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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



is one in which the victim was wrecked by alcoholics 

 and finally succumbed to disease brought on or ag- 

 gravated by liquors. 



Under the ruling, not only is the saloonkeeper 

 liable for damages but his bondsmen also. Undoubt- 

 edly the first result of the decision will be the filing 

 of thousands of personal-damage suits all over the 

 country. There will be no haggling over the law. 

 The United States Supreme Court has settled that. 

 It will be merely a case of proving facts. 



A second result of the ruling will be bankruptcy 

 for a number of saloonkeepers whose cupidity and 

 avariciousness have prevented them from heeding 

 the demands of friends and relatives not to sell to 

 known victims of liquor. Another result of the ruling 

 will be a decided inclination of casualty companies 

 and individuals against going on the bonds of sa- 

 loonkeepers ; and without bonds, licenses cannot be 

 secured. 



The country may expect a tremendous howl from 

 the liquor interests and the organs in their control ; 

 but the decision will stand because it is right. It is 

 in complete harmony with that changed and chang- 

 ing public opinion in regard to the liquor business. 

 More and more the public is coming to look on 

 liquor-selling as a form of slavery the victims of 

 which are as much deprived of their manhood's 

 rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 

 as ever was a black man, and public opinion is set 

 against it as it was against slavery. The courts are 

 responding to the changing public opinion. The 

 liquor interests will not be able to change the law 

 until they change the tide of public opinion. 



" PROHIBITION doesn't PROHIBIT/'' 



We clip the item below from Farm and 

 Fireside : 



SMILINa THROUGH TEAR.S IN KANSAS. 



87 counties without any insane. 

 54 counties without any feeble-minded. 

 96 counties without any inebriates. 

 38 counties without any poor-houses. 

 53 counties without any prisoners in jail. 

 65 counties without a representative in the State 

 penitentiary. 



With the above staring us in the face, 

 how can any man (or woman) vote for the 

 retention of the liquor-traflic"? Think of it 

 — 65 counties without a " representative " 

 in the penitentiary. 



SOMETHING FURTHER IN REGARD TO KANSAS. 



From an address delivered before Con- 

 gress by Ernest H. Cherrington, Dec. 10, 

 1913, we clip the following: 



EFFECT OF PROHISITION ON CRIME, PAUPERISM, AND 

 INSANITY. 



The Supreme Court of the United States is author- 

 ity for the declaration that " the statistics of every 

 State show a greater amount of crime and misery 

 attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at 

 these retail liquor saloons than to any other source." 



No State of the Union has given prohibition so 

 fair a trial as has Kansas. To-day that State pre- 

 sents the unparalleled record of almost two-thirds of 

 its counties without a single prisoner serving sen- 

 tence for crime, while in some of the counties a jury 

 to try a criminal case has not been called in ten 

 years. 



Never mind, friends, if I have harped on 

 this matter several times before. What does 

 it mean when it can be truthfully said that 

 two-thirds of the couniies are witlout a 



single prisoner serving a sentence for crime, 

 and that in some counties a jury lo try a 

 criminal case has not been tried in ten 

 years? What is the matter with the people 

 of the United States that they should con- 

 tinue to " vote wet " when such facts as 

 these are before them? 



EDISON ON CIGARETTES^ ETC. 



One of our good friends sends us a clip- 

 ping from the Detroit Free Press. It seems 

 that Edison posted a notice on his factoi"y 

 in West Orange, N. J., reading, " Cigarettes 

 not tolerated. They dull the brain." It 

 seems that Henry Ford, the great automo- 

 bile man, indorsed Edison. This aroused 

 the ire of Pereival F. Hill, President of the 

 American Tobacco Co., and he makes a 

 feeble attempt to defend the use of cigar- 

 ettes. After reading his defense it occurs 

 to us that the money that comes out of it is 

 what they are after. We extract the fol- 

 lowing, taken from the Detroit Free Press: 



" Inasumch as millions of men use cigarettes, and 

 perhaps even a larger percentage are educated peo- 

 ple, the charge of feeble-mindedness lies against 

 an overwhelming proportion of the commercial, pro- 

 fessional, artistic, musical, and industrial world," 

 continued Mr. Hill. 



TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN 13 YEARS. 



Mr. Hill gave figures showing that 15,812,092,000 

 cigarettes were made in the United States in 1913, 

 against 2,600,000,000 in 1900, or an increase of 

 700 per cent in 13 years. 



Mr. Hill said further that Mr. Edison should prove 

 his assertion, in justice to millions ' of intelligent 

 cigarette smokers, or give the manufacturers an op- 

 portunity to disprove it. 



Our good friend A. N. Clark, of Lansing, 

 Mich., who sends the clipping, comments 

 as follows : 



This defense of the cigarette by President Hill 

 not only demonstrates the weakness of the defense, 

 but indicates the moral make-up of a character so 

 typical among modern trust officials. 



Lansing, Mich., May 18. A. N. Claek. 



BRYAN IN REGARD TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 



In speaking of the women's victory in 

 stopping the Colorado war, Mr. W. J. Bryan 

 uttered the following, which we clip from 

 the Woman's Journal for May 23: 



" The battle is already won in ten States and in 

 Alaska. Pour more will come in line next Novem- 

 ber. The Eastern States are beginning to line up. 

 The women of America are going to vote soon. No 

 party question will prevent them ; no color line will 

 stop them ; no States rights issue will deter them. 

 No State has any right to deny to half its citizens 

 the right to share in government by the exercise of 

 suffrage anywhere under the American flag. As cit- 

 izens of the great American Republic, as members of 

 the American family, and as units of the great Amer- 

 ican home, we will not permit such a travesty on 

 democracy to exist any longer in this land of equal 

 opportunity." 



Amen lo the above! 



