1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



951 



they could be protected from the severity of 

 winter. This was a case where the saloon- 

 men and brewers had nothing' to lose by the 

 enforcement of a humane law. By the way, 

 I want the Anti-saloon League of Michig-an 

 to g'ive ine their opinion in regard to the 

 above. Is there no law to bi ing these rum- 

 sellers to justice? I am reading- the State 

 Issue, published by the Anti-saloon League 

 of Michig-an, with much interest, and I wish 

 they would copj^ the above and give me 

 their opinion in regard to the matter. 



Ohl Michigan is not the only State in the 

 Union where laws are trampled under foot. 

 The Cleveland Leader has been, for a year 

 back, vehemently protesting- because the 

 saloons of Cleveland were allowed to run 

 day and night, Sundays as well as week 

 days, and finally right through election 

 da3% in open transgression of the plain and 

 explicit laws and ordinances of the State 

 and city. I declare I almost began to think 

 that the whisky element was getting on top 

 and bidding fair to stay on top; but may 

 the Lord be praised for an editorial in the 

 Leader of Nov. 11. Let me give you a part 

 of the heading, which I clip from the first 

 article on the first page: 



THE OI.DER OFFICERS TO BE THROWN OUT 

 OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 



DIRECTOR DUNN TELLS FIVE VETERAN CAPTAINS 

 THEY MUST RESIGN OR STAND TRIAL ON CHARGES. 



The conversation below is supposed to be 

 between one of the Leader reporters and 

 Director Dunn: 



" What is the reason for this shake-up?" 



" The department is inefficient at the present time. 

 It has got into a rut. Orders are issued at the City 

 Hall and thev are never heeded. All laws are being 

 disobeyed. The fact that these captains permitted 

 such things to go on only sets a bad example in the 

 department. We want strict discipline." 



" What laws have been disobeyed?" 



" The election laws." 



"You mean the law regulating the closing of saloons 

 on election day?" 



" Yes." 



" Why, then, did you wait till after election before 

 taking ihis action, when saloons have been running 

 wide open after midnight daily and on vSunday un- 

 molested?" 



" The principal charge that will be made will be a 

 violation of the election'^laws. There was evidently no 

 pretense to close the saloons on election day. Most 

 mayors have insisted that thev be closed for 24 hours 

 on election day. Mayor Johnson, though, has been 

 more liberal. He has permitted them to open after 

 the booths were closed." 



" Do you mean to say that any effort is made to close 

 the saloons on Sundays?" 



" They are supposed to be closed. .Some of the 

 saloon-keepers keep a man at the door. We won't let 

 a patrolman in citizens' clothes enter a saloon for the 

 purpose of arresting the proprietor on the charge of 

 violating the closing ordinance. The man at the door 

 is not chtmip enough to let a patrolman in uniform 

 enter, you can be sure." 



The Director, in continuing his explanation as to 

 why the police captains were asked to resign, said, 

 "We want bright, active, hustling young men in those 

 positions. I am not saving a word against the char- 

 acter of any one of these five captains. They have 

 simply outlived their usefulness in the department. 

 Things have changed since they went on the force. 

 They" have not. We want the department conducted 

 in an up-to-date style, even though we have a small 

 force of men." 



It was rumored at the City Hall yesterday that 

 Mayor Johnson left the city Saturday for the chief 

 purpose of escaping from the storm which is sure to 

 follow the action taken yesterday by the Director of 



Police. Mayor Johnson was willing to have the Di- 

 rector take the step on Saturday, but Mr. Dunn, for 

 some reason, decided to wait until yesterday, when he 

 could get the captains together at their regular meet- 

 ing 



If the police captains are retired they will each draw 

 8()5 a month from the pension fund ot the police de- 

 partment, to which each of them has been contribut- 

 ing monthly for years. Their salary at the present 

 time amounts to about |12o a month. 



Please notice these police captains have 

 been drawing $12.S a month. Perhaps it 

 would be uncharitable to ask how much 

 more they get from the saloon-keepers for 

 7wt doing what the city pays them $125 a 

 month to do. Oh! this thing is not new. 

 When it runs about 25 years without much 

 hindrance, as it has in Cleveland, things 

 get to be so bad that there is a revolt, such 

 as they have had in New York — yes, and in 

 Chicago, and, to some extent, in Phila- 

 delphia. And, dear friends, it is the Anti- 

 saloon League that is making protest and 

 stirring up such revolts. Of course, I mean 

 to include all other temperance organiza- 

 tions for the enforcement of law. Now, 

 what are j'ou doing to break up the whisky 

 ring? Our text, no doubt, pronounces woe 

 on one who hands the bottle to his neighbor 

 or holds it up to him and asks him to take 

 drink. But I hardly need remind you that 

 it also means woe to a man who helps in 

 any way to furnish these bottles and con- 

 tents, and places them where some poor 

 neighbor may be tempted. It means, too, 

 the man who stands still and does nothing 

 when the bottles are being passed about. 

 Nay, further: it means the man who is so 

 busy that he can not stop work to go and 

 vote; and I do not know but it means the 

 man who is so busy growing potatoes that 

 he can not stop long enough to look after 

 the enforcement of law in his vicinity. 



NOTES or TRAVLL 



I . BY A. I. ROOT . 



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CHAPTER II. 



GOING TO THE COUNTY FAIR; ALSO SOME- 

 THING ABOUT FAIRS IN GENERAL. 



Before telling you what I found at the 

 Leelanaw Co. fair I want to say that no one 

 on the side of Carp Lake where I am situ- 

 ated seemed to think it worth while to at- 

 tend the fair; and I do not know but manj- 

 of the readers of Gleanings will think I 

 was unwise to urge the j'oung farmers to 

 leave their work to go to the fair for even 

 one day. I believe, however, I am right. 

 There should be a fair, and it should be at- 

 tended by all the good people; and these 

 same good people should have a competent 

 board of managers to keep out ever}' thing 

 that fosters evil. I tokl the boys who 

 worked for me ( and the boys in my neigh- 

 borhood), the}' should go to the county fair 

 to see the improved implements for farming, 

 if for nothing else. They seemed to think 

 they would not find them there. I told 



