Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-11-24

tremes of the winter and summer OF
the exposed surface.
Temperance organizations, the Pro
hibition party, local option efforts, anJ
in fact all moral organizations are re
eeiving pretty strong evidence of a
damaging nature from a crusade
lopened up by Editor Edward Box, of
the Ladies' Home Journal, wherein
the question of the liquor traffic is un-
der consideration.
Mr.. Box has opened his campaign
on entirely new lines, and has not
only attracted much attention from
the reading public, but a few law
suits along with it.
The discussion, which has now as.
sumed large proportions and some de-
gree of bitterness and outspoken
speech, was brought about over some
comment of Editor Box relative to the
methods and practices of the w. G..
T. U. The meanest thing he said was
when he called the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union the Woman's Con
tinuous Talking Union. His structures
on their practice did not hurt half so
bad.
However, we can Gull from the war
now on, wherein Mr.. Box is standing
alone and against all the temperance
and otherwise moral organizations,
enough of the character of the fight to
see that it is of vital Importance to
every man, woman and child in the
land. Mr.. Bok's first argument was
against the w. C. Il. U. members al
lowing whisky signs on their barns,
fences, etc. Thus they derived reve-
nue., in some cases, from the whisky
traffic.
As this argument, and its accom-
panying advice, did not seem to take
well with the union, he attacked the
subject on another point. He opened
up the patent medicine Course" In
a long list of patent medicines he
showed they all contained from 12|
per cent (per volume) to AIS per cent
alcohol. Thus he had a strong argu-
ment against not only the w. C. T. u,
but every man or woman on the face
Of the earth who was, or is, fighting
the whisky demon. He not only
showed that temperance people all over
our land were drinking medicines
every day which contained all the
way from 12 per cent to nearly so
per cent, but they were dosing ba-
bies, growing girls and young boys
with alcohol in their own homes. Yet
these same people who are making |
their children drink alcohol under
some other name, without thought of |
whisky, would throw up their hands
in horror, would sincerely weep for
and decry the practice of a young man
buying 8 cents worth of beer over a
saloon bar and drinking it, concoc-
tion which contains but from 2 to s |
per cent of alcohol.
Under Mr.. Bok's argument our
whole country is a whisky drinking
race. The bad people drink it over
bar under its proper name, while the
good people buy 1t under some other
name and drink it at home, feed it to
he children and recommend il every
where they go. OF course, it is not
10 be presumed that the w. C. II. II.
and other church and temperance or
yanizations are aware that they are,
through their members, engaged in
he whisky business, both drinking il
themselves and offering it to others.
Il is only the subtle methods of evil
10 creep in where it finds the least
apathy. Nevertheless, the whisky is
N the medicine, and the question none
he less pertinent. 1t appears from
he developments that there is more
whisky drank outside Of the saloon
han in it. Without realizing it many
temperance and moral advocates have
IS much whisky in the medicine chest
Is some saloons carry in stock. The
loet says that rose by any other
lame would smell as sweet, so whis-
~ by any other names tastes as bad,