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SEPTEMBER, 1916
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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. At Sioux
Palls a storm had cut off communi
cation and fivo thousand admirers
remained till 2 a.m., and needless to
say Mr. Bryan did not disappoint
them. Wo heard him at Estherville
on a hot afternoon, and of tho thou-
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