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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



practice if tbey desire stimulants. Which, oh which, 

 is the best? T. Q. Salomon. 



Cleveland, May 6. 



Well, what do you think of the above? I 

 at once wrote to the editor of the Leader that, 

 if they were going to give place to such a 

 string of falsehoods, without any footnote or 

 protest, I would at once give my patronage 

 to some other daily paper, even although I 

 had taken the Leader the greater part of my 

 life. If all the friends of temperance would 

 give the editors of their home papers to un- 

 derstand that they will not tolerate a period- 

 ical in their homes that is evidently iu sym- 

 pathy with the liquor trust, there would soon 

 he more periodicals out and out for temper- 

 ance, law, and truth. 



HE MAKETIl THE W^KATH OF MAN TO I'KAISE 

 HIM. 



The liquor periodicals are, it would seem, 

 unwittingly doing us a tremendous service 

 just now. The Cincinnati Herald and Pres- 

 byter wisely suggests: 



An army never knovrs how well it is succeeding un- 

 til it knows how badly it is frightening the enemy. 

 Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular, Louisville, Ky., is 

 one of the .ablest and most widely read and quoted 

 liquor-crgans of the United States. In a recent num- 

 ber it devotes a large part of its space to an editorial 

 concerning the Anti-saloon League and the constant 

 headway being made by the league against the liquor- 

 traffic throughout a large part of the country. It 

 says: 



With more than hall' of tlic {ieon'raphioal limits ot this great 

 eountry under laws jiroliibitinti- tlie sale of ak'oholic bever- 

 ages; with Tennessee passing through her legislature a bill 

 that almost amounts to State prohibition; with the West Vir- 

 ginia legislature passing a measure to submit the prohibition 

 of the manufacture and sale of wines and spirits to a vote of 

 the people ; with Texas providing that express companies 

 transporting wines and spirits shall take out a S.MOO license; 

 with the Illinois legislature considering a county-unit local- 

 option measure, and Indiana a $1(111(1 license for the" tew saloons 

 that the Remonstrance law will leave in that State; with Ken- 

 tucky almost a dry State, and iirohably lacing a prohibitory 

 amendment, and with an organization opposing us and sworn 

 to our destruction, that lacks nothing in the way of money or 

 brains, enthusiasm or persistent untiring work, what (may we 

 ask?) is tlie wine and spirit trade doing to arrest the current of 

 events or to alter in any way the radical conclusions which are 

 being forced upon the people in every State, county, and pre- 

 cinct? 



If tliere is one thing that seems sett ed l>eyond question, it is 

 that tlie retail liquor-trade of this country must either mend 

 its ways materially or be proliibited in all places save the 

 business or tenderloin precincts ot our larger cities. 



May the Lord be praised that all the above 

 is true, and that the enemy of righteousness 

 recognizes it. 



The suggestion that the retail liquor-trade 

 "mend its ways materially" will strike 

 most people as a sensible idea. Certainly 

 there is room for it. 



Here, again, we have the following : 



" ' The results of temperance agitation in the United 

 States have been well summed up by National Super- 

 intendent Baker of the Anti-saloon League in the fol- 

 lowing words : "' Thirty-three millions of the people 

 of the United States live in territory where the saloon 

 is legally prohibited, and during the pa^t twelve 

 months two and a half millions of our people have 

 abolished saloons from the territory in which they 

 live. Kentucky, in the past six months, has driven 

 the siloons from twenty-six counties by a majority 

 vote in tlipse counties, of upward of twenty-two thou- 

 sand, freeing a laopulation of one hundred and Hfty 

 thousand from the immediate presence of the saloon. 

 Tennessee has extended the Adams law to the entire 

 State, which means that, within a short time, the 

 saloons will exist in only three or four cities. Ala- 

 bama has just passed a county local-option law, which, 

 it is predicted, will abolish the saloons from all but 

 three of the counties within the next two years " 



■ Since these words were uttered, Colorado's new 

 local-option law has been signed by Governor Buchtel, 

 and the outlook is more optimistic than ever." " 



While I rejoice to see what the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture is doing for the farmer 

 in the way of sending out bulletins free of 

 charge, I do not rejoice to see one on hop- 

 growing, with a report of the beer industry 

 in the back part of it. See the following: 



BEER INDUSTRY. 



The three principal beer-producing countries are 

 Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

 It is only within the last two years that the beer pro- 

 duction of the United States has exceeded that of the 

 United Kingdom. This rapid increase in the United 

 States is due both to the rapid increase in the popu- 

 lation and to increased consumption per capita. In 

 the year beginning July 1, 1905, the beer production 

 was nearly .55,000,000 barrels. 



If the increase in the United States is as great in 

 the future as it has been in the past, the production 

 of the United .States will soon equal that of Germany. 

 This would indicate that there will be an increased 

 demand for hops at home. 



Well, I have been through this whole bul- 

 letin of 34 pages quite thoroughly; and al- 

 though it is sent (mt this year, 1907, I can not 

 find a single line in recognition of the gen- 

 eral war that is being waged against beer 

 and breweries throughout our land at the 

 present time. I am sure that thousands of 

 good honest hearts will join with me when I 

 say it is a burning shame and an insult to 

 our Christianity to see a bulletin sent out 

 from the head of our nation, placing the 

 manufacture of beer on an equal footing 

 with other agricultural lines, and totally ig- 

 noring the awful wreck and ruin that follow 

 the beer trade wherever it is introduced. 

 What is the matter with the scientific author- 

 ities at the head of our nation'.' Have they, 

 like Rip Van Winkle, been asleep while some- 

 thing like half of our people and half of our 

 territory have been emancipated from the 

 thralldom of the liquor-traffic'.' 



The ^Yf /;> Yor/.- Weekhj Witness says: "For revenue 

 England has for a century poisoned and demoralized 

 China with opium, and now India with alcohol. And 

 by tobacco, in the form of cigarettes principally, it is 

 rapidly sapping out the young life of Great Britain." 

 Do our rulers recUon that the revenue of our country 

 is a greater asset than our young manhood y Do they 

 forget that righteousness alone exalteth a nation '/ 



THE GAMBLER AND HIS OCCUPATION. 



Of all the occupations that men pursue, the occupa- 

 tion of the professional gambler is probably the only 

 one that has not a single redeeming feature. There 

 are many pursuits of life that are comparatively offen- 

 sive that are, nevertheless, necessary to public com- 

 fort. 



The occupation of the gambler, however, contributes 

 nothing. Nothing grows under his touch; not a blade 

 of grass nor a tree nor a flower yields its beauty or its 

 fragrance as a result of his profession. The deadly 

 Upas tree sheds about it no more fatal poison than the 

 iuHuence the gambler exerts. Not a dollar that he 

 earns is honestly earned. When he has passed his 

 career the only truthful epitaph that can be written 

 on his tombstone is that the world would have been 

 better if he had never been born — Judge Freeman's 

 charge to the Lincoln Co. iXew Mexico) Grand Jury in 

 1S9S. 



CATCHING THEM ON THE FLY." 



By the way, I am just starting in the bee business, 

 and have been reading your nice little magazine for 

 some time past. The swarming bees all lly to the 

 West in this country: and as I live on the west bank 

 of the Mississippi a great many colonies cross the riv- 

 er and land in the trees on our blufl. That is the way 

 I expect to get my start in the bee business. 



Burlington, Iowa. J. W. Murphy. 



