OCTOBER 1, 1916 



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Club at Superior, Wis. In the course of his address, 

 sppakinc: nbout the claim that prohiliiticui would 

 throw many men out of employment, Mr. Jones said: 



"We are begged not to vote men out of employ- 

 ment; but if a group of men are employed in a busi- 

 ness which is destructive to society I would vote 

 those men out of that employment and into some- 

 thing valuable to themselves and their fellowmen. 

 I should like to have a chance to vote 5,000,000 

 men in Europe out of their present jobs. If this 

 principle applies in one case, why not in another? 

 To advocate peace in Europe would throw thousands 

 of workmen in America who are engaged in the 

 manufacture of munitions of war out of their pres- 

 ent employment ; but thousands of trade unionists 

 and Socialists are today doing all in their power to 

 spread anti-militaristic propaganda among their 

 fellow-\\'orkors." 



What would be said of the munitions manufac- 

 turer who argued against stopping the war because 

 it would throw so many men out of employment? 



What would be said of the workers in munitions 

 factories who would plead for the carnage to con- 

 tinue in order that they might keep their present 

 lucrative jobs ? 



And yet that is the cry that is raised in behalf of 

 the gin-mills. If the poisoning of the people is 

 stopped, if the saloons don't continue their work of 

 debaiichery and their bloody course, those who 

 make profit thereby will have to seek other employ- 

 ment. 



This is the argument that has been urged against 

 the abolishment of every infamy that has existed 

 since the foundation of the world. 



It is a tough traffic that can give no better reason 

 for ?7f e.ri.Heyice than that those who make moneii 

 out of it Avnuld lose some profit by its abolishment! 



" BOOZE " AHD THE FARM PAPERS. 



If there is a farm paper that takes the 

 side of the liquor party, or even aeceiDts a 

 liquor advertisement, I have yet to see it 

 among all our exchanges. Just now tlie 

 Country Gentleman comes out with a sug- 

 gestive illustrated article. Underneath a 

 couple of pictures we read: 



" It is a heap hetter, and less costly in 

 the long run, to buy gasoline than rum." 



In one i^icture you see a farmer bringing 

 in a can of booze. Besides the wife there 

 is not only a baby in her arms, but fright- 

 ened children clinging to the skirts of her 

 dress. In the companion picture the farmer 

 has bought an auto. The wife and ehildi-en 

 are loaded up in it, while the farmer with 

 long strides brings in a can of gasoline. 

 They an a happy crowd, and the gre^i 

 contrast with the other picture points a 

 mighty moral. By the way, I have been 

 for days past watching the boys and girls, 

 and men and Avomen, as they enjoy their 

 automobile rides during this sultry August 

 weathei'. It is true they raise a dust more 

 or less: but, oh dear me! what is a little 

 dust, or a good lot of it, eomi^ared to seeing 

 the farmer's money go for booze instead of 

 for an automobile? Some one may suggest 

 that the automobile costs more than the 

 booze; but I am not so sure of that. When 

 you come to count up the widespread losses 



as the etfects of the booze, such as poor- 

 lio'.TSCs, lunatic-asylums, crippled babies, 

 etc., the cost of the automobile is nowhere. 

 Just see the tigures that are being paraded 

 just now in regard to the cost of intoxicants 

 thruout the land. 



Just a word more about the dust. During 

 the springtime we had the road sprinkled 

 in front of our bungalow; but something 

 happened to the waterworks, and Mrs. Root 

 put in a plea for an oiled road. One trou- 

 ble Avith sprinkling is that, during the hot 

 rainless season, the water lasts only a few 

 liours; but the oiled road we have now is a 

 " tiling of beauty and a joy " — until it needs 

 anotlier coat of oil; and the outlook now is 

 that the oil is going to be cheaper than the 

 water sprinkling in the end. I thank God 

 for the good time in sight when all man- 

 kind Avill have water to drink instead of 

 booze. I thank him, too, for the oil to oil 

 our roads, and the gasoline to take the 

 place of booze to run our automobiles, not 

 forgetting the beautiful and glorious means 

 of transportation we now enjoy, without 

 overtasking the tired horses when the 

 weather is too hot and sultry for anything 

 but an automobile. 



BOOZE, AND ITS EFFECTS ON WOUNDED SOL- 

 DIERS. 



We clip the following from a sheet dated 

 Aug. 7, put out by the Methodist Board 

 of Temperance : 



The Vindicator publishes a statement by the great- 

 est woman lawyer of France, Madam Maria Ve- 

 roiie. In her address she declared that France had 

 been robbed of the lives of vast numbers of its sol- 

 diers b}- drink. She declared it to be the invariable 

 experience of physicians that wounds which scarcely 

 affected normally healthy men were deadly in the 

 case of drinkers. In conclusion she said: 



" We will no longer tolerate from our parliamen- 

 tarians the want of courage and initiative they have 

 always hitherto shown in handling this drink prob- 

 lem. Bereaved mothers and widows from behind 

 their mourning-veils cry to you to prohibit alcohol as 

 a beverage. If you don't yield to them, they will 

 turn you out at the next election." 



Good for the women of France ! May 

 God grant that they, like the good women 

 of tlie United States, may soon dictate what 

 sort of men shall fill important offices for 

 the nation. 



In line with the above is the following 

 from the pen of Wm, Jennings Bryan : 



THE MOTHER ARGUMENT. 



The strongest argument in favor of woman suf- 

 frage is the mother argument. I love my cliildren 

 — as much, I think, as a father can ; but I am not 

 in the same class with my wife. I do not put any 

 father in the same class with the mother in love for 

 tlie child. If you would know why the mother's love 

 for a child is the sweetest, tenderest, most lasting 

 thing in the world, you will find the explanation in 

 the Bible: "Where your treasures are, there will 

 your heart be also." The child is the treasure of 



