1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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No matter whether the people in a neighbor- 

 hood, town, or county want saloons or not, 

 they must have them. We claim the privi- 

 lege of pushing our stulT right under the 

 noses of the most respectable people. Even 

 if there are, in some of our cities, localities 

 where intelligent Christian people are gath- 

 ered together with their schools and churches 

 and Endeavor societies ; no matter how much 

 these people detest and hate the sight of a 

 saloon, they have got to have it right in their 

 midst. We claim the privilege of planting it 

 there ; and any attempt to give them a law 

 that can drive us out must be thwarted and 

 killed, no matter what the cost." 



The Anti-saloon League and the good peo- 

 ple of Ohio knew what was going on. We 

 got our ministers, our teachers, our godly 

 temperance (and temperate) lawyers to write 

 letters, visit the senators personally, and 

 bring every influence to bear that an honest 

 and upright man could bring to bear, and we 

 even succeeded in getting public and private 

 promises from more than enough of the sen- 

 ators to support the Clark bill to make it a 

 sure thing. At just the last minute, the bill 

 was pushed through without giving any time 

 for debate, and to our surprise and conster- 

 nation three of the senators voted against it 

 who had given the temperance people the 

 promise I have mentioned. They succeeded 

 by having just one vote more. These three 

 men were obliged to admit their constituents 

 hack of them wanted temperance legislation ; 

 and none of them can give any consistent 

 reason why they did not vote as they had 

 pledged themselves to do. 



By the way, is it wise, is it just as it ought 

 to be, to permit one man (and that one not a 

 good man) to have it in his power by a single 

 word to curse our whole State of Ohio with 

 saloons in places where the resident people 

 do not want them, and would not have them 

 if there were any legal remedy ? Our daily 

 papers came out strongly and valiantly for 

 temperance.* They presented the matter 

 plainly and clearly again and again, and 

 pointed out the unfair and absurd idea of per- 

 mitting this business to be carried on where it 

 is not wanted, just because the liquor-dealers 

 could make " big monev " by so doing. By 

 the way, the Wine a7td Spirit News itself is 

 the best evidence we have in the world of the 

 hellish nature c f the traffic they are engaged 

 in. I wish temperance and Christian men 

 and women throughout the land would make 

 an effort to get hold of its pages and read 

 them. It is sent out as a private journal, in 

 the interests of the liquor-dealers. In this 

 periodical they admit that money is what 

 makes our laws, and with brazen assurance 

 they call on the saloon-keepers and brewers 

 to bring forward money — more money — or 

 the industry will be killed by good people 

 who do not want saloons in their neighbor- 



* I clip the following from a recent is.sue of the 

 New York Tribune: 



They will oppose any reform whatever. 



They deny the right of the people to protect them- 

 selves at all. 



They claim the right for themselves to poison and 

 brutalize and degrade all whom they can reach. 



hood. They admit we outnumber them by 

 honest votes ; but they recognize we can not 

 be Christians and use money for bribes, and 

 resort to like criminal ways of working to 

 protect ourselves and enact righteous laws. 

 What is going on here in Ohio is still going 

 on in almost every State in the Union ; and, 

 sadder still, it is held up by the precept and 

 example of even the very head of the United 

 States government. Now, I am not advising 

 that we should give up, and let things go as 

 they are. See Home Paper in this issue. 



THE NATIONAI. ANTI-SALOON I.EAGUE. 

 I am sorry to say there are people, even 

 Christian people and temperance people, who, 

 for some reason I can not comprehend, are 

 picking at the Anti-saloon League. Now, the 

 very best testimony that the world can pro- 

 duce of what the Anti-saloon League is doing 

 in the United States is found in the organs of 

 the various whisky papers. The whisky men 

 of Michigan have a periodical they name Truth 

 (I have just been wondering if it is some rela- 

 tion to Francis Truth). Let me give you one 

 extract from this Truth paper : 



The Anti-saloon League's campaign for local option 

 in several of the counties of the State, which the 

 League considers hopeful, is now in earnest. 



The liberal people of Michigan, liquor-dealers in 

 particular, have no idea of the magnitude of this Anti- 

 saloon League movement in Michigan. It has spread 

 out over the State until nearly every city and town of 

 any size has a local League affiliated with the State 

 League, all pouring money into the pockets of State 

 Superintendent John Brant and his agents. 



These men, and there is a host of them, are travel- 

 ing about the State constantly, creating discord, and 

 they are slowly but surely winning their way to suc- 

 cess, aided by the very liquor-dealers they seek to ruin. 



As sure as the sun rises, Michigan liquor-dealers are 

 going to see stormy times for the next two years, cul- 

 minating in serious restrictive legislation and local 

 option in half the counties of theState, if something 

 isn't done by the liquor-interests to bring the trade 

 up to a higher standard, where it can command more 

 of public approval. 



Do not imagine, because your county is not threat- 

 ened at present that you have no interest in the battle 

 in the counties where it is raging. Should the Anti- 

 saloon League succeed in carrying one county for 

 local option next spring, the influence would be felt 

 in every county in the State. Religious frenzy would 

 be aroused, fanatics encouraged, money would be 

 poured into the coffers of this un-American league, 

 and there would be an epidemic of local-option elec- 

 tions. The influence of such a victory would be felt 

 at Lansing next winter, and the whole liquor trade of 

 the State would be in danger. 



I do not suppose anybody will undertake to 

 say the whisky periodicals have exaargerated 

 or overestimated the damage we are doing. I 

 am pleased to tell you that Bro. Brant was one 

 of the few present at our first meeting, and 

 helped organize the Anti-saloon League of 

 Ohio. This extract is only a sample of what 

 may be found in the liquor periodicals all over 

 the United States. Bro. Brant, let us congrat- 

 ulate you on the grand work you are doing. 

 Be ye not weary, etc. 



Humbugs and Swindles. 



THE NATURAL-HEN INCUBATOR. 



Mr. J. F. Seims, of Columbus, Neb , is get- 

 ting a great lot of money (or at least he says 

 he is, in his circulars) by sellirg a pamphlet 



