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Show Temperance (Conducted l'V tlif Niitinriiil Woman's CktlatUlfl Teniprnih'-f lTnlon.) DOCTORS AGAINST ALCOHOL. "I kIihII not MM fowt lli, shock expertoncM wfcra pbjniclM of high Mtnnrllnu In Mlrlilgnn COtttMMd to m' thai time nnd tin nunln he hud killed pntlentM liy the BM of iicohol white still under the old delusion thnt alcohol alco-hol VM a stliimhint." siin Mr. Henry StiiutlVr. siiniinti'iident of the Fox Ulver Valley KfHcicncy league. "The COIDUOn MM of mankind rightly condones con-dones the practice of thN man he-GMM he-GMM he did the lust he and the profession pro-fession knew at the time; hilt the time of lunorance on thin mihjoet In past." Mr. Staiiffer Bent an open letter to the physicians In his state, asking this (I'tcstlon: "Knowing whnt yon must know of the tragedy of alcohol, how i tin you for u single day lend the Influence In-fluence of your example lo Its use ns a leverage In your commuuliy. A a result. Ill doctors willingly signed for publication the following statement, state-ment, which Is being clrculnted: "We positively condemn the use of nil alcoholic llipiors, Including beer nnd wine, because, by their effect on the germ plasm they CTUTM the unliofn child; because even their mndoi'iitc use has been proven to reduce the etll-eleiicy etll-eleiicy of the user; nnd, because In multitudes of cases, the continued use of alcohol In moderation proves to be impossible. The moderate drinker -Is a social menace." . HOTELKEEPERS, TAKE N0TICE1 It has long been one of the slock arguments ar-guments against prohibition that hotels could not be profitably conducted without with-out n bar, remarks the 1'nlon Signal. In some of the campaign staos hotel keepers' associations were formed to work against prohibition. After a little lit-tle more than one year's experience In n dry stnte, the New Washington Improvement Im-provement company of Seattle is about to build a new wing, doubling the capacity anil gross earning power of the New Washington hotel, already one of the largest. If not the largost, hotels In the city. The company has flouted n bond Issue of $(MK),(K)0 for this purpose. pur-pose. The manager of the hotel states : "Business nt the New Washington for the last two years has far exceeded exceed-ed our facilities for handling It nnd during the heavy tourist travel of the summer we have been forced to turn away hundreds of guests." Thus Is It proved that it Is not In search of booze that tourists tour, nnd that a b tcl does not need to resolve Itself Into a saloon In order to become a paying Investment. VIEWPOINT OF DISTILLER. Since the Introduction of anti-whisky legislative measures the love of the lb sillier for his brother, the brewer. has grown cold. The following Is a sun pie of what the whisky men ure saying: "I'ntil recent years, at least, It was the custom of Milwaukee parents to take their children Into the various beer gardens of the ('ream City and 1111 their little stomachs with 'suds.' The high degree of Intelligence portrayed in those beer faces would not have rOUght forth envy 00 ttw part of Plato or liotner. We recall the time when the employees of one of the large Milwaukee Mil-waukee breweries threatened to strlUe because their dally allowance of beer was to be cut from four gallons to two gallons. It would thus be seen that there must be something about 066! thnt perpetuates the thirst. Hut, at the same time, It is admitted by the brewers (hat beer Is a genuine 'temperance' 'tem-perance' drlnl," FAMILY TROUBLES. Judge William X. (iemmll. Chicago, formerly of the court of domestic relations, re-lations, siati M thai at least ."i per cent Of nil family desertions are due dlrect-' dlrect-' ly or Indirectly to tho use of intol-cullng intol-cullng drinks. "All our efforts to rop-pma rop-pma Crimt la th6 community will be fill lie." lie says "so long tis we license 7250 place where boys are turned into bainllls and husbands into wlfe-beutora." wlfe-beutora." I PROTECT THE BOYS. We have with greal success made a practice of ROt leaving arsenic and strychnine, and typhoid and rabercu" Ineta germi lylna aronnd for our children chil-dren to be deetroyed by, freal John Barleycorn in tho same w'ny. stop him. Don't let him lie around, licensed and legal, to pounce upon your yotiih. It l the healthy, normal boys, now born or being born for whom 1 write.' Jack London, In "John Hafleycorn." DISTILLERS TO MAKE ALCOHOL. I'onr l&rgf KenrinUy dlltllletii to make alcohol for Industrial pur posee, Inatead of making whlaky, They . cpsd to export large qaaatttlei of alcohol al-cohol to Kurope. I THE MEN WHO WANT SALOONS. u a petition usi.ing for nn election to bring saloons Into Fort OOVlngtOO, N. Y., In March, there were 48 si.::,i-1 si.::,i-1 l mis. Of these. 11 or more Hutu oue-f'litrth, oue-f'litrth, ware tSI names of men who could not read and write, but who made their marks, which Were nc-know nc-know lodged by other men who could lead and write. The taXea paid by signers of the petition. pe-tition. Including all the X's, amounted t0 .00 11 per cent of nil the lav s p. ml tji the town, slighily more thun four-teeutbi four-teeutbi "f l pat cent.. |