THE claim is sometimes put forth that the saloon keeper and the brewer are the revenue producers. But they are not. They merely collect the revenue. The men who drink the accursed stuff are the ones who are the real revenue producers. Revenue is blood money. It represents the life, the tears, the agony, of tens of thousands of widows and orphans left to struggle alone with poverty, the husbands and fathers having gone down prematurely into drunkards' graves, lost forever. For a government to attempt to live upon such revenue is like a man living upon the blood sucked from his own veins. G. B. T.
