The 45 dry counties sentenced to work- 

 houses 118 



The 43 wet counties, entitled by popula- 

 tion to send 354, actually sent 967 



