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GLEANINGS IN BEE Cl'LTl'KE 



Temper ance 



WOMAN SUFFRAGE — WHAT IT IS DOING FOR 

 CALIFORNIA. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I am sending yoii under sepa- 

 rate cover a copy of my local paper which containy 

 the result of an election just held in our city. The 

 liquor business was put down in this city about 18 

 years ago, and they have 1 eeu lighting to get in 

 again ever since. A few years ago they succeeded in 

 electing a board of city trustees that gave the hotels 

 and drugstores a license, after the advisory vote of 

 the people was given against such a policy. Two 

 years ago the people put the same board of trustees 

 out of office by a majority of 450 votes, which was 

 telling them most emphatically that they had not 

 kept faith with the voters. 



The present election was called by initiative peti- 

 tion circulated by the liquor interests, who called 

 themselves the temperance party. This is the first 

 time the issue has been clearly defined, and a fair 

 and square vote taken. Notice what we did to them. 

 We give the women due credit for this wonderful 

 victory. 



Redlands, Cal., Oct. 1. P. C. Chadwick. 



We should be glad indeed to give the fall 

 account of the reform tlie women have 

 brought about in Redlands (as given in the 

 clipping), but it is too long. Xo wonder 

 the brewers and wet politicians are fighting 

 woman suffrage. See below. 



REDLANDS^ CAL. ; AL:M0ST THREE TO ONE 

 AGAINST INTEMPERANCE. 



Dear Mr. Root: — The temperance people of Red- 

 lands won a great victory Sept. 30, deciding by a 

 majority of almost three to one against hotel permits 

 and a wholesale liquor-house. For years our city 

 has stood for good citizenship, for public improve- 

 ments and moral uplift. Redlands has about 12,000 

 inhabitants, and is primarily a city of homes. Here 

 people can safely come to educate their children. 

 There are splendid churches, excellent public schools, 

 and a fine university. We hope other cities will be 

 encouraged by our success in routing King Alcohol, 

 and " go and do likewise." 



Redlands, Cal., Oct. 7. M. G. Van Loan. 



Well done, my good friend. When cities 

 of 12,000 inhabitants abandon the liquor- 

 tratfie we are certainly making headway. 

 It seems that the good women of Red- 

 lands did have something to do with this. 

 May God be praised for such victories. 1 

 think every time I visit California I have 

 enjoyed seeing Redlands grow. When Mrs. 

 Root and I were there, there were orange 

 trees planted along the streets outside of 

 the walk, and visitors were permitted to 

 pick the fruit— at least that was the case 

 on some of tlie streets. 



god's KIKGDOM and SATAN'S KINGDOM. 



The American Advance as well as tlie 

 American Is.sue is giving us abundant evi- 

 dence of the coming- of God's kingdom. See 

 the following from the Advance: 



Chancellor David Starr .lordan, of Stanford Uni 

 versity, says. ■ The future city will no more allow 

 an open saloon than the present city allows an open 



cesspool. Every community has the same right to 

 destroy its saloons that it has to kill its rats." 



As an evidence, also, that Satan is push- 

 ing- tilings, we submit below another clip- 

 ]>ing from the Advance: 



" If the fight with prohibition goes to the last 

 ditch, the great cities will be found aligned against 

 the rural districts in a final struggle to eliminate 

 the liquor traffic," declared Col. .Jacob Ruppert, of 

 New York, President of the United States Brewers- 

 Association, at their annual convention at Atlantic 

 City. 



The launching of a national propaganda to fight 

 prohibition in every stronghold was one of the chief 

 topics thoroughly considered. 



E. A. Faust, chairman of the Crop Improvement 

 Committee, said: 



■■ Within the next decade it is possible that the 

 beer sales of the United States will reach 100,000, 

 000 barrels annually." 



MORE THAN HALF OUR TERRITORY AND MORE 



THAN HALF OF OUR PEOPLE NOW ON 



"' DRY GROUND.'^ 



Out ot tlie middle of a letter received 

 from Wayne B. Wheeler, Superintendent 

 of the Anti-saloon Ijeague. I clip the fol- 

 lowing-; 



" Seventy per cent of the territory of the United 

 States is now dry, and nine States are dry. Forty- 

 six million people live in dry territory, and a nation- 

 wide fight is on." 



"CAN YOtJ afford IT?" 



I hate drunkenness ; but I do not hate the drunk- 

 ard. 



If any man should have our friendship it is the 

 man who has failed to be a friend to himself. 



The fact is, the victim of strong drink often has 

 all the virtues^including high intelligence and a 

 tender, sympathetic heart — and yet when the demon 

 Drink clutches him, nis will is paralyzed and Satan 

 is in the saddle. 



A few weeks ago I visited San Quentin prison and 

 talked with a man in the " Death Row " who has 

 since leen hanged. 



" It was drink — just drink," he told ipe. " I was 

 crazy. I was jealous, and I shot her. Therf I shot 

 myself. She died quickly. I recovered to he sent 

 here. Next week I die. She was a beautiful, honest, 

 loving wife to me, but drink had destroyed my rea- 

 son." 



I said nothing — what could I say ? But I realized 

 that the slow, lingering death of a drunkard's wife 

 is no more tragic than the quick taking-off by knife 

 or pistol. 



The worst about strong drink has never been told. 

 It can not be told — it escapes the limitations of lan- 

 guage. 



But I think we err in despising the drunkard. 

 Our hearts should go out to him in pity. 



.V part of his hallucination often is that he is not 

 a drunkard. '• I can quit any time," he says. But 

 he who says that seldom quits until death stops his 

 mouth with dust. 



•'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and 

 whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." So said 

 Solomon, a thousand years before Christ. 



And the drink problem is upon us to-day, just as 

 terrible, just as tragic, as it was then. — Elbert 

 HiBUARt), in The May Cosmopolitan Magazine. 



