1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



1591 



They said their policemen would not enforce 

 the law, as they thought it not best. He told 

 those mayors to go back to their respective 

 cities anci tell the policemen that the laws 

 7)1 Nst be enforced or they would have a new 

 set of police throughout. As a consequence, 

 in a very short time those fourteen large 

 cities were aljs(jlutely without any police 

 protection. New policemen were put in 

 their places who would and did enforce the 

 law. I wish, friends, you could have heard 

 the shouts and clapping of hands and stamp- 

 ing of feet while that great audience of sev- 

 eral thousand cheered and encored Governor 

 Hanly and the State of Indiana. 



Bythe way, there were between one and 

 two' thousand delegates present at that Ohio 

 meeting. County local option is what we 

 are going to work for next; and when the 

 matter came out in the papers it was one of 

 my happy surprises to see some of the papers 

 that have been severely criticising and ob- 

 jecting to the work of our league come for- 

 ward and strongly indorse county local op- 

 tion. The Ohio State Journal is one of these 

 Columbus papers. This is what they say: 



If there is any subject upon which home rule should 

 be recognized as the governmental idea, it is where 

 the home shall say for itself whether it wants the sa- 

 loon by its side or not. 



We are in favor of that issue. We believe the peo- 

 ple are ready for the conflict, and what this paper can 

 do to help them to a signal victory, it will do. 



I can not take space even to mention the 

 great men and women who addressed us at 

 that convention. Miss Lillian Burt in par- 

 ticular carried us all by storm by her eloquent 

 and almost girlish enthusiasm. 



So much has been said in the advertising 

 pages of the papers about the food value of 

 beer ( "liquid food " as it is called) that Pro- 

 fessor Higley gave us a discourse on the sub- 

 ject. He ijought a glass of beer for five 

 cents, and analyzed it. It did contain some 

 food, it is true, but so little that a man would 

 have to drink about 180 glasses of it to get 

 the quantity of nourishmenc he would find 

 in five cents' worth of Hour. The professor 

 held up before the audience the amount of 

 nutriment in dry form to be found in a glass 

 of beer; then he held up two beautiful loaves 

 of In'ead that were both made frcjm five 

 cents' worth of Hour. The Hour cost the 

 same as the glass of beer. A good deal has 

 been said in regard to the value of moderate 

 drinking, giving to invalids a little beer ev- 

 ery day as a tonic, etc. In order to test this 

 part of it, a large number of puppies were 

 selected, and half of them fetl on good 

 nourishing food. The rest of the puppies 

 hatl more or less beer put in their daily ra- 

 tions, commencing with a very little, and 

 finally giving them about all they could 

 stand. Well, none of the puppies that had 

 afiy beer ichatever in their rations did any 

 thing like as well as the "total abstainers." 

 The beer-fed puppies, in fact, lacked vitality; 

 they could not get up even a respectable 

 bark — they just growled and grumbled their 

 discontent. Some years ago somebody said 

 that a little beer mixed with bee-feed would 

 greatly stimulate the bees when you are 



building up colonies in spring l)y stinuilative 

 feeding: but as the matter was dropped, I 

 think the experiment never proved to be a 

 great suc(^ess. 



Now, the most of owv speakers were gi-eat 

 scholars and eminent orators; in fact, we 

 had a collection of some of the best intellects 

 that the State of Ohio aft'ords— men of edu- 

 cation and great ability in their respective 

 lines. But one of my happy surprises came 

 when the mayor of London, Madison Co., 

 came on the platform. London is a town of 

 about 3000 inhabitants, al)out 30 miles south- 

 west of Columbus. As it had until recently 

 23 saloons, it has been a landmark for crime 

 and outlawry of every description: in fact, it 

 has been a regular rendezvous for gamblers 

 for years past. The saloon element general- 

 ly elected the mayor, and they always chose 

 one that could be "manipulated" according 

 to their notions and ideas. Through some 

 ovei'sight or mishap they got in Mr. A. T. 

 Cordray as mayor aljout a year ago. Now, 

 this man is not very nuich of a scholar, as I 

 took it, or perhaps I should say he was not 

 at the time he was elected. He was not par- 

 ticularly a temperance man, and, if I am cor- 

 rect, not a professing Christian. He had, 

 however, thank God, a keen sense of right 

 and wrong. Soon after he became mayor a 

 man in town got drunk and pounded his 

 wife. When sober he was a good law-abid- 

 ing honest man — a good husband and a good 

 neighbor: but when drunk he invariably ])e- 

 gan to pound his wife and children. On this 

 occasion he came home, knocked his wife 

 down, then put his great brawny knees on 

 her chest and Ijegau pounding her in the 

 face. She was a weak woman, and disposed 

 to consumption. He pounded her face until 

 it was unrecognizable, and he jammed her 

 head against the Hoor until the scalp was 

 loose on the back side. I might mention, in- 

 cidentally, that, a month or two after this 

 event, there was an addition to their family. 

 Now, after the mayor had taken this man 

 into custody he went around to those 23 sa- 

 loons and told the proprietors they must not 

 sell that man any more drink, explaining 

 why: but he said that, in a few days, he hatl 

 good reason to telieve that every one of 

 those saloon-keepers would sell that man. or 

 any man, drink as long as he had a nickel 

 to pay for it; and from that time to this he 

 vowed war on the saloon business. 



In that town of 3000 inhabitants, besides 

 the mayor quite a police force was needed 

 as a matter of course. He could not get his 

 policemen to enforce the law against the sa- 

 loon-keepei's, and so he went around with 

 them and showed them how. His wife com- 

 plained that he was not getting any sleep at 

 all, except in the day time. He said he was 

 quite willing to work nights and sleep days 

 for the sake of making it "hot" for the sa- 

 loon-keepers. Well, he passed and enforced 

 an ordinance compelling them to shut up at 

 10 o'clock at night and Sundays. He made 

 them pull down their screens. He passed an 

 ordinance prohibiting the use of mvisic in sa- 

 loons as a means of drawing custom. He 



