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the mother ; she invests her life in her child. When 

 the mother of the Gracci was asked: "Where are 

 your jewels?" she pointed to her sons. The moth- 

 er's life trembles in the balance at the child's birth, 

 and for years it is the object of her constant care. 

 She expends upon it her nervous force and energy; 

 she endows it with the wealth of her love. She 

 dreams of what it is to do and be — ^and, oh, if a 

 mother's dreams only came true, what a different 

 world this world would be I The most pathetic 

 struggle that this earth knows is not the struggle 

 between armed men upon the battlefield ; it is the 

 struggle of a mother to save her child when wicked 

 men set traps for it and lay snares for it. And as 

 long as the ballot is given to those who conspire to 

 rob the home of a child it is not fair — no one can 

 believe it fair — to tie a mother's hands while she is 

 trying to protect her home and save her child. If 

 there is such a thing as justice, surely a mother has 

 a just claim to a voice in shaping the environment 

 that may determine whether her child will realize 

 her hopes or bring her gray hairs in sorrow to the 

 grave. Because God has planted in every human 

 heart a sense of justice, and because the mother 

 argument makes an irresistible appeal to this uni- 

 versal sense, it will finally batter down all opposition 

 and open woman's pathway to the polls. 



" god's kingdom coming/' 

 We take pleasure in clipping the follow- 

 ing from the Union Signal. I do not mean 

 that I take pleasure in seeing anybody fail 

 in business; but I take pleasure in the above 

 because I am sure that the liquor people 

 will be better and happier in turning their 

 attention to some other source of livelihood. 



.SALOONS l^OE SALE IN PHILADELPHIA. 

 The Philadelphia correspondent of Bonfort's Wine 

 and Spirit Circular admits that "very little new busi- 

 ness is being done or looked for" in his city, but 

 ascribes the dullness to the hot season, etc. How- 

 ever, the real-estate men who handle saloon prop- 

 erties say they have been loaded down with com- 

 missions to sell during the last few months. The 

 North American states that two hundred and forty 

 saloonkeepers of the city are ready to "quit busi- 

 ness before the tidal temperance wave which is 

 sweeping the country puts them out," and that more 

 than a thousand places thruout the state are like- 

 wise on the ragged edge, seeking a purchaser who 

 is willing to risk his money on the chance that the 

 whisky trust and the brewers may save the day for 

 them. 



IN KANSAS 32 COUNTIES HAVE ABANDONED 

 THEIU PUBLIC POOR-FARM. 



We clip the following from the Christian 

 Herald in regard to Kansas : 



Forty counties in the state did not send a single 

 prisoner to the state penitentiary last year. In one 

 county, the jail, which had been empty for two 

 years, is now used as a corn-crib. Poverty and 

 illiteracy are disappearing. Thirty-two counties 

 have abandoned their public poor-farms, and in the 

 whole state less than nine hundred paupers are be- 

 ing cared for in county institutions. The bigger 

 part of the criminal cases tried in the state courts 

 is due to the influx of liquor from other states, and 

 in most cases the culprit.s are not Kansas citizens. 



Kansas M-ants the whole Union to know the truth 

 about these things. It has chosen a decent road for 

 Its people to travel, and it intends to go right along 

 on this new and clean highway. Governor Capper's 

 address in pamphlet form should be circulated and 

 read wherever there is a liquor question. It is one 



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of the most convincing temperance arguments we 

 have ever seen. 



It seems that Gov. Capper does not pro- 

 pose to let the liquor people go unanswered 

 in their desperate efforts to find some fault 

 with Kansas. 



A DRUNKEN CHAUFFEUR, AND HOW IT WORKS. 



We clip the following from the Kansas 

 City Star: 



WHEN WHISKY SITS AT THE WHEEL. 



The three young men who rode in the death-car 

 Saturday night that ran into the crowd of young 

 people at Fifteenth and Troost have been captured. 



But the real driver of the car is still at liberty. 



It was whisky that sat at the wheel and committed 

 the murder. It was whisky that sent the car on its 

 mad way after two of the young folks had been 

 killed and others injured. 



Whisky still is free and uru-estrained. It was out 

 bright and early this morning looking for other 

 young men to act as its agents and ride with it on 

 another death mission. 



My impre&sion is that not a few of the 

 accidents from automobiles every day are 

 caused by a drunken or drinking chauffeur. 

 Right near our own town of Medina two 

 automobiles ran into each other "head on" 

 at a good speed. We were told the injuries 

 were so great that there was but little hope 

 of saving the life of at least one of the 

 parties; but we do not know how it came 

 out. I have since been informed that the 

 parties in one of the automobiles, if not 

 in both, stopped at a "roadhouse" saloon, 

 just before the accident, and that the whole 

 ti'ouble was due to drink; but, as often 

 happens, the friends or relatives of the in- 

 jured parties took pains to have the real 

 cause kept out of the papers. 



'' A STANDING ARMyC?) MADE UP OP INDIVID- 

 UALS SUFFERING FROM PARALYSIS.-" 



Dr. R. H. Bishop, Commissioner of 

 Health for the city of Cleveland, in an arti- 

 cle in regard to pneumonia, in the Plain 

 Dealer, writes as follows: 



Alcohol is another important predisposing cause 

 of pneumonia. It is the sum total of effect of alco- 

 hol on all the cells of the body that gives one the 

 feeling produced by alcohol. 



The cells, which represent the standing army of 

 tjie body, are more or less paralyzed. Their effi- 

 ciency is partially destroyed and the condition is 

 similar to what would occur if the standing army of 

 the nation were made up entirely of individuals suf- 

 fering from paralysis. 



Is this overstated or overdrawn? The 

 above reminds me of the time when Mrs. 

 Root was near death from this same pneu- 

 monia. The doctor and nurses declared she 

 would have to have brandy to " pull her 

 thru." But she refused to take it, and I 

 backed lier up, and she is alive and well 

 today. Who can say she would have been 

 alive and well if she had followed the doe- 

 tor's orders? 



