OCTOBER 15, 1916 



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author. Miss Annette Hazeltoii, liave a little news 

 for you. 



Infantile paralysis, says Dr. Pease, is simply 

 a form of tobacco poisoning. Infants in arms be- 

 f line infected thru their tobacco-using' parents, 

 lu' has informed the health department. 



Our poulti'y friends will remember that, a 

 short time ago, a sort of paralysis started 

 among- the poultry; and when the search- 

 lij>ht of science was turned on the matter 

 they declared the whole trouble was because 

 the chickens had gotten hold of some dead 

 carcass ; and poultrymen everywhere are ex- 

 horted to see that everything of this sort 

 is either burned up or buried so deep that 

 no enterprising scratehers can ever resur- 

 rect it. Is it possible we have fathers and 

 mothers in this land of ours who would 

 keep on using tobacco when it might kill or 

 cripple for life the baby in the cradle, or. 

 Avorse still, the tinhorn babies? 



" THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL." 



The above exi^ression that I used in these 

 pages recently it seems has called forth the 

 following from friend Doolittle. Read it 

 very carefully and see if you don't think he 

 is about right : 



THE DEVIL DKE.S.SED IN WHITE. 



Bro. Root: — I note what you have to say in the 

 Temperance department of Gleanixgs for Septem- 

 ber 1, p. 817, under the quotation of scripture, 

 " Tliou child of the devil ; thou enemy of all right- 

 eousness ; V7ilt tliou not cease to pervert the right 

 ways of the Lord?" You think that Paul, if he 

 were alive upon the earth now, would say this of 

 the liquor people and their business, even tho it 

 sounds a little rough. And in this I agree with you 

 exactly, and I have so said many times in print and 

 otherwise. But allow me to ask, " \VTao are the 

 liquor people? " Sixty years ago, when I was a boy, 

 the man who made a business of selling liquor was 

 called a " black devil," and was so considered, as is 

 the liquor traffic of today by many of the people of 

 the United States; but in 1862 the government at 

 Washington took this devil in as partner, clothed 

 him up in white, and gave him next to the highest 

 place in the atfairs of the nation. By that act Con- 

 gress never gave such a gift to anybody else — not 

 even in its land grants to the railroads — as it gave 

 to tho liquor interests, when, in 1862, it passed the 

 internal-revenue bill. The modern liquor-trafific is 

 the product of that bill. It created organization, it 

 established monopoly, it gave an air of respectability 

 to what had before been disreputable in the eyes of 

 all decent people. It enabled the liquor maker and 

 seller to shake his dirty fist in the face of the Ameri- 



'can government and say: "You cannot do without 

 me!" and, while robbing the American people of 



-billions of dollars annually, to trample on their necks 

 with the insulting assertion, " I pay your public 

 expenses;" and, strange to say, this devil is still 

 wearing his white apparel, because 498 sovereign 

 citizens of these United States, out of every 500, 

 jay at every national election, " We love to have it 

 so," by casting their ballots with political parties 

 who are pledged to the continuance of this very 

 same state of affairs. Every thinking man knows 

 that the party in power at Washington is the govern- 

 ment ; and every voting citizen of these United States 

 shoiild know that, when he gives his ballot for the 

 election of jiroCicenKe parties, he is voting for the 



continuance of this " devilish " state of affairs for 

 another four years, to the very utmost borders of 

 our fair land. The man who wants the liquor traffic, 

 this "child of the devil" (according to the apostle 

 Paul, A. I. Root, and Doolittle), to go right on de- 

 stroying " 50,000,000 children and young people 

 under 25 years of age" (as given on page 817 of 

 Gleanings), the value of each of which is " $8000," 

 or " $400,000,000,000 " for the whole, can vote the 

 Republican ticket or the Democratic ticket or the 

 Socialist ticket ; whichever of these he votes, his 

 ballot will say to the gin-miller, the brewer, the 

 distiller, the saloonkeeper, " Go right on destroying 

 the boys and girls of the nation." But the citizen 

 who wants to make his vote say that he wants the 

 liquor-traffic to stop robbing the people, to stop dis- 

 turbing our nation's life, to stop killing men and 

 women and children, will have to vote the Prohibi- 

 tion ticket to have his ballot say that. It is useless 

 to attempt to stop the sale until we stop the manu- 

 facture. And before we can do that, we have got 

 to break the partnership of the national government 

 at Washington with the traffic. And before we can 

 do that we have got to have a party that isn't tak- 

 ing the lion's share of the profits and taxing and 

 licensing it. We have got to go to Washington and 

 adopt "one standard of morals" on the liquor ques- 

 tion, the same as we did on the slavery question and 

 the Ijouisiana lottery question. 



Borodino, N. Y., Sept. 6. G. M. Doolittle. 



1 think I can give a hearty amen to the 

 above unless it is where it includes the 

 Socialist ticket with the Republican and 

 Democratic tickets. Quite a few Socialists 

 have written me lately to the etfeet that 

 socialism was " out and out " for prohibi- 

 tion. T have not seen the Socialist platform: 

 but if that jDlatform gives any more encour- 

 agement than does the Democratic and Re- 

 publican, I have not been informed. 



RAISING REVENUE FOR OUR GREAT CITIES BY 

 TAXING THE SALOON-KEEPERS, 



There is much discussion going on just 

 now as to how it came about, and where the 

 trouble is. that so many of our great cities 

 are not only short of funds but are threaten- 

 ed with bankruptcy. There have been all 

 sorts of discussion in regard to the cause; 

 but yet few periodicals, unless we except 

 temperance papers, come right out and ad- 

 mit that liquor revenue costs in the end fivcr 

 so much more than it comes to. Below is a 

 clipping from the Neto Ee public : 



OHIO'S BIG booze BILL 



Columbus, Sept. 23. — At the present time there 

 are 6000 saloons in Ohio, each of which pays 

 yearly license fees of $1000. In spite of this 

 enormous income from wet sources, the city of 

 Akron is bankrupt, while Toledo, Columbus, Cleve- 

 land, Cincinnati, and other large wet cities, are 

 in serious financial straits and are practicing 

 rigid economy. The saloon revenue is insufficient 

 to pay the saloon cost. It is estimated that the 

 enormous sum of $110,000,000 is wasted annually 

 in Ohio alone for liquor. 



Of course, the above is from a temperance 

 l)eriodical; but here is another one, clipped 

 from the Youngstown Tele(jram, thai does 



