NOVEMBER 1, 1916 



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land, but it will also be on sale every day in 

 the year." My prediction has not yet been 

 quite fulfilled, but it is " coming, coming, 

 coming." MJilk and honey ("uncooked 



food ") straight from the loving hand of 

 the great Father, is going to take the place 

 of intoxicants and stimulants; and may 

 God hasten the day. 



TEMPERANCE 



SOME WORDS OF WISDOM FROM AWAY OVER IN 

 SWITZERLAND. 



I take it for granted that the readers of 

 GrLEANiNGS, or at least the gi-eater part of 

 them, are going to vote dry in the coming 

 election, or at least they will vote to put 

 men into office who are not afraid to stand 

 up before the world for piohibition. With 

 this in view I wish you would not only read 

 the little clipping below from the Union 

 Signal, but get every voter, as far as possi- 

 ble, to read it and ponder on it before they 

 cast their vote on Nov. 7. 



THE TOLL OF THE BREWERY. 



Such horrors as a great modern joint-stock brew- 

 ery perpetrates are unrivaled in the whole world's 

 history. Men in past centuries were made chattel 

 slaves. But the slaves kept their health. Men have 

 been killed by thousands; but the children of the 

 murdered remained strong. Now they make slaves 

 of them and murder them at the same time. They 

 kill them together with their children and children's 

 children. They kill them slowly ; they torture them 

 slowly to death. — Dr. Yon Bunge, University of 

 Basel, Switzerland. 



GOUT^ SCROFULA, SOFTENING OF THE TISSUES^ 



AND TOO MANY OP OUR CRIMINALS COME 



FROM BOOZE. 



See the following, which we clip from the 

 Kansas City Star; and it comes from so 

 good an authority as President Poincare : 



WILL FRANCE GO DRY? 



The leading men of France, headed by the presi- 

 dent of the French republic, are engaged in a cam- 

 paign against alcoholism. Soon after the war began, 

 the French government prohibited the sale of ab- 

 sinthe. Now in every postoffice in France the foUovr- 

 ing poster appears, by order of the minister of com- 

 merce and posts : 



THE ALARM I 



Fbench Society for Action Against Alcoholism 



Honorary President, M. Raymond Poincare. 



Drink is as much your enemy as Germany. 



Drink since 1870 has cost France much more than 

 the present war. 



The cordials of your parents reappear in their 

 oflFspring as great hereditary evils. France owes to 

 wines a great many consumptives, without counting 

 sufferers from gout, scrofula, rickets, premature 

 softening of the tissues and too many of our crim- 

 inak. 



Drink decimates France. 



Mothers, young men, wives! Up and act against 

 drink, in memory of those who have gloriously died 

 for the fatherland. Thus you will accomplish a 

 mission as great as that of our heroic soldiers. 



It looks as tho several of the older nations of Eu- 

 rope may be freed from the curse of drink, notably 

 France and Russia, and possibly England, long be- 

 fore the United States joins the list of dry countries. 



From the above it would appear that if 

 France gets rid of drink as a result of the 

 war she is going to be the gainer in the end; 

 and is it not about time that the whole wide 

 world wake up and do likewise? 



A LOT OF MONEY WASTED." 



We clip the following from Bryan's 

 Commoner: 



The American Grocer recently estimated that the 

 drink bill of America now exceeds one billion and 

 seven hundred millions annually. As only about 

 one person in four uses liquor, this means $90 for 

 each. That's a lot of money to waste, especially as 

 poor men are the chief sufferers. 



crooks shun a dry town and a dry state. 



Morden Ward, in the Detroit Times, declares that 

 crooks have been flocking from dry states into wet 

 ones, and that self-defense will force Michigan to 

 adopt prohibition. "A crook hates a dry tovpn, for 

 there is no place to hide," he says. "Closing the 

 saloon naturally drives out all of the professionals." 

 — Methodist Temperance Board. 



" IT WERE BETTER FOR 'HIM THAT A MILL- 

 STONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK." 



Mr. Root : — I am enclosing a clipping concerning 

 a king who is setting an example that will destroy 

 others, and it seems to me as if it might have been 

 better if he had been drowned. Surely the influence 

 for wrong is very great. 



Chrisman, 111., Aug. 1. Geo. W. Fair. 



The clipijing referred to above comes 

 from the Terre Haute Star. It reads as 

 follows : 



KINC thanks school BOYS WHO HELPED RESCUE 

 HIM. 



Copenhagen, July 30. — King Christian received 

 at the castle today two school boys who helped to res- 

 cue him last week when a boat he was sailing was 

 upset near Aarhus, and presented them with cigaret- 

 cases. 



After expressing his thanks to the boys, the king 

 and queen drove to a restaurant to thank the pro- 

 prietor, who discovered the king's perilous position 

 and gave the alarm. The king presented him with a 

 diamond ring. 



Just as soon as I got hold of the above 

 it occurred to me that our Lord and Master 

 did say of a certain class of people, " It 

 were better for him that a millstone were 

 hanged about his neck and that he were 

 drowned in the depth of the sea." Now 

 the question arises, " What class of people 

 does the above severe arraignment refer 

 to?" The fore part of the verse I have 

 already quoted tells what it is as follows : 

 " But whosoever shall offend one of these 



