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population of Cleveland would be in jail most of 

 the time. 



The "chief i^roseeutor" says, in other 

 words, if a warrant was granted for every 

 trifling (?) offense, like keejJing a saloon 

 ojien all day Sunday, "half the population 

 of Cleveland would be in jail most of -the 

 time." I think I recognize Roosevelt's good 

 qualities, and I believe he is strong on "law 

 enforcement;" but when I vote for a Pres- 

 ident again, God helping me, I will try to 

 vote for a man who has the courage to in- 

 sist on law enforcement, even when it runs 

 up against the brewers and distillers with 

 their millions. May God bless, guide, and 

 sustain the Baptist Brotherhood, and may 

 all other denominations fall in line, and 

 back them up. 



THE RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS. 



On page 64, Jan. 15, I asked the ques- 

 tion, " Why can we not have Hobson for 

 President?" Now to-day a printed speech 

 delivered by him in the House of Represent- 

 atives, Feb. 2, has just been put into my 

 hands. The speech occupies 16 pages. From 

 the first page I quote as follows : 



ALCOHOL IN HISTORY. 



History is a record of a sad procession of world 

 tragedies. Nations and empires in turn have risen 

 to greatness only to fall. Before the deathblow was 

 struck from without, the evidence shows in every 

 case the ravages of a titanic destroyer within, under 

 whose operations the vitality and strength of the 

 i.ation were submerged in a general degeneracy. 



For centuries the world's philosophers and histo- 

 rians have looked on appalled, overwhelmed. Only 

 in the last few years has science taken up the ques- 

 tion. Following her patient, rigid methods, under 

 which nature* and life have slowly yielded up their 

 secrets, science has at last cleared uii the mystery 

 and identified the great destroyer as alcoholic poi- 

 soning. 



If you tlunk the above is extreme, read 

 the pages that follow. Now let me quote 

 another extract from the last page : 



THE SPIRIT OF THE MEN. 



The enemy by ruse attempts to shake the spirits 

 of our forces by saying, "Prohibition does not pro- 

 hibit." Let us not only show up how it does already 

 prohibit to a marked degree, but let us realize that 

 getting prohibition is but part of our war. The sec- 

 ond part is its enforcement. Let us turn the whole 

 power of our organization throughout prohibition 

 territory into such complete enforcement that all the 

 world must see. Shrewd word is also passed along 

 our ranks, especially to the worrying, that "Prohi- 

 bition can not prohibit." Let us 'fling this back in 

 the teeth of the enemy. It is nothing less than a 

 boast that the nation is already lost. Let us put it 

 before our ranks as the cry of pirates who have 

 hoarded the ship of state, and with jeers are trying 

 to hoist the black flag, with its skull and crossbones, 

 above the Stars and Stripes. 



Let me quote from the above. The oft- 

 repeated expression, "Proliibition does not 

 prohibit," is reallj^, as Hobson says, "a 

 boast that the nation is already lost." When 

 you hear anybody say again that prohibi- 

 tion does not prohibit and prohibition can 

 not prohibit, consider that this means virtu- 

 ally to say that our just and righteous laws 

 can not be enforced. That is what the mav- 



or of Cleveland said in regard to shutting 

 up the saloons there on Sunda5\ If that is 

 true, our nation is already lost. And, dear 

 friends, the responsibility rests on you and 

 me to say that our just and righteous laws 

 shall be enforced. 



"RATTLESNAKES" SHALL THEY BE TOLERATED IN 



OUR HOMES? 



My daughter, who is a teacher in the public 

 schools here, came to me and handed me a list price 

 requesting me to send for the Review of Reviews for 

 her. I looked up an advertisement I had seen, of- 

 ferring to send this and two others, Succesx and the 

 American, I think it was, for about the pric« of the 

 Review. I took all three. When they came I found 

 two of the trio were carrying liquor advertising. 



Now, Mr. Root, I should like to have you believe 

 me when I tell you I had rather see a man offering 

 rattlesnakes for sale than to offer liquor, as but few 

 persons would be bitten by the snakes, as they un- 

 derstand the deadly character of such reptiles; but 

 as to the "snake of the still," alas I there are too 

 many who are deceived thereby. 



Can not Gleanings give us a black list of all 

 magazines and farm papers that carry these whisky 

 advertisements, so that the unwary, like myself, need 

 not be trapped into subscribing to such papers ? I 

 do not even want them to come into my home. Pos- 

 sibly you would not like to make up and publish a 

 black list. Well, you could make up a white list 

 of those like Gleanings, Practical Farmer, etc., that 

 set their faces against furthering the well-being of 

 »ny periodical that will help the Devil in such work. 



If you can not give us a long list at once, give 

 us a small one, and add to it as you become better 

 at once, but it would soon bring about a line-up 

 posted. Send a copy of such list to other publica- 

 tions that 5'ou have reason to believe would be glad 

 to publish it. This move would not amount to much 

 at once, but it would soon bring about a line up 

 that would soon compel every journal to show itself 

 on one side of the fence or the other. 



To put the matter plainly, there is now no means 

 for a person in the country to ascertain the stand- 

 ing of any paper on the temperance question with- 

 out investing blindly, and then getting something 

 he would be ashamed to have a Christian person see 

 in his home. 



Ozark, Mo., Dec. 4. S. S. Lawinq. 



TOBACCO-GROWING IN OHIO. 



After what I said in regard to the above 

 in our issue for June 15, I submitted the 

 matter to my good friend the director of 

 the Ohio Experiment Station. Below is his 

 reply : 



. .Mr. A. I. Root: — You can not be too emphatic in 

 condemning the wastefulness of the tobacco habit ; 

 but the facts remain that at least two men out of 

 three, probably four out of five, are users of tobac- 

 co, and that the production of tobacco is recognized 

 by custom and by law as being as legitimate a 

 branch of agriculture as the production of corn or 

 wheat. 



As long as this is the condition of public senti- 

 ment, an institution supported by the State, and 

 conducted for the benefit of the agriculture of the 

 State as a whole, can not refuse to consider the pro- 

 duction of tobacco, merely on the ground of personal 

 detestation of the use which is made of it. 



Chas. E. Thorne, Director. 



Wooster, Ohio, June 18. 



I think I have heard somebody say in 

 times past that "facts are stubborn things ;" 

 and I suppose my good friend Thorne is 

 right. But may God be praised that the 

 number of good sound business men of es- 

 tablished reputation, who do not use tobac- 

 co in any form whatever, is daily increas- 



