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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



TEMPERANCE 



March, 1917 



" THE END OF IT IS IN SIGHT." 



Even the liquor men now seem ready to admit 

 that prohibition is gaining ground, and is liliely 

 to win 90 per cent of the country witli/in a few 

 years. Mr. Bryan now regards it as the greatest 

 social question, and urges his party to take up the 

 issue seriously. The fact is that the liquor traffic 

 has no economic right to exist in this country. It 

 serves no useful nor respectable purpose, and repre- 

 sents a dead loss which society cannot afford to 

 suffer. The breweries and distilleries can be used 

 for making industrial alcohol, and thus give employ- 

 ment to the men who are now worse than uselessly 

 employed in making liquor. Every moral and eco- 

 nomic argument is against the liquor traffic. It has 

 no place in a country or in a world in which pov- 

 erty exists and where men, women, or children lack 

 food and shelter. Farmers are injured by this 

 traffic more than any other class. They realize it, 

 and that is why the great strength of the movement 

 against " booze " comes from the country. The busi- 

 ness of selling liquor is no longer respectable, and 

 the end of it is in sight. — Rural New-Yorker. 



I clip the following from the Coshocton 

 Tribune : 



LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE. 



This nation is fast learning that it can do with- 

 out the manufacture, sale, and consumption of 

 booze. Last Tuesday's election, besides performing 

 a number of other eye-opening stunts, marked the 

 greatest advance of temperance sentiment of any 

 previous national election in the country's history. 



The record of 1916 is almost unbe'ievable. On 

 January 1, 1916, less than eleven months ago, there 

 were only nine states in the Union under prohibition 

 rule. Today, so swiftly have events moved, there 

 are twenty-three actually dry states, and every rea- 

 sonable prospect that two more will be dry just as 

 soon as the newly elected dry legislatures get dowTi 

 to work. 



Territorially, eighty-five per cent of this country is 

 now dry. Sixty-seven per cent, or two-thirds of its 

 population, lives in dry territory. The truth is 

 that nine-tenths of the dispensing of beverage in- 

 toxicants in this country is confined to a dozen or 

 fifteen big cities. Only three states — New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, are still completely 

 under the domination of the liquor interests. Ohio 

 and Illinois are still rated by these interests as of 

 their own, but this is true only of the big cities. 



Rural America is already dry ; but the big cities 

 like New York and Philadelphia, with truly urban 

 provincialism, simplicity, and ignorance, don't know 

 it. Not only is rural America dry, but there is a 

 tremendous change coming over the big cities them- 

 selves. Their own people are fast coming to see 

 that the liquor business, considered sanely and from 

 every angle, is not an asset, but an ominous and a 

 menacing liability. 



Reasoning from this and from every phase of the 

 situation, the time is aspurodl ■ ripe to submit the 

 question to the people nationally. 



A CONFISCATION OP $9000 WORTH OF WHISKY 



Some unknown friend sends us a news- 

 paper clipping from an unknown source. 

 It reads as follows : 



Tacoma, Sept. 26. — A carload of perfectly good 

 bonded whisky is in storage here following its seizure 

 by (deputy prosecuting attorneys and county detec- 

 tives at Wilkeson, a coal-mining town. 



The value of the contraband intoxicant is estimat- 

 ed at $9000, and was consigned by a San Francisco 

 liquor firm to George Morris, a Wilkeson expressman, 

 who, however, denies all knowledge of it. 



The whisky was billed as " grapes," and to carry 

 out the deception a layer of grapes about six inches 

 deep was placed on top of each case of liquor. 



When word of the seizure spread thru Wilkeson 

 women and children armed with buckets and dish- 

 pans flocked to the booze-car, where the officers liber- 

 ally distributed the luscioxis fruit free. 



In ease no claimant appears the authorities will 

 confiscate the liquor and give it to the fishes in the 

 Puyallup River. 



What do you think of a business, friends, 

 that has to be conducted in that wny? Is il 

 not a fair sample of the entire liquor traffic 

 from beginning to end ? 



IN PLACE OF " booze/-" CHILDREN'S SHOES. 



Read, and ponder on ihe above from the 

 American Issue, especially that part in re- 

 gard to children's shoes. 



Out in Seattle, Wash., is a shoe concp'-n called the 

 Dinham-Strehlau Shoe Company. H. T. Dinham is 

 president. Since the city is dry, this shoe company 

 has for its motto, " Less booze means more shoes." 

 In a recent letter concerning the company's business 

 since the prohibition law went into effect, President 

 Dinham says : 



" We have opened three new shoe-stores in Seattle 

 since the dry law went into effect the first of last 

 January. All of them are in locations formerly oc- 

 cupied wholly or in part by five saloons. We are 

 employing more men than the saloon did, and are 

 doing a flourishing business. The increase in the 

 sale of shoes in Seattle has been remarkable since 

 prohibition went into effect in the state. There are 

 50 per cent more children's shoes sold now than there 

 were when the saloons were in full blast. The people 

 are also buying a better quality of shoes than for- 

 merly." 



Will the Liberal Advocate please copy ? 



INSANITY; HOW DOES IT COME AND WHAT 

 CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT IT? 



The clipping below, sent us by some 

 friend who gives us no elue as to where it 

 comes from, contains a startling truth: 

 The suggestion in the first paragraph, 

 that killing off our best men, leaving the 

 poorest to replenish the earth, is a reason- 

 able explanation of the increase in insanity. 

 Witli the abolition of the saloon there will 

 be, unquestionably, a decrease in syphilis. 



War is the greatest factor of insanity. The 

 Civil War wiped out 720,000 of the best American 

 stock — healthy, strong, courageous, clean, manly 

 men — young men who were the pick of the country. 

 Northerners and Southerners. This loss was plainly 

 shown in heredity. In 1870 the number of insane 

 persons in the country had increased by nearly 

 one-fourth, and the number of idiotic persons had 

 increased by one-third of the previous proportion in 

 the whole number of people. 



Alcoholism is the second greatest factor in in- 

 sanity, epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, and degeneracy 



