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What Labor Leaders Say of Alcohol

ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS: “We are absolutely opposed to the saloon, and it is incorporated in our laws that a man can not engage in the liquor traffic and remain a member of this organization.”

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN: “We oppose the saloon to the extent that the brotherhood will not tolerate a member being connected with the sale of liquor.”

INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN’S UNION: “We

continually enjoin sobriety upon our members by refusing to publish advertisements of the saloon, etc., in the official organ of the union.”

JOHN MITCHELL: "In various ways and on many occasions the evil influence of the saloon has been recognized and pointed out by the labor-unions of the United States. While the liquor interests have sought to convey the impression that there was some common interest between trade-unionism and the manufacture and sale of intoxicants, this suggestion is repelled on every occasion when the matter is presented to the labor men in its true light and when the malign purpose of the liquor interests is exposed to view. I have no sympathy with the statement so often made that the manufacture and sale of liquor has contributed to the industrial development of the nation. On the contrary, I believe that liquor has contributed more to the moral, intellectual, and material deterioration of the people, and has brought more misery to defenseless women and children, than has any other agency in the history of mankind."

THE JOURNEYMAN TAILORS: "The officers of our organization are decidedly opposed to the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and its general secretary adds: 'I have not failed, whenever the opportunity has presented itself, to declare myself upon this question.'"

UNITED GARMENT WORKERS: "Our organization is decidedly opposed to the saloon."

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TELEGRAPHERS: "The use of alcoholic liquor as a beverage shall be sufficient cause for rejecting any petition for membership."

THE INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, convention of 1894, called for "the state and national destruction of the liquor traffic."

The Scientific Verdict—Weighed and Found Wanting

By David Paulson, M. D.

Search-Light of Science—Physical Bankruptcy—Not Needed in Medicine

By DAVID PAULSON, M. D.

TWENTY years ago, when I was graduated from Bellevue medical college, New York City, the wise medical professors taught that alcohol was a most useful remedy in pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and other diseases. Any teacher who would express such sentiments in any medical school in the civilized world to-day would be certain to meet well-deserved ridicule from the members of his class.

THE SEARCH-LIGHT OF SCIENCE

What has wrought such an amazing transformation in less than half a generation? — Hundreds of thoroughly trained workers in well-equipped laboratories have made thousands of scientific experiments with instruments of precision to determine the exact scientific truth concerning the real nature of alcohol, and the final verdict has in every case been that alcohol in any and all doses is a paralyzer and a destroyer of vital tissues — in short, a poison and only a poison.

Professor Kraepelin, of Heidelberg University, Germany, after making thousands of the most careful experiments, has conclusively shown that as small a quantity as a third of an ounce of alcohol produces paralyzing effects on the nervous system that can be detected hours afterward by instruments of precision. The sight is less keen, the hearing is less acute, the sense of touch is either diminished or deranged, and muscular capacity is lessened. Fatigue is experienced sooner, the memory is less retentive, and the reason less accurate. What a startling scientific commentary on the divine declaration that they “have erred through wine, . . . they err in vision, they stumble in judgment”! Isa. 28:7.

After taking a small quantity of alcohol, the subject imagines that he can do more work, while the most rigid test with a dynamometer or strength test machine reveals the fact that he is actually not doing as much as before, and endurance tests on a large scale demonstrate the same fact.

Dr. Treves, the great English surgeon who was selected to perform a serious surgical operation on the late King Edward, accompanied the British troops on one of their most trying marches in the Boer war in South Africa. Speaking of this experience, Dr. Treves says: “As a work producer, alcohol is exceedingly extravagant, and leads to physical bankruptcy. I was with the relief column that moved on to Ladysmith. It was an exceedingly trying time by reason of the hot weather. In that column of 30,000, the first who dropped out were not the tall men or the short men, or the big men or the little men. They were the drinkers, and they dropped out as clearly as if they had been labeled with a big letter on their backs.”

In reality alcohol, as a great German investigator has remarked, “gives no strength, but only a feeling of strength.” What alcohol can do is what morphin and chloroform do — paralyze the higher centers that notify us of fatigue and discomfort, and so the user actually imagines it has refreshed, rested, and improved him.

It is this same partial paralysis that prevents the cries of hungry children, the sobs of the broken-hearted wife, and the sweet influence of the Spirit of God, from making any impression on the drunkard’s brain.

Dr. L. Mervin Maus, of the United States army, has called our attention to the fact that there are a million degenerates in this land to-day, the majority of whom owe their unfortunate condition to their alcohol-using parents.

Modern medical science is banishing alcohol from the sick-room, just as modern sentiment is banishing the saloon from the street corner.

Dr. Wiley, of national pure food fame, as chairman of the pharmacopoeial convention which meets each ten years to determine what drugs shall be included in our medical pharmacopoeia, — the official register, so to speak, of useful and well-regulated remedies — states that brandy and whisky are no longer used as medicines in sufficient quantities to warrant their retention in the next pharmacopoeia. He says that the general trend of scientific thought on this question leads to the conclusion that alcohol in its various forms is an unmitigated evil.

CAN WE COMPROMISE?

Can we compromise with this evil? Shall we enter into partnership with it and accept its blood-stained money? We neither tolerate nor license mad dogs; but we are sometimes so stupefied by the wicked influences of this evil that we are ready to license the saloon, which is infinitely more dangerous.

There are fewer saloons in all the Southern states than there are in the city of Chicago; and without exception, those communities which have wiped out this curse have instantly felt increased business prosperity, improved morals, a higher grade of intelligence, less sickness, and less crime. Will you who read these words, sit still and fold your hands until others have fought this entire battle, or will you arouse and assist in crowding this curse to the wall? How will you vote in states where this subject is presented at the polls this fall?

What Reformers Say of Alcohol

MARTIN LUTHER: "Whoever first brewed beer has prepared a pest for Germany. I have prayed to God that He would destroy the whole brewing industry. I have often pronounced a curse on the brewer. All Germany could live on the barley that is spoiled and turned into a curse by the brewer."

GENERAL BOOTH, founder of the Salvation Army: "Nine tenths of our poverty, squalor, vice, and crime springs from this poisonous tap-root [the drink traffic]. Society, by its habits, customs, and laws, has greased the slope down which these poor creatures slide to perdition."

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: "I protest before God that great as is my detestation of slavery, I would rather be a slave seller, yea, a kidnaper on the African coast, than sell this poison [alcohol] to my fellow creatures for consumption."

JOHN G. WOOLLEY: "Alcohol is the fast friend of shipwreck, and train wreck, and health wreck, and life wreck, and home wreck, and business wreck, and character wreck. It is a cockroach among the industries of mankind. It is the world’s most notable sneak-thief, and it does its larceny in broad daylight as well as in the dark."

Vote for the Children

By Adelaide Bee Evans

By ADELAIDE BEE EVANS

The fight is on at last, friends. The call to arms sounds shrill. Opposing camps are gath'ring In valley and on hill, The fight to gain for childhood, Brave youth, and girlhood true, A rum-free state and nation. Friend, can we count on you?

The "interests" are ready. "With sleeves rolled up," they boast, "For appetite and dollars, Ours is a conqu'ring host." But in this land of freedom, Where laws express men's will, Dare you, O thoughtful voter, Allow this evil still?

O, we must guard the children, Must shield the tender youth, Must teach them, and warn them, Fence them around with truth. But there's more, fathers, mothers. O, write it down, and note! When lawful chance is given, Go to the polls, and vote.

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DO YOU KNOW—

That liquor-soaked men assassinated three of our presidents?

That jails are occupied, police courts kept busy, and criminals most numerous in "wet" towns?

That rust forms on the hinges of the jail, and grass grows in its path, and infrequently is heard the judge's sentence against criminality, in those places where prohibition has supplanted the "open" town?

That the inactivity and indifference of some accounts for the continuance of the liquor business at all?

That every friend of the cause should both vote and work?

Grass-grown path in front of a jail one year after the town went "dry"

HOW?

Make it your business to educate every one in your town to the benefits of prohibition, by means of the very best printed matter you can find on the subject. For $5.00, the cost perhaps of hiring a speaker for one evening, you can get enough literature to provide a town of 500 or more homes. The tracts and leaflets that follow are forceful and to the point.

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HAVE YOU ARRANGED FOR TERRITORY?

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A large number of persons are already taking orders for the Home Workers' books. Others who are planning to go out should arrange with their tract society secretaries at once for territory and supplies. Fleeting time calls for prompt action.

The present season promises to be the best on record for books of the character of the Home Workers' set. People are appreciating more and more the need of clean, wholesome books for young, impressionable minds, and will give warm welcome and consideration to persons selling them.

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"Yes" for Some and "No" for Others

By Editor

CALIFORNIANS who give careful study to the matter will certainly desire to vote "No" on proposition No. 3, which makes it unlawful for a man to be employed more than eight hours out of twenty-four, and more than forty-eight hours in any one week. This applies to the farmer as well as the manufacturer, and disregards the necessities that frequently arise of harvesting crops that are in a perishing condition.

They will also see the inconsistency and the danger of No. 45, which is known as the "One Day of Rest in Seven Law." A man is entitled to a day of rest if he desires to take it; but it ought to be a matter of freedom of choice, and not compulsion, as far as human laws are concerned.

Proposition No. 2 favors state-wide prohibition, and we will all want to vote "Yes" to that.

Proposition No. 4 pertains to a law that was passed by our last California legislature, which has been put before the people for decision through the referendum. It is known as the "Red Light Abatement Law," and is designed to assist our cities, towns, and villages in abating the nuisance of prostitution, by dealing with the property owners as well as those who are more directly engaged in the nefarious traffic that was the shame of Sodom. Without question, all respectable people who give even a casual study to this matter, will desire to vote "Yes" to retain this law on our statute-books.

The Misery and Suffering Resulting from the European War

By Editor

THE big armies in Europe are not only killing each other by the thousands, but they are destroying harvests, and also food supplies stored in warehouses and granaries, as well as whole cities, villages, and numerous country homes. This is leaving multitudes of women and helpless children not only homeless but destitute of food and clothing. The suffering that will result will be beyond description; and while many of our business men have been looking forward to the great increase in commerce and manufacture that would come to this nation, yet the chances are that we will find these advantages more than eaten up by the plaintive calls that will come to us for help for these destitute.

The present war is the first one on a gigantic scale among the great powers since modern methods of killing men by machinery have come into vogue. The machine gun will sweep down hundreds of men, where the old-fashioned muzzle-loader could only take one or two.

Already influential persons are announced on our shores who are coming as messengers of mercy, to ask relief for the destitute in Europe. The severity of winter weather will soon be upon them there, and they must have help or perish.

Thousands of our own people will be involved. Our General Conference is taking vigorous measures to care for them, and to help others besides; and generous responses to their calls for funds are coming in. Any one whose heart is stirred up to help in this good work may send his money to the treasurer of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California, and it will reach its destination, and every penny of it will be judiciously used in relieving distress.

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He Is Soon Coming — The Evidence Abundant and Clear

WHEN the Lord Jesus Christ was here in person, He promised, as recorded in numerous passages of Scripture, that He would come again. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3.

This is only one of the many promises left on record. It is so simple, so clear in its statement of the great fact, that no child need misunderstand it. The Lord gave numerous prophecies and various signs that were to precede His coming, and then He said, "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Matt. 24:33.

There is no occasion for any of us to make mistakes in regard to the great event of Christ's coming, which is soon to end this earth's career of sin, and to bring immortality and the eternal reign of righteousness to those who are prepared. If we desire to know these things and be ready for the one supreme event of history, it is our privilege.

With the evidence that points out His coming, the same as with the evidence of anything else, men may laugh at it and turn it aside if they so desire. But those who really want to know, may understand for themselves, and be sure that they are right; for the evidence is not equivocal. It is not capable of various kinds of misleading and contradictory interpretation, except for those who, because of their prejudices or some other fleshly interest or gratification, would ignore the clearest truth.

As an illustration, millions of men have been preaching, for the last twenty-five years, that we would have no more war. This war in Europe comes to them as not only a surprise but an awful shock. These same people are already beginning to say that Europe's present war is so terrible that it will end all wars.

But the individual who is walking in the light of the prophetic word of God has known all along, and has been teaching, that we would have furious outbreaks of war in these last days of earth's history. This war in Europe has come as no surprise to such. They were looking for just such things; and in the face of the millions who are saying to the contrary, they stand in the light of these same prophecies, and say plainly to the world that this is not the last war, it is only the beginning of the terrible wars that will afflict this world. This war will terminate by and by; but others still more furious will follow; and the final climax will be the breaking out of the great war of Armageddon, followed almost immediately by the second coming of Christ.

There is no need of speculation in the study of God's clear prophetic word. We may know its divine truth. Will we accept the evidence, and be ready to stand with Christ at His coming, or will we permit ourselves to be deceived, and be among the lost in that great day?

The Christian Spirit Versus the Partizan

By Editor

The following short editorial from the Review and Herald sets forth in a splendid manner the spirit that Christians should manifest in these days of stress and strife and war. We commend its principles most heartily. EDITOR.

THE Scriptures declare that God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." Acts 17:26. "God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." Acts 10:34, 35. The life of Christ was given not for the salvation of the Jew alone, but for all the world. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16.

Seventh-day Adventists, above every other people in the world, should recognize these principles. They have a gospel message which is to go to every creature. They are connected with a movement which includes in its operations believers in nearly every nation under heaven. These are all one in Christ Jesus, and in this spirit of oneness they should reach out to their fellows everywhere, and labor for their salvation. The recognition of the wideness of God's mercy, the breadth and depths of His love, and the comprehensive character of the gospel, will eliminate from every heart the spirit of exclusiveness and partizanship.

How ill it becomes the believers in this message to become partizans in any national or international strife which may be going on in the world! The cherishing of this spirit unfits for Christlike missionary labor. Its expression by word or its manifestation in the life only serves to engender in the hearts of our fellows national animosities and class distinctions. In all our intercourse with men, let us avoid giving expression to that which will engender a spirit of strife.

We should view the great conflict in which so many of our fellow men are engaged, in the light of the prophetic Word—from God's standpoint, not from man's. It is not for us to seek to determine the relative responsibility of the contestants. With the conflicting reports which are daily published, with the changes and counter-changes which are made by those engaged in the conflict, we shall do well to reserve all judgment. In the true spirit of neutrality and non-partizanship, in the spirit of the Master, let us stand as the friend of every man of every nationality, doing all in our power to rescue from eternal destruction the souls for whom Christ died.

Let us beware of a partizan spirit. Let us be broad-minded, generous-hearted, and cherish toward those of every nationality the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Increase of War Expenditures

SINCE the beginning of this century, eight of the leading nations of the Old World have spent the following sums on their armies and navies: Russia . . . . . . . . . $5,285,869,199 England . . . . . . . . 4,992,698,350 Germany . . . . . . . . 3,701,324,542 Japan, . . . . . . . . . 3,104,704,802 United States . . . . . 3,308,066,310 France . . . . . . . . . 3,046,184,440 Italy . . . . . . . . . . 1,229,374,757 Austria . . . . . . . . 1,010,215,179 Grand total . . . . . . $25,678,437,579

The amount expended on the armies and navies of these eight powers amounts to an increase of about fifty-nine per cent since this great twentieth century began. These expenditures for war are an indication of the spirit that characterizes the age. And regardless of all the commendable talk in favor of peace, the fact nevertheless stands out in monumental proportions, showing that war, and not peace, is the ruling sentiment. God told us in advance what the facts would be, and we see that they are in harmony with the divine prediction.

Thanksgiving for Abundant Harvests

By Editor

The government sends out the estimate that the value of the harvests of our country this year will be $621,000,000 in excess of last year. We will have double cause for thanksgiving this year. We should be thankful that we have a harvest so abundant that our own people may have plenty, and furthermore we should be thankful that out of this abundance we may be able to save hundreds of thousands in suffering Europe from perishing through starvation.