The Iola register., 1902-02-21


church, at 3 p. m.
GERMAN ARMY AND DRINK
The Christian Commonwealth Lion.
don, England J, June 81, in an edito-
rial note entitled "The Drink and
Crime" thus comments on some sta
tistics published in the Kreuz Zeitung
regarding army prisons in Germany:
This is not the only country where
the drink produces crime. We are
sometimes told that the drink habit OF
the GermanG is quite harmless: that
the beverage they use does not lead to
evil consequences; that it is only
in those countries where distilled
liquors are chiefly used that the habit
becomes vicious. But facts do not
support this contention. In an article
in the Kreuz Ieitung, warmly advoca
ting temperance and the disuse of
alcohol in the army and navy,
the writer brings forward remarkable
statistics in support of his plea. In
l2O army prisons throughout Germany
forty-siX per cent of all the murderers
committed their crme while under the
influence of drink. SiXty-three per
cent OF the cases of manslaughter,
seventy-four per cent of serious injury
to the person, and seventy-seven per
cent of criminal immoralty are due to
the same cause. In the the navy. out
of ,67l punishable cases during the
last six years, seventy-fve per cent of
the most serious cases have been due
to drunkenness. Evidently the drink
is the same old evil, whether in Ger
many, England, or any other country.
Everywhere it leaves devastation in
its pathway"
Every slot machine has been or
dered out of the city of Findlay, o.,
by the mayor and chief of police. This
includes not only the nickel machines
that pay drinks and money in saloons,
but the penny machines in candy and
drug and cigar stores, the chewing
gum machines that stand in front of
stores and every form of slot machines
where there is any possibility of gain.
Mayor Watson was instructed to take
the step by the city council in the in
terest of the children, who have been
fascinated by the penny machines -
Union Signal.
1t would be well if lola would do
the same.
At the recent Executive Council
meeting of the w. c. r.. u, of Vic
toria, Australia, the following reso-
luton was passed: "That we, repre-
senting many OF the mothers of the
commonwealth who give their sons TO
protect Australia, earnestly request
that they may be protected from the
insidious craving for alcohol by the
insertion in the Defense Bill of a
clause prohibiting the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors at all military can
teens" Union Signal.
THE SALOONS "GooD SOLID ARGU-
MENT
The Michigan Christian Advocate.
answers the Liquor Trades Review,
which recently appealed to the advo-
Gates of the saloon, to let the people
hear "the good, solid arguments that
can he advanced in favor of the
trade" The Advocate says:
'As for the good solid arguments
which can be advanced in behalf OF
the liquor trade we can only say that
we never saw one yet. We have seen
assertions, mostly sophistical or false,
about personal liberty" and illegal
rights" but we never saw an argu-
ment that was either ."good" or
solid" for that bad, boggy place
called a saloon. AS for "liquor trade
educational work., this, too, is in.
variably of the sneaking, underhand,
sophistical and lying variety. We
cited an illustration of it some weeks
ago when referring to the distribution
of whisky sheet bearing a temper
ance name in certain county where a
local option contest was pending The
liquor trade always schemes in the
dark. Its methods are those of the
assassin. 1t skulks and hides behind
false issues and does its nefarious
work under false colors. It's "educa.
tional work" is the synonym OF
"Satan's devices" AS for the "ulti.
mate terrific results" of abolishing
the saloon we can only say that they
would be as the whiteness, order and
music of heaven as compared with the
blackness, violence and discord OF
hell in case of the ultimate terrific re.
suits" OF continuing the saloon"
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