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Show BBBl Siiaf 4Kt5V BBmJ (Conducted by llio National Woman's Christian Trmporanrp 1'iilon.) H A NATIONAL CALAMITY. BBS! "I havo bollovcd In tho regulation, BBJ not tho prohibition of tho liquor traf- BBBJ flc," Hiiyn Dr. I,yiimn Abbott, "but tho BBBl action of liquor dcalera liau mado BBJ regulation Impossible." BBBJ Tho secretary of tho Ohio Temper- BBBJ nnco Union (a liquor orgnnlzntlon) BBBJ wrote to Doctor Abbott asking for a BBBJ letter which could bo UHcd In tho state BBBJ prohibition campaign. Doubtless ho BBBJ 1h sorry ho did It. The reply ctinio an BBBJ nn open letter In tho Outlook and Ib BBBJ u sovoro arraignment of tho saloon as BBBJ a lawbreaker. Its law-defying 'pro- BBBJ ponsltlcs havo, In tho judgment of BBBi Doctor Abbott, been Us undoing. Wo BBBJ BBBJ "Tho American people arc charnc BBBJ torlstlcally consorvntlvo and Blow in BBS coming to a conclusion. Hut tboy nro BBBJ coming to the conclusion, though BBJ nlowly, that tho American saloon Is BBBJ not only n local nulBnuco but a tin BBBJ tlonal calamity and aro resolving to j abolish BBJ "The question Is not, Ib beer n use- BBBJ ful article of food? BBBJ "It Ib not, Is moderate drinking BBBJ wrong? BBBJ "It Ib not, Does tho Bible prohibit j or pornilt moderato drinking? BBflJ "These questions tho people would BBBJ prefer to leavo each individual frco BBBj to determlno for hlmsolf. BBBj "Hut tboy nro not willing to leave BBJ each Individual to determlno for him BBBj solf whothor tho laws enacted by tho Bflj community shall bo obeyed. That BBB question tho community will decido, BBBj and it will BUffor any inconvcnlonco, BB any deprivation, which may bo neccs Bfl sary to sccuro such obedience. This BBB is tho meaning of tho present prohlbl BBB tory movement. . . . BBB "Dut if tho pcoplo nro compelled to Bfl choose botween an unregulated and flH lawless liquor traffic and tho prohlbl BBB tlon of tho liquor trafllc, I do not BBB, N doubt that they will chooso prohlbl v v tlon. If wo cannot reform the saloons, wo shall abolish them. And if wo can BB find no other way to abolish them, wo BB shall abolish tho distillery, tho brow- ery, tho winery and tho importation flflfl of liquor from abroad." H SALOON AND LABOR PROBLEM, flfl Wo mako no claim that a closod HBB saloon will settlo tho labor problem; we do not bollovo it will. Wo do affirm flflfl that there novor will bo found a boIu Bflj tlon for tho labor problem that Ignores the saloon and allows It to continue, flflfl whothor run by tho individual or by BBJ tho brower for profit or run by tho gov BBJ ornment without profit. Labor cannot IHJ carry 200,000 rum shops on its back and prosper under any systom. Hi Tho kingdom of labor will not havo HHj como when the door of tho saloon is flj shut; there will still bo industrial flflj wrongs to right and other economic IHJ problems to eolvn; but the largest sin HHJ glo Immediate contribution toward IHJ that consummation, tho swiftest rollof IHJ that can bo applied, is tho abolition of flj tho liquor trafllc in tho United States. HHJ It Is tho ono thing that as the barrier J to all other reform must bo removed. flflj To every son of toll who Ib ground HHJ beneath tho millstones of low wages flflj and high cost of living, wo havo but H ono message. "In tho namo of God and HHJ homo and nntlvo laud, rlso up and voto H for prohibition." Clinton Jloward. M ALCOHOL AND TUBERCULOSIS. BBJ Tho following resolution was passed HHJ by tho International Congress on Tu HHJ borculosls, hold In Paris, at which HHj some 2,000 medical scientists woro H present: "That in view of tho closo HHJ connection between alcoholism and BBl tuborculosis, this congress strongly H emphasizes tho Importance of combln HHJ ing tho fight against tuborculosis with HHJ tho strugglo against alcoholism." H At tho International Alcohol Con HHJ gross at Bremen, Professor Scgran, a BH distinguished Frenchman, said that H tho uso of alcohol predisposes tho BH Bystom to tuberculosis and also pro HB vents cures. Tho real Individual and BH social treatment for tuborculosis con- HB slsts In tho strictest total abstinence BH from alcoholic liquors. H 0BJECT8 TO LIQUOR DEALER. BH My objection to tho liquor dealer Is HB tho samo as my objection to tho bod- HB bug. For all I know, tho bedbug may HB bo entirely abovo reproach, so far as HH his social relations aro concerned. He HB may bo regular In his religious duties, flflj gentle In IiIb homo and prompt In pay HH lng his bills. Ho may bo frugal and In- HB dustrlous and blameless In every civic BH duty and domestic obligation. Ho may HHj bo kind to his wtfo and chlldron, mm obliging to his neighbors, geuoroua to mV tho outcast and worthy of tho voto of HH his congressional district. Hut my ob- BBj Jectlon to lilm is the way ho gets his jS living. T. Alexander Calms, M NO "MEDICINAL" WHISKY. nSB Alcohol puts to sleop tho sentinels Jfiyi that guard your body from dlscaso. ragg Policy holders aro warned against art- Mm vortisements extolling tho virtues of HJR whisky, in disease. Tho callous cruolty Hfrf of such advertisements lies in tho fact pfim that tlioy appeal to tho very peoplo JlS who aro most Injured by tho uso of nl HB cohol -Biifferers from rheumatism, B chronic kldnoy disease, nervous sub- HB Jects, etc. Thero is no such thing as HB "medicinal" whisky. From Bulletin HB Ko. 6, issued by tho Postal Life Insur- BH anco Company, Now York. |