OCTOBER 15, 1914 



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" WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE ? " 

 Be not deceived; . . . neither thieves, nor cove- 

 tous, nor drunkards, shall inherit the kingdom of 

 God. — I. Cor. 6:10. 



I am not thinking, good frieads, of the 

 harvest of corn and wheat just now (I think 

 we as a people of the United States can 

 fervently thank God for the harvest of corn 

 and wheat) ; but the harvest I am thinking 

 of is in regard to the boys and girls just 

 now of our State of Ohio. What is going 

 to become of them — your boys and mine — 



A. :Bf^IG£E'X< BO^S^. 



your girls and mine'? And we older ones 

 can look forward with a prophetic eye, or 

 try to, and ask what is to become of the 

 (/rawrfchildren growing ujd around us. What 

 shall the harvest be? Judging from the 

 past I should say a certain per cent of the 

 liarvest would be (God forbid) like the 

 picture above. It was taken from the Aus- 

 tralian Temperance World of Oct. 1, 1913. 

 Away off in Australia they are considering 

 this matter of " what shall the han^est be." 

 We read above and below the picture — • 

 "Wanted — a bright boy." Who wants him? 

 and what for? Now, some of the older peo- 

 ple may not be able to read the placard. 



especially the small print. Here is what it 

 reads : 



" Wanted — a bright boy to take this man's place. 

 Apply to any di-ink-scller, wholesale or retail." 



You see, if the drink business is to go on 

 it has got to have recruits. The saloon- 

 keepers and brewers must by some means 

 enlist boys to take the place of the man in 

 the picture, who drops out. The brewers 

 cannot live in princely palaces unless they 

 liave consumers of their wares; and their 

 motto is to create an appetite. It does not 

 matter whose boy furnishes the nickels, just 

 so they get them. The brewers and their 

 wives flaunt their diamonds, and go about in 

 showy equipages; but the boys in rags 

 furnish the money. Do you want to help 

 along the traffic? While your eyes rest on 

 these words you are probably appalled by 

 newspaper reports of the killed, dead, and 

 dying, away over in Europe ; but some good 

 authority* has told us that more people are 

 killed and made houseless and homeless by 

 strong drink than by this wicked war; and 

 these victims go down to fill drunkards' 

 graves. Just now every man, woman, and 

 ehild in Ohio should be enlisted against the 

 drink traffic. Take this picture, show it to 

 your friends and neighbors, and ask them 

 if they wish to continue to support the drink 

 traffic. I fear there is not a township nor 

 neighborhood in Ohio that cannot furnish 

 one or more samples of the work of the 

 saloon-keeper as given in the above picture. 



We are told that it is always well to listen 

 to both sides of any subject. Below is some- 

 thing which I clip from the Ohio Messenger. 

 You will notice they extract it from one of 

 the liquor journals: 



FROM THE ENEMV. 



The Pacific Wine, Brewing, and Spirit Review 

 makes the brilliant statement that the reason the 

 churches oppose the saloon is that the saloons as 

 competitors are injuring the business of the churches. 

 People do not go to church any more, and therefore 

 have hard vrork raising their salaries. They take it 

 for granted that the reason the people are not in the 

 churcli is because they are all in the saloons, and 

 they therefore wish their business rivals suppressed. 



* We clip as follows from the Twentieth-Century 

 Quarterly for September, 1914: 



SOWING ALCOHOL, WHAT DO WE REAP ? 



The great war in Europe has suddenly shown us 

 what war means in the twentieth century — not alone 

 a " hell " of wholesale murder and unspeakable 

 physical agony and family bereavement, and a fiend- 

 ish fanning of race hatreds among the combatants, 

 but want and woe among the neutrals also, through 

 business broken up and prices raised to the starva- 

 tion point for many. But if the liquor-traffic and its 

 consequences could be blotted out, and it were as 

 .suddenly introduced in an alcohol-free world, we 

 should see that the Drink Monster kills as many as 

 even twentieth-century war of great nations ; wounds 

 and cripples as many; costs as much (|2, 455, 639,- 

 634 in the United States alone, and about twice as 

 much per capita in Europe) ; and no less makes 

 neutrals suffer. We who never drink must pay in 

 the United States on our life-insurance premiums 

 for the lives shortened by moderate drinking. 



