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is filled with factories, furnaces, and steel mills, 

 which was a tremendous factor. 



^ W. B. Wheeler. 



Later. — -From the American Issue for 

 July 5 I clip the following in regard to the 

 election in Trumbull Co.: 



WETS ASKED PEEMISSION TO REOPEN SALOONS, AND 

 BY A DRY MAJORITY OF NEARLY TWO THOU- 

 SAND THE DRYS REPLIED, " NOT ON YOUR 

 LIFE I " DRY MAJORITY OF FOUR AND A 

 HALF YEARS AGO DOUBLED. 



The wets have had their eyes on Trumbull for 

 some time. The Youngstown and Cleveland brewers 

 have been urging the local booze-boosters to start 

 trouble. They noted Trumbull's prosperity. They 

 saw that in the four and a half vears without sa- 

 loons the county has grown in population and in 

 material wealth. They noted that business is good, 

 that bank deposits have increased, and that men 

 are spending their money on their homes and fam- 

 ilies instead of piling up the dollars for the brew- 

 ers and saloon-keepers. 



The wets wanted a share of this prosperity. They 

 said to Trumbull County voters: " Here is our prop- 

 osition : Let us open saloons, and we will trade some 

 of our dirty dollars for your boys and girls. "We 

 will give you revenue, and all we ask is the chance 

 at your wage-earners, and at the young fellows who 

 want to put in a crop of wild oats." And back of 

 these Trumbull County wets stood the outside brew- 

 ers, their greedy fingers twitching at the very 

 thought of getting into the pockets of the men and 

 boys of the county. 



" THE FIRST PLACE A POLICEMAN LOOKS FOR 



CRIME, AND THE LAST PLACE HE WOULD 



LOOK FOR VIRTUE." 



We clip the following from Mr. Bryan's 

 Commoner. What do you think of if? 



ON THE WALLS OF A SALOON. 



A card bearing the following was posted on the 

 walls of saloons in some of the larger towns in Ohio 

 during the late campaign: 



" W. J. BRYAN ON THE SALOON." 



" From his speech before the general assembly of 

 the Presbyterian church: 



" 'The saloon is a nuisance. The evil can no more 

 be confined to the building in which it exists than 

 the odor of a slaughter house to the block m which 

 it is located. 



" ' I know, and you know, that they are m league 

 with every form of evil in society. As a rule, if you 

 let the liquor-dealer have his way he will have a 

 disorderly house upstairs, he will have a gambling- 

 den in his back room, and his place will be the cen- 

 ter of every sort of evil. 



" ' The saloon is the bureau of information for 

 every sort of crime. It is the first place that a po- 

 liceman looks for crime, and the last place he would 

 go to look for virtue.' " 



THE WOMEN OF FRANCE — A PLEA IN THEIR 

 BEHALF. 

 Dear Mr. Root: — You are like the Bible — full of 

 contradictions. On page 707 and in Special Notices 

 you say you plead against invectives and for a more 

 Christianlike spirit; but on page 713 you are proud 

 to give print to your grandson's insults against 

 French women. Surely there are awful women in 

 Paris and there are awful men, too; and there are 

 both kinds in New York also. I guess there are 

 some in Medina too; but this should not allow your 

 grandson to say that French women are awful. If 

 you knew Paris, Mr. Boot, you would know that 

 more money is spent there on vice by foreigners 

 than by French people. Cook's Agency pours by the 



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carload its tourists into the small and dirty theaters 

 of Montmartre ; and those prude old maids, respect- 

 able matrons, religious and moral English-speaking 

 people, they go there where no decent French woman 

 would show herself, and at the same time help in 

 supporting vice. Please ask your grandson where 

 he has been in Paris. 



Is it Christianlike to insult even the poor women 

 who make a living from vice, from men's vice, when 

 the actual society does not permit them to get de- 

 cent wages by honest work ? They have been thrown 

 into that life either by ignorance or necessity, or 

 lack of education, and for their sins why should 

 scores of innocent men, women, and children per- 

 ish? If your God, Mr. Root, permits it to happen, 

 then your God is not Christianlike, and I am proud 

 to be — • A French Heathen. 



I wish you would print my protest in your paper, 

 but I do not expect you to do so. 



Palmarito de Cauto, Nov. 9. 



My good friend, I thank you for your 

 kind criticism ; but I do not agree with your 

 closing remarks, for 1 am sure you are not 

 '• a heathen " in any sense of the word. 

 Perhaps my grandson was a little too sweep- 

 ing in his statement, as young people are 

 apt to be, and perhaps it is also true that 

 he had not investigated very much in re- 

 gard to the state of atfairs in our great 

 cities here in America. I am sure he did 

 not intend to say that all French women are 

 after the fashion of those he happened to 

 get a glimpse of during his brief trip; and 

 ] am glad you have called attention to the 

 fact that the bad state of morals is largely 

 due to visitors, many from our own nation. 

 1 sui^pose you are aware that a great re- 

 form is now under way in the United States 

 along the line of the white-slave traffic, 

 and I believe this promises to be world- 

 wide. 



We are going to print your letter, and it 

 Avould have been in print earlier but for the 

 fact that it came here during my absence in 

 Florida. May God help us in our efforts 

 to raise up and Christianize abandoned 

 women in every land. 



One more word in regard to your con- 

 cluding sentence. It is true that none of 

 us can fully explain why God in his infinite 

 love and mercy permits many things to 

 happen, as you express it. He permitted Jo- 

 seph's wicked brothers to cast him into a pit. 

 God permitted them also to sell him into 

 slavery ; and in spite of his good behavior 

 and his faith in God, he was permitted to 

 go down into the dungeon just because he 

 held fast to his integrity; and God also 

 permitted him to stay in that dungeon two 

 or more years, while he, poor Joseph, got 

 no glimpse of wliat was then before him. 

 Is it not possible that God permits the 

 awful liquor-traffic to curse humanity that 

 the good and capable might learn impor- 

 tant lessons that could never have been 

 taught them otherwise? Did you ever think 

 of that? 



