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Papal Blessing for the United States

CARDINAL FARLEY brings back to this country from Pope Benedict XV the following: "My most cordial benediction to America, whose citizens and institutions I have always admired. Tell them they shall always be close to my heart. Tell America and the whole world to pray for peace."

The growing ascendancy of the papacy throughout the world, and particularly the strength that it is gaining in the United States, is a thing that all students of the Bible should carefully watch and closely study. The Bible, without any question, shows that a world-wide triumph of the papacy is one of the very last links in the great chain of prophetic utterances.

The majority of Catholics are educated in that faith from babyhood, and their prejudices are such that it is only to be expected that at first they might feel hard toward the thought that great portions of the Bible prophecies pertain to their religious system. But these same prophecies utter a strong invitation from God Himself to "come out of her, My people." So God has many people that He recognizes as His in that great communion; and He invites them to study His word for themselves, to see if these things be not true.

The individual may depend upon it that God's Holy Spirit will accompany His word as we personally study it. It will not do for us to leave these matters to the priest, the minister, or any one else. We must know God's truth for ourselves. Our prejudices, or our peculiar views, will not change God's truth nor God's prophecies. Hence our need of praying to be delivered from the chains of prejudice, and to make a personal study of the divine Book, whether we be Protestant or Catholic, or whatever may be our persuasion.

Providence and Calamities

By William Henry Sutton

RECENTLY the business section of the town of Telluride, in Colorado, was devastated by a flood. This town had the reputation of being one of the worst strongholds of vice in the country. The maintenance of gambling dens, saloons, and brothels, and all combinations of the three, for the purpose of mulcting the miners from the surrounding country, was its principal interest, according to correspondence published in the New Republic.

© Underwood & Underwood COUNT ZEPPELIN (RIGHT), IN CONSULTATION WITH COUNT HAESSLER

To one who believes in an overruling providence, such an event will appeal as being a striking confirmation of his faith. But we must not rest our faith on such foundations. It would be safe to say that places as bad go without signal visitations of any kind for year after year, while comparatively innocent communities are visited with terrible devastations.

God has too many things to consider for us to expect to comprehend all His purposes. Oftentimes it seems as though a free hand to wickedness were purposely given, only to show its true nature more clearly. And on the other hand, destruction visited upon a community may be just the stimulus to nobler endeavor that it needs. "All things work together for good to them that love God," and it is frequently demonstrated that the wicked are not benefited by even the greatest blessings.

Often the purpose of calamities seems to be dimly discernible; but generally, even then, it is well not to have confidence in surmisings, or judge things "before the time."

The attitude that Christ recommended is the one to take. Some of the Jews had been talking with Him about calamities, and speaking of eighteen men who had been killed in the collapse of a tower. He said: "Think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." Luke 13: 4, 5.

Such happenings must warn us to be ready, however, and doubly so to-day, when, according to the prophecies of the Bible, the final day of reckoning for the whole world is just ahead.

W. H. S.

Liquor Men as Prohibitionists

By Milton C. Wilcox

THE liquor men declare that prohibition is not just. They say, "Here is a man who has been running a saloon, licensed by the legal authorities, and prohibition destroys him and his business, a business that the country itself has fostered."

Such an argument as that comes with poor grace from liquor men. Take, for instance, the little town of Lodi, California. It voted "wet" on the liquor question a few months ago, by seven majority. Now news comes to us that the liquor forces say, "We will reform." Lodi has had twelve places where liquor was sold. The liquor forces will only permit three, paying a license of $1,200 each. They will close the other nine.

That is, they will do what they are charging prohibitionists with doing—unjustly crowd them out of business, and deprive them of a livelihood. Now, if it is all right for the liquor men to close nine saloons out of the twelve, surely they can not say that it is unjust on the part of the temperance folks to close the other three; and yet what the liquor men are doing in Lodi, they do in town after town if they think the liquor traffic will be the gainer thereby.

It may be safely said, however, that there will be just as much liquor drunk in Lodi as before. Profit will be divided among fewer men, but crime will be just as great, and the "respectability" of the liquor traffic will lead many to drink in the palatial saloons that are left who would never think of drinking otherwise. M. C. W.

Public Roads and Our Alcohol Bill

By M. C. W.

THE public road mileage in the United States is 2,199,645. Based on the average price of farm land an acre, the rights of way of these roads are worth ........................... $345,652,215 The cost of improved roads ................. 561,604,806 Total value .................................... 907,257,021

Our drink bill is over $2,000,000,000 a year. We could buy, with that drink bill, all the public roads in the United States, duplicate them by as many more miles, and have a neat little sum of more than $185,000,000 left. Does the liquor traffic pay? M. C. W.

The Wound of a Bad Habit

A BAD habit of the mind is like a wound to the soul. It may be healed never so well, but may break open again as before.

M. C. W

By M. C. W.

California's Crime Bill — $29,000,000

THAT is what crime cost California in 1912, according to the statistician Hammond, after an exhaustive study of the records of the state and those of every county and city in the state. The cost of crime in officially paid expense in California in 1912 was $37,153,471. Judicial and penal authorities charge to alcohol eighty per cent of crime. Some place it a little less, some more. The indirect cost, added to this, would greatly enlarge it. Do California voters desire to continue to pay nearly $30,000,000 for crime directly, perhaps twice that indirectly? That is double the amount of the products of all the wines of the state. Vote it out.

M. C. W

Labor's Appeal

By Pasadena's Board of Labor

From an Address by Pasadena's Board of Labor, "To the Members of Organized Labor"

IT is argued against national prohibition that many thousands of men will be thrown out of work, but we honestly believe that these men will be better employed in the manufacture of the many household necessities and the building of better homes, of which the wives and children of labor are now deprived, and to which you and they are entitled. . . .

Our brothers call upon us to save their jobs for them, and we reply that part of the wages of the working class now spent for liquor will be spent in more food, clothing, furniture, and books, the manufacture of which will give the more jobs and better jobs than they now have.

Current Events and Temperance Notes

Dow, Jones & Co., 44 Broad Street, New York City, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, have issued an "Atlas of the European Conflict." It contains detailed maps of the nations involved, and gives pertinent statistics of the contending powers, and also presents an analysis of conditions that led up to the present struggle. The maps are furnished by Rand and McNally, recognized as among the best map makers. The atlas is of convenient size, and may be had for 25 cents.

IN 1912 Sisseton, South Dakota, for six years "dry," voted "wet," and adopted the municipal saloon, the net proceeds to go into the city treasury. In 1913, after the test of a year, Sisseton again voted "dry." Business men demanded it. $75,000 was spent for booze, $55 for every man, woman, and child, and proper and profitable business fell down correspondingly. Those who at first favored the municipal saloon, were afterward among its most active opponents.

ABOUT 50,000 copies of the October Signs Magazine have been sold to date. This is the high-water mark for this year. A number of second orders were received from agents. It is comparatively easy to sell this magazine now, for it contains just what people wish to know. We bespeak a large circulation for the November number also, as its contents will commend it to all. L.

ROCKFORD, Illinois, a "dry" town, expended in public improvements in 1913—$349,423.03; yet Rockford's tax rate is lower than that of any other city of its class in Illinois. License fees can never compensate the loss by the saloon. Every town that has thoroughly tested prohibition has found it profitable.

THE only two foes prohibition has to meet are enslavement by appetite and greed. The one holds its victims in line, the other would sacrifice humanity for the dollar. And yet we hope that the victims of alcohol will, under the impulse of a subjected manhood, vote for freedom.

THE great and increasing prevalence of drunkenness among the women of England is more easily explained by the cheap and abundant supply of beer than by the fact that wines are expensive, which some anti-prohibitionists cite as the reason.

"THE North Carolina State Medical Association has denounced as unethical and unnecessary the prescription of alcohol in any form by the medical profession, and has pledged to discourage its use in the state."

WHEN sinning, a man takes his life in his hands—and destroys part of it.

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