The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-01
Popular Scientific
Education

you may begin firing Gridley."
If, instead, Admiral Dewey had said,
Lets wait and see what the enemy
will do" we would probably never
have heard of the magnificent victory
at Manila. There is nothing that sue
ceeds like success, is a motto that the
good citizenship advocates should adj
opt as their slogan in the present pro-
hibition movement. Our brethren are
already in the field, why stand we
here idle. Gentlemen may cry peace,
peace, but there is no peace"
Think we that / am come to give
peace in the earth? l tell you, nay;
but rather division. For there shall
be from henceforth five in one house
divided, three against two and two
against three"
Do not be deceived, they who are
not for an immediate election are
against us; whoever advocates delay
at this psychologist moment. serves
the saloon interests either intention
ally or unconsciously; those who adj
vocate delay in holding an election
now, either consciously or uncon-
sciously are playing in to the hands of
the enemy; exactly what they want at
this time, and for ever, is delay, to be
let alone. art thou come hither to
torment us before the time?"
Ia,
about the cost of an election-"Why.
it will cost four thousand dollars" In
actual economics in turning currency
into legitimate commercial channels
of permanent profit and good citizen
ship, of stable wealth and civic right
eousness, even should it cost $4,000,
we shall have the cheapest election
ever held in Wayne county.
o We of little faith, visit the num-
erous towns of Ohio that have voted
dry, ask the good people if they note
any difference in the community gen.
orally, then ask the merchants if they
see any difference in cash trade; now
go to the teachers of the public
schools and hear them tell of the
school children, who before the town
went dry, came to school shivering in
scanty and filthy clothing pinched
with hunger and suffering from neg
lect, now come to school in warm
clean clothing with bright and happy
faces; run over to our neighboring
town of Hagerstown, in a few hours
time you may come back, especially If
you have been well acquainted with
the place heretofore, you need not ask
any questions, but take careful obser-
vations, any right-thinking person
| cannot fail to notice the difference in
this charming little town under the
new order of things.
Stop Preaching and Fall to Teaching.
Flood the country and towns with
immense posters, headed in foot-high
letters with the legend, Alcoholism"
| In which teach the process by which
alcohol is formed. Tell them the won
derful story Of the little microbe call
ed the Torula, a member Of the great
family Of micro organisms to which
the innumerable streptococcus and
| sacchromyces make up an immense
group Of scavengers that eat up rot
of filth. And how that, in riotous liv-
ing In the mash-tub of the breweries,
not observing any kind of sanitary
conditions, their own ptomains or ex-
cretions herently inimical to all life
conditions, soon kill the microbe.
Now the whole seathing mass is load
ed on the still and dead bugs together
with their ptomains and numerous &C
companying toxines or virulent pois-
ons. come from the breweries in the
| shape of whiskies, brandies, wines,
ales, beers, or any sort of alcoholics
that the distiller may wish to make
out of the products of the still called
"high-wines." Teach what the disease
known to the medical profession as
Alcoholism, really is and what it does
| for the temple of God, this vital realm
which we call the living body. In all
these marvellous facts we have true
stories stranger than any fiction from
| the fertile brains of Poe, Doyle or Kip
ling. A brief campaign of education
along these lines and vote for dry
would carry with such a stupendous
majority that not even a democratic
legislature would have the temerity
to repeal.
AS Uncle Cannon Joe says, lets
peel off our coats and do something
gentlemen, and do it quick too; we
have the enemy on the run already,
why not keep them hiking. They are
prattling about "a saloon to every 500
of population. and having only good
saloons" who ever heard of a good
saloon except as a dead INDIAN