GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



ItOMELS 



byAJ.ROOT 



Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, 

 where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves 

 break throug-h and steal. But lay up for yourselves 

 treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth 

 corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and 

 steal.— Matt. 6 : 19, 20. 



On page 1594 of last year I told you about 

 being called on to speak in the absence of 

 one of the program speakei's at a meeting 

 of the Anti-saloon League convention in St. 

 Louis. As my address appears in the pro- 

 ceedings of the Eleventh Annual Report of 

 the Anti-saloon League of America, I copy 

 from it as follows: 



It gives me great pleasure, friends, to stand before 

 you and look into your faces, and I will tell you why 

 it gives me an especial pleasure to-day. Dr. Russell 

 has just been telling you how it was my privilege. 

 under a kind providence, more than a dozen years 

 ago, to give the Anti-saloon League financial help 

 when it was far more needed than it is needed now. 

 I gather from the excellent address of the brother 

 from Maine, who has preceded me, that, like myself, 

 he has at ditferent times in his life been looking out 

 for good investments. I, too, have all my life been in 

 the mercantile business, more or less, in buying and 

 selling, and of all the investments I have ever made, 

 none has given me the satisfaction, through years 

 past, like the money I have put into the Anti-saloon 

 League. The Master said : Lay not up for your- 

 selves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth 

 corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; 

 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven," etc. 

 Well, the money I have been permitted to give the 

 Anti-saloon League has been more truly "treasures 

 laid up in heaven" than any other investment I have 

 ever made, not even excepting that given missionary 

 work. The interest and dividends on that invest- 

 ment, I see right here before me to-day. 



Neither Dr. Russell, Mr. Metcalf, nor myself, had 

 any comprehension, away back in those years, of 

 what this League would amount to, but we had faith. 

 That $1000 we raised then meant a good deal more 

 than it would mean now. It was then the Anti-saloon 

 League of Ohio. May God be praised, it is now the 

 League of the whole United States of America. Right 

 before me in this beautiful church are the great and 

 good men and women of America— men that are so 

 high above me in learning and scholarly attainment 

 that I feel my— I might almost say— my insignificance, 

 as I never felt it before, and yet God has used, and has 

 use for, even me. 



Now, friends, you will be called on, in fact we are 

 all constantly called on, to give of our means to this 

 cause. "Thieves," even yet, " break through and 

 steal.' yes, God knows they do in regions where sa- 

 loons are still plentiful, and " moth and rust doth siill 

 corrupt." Shall we not put our money where it will 

 benefit posterity and pi-ove to be " treasures laid up 

 in heaven " ? 



THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE IN WASHING- 

 TON, D. C, FEB. 14, 1907. 



On page 343 of our issue for March 1 I 

 made a brief mention of this meeting. Well. 

 I hold in my hand a report of the hearing. 

 The pamphlet is labeled "H. R., No. 6016, 

 to Prohibit the Manufacture and Sale of In- 

 toxicating Liquors in the District of Colum- 

 bia." I quote from the above pamphlet as 

 follows from Mr. Webber's address: 



I wrote a letter (which will be before your commit- 

 tee) to Mr. Macfarland, Commissioner of the District, 

 and received an answer; and without stopping to read 

 the answer, which I offer in evidence (because I have 



not the time), I will give you the substance of his 

 statement. He says there are 522 drink-places in the 

 city and District of Columbia, or were a year ago last 

 December, when I received the letter; that they paid 

 $416,776.60 per annum. Of course, that amount chang- 

 es somewhat as the years go by. but not much. It in- 

 creases as the city grows larger. As against this sum 

 of $416,776.60 is the following: The jailor, or warden of 

 the jail, writes me that it costs in round numbers 

 $50,000 a year to maintain the jail; the workhouse su- 

 perintendent writes me that it costs $95,336 to main- 

 tain the workhouse (see his letter), and he says 95 per 

 cent of the inmates there are there through drink, 

 and the jailor says 90 per cent of those who are in the 

 jail are there by rea.son of drink. 



The insane-asylum has something like 1300 inmates, 

 according to the superintendent (see his letter), who 

 are there by reason of drink, and to maintain them it 

 costs something like $275,000 a year. The District 

 official reports show that, to maintain your police 

 court and criminal courts, it costs about $885,175 a 

 year. That makes a grand total of $1,295,511 for these 

 expenses and institutions. Deduct from that the 

 amount that the liquor nien pay in ($416.776 60), and 

 you have $878,735 still against the taxpayers. To this 

 should be added the annual drink-bill of the District. 



The saloon men of my State (and I find that true 

 everywhere, although I have not consulted any saloon 

 men here, but things areabout alike tie country over) 

 say that the average gross income per day for each 

 saloon is $15. Now, assuming that they do not sell on 

 Sundays, but keep strictly within the law, the drink- 

 bill of this city and District, put at its lowest estimate, 

 amounts to $2,500,000 for 365 days— subtract fi-om that 

 sum and the added expenses of the institutions named. 

 $416,776.60, and you still have for the taxpayers to 

 meet $3.378,7.S5. I repeat, you will still have for the 

 taxpayers to meet $3,378,735, as the figures in round 

 numbers still against the taxpayers. 



Now, suppose you take that colossal sum and cut it 

 right in two, you still have the enormous sum that the 

 drink costs the citizens of this District yearly of 

 $1,689,367. These seventeen speakers represent here 

 the churches and all the temperance organizations in 

 this District, and, in fact, they represent these organ- 

 izations and churches throughout America, and they 

 come here and ask you gentlemen to do your duty. 

 We have come here to do our duty. When this door 

 closes, the responsibility is upon you. We ask you, 

 in the light of all the evidence that shall be adduced 

 here to-day by this cloud of witnesses (if you do not 

 see fit to recommend the bill favorably), report it to 

 the House without recommendation, and let the re- 

 sponsibility rest upon the Members from all over the 

 country. 



Mr. Webber here introduced a letter from 

 one of the commissioners of the District of 

 Columbia, Henry B. F. Macfarland, in which 

 he, Macfarland, stated that there were 523 

 drinking-places in the District. In com- 

 menting on this, Mr. Webber says: 



These .522 drink-places mentioned in Commissioner 

 Macfarland's letter pay by way of license fees for the 

 right to exist, the sum of $416,778; against this sum is 

 the following: 



To maintain jail per year (see jailer's letter) $ 50,000 



To maintain workhouse (see superintendent's letter 



of workhouse 95.336 



To maintain insane-asylum (seesuperintendent'sjetter) 275.000 



To maintain police court and criminal courts 885.175 



Total 1,295.511 



Subtract 416,778 



Saloon tax lacks of paying above sum 878,733 



To this should be added the annual drink bill of the 

 District. The saloon men admit that the average 

 gross Income per place is $15 per day. Assume they 

 do not sell Sundays, at that rate the drink bill of this 



district amounts per annum to 2.500,000 



Total amount paid out for drink and crime, the tax- 

 payers have to meet 3,378,7.33 



The jailer says that 90 per cent of those in jail got 

 there through drink. 



The superintendent of the workhouse says that 95 

 per cent of those under his charge get there through 

 drink. 



The superintendent of the insane-asylum says that 

 about half of his inmates get there through drink, and 

 in his estimate there should be no reduction from the 

 expense, he states, as he gave only the number that 

 are there through drink. 



The cost of the police force and criminal courts, we 

 would say, would be reduced only one-half by the 



