GLEA2JINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



aries to the heathen, why not open up a 

 orusade to educate some of our country 

 editors? 



THE DKUNKKN CHAUFFEUR^ THE MAN WHO 

 SOLD HIM THE DRINK, AND THE JOURNAL 

 THAT ADVERTISED THE DRINK. 



We clip the following from the American 

 Issue : 



WHO ARE THE GUILTY PARTIES? 



A drunken man in Detroit was driving an auto- 

 mobile and ran over a man, killing him. The driver 

 was arrested, convicted, and sent to the penitentiary 

 for 15 years. The fact that he was drunk when the 

 accident occurred did not save the man from punish- 

 ment. 



The Ohio State Journal, commenting on the case 

 editorially, says: "For a man who is drunk to run 

 a car is an offense itself; and when he happens to 

 kill a man, the offense naturally intensifies the crime. 

 If there is anything the law should punish severely, 

 it is where a drunken man undertakes a run an 

 automobile." 



But what about the men who made and sold the 

 liquor which made the man drunk and caused the 

 killing? Are these men guiltless? 



And what about the newspaper that in its adver- 

 tising columns urges men to drink? In the same 

 number of the Ohio State Journal in which the edi- 

 torial appears is an advertisement to the effect that 

 a certain brand of liquor is " worthy of a place in 

 the best of society, is good for young and old, and is 

 a good tonic of high value." 



In the same paper of the same date another brand 

 of liquor is proclaimed to be a " spring tonic, a 

 delicious drink, and an ideal thirst quencher." 



Probably the drunken automobile driver who kill- 

 ed the man had been reading these advertisements. 



Is the drunken automobile driver the only guilty 

 party ? 



What does the Ohio State Journal think about it? 



I hope the above will be read over and 

 over, not only by drinking men, but by 

 those who vote for drinking men; those who 

 vote wet, and the editors of the periodicals 

 that accept wet advertising. 



PROHIBITION DOES NOT CONFISCATE PROPER- 

 TY^ AFTER ALL. 



We take pleasure in clipping the follow- 

 ing from the Methodist Temperance Bulle- 

 tin : 



SALOONS AND BREWERIES TURN TO LEGITIMATE 

 BUSINESS. 



" Hydes," the finest saloon of Seattle, has been 

 remodeled as a tea-room, with beautiful decorations, 

 oriential furnishings, and comfort conveniences. 

 Hundreds of Seattle's leading women are its patrons. 



Prohibition docs not confiscate property, but mere- 

 ly forbids its misuse. 



The Raymann Brewery, qf Wheeeling, West Vir- 

 ginia, is now the P. O. Raymann Company, engaged 

 in meat parking. 



The Uneeda Brewery, of West Virginia, is now 

 a milk-produce company. 



The Benwood Brewery (West Virginia) is now a 

 chemical and soap plant. 



The Pairmount Brewery (West Virginia) is now 

 an ice and milk products plant. 



The Huntington Brewery is now a meat-packing 

 plant. 



The Cedar Rapids Brewery is now a yeast-fac- 

 tory. 



The Iowa City Brewery is now a creamery and 

 produce company. 



The Star Brewing Company, of Washington, 

 Pennsylvania, is now the Capital Paint, Oil, and 

 Varnish Company. 



T)ie North Yakima Brewing Company, of Wash- 

 ington, is now a fruit by-products company. 



The Salem, Oregon, Brewery, is now- making lo- 

 gan-berry juice. 



" PREPAREDNESS," NOT AGAINST AN IMAGIN- 

 ARY FOE, BUT AGAINST A REAL ONE. 



We learn from the Patriot Phalanx that 

 Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in his speech in 

 Washington, D. C, said : 



The proper " preparedness " should be, not against 

 an imaginary foe, but against the ever present ene- 

 my that is destroying more American men and wom- 

 en and homes than any foreign foe could ever do. 



Can't a lot of us say amen to the good 

 old general's declaration? 



god's KINGDOM COMING IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 



We clip the following from an article in 

 the Neiv Republic: 



Mitchell, S. D., April 21. — The greatest dry 

 victory ever won in South Dakota was achieved last 

 Tuesday when a score of towns and cities now wet 

 swTing into the dry column, and every dry town 

 remained dry Three cities not only re- 

 fused to go back to the saloon system, but increased 

 their dry majorities of a year ago — .Vberdeen from 

 4 to 66; Mitchell from 102 to 240; Rapid City from 

 43 to 134. 



" THE MILD AND UNASSUMING CIGARETTE." 



We clip the following from an article in 

 Plain Dealer: 



attention, henry ford; AMERICANS THIS YEAR 

 PROBABLY WILL SMOKE 21,000,000,000 CIGARETTES. 



New York, May 11.- — Bitter news for the Carrie 

 Nations of this land is contained in a report com- 

 piled by the Wall Street Journal and made public 

 today. It concerns the mild and unassuming cigar- 

 ette of which so many harsh words have been said 

 by well-meaning persons. 



The report shows that if American smokers con- 

 tinue using cigarettes thru the year at the rate they 

 have for the first three months the total consumption 

 for 1916 will be well over 21,000,000,000. 



The increase in consumption for the first three 

 months of 1916 in the United States and Kansas 

 over the same period in 1915 is 1,484,000,000. The 

 total consumption last year was 18,000,000,000. 



Our nation is just now making a big war. 

 and, by the way, in many respects a trou- 

 blesome war, on habit-forming drugs. All 

 things considered, is there a icorse " habit- 

 forming drug " at the present time than the 

 cigarette? Let our nation (and every other 

 nation, for that matter) answer. Are we 

 to understand from the above that the Plain 

 Dealer considers cigarettes " mild and un- 

 assuming"? and also that Ford and Carrie 

 Nation and other people who stand with 

 them on the cigarette business are only half- 

 crazy fanatics? 



