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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



doing only what I fear policemen are doing 

 everywhere all over our land. May God 

 help us in our efforts to secure some police 

 who love righteousness and hate iniquity in- 

 stead of those who love iniquity and hate 

 righteousness. Mayor Whitlock, of Toledo, 

 excused himself for not keeping his oath of 

 office by saying, quoting again from Dr. 

 Robertson, 



" that the people of Toledo desired a wide-open city; 

 and as he was chosen by the majority of the people 

 he let the people have what they wanted." 



Now, friends, are we going to elect mayors 

 who keep their oath of office? or shall we 

 continue to elect men who will "let the peo- 

 ple ' ' have what they want ? It is quite evident 

 that Mayor Whitlock is better posted in re- 

 gard to what the slums want, because his ac- 

 quaintance is much closer with them than 

 with the Christian people and the God-fear- 

 ing fathers and mothers of the city. This 

 minister in his sermon alluded to the fact 

 that they shut down on firecrackers, but left 

 the saloons all wide open. 



Day before yesterday was "stainless-flag 

 Sunday," and a plan was arranged,, although 

 I do not know how far it has been carried 

 out between the pastors of all our churches 

 in Ohio, to present the matter of the stainless 

 flag and have the pamphlets distributed. 

 This stainless-flag address strikes right at 

 the very root of the trouble in all our cities; 

 and yet there are quite a good many good 

 Christian people who object to temperance 

 sermons; and if it is announced beforehand 

 they will stay away from church. I fear that 

 such is the case even in prohibition Medina; 

 and I am afraid that that is more or less the 

 case in all our churches. If the Christian 

 people would only stand together unitedly, 

 and demand emancipation from the rum 

 power, or, in other words, a stainless flag, a 

 great wave of righteousness and honesty and 

 truth would sweep over our land. Yes, I 

 know it is coming already; but these words 

 I dictate after prayerful consideration of the 

 subject are uttered in the hope that the day 

 may be hastened. If it must come with 

 bloodshed, as did the extinction of slavery, 

 may God hasten the time; and if the blood 

 that is coursing in my veins is needed to pro- 

 tect the children of the coming generation, I 

 am ready to be a martyr to the cause. Our 

 periodicals and newspapers exert a great in- 

 fluence in this coming conflict; but it does 

 not I'est alone with the editors as to what 

 the outcome will be. 



With our telephones and cheap postage, 

 especially since our free rural delivery, it is 

 an easy matter for every man and woman to 

 be heard. Whenever a considerable number 

 of people protest to the editor because he has 

 given place to something encouraging to a 

 low standing of morals, he will begin to be a 

 little more careful. 



See the following from the Home Herald 

 for June 12: 



There are more than seventy hooks, which, on the 

 score of their contents, can not be carried in the Unit- 

 ed States mail. Tolstoi's " Kreutzer Sonata " and all 

 of Zola's works are among- them. An attempt is now 

 being made by the W. C. T. U. to eliminate from the 



mails " books in which the hero, heroine, or any char- 

 acter presented as worthy of admiration is pictured 

 as an habitual user of liquors and cigarettes without 

 condemnation of such habits," 



Now, if there is any thing I can do to help 

 the W. C. T. U. in the above undertaking I 

 am ready to act. Furthermore, I want to 

 put in a plea to eliminate from the mails all 

 magazines that uphold the use of cigarettes 

 and the habitual use of liquors in their stories 

 as something for boys and girls to aspire to 

 - that is, giving place to stories that mention 

 these things, as the W. C. T. U. expresses it, 

 "without condemnation of such habits." 



Immediately after the above came out, sev- 

 eral periodicals' ridiculed the idea; and I was 

 especially pained to see the paper that calls 

 itself the National Womati's Daily raake light 

 of it and speak sneeringly of Lucy Page 

 Gaston and her zeal in 'conducting the anti- 

 • cigarette campaign. Just think of it, friends 

 —a periodical styling itself the Wo7nan''s 

 Daily casting ridicule on those who are 

 spending their lives to xirotecL our boys from 

 the blighting influence of cigarettes! See the 

 following from their issue of July 1: 



It should be understood that the Woman's Christian 

 Temperance Union war is on tobacco as well as on 

 liquor. . . . Beyond all doubt, Lucy Page Gaston 

 and her followers, if she has any in this crusade for a 

 smokeless literature, mean well, but it is going to be 

 a very dififlcult thing to create a literature without 

 smoke. . . Meaning no offense, we still venture to 

 think that many of the best friends of the much ad- 

 mired W. C. T. U. will be rather disposed to pay their 

 devoirs to the " great god Nic-o-teen," even while 

 wishing the ladies the completest possible success, 

 and giving substantial aid toward that success, in 

 other branches of their good work. 



The way this same daily is severely de- 

 nouncing the postal department of the Unit 

 ed States and our government reminds me 

 of what the minister said of transgressors 

 when they begin to feel the " halter " tighten- 

 ing about their necks. 



Dear friends, I did not intend to make this 

 Home paper altogether a sad one. The Stm- 

 day School Times for April 30 gave a whole 

 page of protests against the cigarette business, 

 and from that page I'copy the following: 



PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS COMPANY. 



NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES. 



April 20, 1907. 

 For the betterment of the .service and the safety of 

 the public, it will from this date be the policy of this 

 Company to NOT retain in its employ men who use in- 

 toxicating liquors or cigarettes, or are in the habit of 

 gambling. While it is the privilege of each individu- 

 al to eat, drink, and smoke what he pleases, it becomes 

 the duty of this management to have in its service 

 only men of sober and temperate habits, phy.sically 

 and mentally able to perform the duties to which they 

 may be assigned. 



Approved: John Murphy, 



James D. Callkby, Pres. Gen'l Superintendent. 



When this notice was posted at the barns of the 

 Pittsburgh Railways Company, the The Sunday School 

 Times asked Superintendent Murphy his reasons for 

 issuing the order. Hei-e is his convincing reply: 



Being an ofticer of a company that carries— and of 

 course is responsible for the safety of— over two hun- 

 dred and twenty-five million people per year, it be- 

 comes my moral and legal as well as my public duty 

 to use all reasonable means to protect the lives and 

 further the comfort of this large number of passen- 

 gers. Having for some time back noticed that our ac- 

 cidents were increasing, upon investigating the cause 

 I satisfied myself that the standard of our men who 

 did not use liquor or tobacco (the latter in the form 

 of cigarettes) was much g.bove! that of those who used 



