The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-01-06
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tceaAucted by the National WosAaa's
Christian Te0peraAce Unioa)

tcsaAocted by the National WoAas'a
Christian Teopsraace Unioa-)
AMTtltoVoA eGsGYiAGNT.
In IN article showing that The
greatest nations In Europe are against
alcohol the PAiladelphia North Amer
ican has this TO say about Germany:
Is 1t not discosceFtiAg to mad that
the great snti-alcohol DoveneaG
which 10 sweeping Europe had its ~
ginning in the land OF the 1900 brew
cries! A scientiAc pamphlet written
IN 1885 by Profsssoe vaa BHngs. vas
the start OF q campaign which hss pro
duced An antiliquor congress In every
advanced country On the continent,
aad = biennial international congrsss
that draws delegates from nearly ev.
cry considerable nation.
The growth of sentiment against the
evil has been almost incredible. In
the year 1898 there was only one
known total abstainer of prominence
In tie German empire, . noted Ham
burg engineer. In 1897 q leading ply
sician undertook to urge abstinence
upo0 Dembers Of his profession. and
aftsf months Of work found himself
with . total OF nine signatures; but
ten years later 500 physicians had
Joined.
1T was German university. that Of
Berlin. which first established q scien.
tifc course ON the alcohol evil, in 1906.
1t was the German kaiser who Q few
years ago declared himself an abstain.
or. and enjoined the army and navy
to follow his example. It 10 q noted
German army physician who has de-
clared: 1t must be considered incom-
patible with the honor of q city or
government to allow the activities of
poison factories. such as breweries
and distilleries.' There IL q
strong anti-liQuor movement among
the Socialists. For more than
three years the sale of beer in
the great Krupp works has been for
bidder. That and other big industries
stock works. shipyards and mines
supply tea free to their workers. or
milk at cost. and forbid the sale of
beer. At one huge plant the con.
sumption Of beer fell from LAT 900 bar
rels in 1909 to 1880 barrels in 1911.
The Berlin railways have forbidden
the use Of beer during working hours.
and similar action has been taken by
the government railways Of Baden and
Alsace-Loraine. where anti-alcoho;
MIA ~ rHa ara vo~toA Iv ali <ho .Ao
tons"
oooLEY ON JOHN BARLEYcoRN.
ITS strange. Hinnissy, how tn
wurruld has turned agin its lifelong
roommate. Jawn Barleycorn. Afther
rollickin' with tn old fellow f'r cinch-
ries tn tickle public has rounded on
him an 10 rapidly chasin' him OF tn
map. I've told 70 how 1t il in England.
It's tn same ivrywhere. In Rooshya
tn polls has stopped tn sale " vodky,
which 10 tn name " tn Rooshyan nay.
tional brainstorm. In France they've
f'rbid tn cityzin to take his tumbler
Of absinthe.
"Jawn Barleycorn might have gone
on f'r years II I hadn't been that tn
wurruld began to suspect that he was
no good in . fight. That knocked tn
last leg firm undher him. l cud've told
tn wurruld 10 long ago. I've seen him
start . millyon fights, but niver seen
him win wan. He's lived f'r years on
his reputation ~ warryor. No army
was supposed to be amy good with
out him. He was welcome in tn 30.
ters' tent an tn gin'ral's headquarters.
People said about him: He's q scamp
and false friend, but he's divvle in
= scrap An now they know he amt
amy good at that ayether. His blufF
has been called"