1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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vehemently that Governor Hanly shall be 

 supported and kept in oMce. 



Dr. Howard H. Russell, the old veteran of 

 the Anti-Saloon League, spoke of the victory 

 in Ohio, and said, "It was the men with clay 

 on their boots, who rallied from the country 

 districts, who gave us our victory." 



Wednesday morning they decided to have 

 a roll-call of the States; but there were so 

 many of them that it was deemed best to 

 confine each delegate to a report of ten 

 minutes; and even then we did not get to 

 all of them. 



Superintendent Baker, in a magnificent 

 speech and summing-up, told us that the 

 League during the year 1905 had received 

 $339,479, an increase over 1904 of over $72,- 

 000. There are now 26 Anti-Saloon League 

 papers published, with a combined circula- 

 tion of 208,000 copies. Brother Baker asked 

 us all to remember that the League is con- 

 fining its eflforts strictly to fighting the sa- 

 loon. "This one thing we do, and we are 

 going to stick to it until the American sa- 

 loon is a thing of the past." 



The delegates from the different States told 

 us many funny things connected with their 

 fights and their victories. A good brother 

 who reported from Texas told us that the 

 greater portion of that large State is now 

 dry territory. In one county there were 

 sixty or seventy saloons. After a big fight 

 the Anti-Saloon League triumphed, and it 

 was decided that, by the time the law had 

 been printed the third time in a weekly 

 county paper, every saloon should close its 

 doors. The law had been published for two 

 weeks ; but on the third week, the day be- 

 fore the paper was going to press, a tramp 

 printer wanted a job there. As they were 

 short of help, he was set at work. As he had 

 no home and no money he begged to be al- 

 lowed to sleep in the printing office over 

 night; but the boss gave him half a dollar 

 to get a bed. He got up the next morning, 

 however, before anybody else got around, 

 slipped into the office, and, after the paper 

 was all printed, ready for distribution, the 

 sharp editor, who was a temperance man, 

 discovered that a single word had been re- 

 moved from the ordinance, and the line 

 spaced out so it did not show. But the omis- 

 sion of this word permitted the saloonkeepers 

 to declare they were not legally ruled out, 

 and they had already commenced celebrating. 

 The editor, however had the word put back, 

 destroyed the whole edition of papers that 

 had just been run off, and printed a new edi- 

 tion with the ordinance correct. The temper- 

 ance people then rallied and paid the pub- 

 lisher for the loss of paper and presswork ; 

 and then they went for the tramp printer, but 

 he could not be found. The saloonkeepers 

 stopped their celebrating, and proceeded to 

 obey the law ; but the outraged public felt so 

 indignant at this trick, indicating so clearly 

 that saloonists are anarchists, and do not 

 propose to obey the law, that the wets got a 



worse dose than they would have had other- 

 wise. In that Texas county, like the State 

 of Indiana, the "lid" is not only shut down, 

 but "screwed fast." 



Rev. E. C. Dinwiddle told us about the 

 fights in Washington to circumvent the army 

 officers, or those who are pleased to style 

 themselves army officers, in trying to have 

 the canteen restored. He also told us of the 

 vigorous efforts to open up beer-selling in the 

 Indian Territory, but that righteousness had 

 again triumphed, and there was but little 

 probability that they could evade or get 

 around the law for the next 21 years. 



Not only are all the Protestant churches 

 uniting to banish liquor-selling, but Rev. 

 James McCleary, of Minneapolis, gave us a 

 grand temperance talk on total abstinence 

 among Roman Catholics. During the open- 

 ing of his speech, with a very pleasant smile 

 he said he was happy to be permitted to stand 

 in a Baptist pulpit and speak to those who 

 love temperance. He gathered from the 

 smiles of his audience, however, that he had 

 made a mistake somewhere. When told that 

 it was a Methodist church he said he was 

 sure it did not make any difference so far as 

 he was concerned, and he was quite certain, 

 too, that it made no difference with the audi- 

 ence. 



Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D., gave us a 

 magnificent talk on the relation of Christian- 

 ity to politics. 



Rev. Charles Scanlon, of Pittsburg, made, 

 I think, the most brilliant temperance oration 

 I ever heard. I asked one of the officers 

 if there was a stenographer present to take 

 down that sermon, but he replied : "Why, 

 Bro. Root, there is no stenographer living 

 who could take down that part of it where he 

 spoke with such enthusiasm, and where he 

 crammed so many brilliant thoughts into 

 sentences so rapidly spoken, and I presume 

 he himself could not reproduce it." The en- 

 couraging cheers and clapping of hands, and 

 the amens, had probably given him an in- 

 spiration that enabled him to utter thoughts 

 and soar to flights of oratory that could not 

 be transcribed to paper. 



I remember we had a very encouraging re- 

 port from Florida ; but I did not gather from 

 it the statement made under the head of the 

 temperance lesson in the Sunday School 

 Times for November 6. The statement is as 

 follows : "The State of Florida manages to 

 worry along with only 25 saloons." 



Mr. Folk, of Tennessee, brother of Gov- 

 ernor Folk, of Missouri, gave us a most in- 

 teresting account of the work in his State. 

 Tennessee is almost a prohibition State; and 

 it is a little funny to find out how it was 

 brought about. They succeeded in having a 

 law passed, forbidding saloons within four 

 miles of any schoolhouse. Bro. Folk is 

 State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon 

 League, and he is almost freeing the state 

 by planting schoolhouses wherever saloons 

 are found. They have been giving way be- 



