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h WfFp" W-yjTTji. JVWyJp The Commoner SEPTEMBER, 1916 27 - 'HPINJ1 iy devoted my life to knocking the props out." And winding up he said: "I'm going to go up and down this country fighting tho saloon until hell freezes over and then I'll put on skates and chase 'em on tho ice." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? INDIANS LEAD IN WAR ON LIQUOR A Deadwood, S. D dispatch, dated Aug. 26, says; In tho opinion of Abraham Red Wing, James Two Dogs, Simon Antelope and Sam Big Eagle tho rum dragon is on its last ten or twelve legs in the Dakotas. Tho aforementioned loud voiced prophets have reached this conclu sion after talking for three days and in no uncertain manner to the largest Sioux temperance congress ever held in America. For 72 hours the vast gathering listened without a blink of sleep to what the wild orators mentioned above think of rum, by and large, and at the end of that timje there was not a theoretical thirst on the Crow Creek reservation. As is rather well known the Sioux are excitable, both as a result of their natural bent and what has happened to them in the dear dead past. There tore, the temperance meeting was one of the wildest night songs imagin able and the speakers had to use all the Sioux words of counsel available to prevent u medicine dance or some similar uncivilized outburst from developing. For days before the beginning of tho long period of oratory the In dians from distant districts gathered and soon the little Indian Presby terian church was overflowing, a great pavilion of rushwood and poles was packed to capacity and it be came necessary to put up thousands of tepees all facing the steps of the church. Then the ultra patient lis teners, many of whom did not care to drink anything anyway listened to 72 hours' worth of reasons why they shouldn't. Furthermore, when the speakers had drunk their ice water or were forced to rest for a moment to force their jaws back into position a troupe of young braves sang Sioux songs. Lo, the poor listeners. It is expected that the congress will have a very important effect up on the coming "dry" election. - FROM BOOZE TO MILK The American Magazine tells how some of the great industries in this country, recognizing that a man who drinks beer or whisky is not a good workman and is more liable to acci dents than one who does not drink, are trying to win them away from that habit by getting them to drink milk instead. The Illinois Steel company, em ploying thousands of men, has put electric signs throughout its plants asking this question: "Did booze ever do you any good help you to get a better job contribute to the happiness of your family?" Other signs notify men that the company does not want them to drink beer or whisky and warns them that if they persist in it they .will lose their jobs. The company sends men through the plant selling milk at cost in the hope that it will be drunk instead of liquors. The Wost Steel Casting Company of Cleveland has put refrigerators throughout its plant and keeps them filled with fresh, cold milk, which the men can buy at cost.'ihThe men used to go to saloons to -'eat their noon luncheon. Now theyeat it out doors in the shade atfd'-d'rfrik milk with it. - '" t : The South Works plant ' of the Illinois Steel Company beJga'n selling milk to its workmen at cost six months ago; It sells 'fourteen hun dred quarts a day. Fourteon saloons near the plant were forced to close for lack of trade. Best of all, tho men in all those plants have learned that milk gives invigorating and lasting strength and thoy havo noticed a great benefit in the change from booze to milk. Kansas City Star. CITY SNUBS ITS BBEWERIES Milwaukee apparently is trying to tell tho worid that it is famous for something besides beer. In front of tho Adelphla hotel the Milwaukee delegates to tho adver tising convention havo stretched a banner calling attention to tho in dustries of their city. One reads that they produce 75 million dollars in iron, steel and machinery each year; 45 million dollars in packed ,and prepared meats; 43 million dollars in leather and leather products, and so on. There isn't a word about the Mil waukee breweries. Talk to tho forty delegates from that city to the convention and you'll notice tho samo thing. They'll throw up their hats over their "largest tanneries" and not a word about beer. They'll become enthusiastic over their three thousand manufac turing plarits, without mentioning tho breweries. Talk to a member of the Milwau kee Ad club, and he'll fill your ear full of the wonderful achievement of not full page booze ads, but a Church advertising campaign. Literature boosting Milwaukee displays the same attitude. Danlcs publish folders advertising the city as a home for business men and omit mention of tho breweries. There isn't a placard or a printed page at tho convention on Milwaukee's heer. Philadelphia North American. BREWERIES NOW MAKE FRUIT JUICE In tho campaigns for prohibition in Oregon and Washington tho liquor interests pointed to the big brewing plants which would bo closed, and the hundreds of men who would be thrown out of work if those states became dry, and that argument had influence with many voters. But pro hibition came in both theso states and this is what happened: You havo seen in Tho Star a page advertisement of "Loju," a new fruit juice. That is a product of the brew eries of Oregon and Washington. Leopold P. Schmidt, founder and owner of great breweries in Olympia, Salem and Bellingham, saw that pro hibition was coming. Ho believed in the future of fruit juices and he or ganized a company and befor,o the prohibitory law went into effect he stopped making beer and equipped his three brewery planks to make "Loju," the juice of loganberries and "Appleju," the juice of ripe apples. The new fruit juices were liked by tho public, the "demand grew, the business prospered and now, instead of being closed, the three breweries are running at full capacity and more men aro employed than formerly. And these men have tho prido of knowing that they are in a clean business which is a benefit instead of a curse to mankind. Kansas City Times. A KANSAS LINE BARS LIQUOR a TiMniiUn Tfns.. rlisnatch. dated Aug. 26, says: The Arkansas Jalley Interurban, with headquarters here and extensions to Newton, Halstead and Hutchinson, decided today to take no shipments of liquor. R. B, Campbell, general manager for the road, in response to an inquiry from tho county attorney of Reno county, said that no liquor of any kind would bo handled by tho interurban as freight. BOOZE AND MACHINERY Tho liquor man says to tho prohi bitionist: "You havo no right to in tereforo with my personal liberty to drink if I want to, any more than you havo tho right to say what I shall and. shall not eat." There was a time when a man could get drunk and not be likely to harm anyone but himself and his family. But that was before ma chinery became such a largo part of our lives. A drunken man might drive a horse through a street crowd ed with other horses and not dam ago himself or anyono elso; but a drunken man In a motor car in a street crowded with, other hurrying motor cars becomes a veritable death angel. A drunken man might drivo a stage coach filled with pas sengers and all arrive safely. But a drunken man at tho engino throttle, or asleep in the signal tower, Is a different thing. A drunken black smith in the old days would simply spoil a few horseshoes, and maybe give his wife a black eyo. But now a drunken factory hand can ruin thousands of dollars' worth of ma chinery and endanger lives of fellow workmen. John Barleycorn has no business fooling with machinery, and when ho tries to do it tho "personal lib erty" of everyone is interfered with, and that is one big reason why busl ness is against him. Kansas City Star. sands who occupied tho hard &n& uncomfortablo scats not person left till tho very cloao, and not then till they had grasped his willing hand. Tho things Bryan says, tut Hfo ho leads, tho principles ho stands for, mako for tho betterment of tin world and tho improvement of so ciety. Ho is a tremendous power for good and thoso who would belittle him, to put it mildly, mako a mis take mako a great mistake Fair mont (Minn.) Sentinel. BOOZE CUTS OFF INHERITANCE Astabula, O. Peter Walstrom, GO, heir to $30,000, died a pauper and his body probably will bo buried at the expense of the township. , Heart disease, said to have been brought on by overdrinking, was as signed as the cause of death. Eighteen or twenty years ago his father, living in Stockholm, Sweden, died and bequeathed his son $30,000 with the understanding that it was to bo held in trust for him until he gave up drinking. Tho liquor habit, however, had too close a hold and he never got the money. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. PLACE BAN ON BOOZE IN CITY CEMETERIES A Columbus, Ind, dispatch says: In an effort to help In a crusade against vice here, the city council today passed an ordinance prohibit ing the drinking of intoxicating li quors in the graveyards of the city. A TRIBUTE TO MR. BRYAN Farewell, Mr. Bryan. No one who hears Mr. Bryan in his Chautauqua stunts this year, and notes tho com ments and expressions of the audi ence can help but realize that this Is hin farewell tour. Tho News doubts if W. J. Bryan will ever again appear at a Chautauqua in southern Minne sota, at least as a headliner. He does not seem to elicit favorable comment from the pacifist, tho jingo ist or tho hard-headed business man. Bryan has had his day, his star is far down on tho western horizon. Norfield News. It is astonishing that a paper of tho high standing of the News should publish such a baseless mis representation. Wherever ho goes. Mr. Bryan Is greeted by thousands of slncero and attentive listeners. At Mankato the ereat tent was packed to itn capacity with earnest, thinking people, who sat and stood under the mndft anell of his oratory till 1:30 in tho morning, awaiting till nearly midnight for his coming. 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