.TULY 15, 1916 



625 



dock seed or any other kind of seed oora- 

 raences to grow, put on more mulch — old 

 dirty newspapers, or paper that has been 

 wrajoped about your meat — anything and 

 everything-. When this trash gets well rot- 



led it makes a most excellent fertilizer; and 

 if you should happen to get more around a 

 certain tree than it needs, work it into your 

 garden in i:>lace of buying manure. Save 

 the fertility. 



TEMPERANCE 



PROHIBITION IN KANSAS AND THE FRA MAGA- 

 ZINE. 



In our June 15th issue I spoke of that 

 article from the Frn magazine, and copied 

 a sentence in regard to prohibition in Kan- 

 sas, in which I suggested that the closing of 

 220 scliools in Kansas in 1914 was because 

 of the plan of consolidating rural schools. 

 In a lengthy article in the New Republic of 

 June 23 the Governor of Kansas replies in 

 full, and not only corroborates my sugges- 

 tion, but replies to all the iDoints made in 

 that article. It would seem this man who 

 wrote the article for the Fra was employed 

 by the liquor party to hunt up everything 

 lie could in the way of statistics that might 

 be construed so as to cast a slur on Kansas. 

 What little truth there was in the statement 

 was so construed as to make it appear de- 

 rogatory, when the real facts were wholly 

 otherwise. And with it all is a great lot of 

 whole-cloth falsehood. Any one who cares 

 to go all over it can get it in the New Re- 

 public, Westerville, Ohio. 



COillNG OVER TO OUR SIDE. 



It appears that the proprietor of the Den- 

 ver Post was once against prohibition ; but 

 he now comes out announcing his change of 

 mind, and, I hope, change of heart, as will 

 be seen by the following, which I clip from 

 tlie New Republic: 



WAS BL'sr prophet; glad of it. 



The terrUjle things that I predicted did not come 

 witli prohibition. It is doing wonders out here. 

 Colorado is happier, wealthier, healthier, wiser, and 

 more prosperous with prohibition. I am glad that 

 my predictions did not come true. — H. H. Tammen, 

 Proprietor of the Denver Post. 



" THE WAY OP THE TRANSGRES.SOH IS HARD." 

 Dear Friend: — I send you a clipping for your 

 temperance department. It shows how we deal with 

 the liquor -sellers in this part of the country. This 

 is only one ca.se of the many that have been convict- 

 ed and fined lately. I clip it from the Bystander, 

 Macomb, 111. 



Macomb, III., June 24. Geo. J. Sturm. 



County Judge C. I. Imes imposed a heavy sen- 

 tence on Samuel T. Danley this morning in county 

 court. It will be remembered that Danley was con- 

 victed by a jury this week on .si.\ counts on the 

 charge of selling intoxicating liquor in anti-saloon 

 territory. 



Judge Imes imposed a sentence of 60 days on each 

 of the six counts and .f 100 on each of the six counts. 



Danley, it is believed, cannot pay the fine; and if 

 this be the case then his imprisonment in the county 

 jail will total S93 days, or over two years and a 

 half. 



THE SENTENCE. 



In imposing the sentence Judge Imes said: 



"You have been indicted, given a fair and impar- 

 tial trial, found guilty of six violations of the law, 

 after twice having violated the same law. Under 

 statute it becomes my duty as the judge of this court 

 to pronounce sentence upon you under this charge 

 and verdict, and I desire to temper justice v.ith 

 mercy toward you as an erring brother-man, and also 

 do my duty to the community in which you live, and 

 whose peace you have disturbed by repeated viola- 

 tions of the law of this state. 



" The unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor is not 

 only a misdemeanor under the law, and wrong, but 

 public sentiment is growing strongly against any use 

 of intoxicants as a beverage; and those who have 

 acquired a habit which demands a use of such bev- 

 erage should be discouraged in the pursuit of that 

 which increases their desire for strong di-ink and 

 eventually brings trouble to themselves, their fam- 

 ilies, and the community in which they live. 



" And you must be influeed to stop your illegal 

 pursuit for your own good, the good of your cus- 

 tomers, and the good of society at large; and you 

 should realize that society demands this, and that 

 society is stronger than you, and will succeed in 

 crushing you if you persist in opposing their wishes. 



" The defendant, Samuel Danley, is sentenced to 

 be confined in the county jail of McDonough County, 

 in the state of Illinois, for a term of sixty days on 

 each of the six counts of the indictment upon which 

 he was convicted, the term of confinement on the 

 second count to commence when the term of confine- 

 ment on the first count ends, and so on till the six 

 terms are served; and that he pay a fine of one 

 hundred dollars on each of the said six counts, and 

 the costs of this suit. 



" In default of payment of said fine and costs, the 

 defendant is required to work out the same on the 

 streets and alleys of Macomb, 111., at the rate of one 

 dollar and a half per day, such work to begin at the 

 end of the last term of confinement as pronounced by 

 this sentence." 



How many wise and good judges like the 

 one in the above have we in this land of 

 ours? Long may they live. 



REDUCTION IN THE NUMBERS OF MURDERS 



COMMITTED IN ARIZONA UNDER THE DRY 



REGIME. 



We clip the following from the American 

 Issue : 



During the past 18 montlis with prohibition in 

 effect in Arizona, there were six murders in the 

 state. The last six months under the saloon regime 

 there were 30 murders. Had this ratio been kept 

 up under prohibition, there would have been 90 

 murders the past 18 months instead of six. 



