The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-02-15
W, C. I. U. COLUMN
Under the Auspices of the Denison
Union.
What Ruins Girls.

or all the ten or twelve thousand un
fortunate girls and wrecked women |,
arrested every year in Chicago, -among
those who tell their woes to me, ninety
nine out of the every hundred attribute
their downfall to the first glass of
wine or champagne, taken, generally
with male companion, always for
good fellowship's sake.
The first glass is the beginning of
the end-and there you see iwhat the
end is.
When woman once begins to drink,
even in social way, her future is
threatened either with moral wicked
ness or utter ruin. SO many women
who come here tell me that the, first
sparkling glass of champagne was the
beginning of all their misfortune.
Mary K. Keegan, Chief Matron of the
Chicago Police Department..
Stirred Up
A few weeks ago DR.. Wiley, chief
chemist of the Department of Agricul-
ture, declared that at least eighty-fve
per cent of the whiskey sold in the
United States is adulterated. AS DR..
Wiley would not risk his reputation
on a misrepresentation. it can be ac-
copied as a fact that nearly all the
whiskey sold in this country is poison.
s,tn
government official does not please
the people. The truth is always dis
tasteful to folks dealing in falsehood:
and the convicted criminal is inclined
to have prejudice against the moose.
SO one of the chief distilling concerns
sent a note to DR.. Wiley, saying:
The rectifers OF this country pay in
to the United States Treasury more
than SD, coo, coo annually They do
more than any other industry TO sup
port the government OF the United
States. 1t will be found that your
policy is shortsighted. and inimical to
the government Interests, and we be-
v v
| fulness.''
This note raises a host of queries:
but the chief chemist at Washington
is not dismayed at the yelled threat it
contains. He has declared that if he
We're at liberty to tell all he knows, he
could make revelations connected with
his investigation so startling that they
would induce a user of whiskey to be-
come total abstainer. If this is so,
IN the name OF truth and sobriety. let
us have all the facts. Is the govern
ment so completely under the domin-
alton of the whiskey interests-that pay
$l30,000, 900 into the treasury every
year-that it is willing to suppress val
liable information which the people
should have for their Improvement in
the things that pertain to the higher
moralities? Let us have the facts,
whether the whiskev industry likes
them or not.
A year or two ago large manufact-
VI ny WILL Idls III SlcNCIdilI StcSlOCO
to provide for their men a warm lunch.
con every noon. -Four saloons ha6
| squatted around their works, and got
their living off the company's men
1t was reported, pretty soon after the
experiment was tried, that within
a few weeks three of these saloons
went out of business.
| Meeting a gentleman from Cleveland
not long ago who was conversan
with the facts, referred to the state
ment and asked if it were true. HI
said, eyes, three went out of bushes:
in few weeks and the fourth follow
ed soon after"
The problem of nutrition and tn,
problem of ventilation are back of th,
problem of intemperance. Do 20,
who are Christian clergymen sustain
relations to the problem of intemper
ance? Then you sustain relations t.
the problem OF nutrition and of ven
tilation: for to imagine you can dea
with effects without touching the caus
is quackery.-Rev. Josiah Strong