NOVEMBER 15, 1915 



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]ilios as well as to the drygoods store of 

 Marshall Field & Co. Thousands of fam- 

 ilies. perhai)s greatly in need in a great 

 city like Chicago, have now the necessaries 

 of life because of that closing on Sunday. 

 Dear reader, can you not see and rejoice 

 with me that God's kingdom is coming? 



Just after I dictated the words above, 

 there was handed me the following-, clipped 

 from the Akron B eacon- Journal. • 



PEICE OP DRINK VARIES FROM DIME UP TO DAMNA- 

 TION; FORMER COUNSEL FOR WETS SCORES 

 LIQUOR AT PRY MEETING. 



Trenchant utlerances asrainst the liquor traffic 

 were unloosed by Dan Morgan Smith, former gener- 

 al counsel for the National Model License League, 

 but now aligned with the Anti-saloon League. 



" The price of a drink ranges from a dime to 

 damnation," said Smith. " The purchaser pays the 

 dime when he gets the drink, and the damnation 

 when the drink gets him." 



" The price of drink ranges from ten cents to 

 unpaid rent bills, unpaid grocery bills, unpaid doctor 

 bills, foreclosed mortgages, protested notes, lost 

 positions, hungry children, broken-hearted wives, 

 and corrupt government. 



WHY SALOON STAYS. 



" The saloon has been tolerated in this country, 

 not because it was a working man's club, not be- 

 cause of the taxes it pays, not because the public 

 demands it be licensed, not because it fills a great 

 need, but because some church members pray for 

 their state to go dry while they vote for legislators 

 whom they know will keep it wet." 



Smith scored the moderate-drinking argument. 

 " The moderate drinker of today is the drunkard of 

 tomorrow," he declared. 



Does not the above represent the omn- 

 ions of all the advocates of the wet side? 



AVe clip the following from the October 

 issue of the Independent : 



From 1860 to 1907 there was a very rapid in- 

 crease in the consumption of alcoholic liquors, begin- 

 ning with six and a half gallons per capita and 

 reaching nearly twenty-three gallons per capita. 

 Then for several years there was little <hange, and, 

 indeed, a slight lessening of the per-c&pita rate. 

 This, of course, vias due to the increase of prohibi- 

 tion territory. Now> for the first time there has been 

 a great downward sv ing, and a falling od in con- 

 sumption cf 1.5,000,000 .gallons of distilled spirit 

 and 6,358,744 barrels of beer in one year. 



When somebody tells you that the eon- 

 sumption of liquoi's is now on the increase, 

 just point him to the above. 



DOES PROHIBITION KILL BUSINESS ? 



James R. Hanna, mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, 

 furnishes an article as follows: 



" I have to report that our first eight months' 

 experience has in every way been immensely bene- 

 ficial. The fear of many that business depression 

 would follow the closing of saloons has not been 

 realized. Practically all desirable places were al- 

 most immediately occupied by other lines of business. 

 The money which went into the channels of the 

 liquor trade has gone info the channels of legitimate 

 business. Our expenditures last year for liquor 

 were estimated at about $2,000,000, and careful 

 tabulation of shipments so far this year are estimat- 

 ed at about one-tenth of that amount. This $1,800,- 



000 difference is going to pay for groceries, fuel, 

 clothing, lumber for home-building, payments on 

 town lots, and a thousand other things making for 

 the welfare of those who bore the burden of expense 

 in this business. 



" It is nonsense to argue that a city of 100,000 

 can throw away $2,000,000 each year for something 

 that in no way conduces to the actual needs or 

 comforts of life without paying the penalty. Our 

 police records, court records, inebriate records, pau- 

 per records, and charity records all show this clear- 

 ly, thus early. Tlio superintendent of our public 

 schools reports a decided improvement in the dress, 

 attendance, and the efficiency of the large class of 

 pupils from families affected by the liquor business. 

 — Ashland TimesOazette. 



JOHN L. SULLIVAN^ THE CHAMPION PRIZE- 

 FIGHTER — SEE PAGE 779, SEPT. 15. 



In the Outlook for Oct. 27 we see a full- 

 liage illustration of John L. Sullivan 

 " clothed and in his right mind." Under- 

 neath the picture we read as follows: 



The one-time champion pugilist has just signed a 

 five-year contract to speak against John Barleycorn 

 and all of his works, in every part of the United 

 States. From being an advocate and frequenter of 

 the saloon Sullivan has become one of its most in- 

 fluential opponents. 



The magazine also contains quite an edi- 

 torial in regard to the emancipation and 

 Irans formation of our good friend John L. 

 Sullivan. Sometimes we hear it said that 

 the day of miracles is past; but is there a 

 greater miracle than a man like Sullivan, 

 who stood the greater part of his life al- 

 most at the head of the bad element of this 

 world, now transformed into an evangelist 

 for righteousness? Take a look at his pic- 

 ture in the Outlook and thank God that, by 

 the power of the gospel of Christ Jesus, 

 even the leopard " may change his spots." 



A KIND LETTER FROM A LADY BEEKEEPER AWAY 

 OPl*' IN NEW ZEALAND. 



Dear Mr Root : — I am a young lady beekeeper, 

 and read Gleanings regularly. I have about 80 

 colonies at present, and use a Ford car to get to 

 and from the apiary, which is over 40 miles from 

 home. 1 have used a four-frame hand extractor 

 previously, but am getting a power one this sea- 

 sou. I can do all the work of the apiary except 

 heavy lifting, for which I get an assistant at the 

 busy time. 



Our young men are going in large numbers to 

 the war ,and being killed. Lists of killed and in- 

 jured appear in every paper. One wonders what 

 will be the end of it all. 



V/e are holding a beekeepers' conference in 

 Wellington, in the North Island, in June. We 

 beekeepers away in this corner of the earth send 

 you our kindest regards, and trust you will be 

 spared many years to continue your good work in 

 the Home papers. Mabei. Shepherd.. 



Christchurch, New Zealand, May 24. 



tWe are very glad to get a letter from a lady 

 beekeeper, especially from one so far away; but it 

 saddens me again to think that away off in New 

 Zealand the war is taking its toll of death and 

 destruction, and accomplishing nothing after aU. 

 May God help us. — A. I. R.] 



