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1 Temperance |
LIQUOR BILL EQUALS EARNINGS
OP ALL AMERICAN TRADE
UNIONISTS.
By Charles Stelzle.
The liquor bill of this country just
about equals the wages earned by all
the trade unionists in the United
States.
According to a study made by the
Bureau of Statistics of the New York
State Department of Labor, the aver
age yearly earnings of trade unionists
in that State, including men and wo
men, amount to $750. This would be
a fair average for the entire country,
counting only days actually worked.
We spend annually $2,000,000,000
for booze. Divide 750 into 2,000,
000,000 and you get 2,666,666, which
is just about the number of trade
unionists of various kinds in this
country.
The enormous waste of the money
spent for booze becomes impressive
when one considers that it equals the
total sum of money paid to this highly
intelligent army of workers ? the fin
est body of workingmen in the world!
How can this army of workingmen
consistently defend a traffic which is
so great a drain upon the resources
of all kinds of people ? resources
which, if spent for more legitimate
objects, would not only give the work
ers four times as much employment,
four times as much wages, require
four times as much raw material, but
which would also give the workers,
as a whole, more of the comforts of
life and less of Its torments? ? Ameri
can Issue.
WHAT PROHIBITION IS DOING FOR
COLORADO.
We were warned by the wets that if
Colorado went dry we might as well
turn our grand old State over to the
wolves, prairie-dogs, and buffaloes. But,
as you have doubtless heard, the op
posite is true.
While on my tour through the west
ern, southern, and southeastern part
of the State I found town after town
that was prospering as never before.
Gunnison, a town of about a thousand
inhabitants, had stood for twenty years
with no new building activities; but,
when prohibition became effective,
some of the old decaying buildings were
torn down to be replaced by modern
brick structures. They had found it
almost impossible before that to keep
up a few old board sidewalks, but since
liquor was ousted cement walks have
been laid on all the principal BtreetB.
Instances by the score might be cited
of other cities and towns that have
benefited from prohibition, but a few
excerpts from some of the newspapers
that were formerly wet might be in
teresting.
The title of one article says, "City Is
Unscathed by Cutting Off of Saloon
Licenses." It goes on to say: "The
closing the saloons in Denver through
prohibition cost the city a loss of $125,
925. Before the adoption of prohibi
tion one of the cries of the 'wets' was
that the city government would fail, or
nearly fail, financially because of loss
of revenue. Now, the actual results
show that the loss is scarcely to be con
sidered in the running expenses of a
municipal government -that costs mil
lions."
Another article says, "Street-Corner
Loafer Gone from Colorado Towns
With No Friendly Bowl to Cheer." It*
goes on to say: "The street-corner
bum who uses the county Jail as a win
ter lodging-place, and then drifts from
place to place in search of meal and
lodging tickets, is becoming a figure of
the past in Colorado. The 'vag* doesn't
thrive in a dry State, especially when
there is a federal act which also pre
vents him from substituting 'dope' as
a stimulant. And the direct result of
the prohibition and drug acts, accord
ing to the officials of the Colorado
Prison Association, has been a house
cleaning of the State which has mate
rially changed the character of the As
sociation's work this winter."
"The Larimer-Street element which
kept the city jail officials busy is drift
ing out of Colorado," says Mrs. W. E.
Collett^ assistant secretary of the
Prison Association. 'We haven't had
half the number of tramps and 'vags'
Just out of Jail who want temporary
aid that is customary. And It has been
some time since wa had a typical dope
fiend come to us for aid."
Still anothe: article says: "Peniten
tiary to Close Wing; Business Bum In
Dry State. Startling Decrease In
Crime in Colorado Since Prohibition."
So marked has been the efTect of pro
hibition upon crime In Colorado that
by the flrBt of the year, or soon after
that, one whole large wing of the State
penitentiary will be closed for lack of
prisoners. Within one month, the pris
on will have barely three-fourths of
Its former number of occupants, and
from December 1 onward, when the
terms of many of the "old-timers" be
gin to expire, the institution will
empty at an unheard-of rate.
"If the number of prisoners sen
tenced to the penitentiary during the
last six months ? since prohibition got
its full stride ? continues at the same
rate during the next six months, tho
prison at Canon City will discharge
about thirty-seven men to every pris
oner taken in.
"This morning (October 25) the pen
itentiary had only 707 prisoners, count
ing both men and women. A year ago,
before prohibition went into effect, its
average number of inmates was well
above 800, running nearer 900. Dur
ing the rest of the month nine more
prisoners will leave the institution,
either on parole or through having
served out their full sentences. Next
month (November) twenty others will
depart. That exodus, if no new ar
rivals were booked, would reduce the
prison roster to 678.
"Moreover, the greater number of
prisoners received since prohibition
went into effect are sent there for
much shorter terms than formerly; the
class of men is different, most of the
'habitual criminals' having left the
State with the shutting down of the
saloons. The new "short-termers' are
paroled much sooner than the former
'long-termers,' so the recent prisoners
will not stay at the penitentiary ns
long as the ones formerly housed
there. Consequently, Warden Thomas
Tynan sees the day not far distant
when the prison will operate merely a
fraction of its present buildings. He
says the class of prisoners received at
the penitentiary now is of such a
changed character that many more
men can be sent to the farms and road
camps than formerly. At present con
victs are employed in six road camps,
and the institution operates five
farms."
The Colorado Endeavorers, especial
ly those in Denver, appreciating tho
benefits of prohibition, and seeing the
hidden menace in the "beer amend
ment," threw their energies into tho
fight. Thia amendment was defeated
by two to one. ? The Christian Endeav
or World.
llVfocellaneous ji
HOW SHALL THE CHURCH REAL
IKE THE MEANING OF CHRIS
TIAN STEWARDSHIP?
The Church of God lias long wrestled
with the problem of financing the great
work assigned her by her Divine Lord
and Redeemer. The Scriptural plan
has been discovered and urged upon
the churches. We believe the greatest
enterprise in the world should be sup
ported in the most adequate method.
We accept the plan approved by the
church at large and by our own As
sembly in particular. We agree that
the responsibility for making Christ
known rests upon the individual Chris
tian disciple.
If the plan is good, adequate and
scriptural, what more is needed? Let
us see: We have learned that it is
one thing to plan your work, and an
other thing to work your plan. Some
one has said of Christianity when it
was pronounced a failure, "Christianity
sir, has never been tried." What has
been said of Christianity as a whole
may be said with equal truth about
the great matter of Christian steward
ship. It has never been fully adopted
and so has never been fairly tried.
We have before us, however, the en
couraging fact that a careful compari
son of gifts for benevolent causes shows
that the per capita, gift from the
churches making the every member
canvass is larger by one dollar and
seventy-one cents than that received
from the non-enlisted churches.
This, of course, is significant and
encouraging. If the every member can
vass, though only adopted In a partial
way, has been so blessed in cultivat
ing the spirit of generosity, what might
it do if given a chance to do its best?
How, then, shall the every member
canvass do its best? Manifestly, the
answer to this question is to be found
in aiding the individual Christian in
every way possible to realize that he is
a steward of God's bounty.
Three suggestions Just here may be
helpful. Let the matter of church
finance be first of all a matter of prayer.
We do not hear this made mention of
in public prayer often enough. Ever
since Jesus Christ said, "Ask and it
shall be given you," there has been a
necessity for the' Church to lay era
phasls upon believing the promise. It
has been easier for the Church to ac
cept the principle of prayer in its re
lation to comfort and sorrow than it
has been to accept it in its relation to
the gigantic enterprise of giving the
knowledge of Christ to a needy world.
Prayer must have a large place In the
heart of the one who solicits and in
the heart of the one who gives. Tho
whole Church must be in prayer for any
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