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SATURDAY, MAY 24,1913.
Mayor Keller has appointed Mr.
Howard Wheeler a member of the
Library Board in succession to
the late John D. O'Brien. Mr.
Wheeler and Mr. C. H. P. Smith
are the only Catholics on the
Board.
The sum of ten thousand dol
lars, in small amounts, has already
been contributed by the Catholic
women of America for the pro
posed National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception on the
grounds of the Catholic Univer
sity, Washington. This modest
turn will need to be increased a
tlundred-fold before a church
worthy of Our Lady can be
erected—one which will compare
favorably with the great shrines
dedicated to her in many parts of
the Old World.
It is interesting to note that the
facts brought out before the legis
lative committee which is investi
gating the charitable organiza
tions of Chicago, prove that Cath
olic charitable institutions are be
ing conducted at a minimum of
expense, while the United Chari
ties expend fifty-three per cent
of the money contributed by the
public for charitable purposes in
salaries and investigations. The
charity of the 'Catholic Church is
animated with the spirit of Christ.
It is willing to share even a crust
with God's poor.
The so-called Guardians of Lib
erty and Menace propagandists
are busy in the Twin Cities and
elsewhere throughout the State.
Their official lecturer delivered a
"patriotic lecture" in the Oliver
Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis,
last week. One would need a
fcigh-power microscope to discover
the germ of patriotism from which
his tirade on "The Pope in Amer
ican Politics" took its euphemistic
name, if we are to judge from the
quotation given on the leaflet an
nouncing it.
A few more lecturers of this
"patriot" type will do more than
anything else to discredit the
movement in the eyes of intelli
gent non-Catholics who are not
frightened by the bugaboo of
"Papal aggression."
The United Charities of Chicago
paid $299.00 to a poor woman
with three children depending on
Iter after $5,000.00 had been ex
pended in investigating the case,
ft required the services of 16 char
itable organizations, 2 courts, 82
investigators, 11 physicians, 3
nurses, 41 women, 105 visits and
interviews, 2 committee meetings,
and the writing of 27 letters be
fore the matter was finally ad
justed.
While this is, undoubtedly, an
extreme case, it illustrates the
red-tape methods employed by
many so-called charitable organi
zations with high-salaried officials,
and the humiliations to which the
poor are subjected before their
misery is relieved. And all this
in the name of Christian charity!
The Feast of Corpus Christi,
which is celebrated next Sunday,
is a solemn profession of faith in
the reality of our Lord's bodily
presence in the Blessed Sacrament
of the altar. His sacred humanity
united to the divinity is really,
truly and substantially present in
the tabernacle as a perpetual me
morial of his unquenchable love
for souls. It is the object of
adoration, the source of spiritual
strength and the magnet which
attracts devout souls to the higher
life. On this feast the Church
clothes her ministers in richest
vestments her altars are ablaze
With myriad lights her sanctu
aries are perfumed with sweetest
flowers and incense and all her
wealth of ceremonial pomp is lav
ished around the earthly home of
the Saviour. In the procession,
which is the central feature of the
celebration, she makes public pro
fession of faith in the divinity of
Him Whose sacramental presence
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is borne aloft for the adoration of
the fathful. On such an occasion
every Catholic heart should throb
with greater love and yield itself
more unreservedly to the influence
of divine grace. There is no bet
ter means of celebrating this feast
in accordance with the mind of
the church than to make the soul
a living tabernacle of the Blessed
Sacrament.
HOW WILL IT WORK?
One of the most drastic meas
ures placed on the statute books
of the state in years is the Wal
lace-Fosseen bill enacted by the
legislature during the past session.
Its friends expect that it will
serve to wipe out disorderly
houses all over the state. The bill
allows any citizen to make a com
plaint against a disorderly house
and prosecute through counsel. If
the charges are proved, the court
is to issue an order declaring the
place a nuisance and closing it for
one year, unless the owner of the
property files a bond guaranteeing
that the nuisance will be abated
immediately. A fine of $300 is al
so to be assessed against the
keeper of the resort or the owner
of the property. All the personal
property found in the place is to
be confiscated and sold to pay the
costs, and the person filing the in
formation is to receive ten per
cent of the proceeds of the sale.
This premium on "informing"
was one of the chief objections to
the bill, which passed the Senate
early in the session but went
through the House only after a
bitter fight.
This law goes into force on
June first and already there are
indications that it will be given
a thorough trial. The Chief of
Police of St. Paul has ordered the
proprietors of sixty-two houses,
known to the police as disorderly
resorts, to dispose of their furnish
ings and close their doors not
later than May 26. Up to the
present the policy has been to
segregate the social evil as far as
possible, by confining it to cer
tain parts of the city where it is
under the supervision of the
authorities, and the effect of the
present move is awaited with in
terest by those who have at heart
the welfare of the community.
WOMEN'S RETREAT
POSTPONED.
The retreat for women which
was to open at St. Joseph's Acad
emy on June 17 has been post
poned for one month. The Right
Reverend Bishop Carroll of Hel
ena, who was to preside at the
exercises, is unable to be present
on the date already announced.
The retreat, as originally
planned, will begin on Thursday
evening, July 17. and will extend
over the three following days.
A large number of women have
already signified their intention
of making the retreat and, no
doubt, the postponing of it for one
month will enable many others to
make arrangements to attend.
The idea has found favor among
our Catholic women, and there is
every reason to believe that the
forthcoming retreat will be re
markably successful from the
point of view of attendance, en
thusiasm, and spiritual profit.
CATHOLICS IN CANADA.
The fifth census of the Domin
ion of Canada was compiled in
the year 1911. Since then a num
ber of bulletins have been issued
analyzing the results from dif
ferent points of view. One of the
most interesting, of these deals
with the numerical strength of
the different religious denomina
tions in the Don*inion. Accord
ing to it there are seventy-nine
different religions represented
among the people of Canada, an
increase of twenty-two during the
last decade. Many of these re
ligions have very few followers,
the smallest in point of numbers
being the Exclusive Brethren,
numbering fourteen, the Armen
ians with a total membership of
fifteen, the United Free Brethren
which count nineteen adherents
and the Christian Catholics num
bering twenty-two.
At the head of the list stand
the Catholics with a total mem
bership of 2,833,041, out of a
population of 7,206,643. This
represents an increase of 604,441
during the past decade, or 39.31
per cent of the population. In
every Province of the Dominion,
with the exception of Prince Ed
ward Island and the Yukon,
Catholics have shown a steady
gain in numbers. The Province
of Quebec stands at the head of
the list with 1,724,683 then comes
Ontario with 484,997: and New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia with
approximatey 145,000 each. The
greatest proportionate gain is
found in Western Canada. In ten
years the Catholic population of
Manitoba increased from 35,672 to
73,994 that of Alberta from 15,
464 to 62,193 that of Saskatche
wan from 17,651 to 90.092 and
that of the Northwest Territories
from 2,085 to 4,962.
Next to the Catholics in point
of numbers come the Methodists
with 1,079,892, and the Anglicans
with 1,043.017. The Baptists num
ber 382.663 the Lutherans 229,
864, and the Greek "Church 88,507.
The total numerical strength of
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all these is less than that of the
Catholics alone.
Although the Catholics show a
gain of 603,441, they are not so
numerous, in proportion to the
population, as they were ten
years ago. This is due to the fact
that England contributed 30.63
per cent of the increase of popu
lation during the decade, while
Ireland contributed only 3.36 per
cent, Scotland 10.77 per cent,
France 22.09 per cent, Germany
4.51 per cent, and Austro-Hun
gary 6.05 per cent. Notwith
standing this, however, the Cath
olic population shows a much
greater proportionate increase
than that of any of the sects. The
growth of the Church in North
western Canada is evidenced by
the fact that a new Archiepiscopal
See was established recently at
Edmonton, and a new Diocese at
Calgary, for the purpose of min
istering more efficiently to the re
ligious needs of the Catholic pop
ulation which has increased so
rapidly in that section during the
decade of years prior to 1911.
AN INSULT TO CATHOLICS.
The Seventh District of the
State Federation of Women's
Clubs held a convention at Clin
ton, Minn., last week which was
attended by a large number of
delegates, among whom were
many Catholic women represent
ing affiliated societies.
There was an unfortunate inci
dent connected with this conven
tion to which we wish to call at
tention. Among the papers read
was one furnished by the Literary
Club of Morris, Minn., which
dealt with Religion in South
America. From the brief refer
ence to the contents of this paper
which appeared in the public
press we have no hesitation in
characterizing it as an insult not
only to the Catholic delegates, but
to every intelligent and fair
minded non-Catholic who heard
it.
The paper stated that Cathol
icism was the peril of South Am
erica, that all the evils existing
in that country were due to the
dishonesty and immorality of the
Catholic priests and missionaries.
The author of the paper accepted
as true all the malicious calumnies
of anti-Catholic writers and all
the unfounded assertions of cer
tain ministers of the gospel who
have not scrupled to malign the
Catholic priesthood of South
America for selfish purposes. It
is very evident that she took no
pains to ascertain the truth in
regard to the matter. Whatever
would tend to discredit the Cath
olic Church in South America was
utilized in blissful ignorance, let
us hope, of the fact that it had
been refuted time and again by
unprejudiced Protestant writers
who have borne testimony to the
piety, zeal and holiness of life as
well as to eminently successful
labors of the Catholic missionaries
in South America. These Prot
estant witnesses knew from actual
observation that there was not a
word of truth in the statements
made by bigoted writers, who
viewed the work of the Catholic
missionaries in South America
through the spectacles of the nar
rowest sectarianism and they did
not hesitate to speak out boldly
in defence of the Church. In
this connection we may cite the
names of men like the Honorable
John Barrett, Director of the In
ternational Bureau of the Ameri
can Republics General Sampson,
former Minister to Ecuador and
Winfield S. Bird, United States
Consul in Venezuela, all of whom
with a host of others equally com
petent to judge of the conditions
in South America, have borne tes
timony to the splendid work done
by the Catholic clergy of that
country.
During the reading of this
paper protests were made by the
Catholic delegates and by some of
the more intelligent Protestant
women, and, when no attention
was paid to these protests, the
Catholic delegations and others
left the hall. Later on, they re
turned to the meeting and an
apology was offered by the Presi
dent of the State Federation, who
declared that no offence was in
tended, as they met in conven
tion, not as Catholics, nor as
Protestants, but as women who
are working for the good of all.
It is a difficult matter to place
the blame for this unpardonable
breach of etiquette upon the
shoulders of those who were re
sponsible for it. But it would
seem to be a very simple matter
for the committee in charge of the
program to have eliminated such
an offensive paper. The Federa
tion professes to be non-sectarian
but thisi incident serves to
throw discredit upon its state
ment. That such an insult to
Catholics, las that implied in the
reading of this paper, was possi
ble, notwithstanding their pro
tests, seems to prove beyond a
doubt that the Federation is not
animated with so broad a spirit
of non-sectarianism as it would
have the public believe. One
thing is certain, however. Since
this paper was offered by the Lit
erary Club of Morris as a sample
of its work, it proves that the Lit
erary Club of Morris is too avow
edly anti-Catholic to be a consist
ent member of a non-sectarian
federation. We cannot agree
with the Catholic delegate who,1
on her return to the convention
after the reading of the paper,
said, according to the press re
ports, that "such a paper might
be all right in a small club but it
should not be allowed in a federa
tion district meeting." The only
club in which such a bigotedly
anti-Catholic paper would be in
order is a Menace Club. No club
of intelligent women, however
small in numbers, should tolerate
the reading of such a paper, much
less give it the approval which
this one received by presenting it
to a convention as a sample of the
good work done during the year.
There is another point involved
in this incident. The Federation
of Women's Clubs professes to be
a non-sectarian organization. In
fact, its President, at the Clinton
convention last week, asserted
that some of its strongest clubs
and best workers were among the
Catholics and the Jews. If this
be so, is it not strange that there
is no Catholic among the state
officers of the Federation? We
are reliably informed that no
Catholic has ever held a state
office. This goes to show that the
Federation is not anxious to recog
nize in an official way the work
done by Catholic women through
out the State. Is it not time for
the members of the Catholic clubs
and societies affiliated with the
Federation to assert themselves
and demand their rights? Why
should they be members of the
Federation without enjoying all
the rights and privileges that go
with affiliation in such cases?
They should insist upon repre
sentation among the officers of
the Federation of Women's Clubs,
and if this is not granted they
should sever all connections with
it. It is time for our Catholiq,
women to show the non-Catholic
members of this supposedly non
sectarian organization that they
do not propose to co-operate with
them any longer except on equal
terms, that they are not content
to be a tail to a Protestant kite.
If the Catholic women are not
recognized in an official manner
by the Federation of Women's
Clubs, then they should withdraw
and form a federation of their
own to carry on the work which
they are now doing, without being
subjected to the possibility of a
deliberate insult to their faith by
those whose conception of a non
sectarian society is one in which
the Protestants exercise full con
trol without regard to the rights
of Catholics.
LAYMEN'S RETREAT.
To such an extent has the lay
men's retreat movement taken
hold of the Catholics of New
York that the priest in charge has
been obliged to refuse applica
tions for the month of May, and
the list for June is filling up so
rapidly that many who planned
on following the exercises next
month will be disappointed.
Mount Manresa on Staten Island,
where the retreats are held, is
taxed to its utmost capacity and
two cottages on the grounds have
been called into service to ac
commodate the overflow. Com
menting on this the Catholic
News of New York says:
"This gives evidence of two
things—first, the splendid zeal of
old retreatants, whose personal
appeal has influenced friends to
experience the same spiritual ex
ercises which have been so helpful
and inspiring to themselves sec
ond, the healthy and earnest re
sponse of faith and spiritual in
stinct in our laymen to avail
themselves of this marvelous dis
cipline in the principles of Chris
tian character and manhood."
This is a very noteworthy indi
cation of the religious spirit
abroad among Catholic laymen.
In these retreats they are afforded
an opportunity to examine them
selves in detail in regard to their
duties towards the Church in view
of the religious conditions that
prevail in this country. They are
stimulated to greater exertions in
the spiritual life and taught to
respond more generously to the
inspirations of grace. The oppor
tunities that lie before the Cath
olic laymen in this country are
placed before them in their most
alluring aspects and they are
taught how to realize the ideals
that must govern their lives.
The retreat movement is spread
ing to all parts of the country,
and wherever Catholics are alive
to their responsibilities there is
little difficulty in securing a large
attendance. The retreat which
opens at St. Paul Seminary on
June 26 will afford the Catholic
laymen of the Twin Cities an op
portunity they cannot afford to
miss. The future of the move
ment in Minnesota rests with
them and the indications are that,
when the time comes, nothing will
be wanting to insure its success.
RECRUITING FOR THE CHRIS
TIAN BROTHERS.
The Bulletin of the Saint De La
Salle Auxiliary, just issued from
the press, has for object to interest
laymen in the work of fostering
an increase of membership in the
Institute of the Brothers of the
Christian Schools who devote
themselves so zealously to the
Christian education of the young.
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The Institute, as our readers are
aware, was founded by St. John
Baptist de la Salle, who was can
onized by His Holiness Leo XIII
on May 24, 1900. Since the death
of its founder in 1719, the Congre
gation has grown and prospered.
Its representatives are found in
all parts of the world. One can
gain some idea of its recent
growth from the fact that, "since
1904 more than three hundred
houses have been founded in Eng
land, Belgium, the Islands of the
Mediterranean Sea, the Levant,
North and South America, the
West Indies, Cape Colony and
Australia."
The demands made upon the
Christian Brothers are so numer
ous that they are unable to meet
all of them, owing to the fact that
the growth of the Community in
numbers has not kept pace with
the spread of its fame. To rem
edy this, an association of pious
laymen, known as the Saint De
La Salle Auxiliary, was estab
lished in Paris to aid in recruit
ing subjects for their ranks. The
Bulletin of the Society sets forth
the many spiritual favors and in
dulgences granted to those who
assist in this good work. It gives
a biographical sketch of the saint
ly founder of the Christian Broth
ers, and a brief history of the Or
der during the past two hundred
years.
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
It is a rare thing, says "Amer
ica," to find a metropolitan news
paper seize upon a story coming to
it in the daily grist it grinds to
use the incident the story tells in
order to preach a sermon reminis
cent of the Wise Man's "Vanitas
vanitatum." The New York
"Sun" of March 22 does this rare
thing, and does it well. Record
ing the death on that day of Frank
S. Black, ex-Governor of New
York, ex-member of the National
House of Representatives, long a
Republican power and a leader in
the thick of the fight, successful in
a most distinguished sense at the
bar, the "Sun" reminds us that
Mr. Black retired from active
business life on March 8 last,
when he had attained his sixtieth
birthday. It adds: "Almost on
that very day, after he had turned
over his law practice, bade good
bye to his associates, closed down
his desk for the last time, he was
stricken with the illness which
has just ended his life." Then
follows a paragraph full of the
meat of Solomon
rs
message to
men:
"Fate has played few more
ironical jests with any man. It
knew all the time that the tall,
slender, keen-eyed, strong-jawed
man had but one ambition in his
later years, and that was to retire
to the little farm at Freedom, N.
H., when he had acquired more
than $500,000 by years of toil
some days and nights in courts
and over briefs. It allowed him
to go through these years with
hardly a threat of the lot in store
for him. It stood by as the for
tune had come in, retainer at a
time. It had watched the pur
chase of the farm at Freedom, and
then it had listened as he had
spun his dreams'to his friends of
what was to be done there as mid
dle age merged into old age, free
from care and worry, out in the
air, close to the land where he had
spent his boyhood, far from the
stress of the city—then it struck,
and the dreams were over."
"The dreams were over"—
what a commentary upon the
drudgery to which men give them
selves here! What a warning to
toil for the better things, since
"the night cometh, when no man
may work!"
PIONEER LABOR UNIONS
THE TRADE GUILD8 OP THE
MIDDLE AGES WERE RELIG
IOUS, CHARITABLE, PROFES­
SIONAL AND SOCIAL iN THEIR
SCOPE.
In a lecture recently in Liverpool on
"Industrial Ideals" Father H. Lucas,
S. J., spoke of the Trade Guilds of
the Middle Ages. He said that with
all allowance for innumerable varia
tions in point of detail, it may be said
in general that the mediaeval guilds
were benefit societies with perhaps
less hard-and-fast rules as to relief
than have become necessary when
membership is counted by the thou
sand rather than by the score or the
hundred. They were in some respects
similar to modern trades unions, but
differed from them in that they were
not defensive associations of workers
as against employers, but Included
within their membership masters,
journeymen and apprentices, and thus
fulfilled also the functions of con
ciliation boards. In this connection
it is to be remembered that the
differences which distinguished mas
ters from men were not such as distin
guish the modern capitalist from his
employes. As every apprentice would
in due course become a journeyman,
so every journeyman might reason
ably entertain the hope of becoming a
master. The guilds differed also from
trade unions in their deeply religious
character, and likewise in the cir
cumstance that the greater and richer
guilds made a point of supporting hos
pitals or exercising other works of
charity outside the membership.
All in a True 8ense Religiose.
I have said that the purposes of
the mediaeval guilds were religious,
charitable, professional, and
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social
But in fact this division does not
accurately reflect the mind of the
originators and maintainers of these
guilds for they plainly recognized
that all the purposes of such organi
zations were in a true sense religious.
Justice and charity, mutual help and
the relief of the sick and the poor,
were obviously a matter of religious
duty and counsel. It was a religious
duty on the part of the master crafts
man to pay a fair wage, to treat his
apprentices well, and to charge no
more than a fair price for his goods
and on the other hand respect for his
master, obedience, diligence, and good
workmanship were religious duties on
the part of the journeyman or appren
tice. And even the social gatherings
of the guild members, like our latter
day Catholic reunions, were intended
to foster true Christian brotherliness.
It is perhaps not quite useless to
insist that the mediaeval ideal, as
roughly outlined presupposes a com
mon faith, and a faith so strongly
held that by common acknowledg
ment it should govern all the affairs
of life. In other words, the consti
tution and smooth working of the
guilds presupposed a public opinion,
or rather an all but universal con
viction, favorable to the maintenance
of Christian principles* an all but
universal recognition of religious mo
tives and sanctions. For, as experi
ence has abundantly shown, the most
beneficent laws and regulations must
needs be in great measure inoperative
unless they have the support of pub
lic opinion or of some common con
viction. Human selfishness is clever
enough to evade laws and rules, how
ever skilfully devised unless the
would-be evaders are so- small a mi
nority that their efforts at evasion
can be defeated by the united efforts
of an overwhelming majority.
By way of illustration of what has
been said, a passage may be partly
quoted and partly summarized from
Janssen's "History of the German
People" always bearing in mind that
what this author says of Germany is
equally true in its main features of
other countries also. "With regard to
all the relations of life and society,
each city formed an independent and
exclusive association, looking on its
collective inhabitants as one large
family, for whose welfare it was
bound to provide.
This paternal care was looked upon
as a sacred duty, and included moral
supervision no less than solicitude for
material necessities."
Wage* and Prices Regulated by Au­
thority.
It may here be remarked that this
highly religious conception of the pa
ternal responsibilities of the civic au
thorities was in large measure due to
the fact that so many of the me
diaeval towns had grown up around
the great monasteries to which they
owed their origin. For the due per
formance of this quasi-paternal charge
and to prevent or forestall the evil
effects of unregulated trading or of
what would nowadays be called free
and unrestricted competition, it was
deemed necessary that both wages and
prices (or at least the prices of the
prime necessaries of life) should be
regulated by authority and that there
by profits should be kept within rea
sonable bounds. To get rich quickly
at the expense of one's poorer neigh
bors, and to acquire a capitalist's grip
of an army of resourceless employes,
was a kind of ambition that would
have been by no means regarded with
favor and so long as the trade-regula
tions of the Middle Ages were ob
served, the realization of such an aim
was practically impossible. But It is
not to be supposed that the settlement
of wages and prices was made directly
by the town council itself. The au
thority of the council in all that con
cerned handicrafts and trades was for
the most part delegated to the guilds,
of which, as has been said, masters
and men were alike members, and
which were free to settle their own
affairs subject to the sanction and ap
proval of the corporation.
No one supposes that the ideal
herein expressed was ever real
ized in its full perfection. But that
a very fair approach to full realiza
tion was in fact achieved it would be
absurd to doubt. Nor can it be doubt
ed that if the same principles which
on the whole dominated the mediaeval
guilds, could once more gain universal
acceptance, the whole of our industrial
life would be gradually and peacefully
revolutionized. And one step towards
the universal acceptance of these prin
ciples is the recognition of their effi
cacy in the past i. e., of their efficacy
in producing a well-distributed pros
perity.
THE CIS IDEI1L
AN IDEAL OP SIMPLICITY AND
POVERTY.
While a few vile sheets are abus
ing the Church and clergy it is pleas
ant to read the following tribute to
the Franciscan Monks In the Presby
terian Examiner:
"We have need in this century, more
than ever before, of the Franciscan
ideal an Ideal of simplicity and pov
erty, a heart fixed on the realities of
life. These are strange days, when
men will fast for the good of their
stomachs who would never do it for
the good of their souls when men
will lead the 'simple life' for a whim,
and spend what they save thereby
on fresh luxuries when the whim is
over. We have need, now more than
ever, of object-lessons in the true
'simple life,' led with the single burn
ing aspiration for the true full life of
eternity and sustained by an abound
ing faith in the glorious abundant life
after death. The nearer we come to
bare necessaries, the nearer we come
to true beauty for true beauty is
Berviceableness. A cottage kitchen,
with Its unpretentious furniture, Its
pewter and plain crockery, is a far
more beautiful place than a modern
drawing room. In such surroundings
life is life, to be faced willingly, with
the knowledge that the day's work
brings the day's wages and that moth
and rust will find little to corrupt of
all the treasure we leave behind ns
when we go."
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
THE POLITICAL. ECONOMY OF
ALCOHOL.
Alocbol is- related closely to
of three sets of activities, writes Frank
O'Hara, in the Catholic World, to the
production of wealth, to the distribu
tion of wealth, and to the consumption
of wealth.
First, let us consider the part which
alcohol plays in the production of
wealth. The relation of alcohol to the
production of wealth is a two-fold
one. In the first place, alcohol—itself
a product of industry—requires in its
production the expenditure of labor
power and capital power and land
power and business management. Thus
the production of alcohol represents
effort that might be employed in other
directions. Instead of employing land
and labor and capital and business
management to manufacture beer and
whiskey and wine, an equivalent
amount of land and labor and capital
and enterprise might be employed in
producing bread and beef and clothing
and houses
In the second place, it may be shown
that the use of alcohol renders the
workers less efficient producers than
they would be without its use. There
is a shortage, then, in the production
of the necessaries of life because, on
the one hand, the production" of the
necessaries has had to give place to
the production of the not-necessaries,
and, on the other hand, because the
producers have been made inefficient
or entirely unproductive through the
use of some of these not-necessaries.
The non-drinker can be depended
upon to do a higher class of work than
the man who is in a semi-intoxicated
condition during working hours, or
than the man who drinks moderately,
and confines his drinking to the time
when he is off duty.
A few years ago the*Federal Bureau
of Labor undertook an investigation to
find out the attitude of employers to
wards the use of intoxicating liquors
by employes. Employers were asked
if, in employing new men, they were
accustomed to give consideration to
the use of intoxicating liquors. Out
of nearly seven thousand employers
answering this inquiry, more than one
half reported that they required in
certain occupations, and under certain
circumstances, that employes should
not use intoxicating liquors. Many
different reasons were given by the
employers for the requirement.
Moreover, the effects of the drink
habit upon the distribution of wealth
are cumulative and permanent. Sins
of the fathers are visited upon the
children through many generations in
the industrial world. The man who
uses alcohol to excess, and who lowers
his own economic position in society
thereby, also places his children at a
disadvantage in the struggle for a live
lihood. As a general thing they do nQt
inherit the property that they other
wise would inherit. They must de
pend to a greater extent than would
otherwise be necessary on their labor
power for their support. Then, too, as
a rule they will not receive so good
an education as they would receive if
their father was not a drinker. They
are thus doubly handicapped in the
race of life.
1. The use of alcohol is prejudicial
to the economical production of
wealth.
2. Its use is inconsistent with a*
wholesome and wise distribution of
wealth.
3. It tends to promote an irrational
consumption of wealth.
Political economy, therefore, will
have none of it.
WATER 18 BEST.
Water is best for the man ot health,
'Twill keep his strength secure
Water is best for the man of wealth,
'Twill keep his riches sure.
Water is best for the feeble man,
'Twill make his health improve
Water is best for the poor, I ken,
'Twill make his wants remove.
Water for those who are growing old,
'Twill keep them hale and strong
Water is best for the young and bold,
'Twill make their moments long.
Water is best for the man of toil,
'Twill make his labor light
Water is best for ladies who toil
Not a hand from morning till night.
Water is best for the man of strife,
'Twill make his anger slow
And for him who leads a peaceful life
'Tis the very best drink I know.
Water is best for the man of state,
'Twill keep his judgment true
Water is best for those who wait
His high commands to do.
Water, pure water's the drink for
V
maw,
Its fountains are full and free!
Others may drink "fire-water" who
can,
Pure water's the nectar for me!
Water is best in cold or heat,
At morn, or noon or night
"Tis the only drink that "can't be
beat,"
Clear, healthful, sparkling, bright!
HELPED 8ELF AND OTHERS.
It is my experience, says Professor
Dr. Kraepelin of Heidelberg, and I
could confirm it by innumerable
proofs, which leave me without a
shadow of doubt, that of all conceiva
able methods of fighting the drink evil,
the personal example of total abstin
ence is by far the most efficacious.
When, twelve years ago, this became
clear to me, I did not hesitate to seize
this weapon, and up to this day I have
never for a moment had reason to re
gret that I did so. I have to thank
total abstinence not only for Its bene
ficial results in regard to my own pow
ers of continuous work, but also for
the satisfaction that comes from being
consistent, and from seeing the unmis
takable effects of the Influence of my
example in the struggle fgntifflt alco
holism.
Do not expect everyone to
your own opinion.
be of
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