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EDITORIAL

By Editor

THROUGHOUT this great nation men are breathing easier because, a few weeks ago, the word passed along the line that "the great railroad strike is declared off." Yet every one knows that it is but a temporary arrangement. It is, so to speak, an armistice, while both sides to the controversy will prepare for the struggle that sooner or later must be renewed. Men representing the capitalist element are affirming loudly that the action of Congress in enacting the eight-hour law shows that our government is passing under the control of popular clamors, and that if this is allowed to continue, it will soon end in ruin. On the other hand, the laboring men are no less insistent that while the capitalists are piling up their millions with such unprecedented rapidity, there is no reason why labor should not have a larger share of the prosperity of the time.

THE CONFLICT

INTENSIFYING YEAR BY YEAR The merits or demerits of these arguments we do not care to discuss. The question for us to consider is the far broader one brought to view by the prophecies which picture the strifes, the riotings, and the contentions of this time, and tell us what they all portend. Regardless of either the right or the wrong of the arguments put forward by the men engaged in this controversy, it is a well-known fact that the various factions of society are becoming more angry and more determined. The "American Association for Labor Legislation" informs us that during the last legislative year, "ninety-two labor laws, exclusive of the eight-hour railroad measure, have been passed by Congress and state legislatures." In addition to these that were passed, "several hundred labor bills were introduced," upon which no action was taken. These facts show the intense character of the labor agitation. Every little while, a strike is called in some section of the country; and we have such scenes enacted as were manifested in El Paso, Texas, on Labor Day, when a clash came between the "strike breakers" and the men who were out on strike, and "it is estimated that at least fifty persons were injured in the street fighting." The men who are at the head of these labor wars in all sincerity urgently call upon their followers not to engage in any kind of rioting or destruction of property; on the other hand, they are exhorted to be orderly and law-abiding. But as soon as the strikers plunge into a heated contest, they throw away their programs, and act upon impulse, and with a determination to win regardless of what they had previously planned.

[[FIGURE]] # CALMS BEFORE THE BURSTING STORM Not only do the present turbulent industrial conflicts confront us, but we shall soon stand face to face with experiences and problems for which there is no precedent. When the war in Europe comes to a close—and its close may be almost as sudden as was its outbreak—the laboring people of the world will be thrown into perplexities that words cannot be found to describe. There is a tremendous prosperity sweeping over this nation at the present time, but it is indeed the prosperity of a tidal wave. A man may ride high and fast on the top of this wave; but soon he will find that it has subsided, only to leave destruction and ruin everywhere. Be not deceived by the theories and voices of men. Seek earnestly the Bible truth that has been given for these days, and seek a personal acquaintance with the great Author of the sacred volume. He alone holds the key to the situation, and He alone can provide a shelter from the storm that is breaking. Do not allow the little calms that come between the bursts of fury to lull us into the idea that the storm is past. The stormy conditions of earth's history will continue to grow more and more intense until the great climax is reached, when Christ will come in person to bring an everlasting end to all this distress and ruin, and to crown with immortality those who, through seeking and learning to obey Him, are ready for the great event.

[[FIGURE]] # RELIEVING OREGON'S DROUGHT One of the latest devices of those who would engage in the illegal traffic in whisky was to try to smuggle "wet" drink into "dry" Oregon in milk cans. The cans were specially constructed with a copper lining, so that the alcohol in the whisky would not corrode them. They had a false bottom, so that the whisky could be kept in the lower part of the can while there was a small quantity of milk on top. A wide-awake detective in Portland discovered the illegal scheme, and the perpetrators were promptly arrested. The principal argument advanced by the liquor dealers' association as to why prohibition should not be allowed is that whisky will be sold anyway. Laws against murder or theft do not stop these crimes; but nevertheless, we feel safer in a community where there are laws against such evil deeds. "Prohibition doesn't prohibit!" The assertion has been worn threadbare by frequent repetition. Neither does regulation regulate. Bootlegging is not confined to prohibition territory. Prohibition does help. It is a mighty step toward the abolition of this cursed traffic. It makes illegal and punishable by law the sale of liquor. It dissolves the partnership between the liquor forces and the federal government. It removes the temptation of the open saloon from unwary feet. Prohibition does go far toward prohibiting. Facts and authoritative statistics offer indisputable proof. It is as effectual as any other law against crime. Let every lover of humanity throw the full weight of his influence on the side of prohibition. Let us proclaim our convictions to the world by voice and pen and vote.

THE American Catholic Federation was organized by Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, New Jersey, in December, 1901. It was founded with the avowed purpose of advancing Catholic interests, to mold public sentiment, and influence legislation. Among other features, it seeks to suppress anti-Catholic literature, and to debar the same, whenever and wherever possible, from schools and libraries, and from circulation through the mails. With this federation are associated more than a score of national Catholic organizations. Its membership has now reached the three million mark.

[[FIGURE]] # CATHOLICISM'S RELATION TO AMERICANISM Nestling securely in the heart of the Congressional Record for September 6, where it can easily be cited and triumphantly brought forth when occasion requires, is found the address of the cardinal archbishop of Boston to the assembled delegates of the American Federation of Catholic Societies in New York City on August 20. The most noteworthy speech of the convention, it was a studied effort to give to the public the ostensible attitude of Catholicism toward Americanism. Although the pronouncement was made some two hundred miles from the scene of the National Congress in Washington, D. C., yet through the custom of the "extension of remarks," it was inserted in the Congressional Record by request of the Hon. Peter F. Tague, of Massachusetts. We shall hear more of Cardinal O'Connell's speech in the future. Its resting place will not be forgotten. When, in the days to come, the activities of Romanist propagandists bring forth a challenge as to their intentions, that speech will be insistently pressed into service.

NOT ANTI-CATHOLIC BUT ANTI-SIN

Referring to the violent anti-Catholic agitators and their literature, the speaker said: "If you stand by inactive while, under your very eyes — yes, through your very mails, which we pay for — we are insulted, scurrilously maligned, and openly vilified in filthy journals and nasty, indecent literature, unfit to be printed or read, spread broadcast that dupes and bigots may be poisoned against us, so that we may be robbed even of our public rights, then you are not keeping your contract; this is not liberty." While we are steadfastly opposed to certain doctrines and religio-political activities of the Catholic Church, we deeply deplore the harsh and unkind language sometimes used by those who see in Roman aggression a grave peril. We register our protest against the unchristian methods used by some publications professing to be the expounders of true Protestantism and loyal patriotism. We are not in sympathy with such utterances. "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His," be he Protestant or Catholic. Rom. 8:9. This journal is not anti-Catholic, but it is anti-sin. It fearlessly and frankly exposes false doctrines and wrong principles wherever found, but has naught but kindliest feelings toward any individual, lay or official.

[[FIGURE]] # EVIDENCES OF PAPAL LOVE AND DEVOTION Another memorable statement was this: "I have known intimately, personally and officially, three sovereign pontiffs, three popes of the Catholic Church. I am a priest now thirty-two years, I am a bishop fifteen years, and a cardinal five years. I have had the closest relations with not only the pope, but the whole Roman curia; I know well every priest in my diocese and every bishop in this country. Yet never, never, in all that experience, have I ever heard spoken, lisped, or whispered, or even hinted, by any or all of these, anything concerning America and American institutions but words of affection, of tender and kindliest solicitude for her welfare; never a syllable that could not be printed in the boldest type and distributed throughout the land; neither plot nor scheme nor plan, but only sentiments of admiration and love. If there is plotting, I ought to know it. Yet absolutely and honestly, of such things I have never heard even a whisper." Possibly the cardinal is a bit hard of hearing. Yet doubtless words that cause alarm to Protestant ears seem but right and proper to the papal listeners. Cardinal O'Connell, without question, considers the outspoken program to "make America dominantly Catholic" to be the strongest evidence of Catholic love and devotion to the nation. Referring to the startling growth of the Catholic Church in this country, he said, "And it is well for the present and future of America that this is so."

[[FIGURE]] # ROME'S PROGRAM FOR AMERICA America is the hope of Rome, the church's land of promise. She determines to make this the first Catholic nation of the world. To this end, she watches and toils and waits. In an explanatory statement concerning missions to non-Catholics, found in "The Mission Movement in America," issued from the Catholic University of America, at Washington, D. C., June, 1909, the following statement is found: "If the non-Catholic people of America only knew the mother church of Christendom as well as we do, they would love her as ardently. Our motto is, We come not to conquer, but to win. Our purpose is to make America dominantly Catholic." Also the Missionary (Roman Catholic), October, 1911: "'To make America Catholic' is the watchword of this general apostolate, on the part of religious and secular priests combined." We doubt not that such utterances sound, to ardent Catholics, like the acme of patriotism and love of country. But our government is based upon the will of the people, and free from church control. Furthermore, it maintains that free public education should be uncontrolled by the church. That these principles have each been formally condemned by Rome cannot be denied. The ex cathedra utterances of Pius IX, Pius X, and Leo XIII prove this beyond successful contradiction. For example, see "Syllabus of Errors," promulgated by Pius IX in 1864, where he states it is an "error" "that the church ought to be separated from the state, and the state from the church." (LV.) Again, Leo XIII, in his encyclical "Diuturnum illud," on the "Constitution of Christian States," writes: "Many modern thinkers, following in the footsteps of those who in the last century called themselves philosophers, declare that all power comes from the people; that consequently those that exercise power in society do not exercise it of their own authority, but as an authority delegated to them by the people, and on the understanding that it may be revoked by the people. Catholics, however, hold that the right to rule comes from God as its natural and necessary principle." See further, "Syllabus" of Pius IX (XLVII, XLVIII, LXVII, LXVIII, LXXIII, LXXIV). These declarations, from the highest authority in the church, and which every loyal Catholic accepts, are utterly antagonistic to the fundamental principles of the American government.

[[FIGURE]] # DRIVEN TO ATHEISM BY HER APOSTASY During the course of his address, the cardinal said: "And even today, poor, blood-drenched Europe, though she strive to hide even from her own eyes the true cause of this suicidal war, is at last thoroughly convinced that the Voltaires and the Vivians, the Haeckels and the Nietzsches, the Tolstoys and the Huxleys, the Kants and all the rest of that monstrous brood, who for now many years have empoisoned the thought and embittered the heart of the student youth, are now reaping their terrible but abundant harvest." The cardinal states more than a half truth when he says Europe is reaping the results of her wild sowing of atheism. But, may we ask, what led or drove those men into agnosticism? — It was the iniquity and oppression that sat enthroned in the dominant church, the only representative of Christianity they knew. They said, If this be Christianity, then we want no more of it. Goaded to madness, they cast off all restraint. Enraged at the falsehoods by which they had been duped, they rejected both error and truth. Disgusted with apostasy, they sought to annihilate religion itself. The French Revolution, with its gruesome harvest of atheism and violence, was a revolt against the corruptions and perversions of the church bearing the name of Christian.

[[FIGURE]] # BRIEF WORLD-SWEEPING TRIUMPH "One of the startling phenomena of the age," said the cardinal, "is the tremendous growth of Catholicism in America — a growth so startling and so impressive and so urgent that each year, it taxes to the utmost capacity the ever increasing number and size of the churches, and the tireless labors of bishops and priests whose care it is to minister to them." Here is food for sober thought. The Catholic Church is growing both in numbers and in power and boldness of utterance. Boston, the home of the cardinal, once the center of Puritanism, is now practically under Catholic rule. There is an undeniable Romeward drift, while, according to the same speaker, "Protestantism has lost its hold upon the masses — that every year hundreds of their churches are closed, and those still left open are half empty." This also is true, as far as it goes. Protestantism is losing just to the extent that it has abandoned the principles underlying the mighty Reformation which led to the separation from Rome. The trouble is, many of the Protestant churches have ceased to protest against apostasy, are neglecting to advocate primitive Christianity, have become honeycombed with radical criticism. They still retain the form, but have surrendered the power of vital godliness. Yet it was all foretold in the thirteenth chapter of Revelation. An accurate, detailed, chronological depiction of the course of the power symbolized by the "beast"—which all Protestant commentators agree refers to the papacy—is given there. Her domination during the middle ages, together with her loss of power at the close of the eighteenth century, was clearly predicted. Also the resuscitation and restoration to power now witnessed throughout the world was foretold in the words, "His deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." Then the prophecy adds, "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." A brief, world-sweeping triumph, we may expect. Earth's last crisis is approaching with startling rapidity. The conflict will soon reach its climax.

[[FIGURE]] # DESTINED TO EVERLASTING OVERTHROW Fearful is the issue that will soon be brought before the world. Mighty will be the forces. Only diligent students of the Scriptures will be shielded from the powerful delusions that will hold the world captive. Christ said, "Search the Scriptures." Let Protestants take their stand upon this impregnable Rock. Brilliant and world-engulfing though Rome's brief triumph will be, it is destined to utter and everlasting overthrow. Of this almost resistless power under the mystical name of "Babylon" the prophet wrote: "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." Such is the decree of the Eternal. L. E. F.

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The Royal Road to Health

By E. Hilliard

"The person who possesses for simple, wholesome foods the same relish that the epicure has for unwholesome foods is on the highway to real and lasting health."

The Royal Road to Health

THE average dinner begins with a tasty, highly seasoned soup, and ends with a sweet in the form of a pudding or some kind of pastry. The meal begins and ends with a pleasurable sensation, which stimulates the appetite centers, and causes a copious flow of appetite juice.

While it is unwise to use harmful and highly seasoned foods, we are forced to recognize the need of providing suitable and wholesome substitutes that are pleasing both to the eye and to the palate. When a person sits down to a meal without any appetite, a spoonful or two of tasty soup, a little fruit, or something else that is relished, will often create an appetite that will lead to the enjoyment of the entire meal. There can be no harm in taking a little innocent relish to improve the appetite.

Of course, the danger exists in making the exception the rule. Soups were at first employed chiefly as a relish, only two or three spoonfuls being taken at the beginning of the meal. Later its use became more common, the meal being composed largely of liquids. This proved an injury to healthy digestion.

Learn to Eat Like an Epicure

Each one possesses likes and dislikes that must be respected as far as is consistent with true science and good sense. Gradually the appetite should be educated to relish the simplest and most wholesome foods. The person who possesses for simple, wholesome foods the same relish that the epicure has for unwholesome foods is on the highway to real and lasting health. For those who are ill it is especially important not to make eating too mechanical. It is more important for them to eat foods that are relished — foods which stimulate the secretion of a good quality of saliva and gastric juice — than to eat foods even more wholesome, which are unrelished, and therefore poorly digested because of the absence of appetite juice.

When the mind rebels against food, the stomach rebels against it as well. Often, owing to a diseased condition of the stomach, about all the juices formed are those which are produced by the stimulation of the appetite. Therefore for the dyspeptic, nutritious and wholesome foods should be attractively and tastily prepared, so as to tempt the appetite, and lead to real enjoyment of what is eaten.

Mechanical eating always creates dyspepsia, even if the food is wholesome, and the greatest precaution is taken in the combination. Worry and anxiety also cause indigestion, and are frequently responsible for dyspepsia.

Intoxicated by Drugs

Apparent benefit from the use of drugs, patent medicines, and narcotic poison, as alcohol, tea, coffee, and tobacco, is sometimes obtained. They stupefy or partially paralyze the mind, making it less sensitive, so that business cares, anxieties, sorrows, and other depressing influences, are for the time forgotten. The difficulty is that such artificial exhilaration is followed by a corresponding state of depression, which calls for another and often an increased dose of the same narcotic. To keep from worry and other depressing influences by the use of narcotics, it is necessary to remain in a continuous state of mild intoxication. Many who seem to be in the pink of health are in this condition, which is ruinous both to health and to morals.

While these narcotic poisons appear to perform marvels, sooner or later it will be found that they are poor substitutes for the real remedy, which is found by an actual and permanent change of mind, that will lead to a cheerful reformation of all wrong habits of life, and create a relish for simple foods. The apostle, in contrasting the false and the true, says, "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit." Eph. 5:18.

Peace and contentment of mind must exist in order to enable the digestive organs to do their best work, for the quality of the impulses sent forth from the mind determines the quality of the work done by the digestive organs.

Complicated Modern Mixtures

The lower creatures do not require delicacies or narcotics. They are content with their simple fare. The horse is well satisfied with his meal of oats or corn. In fact, all these animals, if left to select their own food, prefer to take it direct from the bosom of nature; and from the simple foods thus obtained, they derive their great energy, and the elements out of which to construct bones and muscles.

Uncivilized nations or tribes live in the same simple manner. They do not always have the most suitable foods, it is true, and therefore their example cannot be followed by intelligent men and women; but their habits are simple and their wants few. They have none of the complicated mixtures, puddings, pastries, etc., used among civilized races.

The peasants of various civilized countries subsist on simple foods, and are content with one or two kinds at a meal. The Irish peasant has milk and potatoes; the Italian and French, macaroni and chestnuts; the German, black (rye) bread. In fact, the heartiest, healthiest, and happiest people are to be found among those whose wants are not greater than their needs, and who are content with simple foods.

Dr. Pawlow, in his experiments upon dogs, discovered that when meat was fed to an animal, the gastric juice formed was highly acid, and especially adapted for the digestion of meat. When bread was fed in place of meat, an entirely different gastric juice was formed, much less acid, and especially adapted for the digestion of bread. Milk produces a gastric juice different from both of the others.

This shows clearly that the normal stomach should experience no inconvenience or difficulty in digesting one or even two kinds of food at one meal. But when meat, milk, bread, butter, puddings, cabbage, potatoes, jam, and fruit are all taken at the same meal, is it any wonder that the stomach becomes confused, and indigestion, fermentation, and auto-intoxication result?

From merely a health standpoint, it would be better to eat a simple meal composed of bread and meat, if meat could be obtained from a healthy creature, than to eat so large a variety of these complex messes. The simpler the foods, the fewer and less complicated the dishes, the better the health. Sensible men and women will discover that it is better to have less cooking of the complex dishes and dainties. The foods that require little or no preparation aside from mouth preparation — that is, fruits, nuts, and cereals — are in every way the best adapted for man's needs.

The Blight of Prejudice

SOME of the Jewish priests, and many of the common people, cherished the teachings of Christ; and these were among the thousands who, upon the day of Pentecost, were converted in a day. The disciples were all united, and the Spirit descended in great power, "and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." See Acts 2:4. The message relative to Christ's resurrection and ascension was given in no uncertain manner. Every nationality heard the wonderful news of the risen Saviour in their mother tongue. "Cloven tongues like as of fire" descended upon the heads of the apostles, attesting that Jesus had broken the bands of death and ascended to His Father.

This visible manifestation of the Holy Spirit was a great perplexity to many of the Sadducees, who believed in neither the Spirit nor the resurrection. "They were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this?" Verse 12. A spirit of inquiry was awakened in the minds of some; but "others mocking said, These men are full of new wine." Verse 13. What a terrible misjudging of the work of the Holy Spirit, shed forth in such great power, to enlighten and save sinful men!

Is it not somewhat the same to-day? Are not the plain teachings of our Saviour, which, if received into the heart, would eradicate prejudice, cast out malice, and bring peace and joy to the soul, rejected because preconceived ideas and the traditions of men are enthroned within?

Those who yield to bigotry are under the influence of Satan. Such will misapprehend the truth of God, and persecute its advocates. But the same Jesus who defended His Pentecostal people will care for His faithful followers to the close of time. All the demons of darkness, reinforced by sinful humanity, cannot overthrow the work of God, nor destroy one of His little ones; for the promise to His people is, "Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain." Ps. 76:10. E. HILLIARD.

Religious Laws and Coercion

"WHEREVER any religious ordinance is enacted into law, the governing motive invariably is a desire to coerce those whose sentiments differ from the sentiments of those who wish such laws enacted. Their motive may be pure enough and their zeal unquestionable; but the fact remains that when we set ourselves up as judges of consciences, we invariably become bigots."

Prohibition Side Lights

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History Written in Blood

SEARCH through the history of this hateful thing, and find one page over which some mother can bow her grateful head and thank God for all the saloon did for her boy. There is no such reference. All its history is written in tears and blood, with smears of shame, and stains of crime, and dark blots of disgrace.—Bob Burdette.

"THERE is no man whose interest the liquor traffic does not imperil. There is no man who should not, for his own safeguard, set himself to destroy it."

Drinkers Have More Sickness

THAT drinkers have more sickness on the average than non-drinkers, is shown by the table of statistics of the sickness benefit societies of Leipzig, Germany, showing that between the years of twenty-five and forty-four, drinkers were sick on the average two and seven tenths times as often as insured men in general. The report also shows that drinkers' sickness lasted about two and a half times as long as that of the average.

CITY HEALTH COMMISSIONER EMERSON, of New York City, recently said, "Alcohol is never a medicine, is never a food, and is always a poison."

Treating the Boys

ONE of the speakers at the liquor men's convention held in Columbus, Ohio, uttered these significant words:

"The open field for creation of appetite is among the boys. After men have grown, and their habits are formed, they seldom change in this regard. I make the suggestion, gentlemen, that liquor expended in treats to the boys now, will return in dollars in your tills after the appetite has been formed."

SOME argue that the harsh method of law is not the remedy to use. Boys, they claim, need moral stamina; and if these temptations are not in their way, they will not be sufficiently developed. Why not license places to sell cocaine and morphine to your boys and girls, and then rely upon moral suasion to keep them from evil?

Steals Away His Brains

ALCOHOL robs the brain of its normal functioning capacity, impairing it in mental and psycho-motor and moral capabilities. Thus far has science tracked it, and proved its crime against the organism—its enmity against normal nature in blood and every viscus, including, most of all, the brain. Why, then, should clear-eyed science look with complacency upon the popular use of this destructive beverage? Why, as physicians, prescribe it for drink? Why omit admonitions against this enemy which man so often takes "in at his mouth to steal away his brains"?—C. H. Hughes, M. D.

A Vain Hope—In Arizona

MANY of the saloon bars in the state of Arizona were left undismantled when the state went dry January 1, 1915, because their owners hoped that "the good old days" would return. But with arrests fallen off fifty per cent, with an increase of $3,000,000 in savings deposits, with Y. M. C. A. buildings and grocery and other stores taking the place of many of the former saloons, and with the great increase of efficiency and decrease of accidents in the mines and the lumber camps, their hope is a vain one. No man or woman with a sane mind and a good conscience would be willing to see the former conditions restored.

One of the strongest evidences of the blessings brought by prohibition is seen in the fact that the high school attendance has increased by 2,000. This shows that many boys and girls previously obliged to work in order to help support the family are now receiving the benefits of educational instruction.

On the door of the "Senate" saloon in Flagstaff, crape is said to be hanging still, with the words, "Closed on account of death." As long as the voters of the state do their duty, there will be no resurrection of this or any other saloon in the state of Arizona.

B. P. FOOTE.

What an improvement! A unique transformation in Flint, Michigan. This building was formerly a brewery. It is now converted into a church. We believe in such conversions.

Effect on Liver and Kidneys

By G. Frank Lydston, M. D.

THE effects of alcohol are well shown by the drunkard's liver. Here, as a consequence of long continued congestion produced by alcohol, occurs the formation of new tissues as hard and firm as those of an ordinary scar. This contracts and strangulates the liver substance, and finally so reduces the size and functional capacity of the liver that it ceases work altogether, with a fatal result. Similar changes occur in the kidneys. Considering the extreme toxicity of the biliary and renal secretions, an element of secondary toxæmia may be readily appreciated. Moral persuasion will not restore a gin liver or kidneys to a normal condition.

The conditions described in the liver and kidneys occur in greater or less degree in the brain and its coverings and the blood vessels. Even where there is as yet no permanent thickening of tissues, there is produced, by the temporary influence of alcohol, disturbed circulation. That diseased brain circulation and structure cause defective reasoning and will is incontestable. Moral means of restoration of the will where such changes have occurred are mere moonshine. This is not, however, an argument against judicious moral means as an adjunct in the correction of inebriety in general, nor is it a denial of the fact that the strong emotional influence of religious conversion often cures inebriety.—G. Frank Lydston, M. D.

The Searchlight on Murder

ALCOHOL-CAUSED death is preventable death.

The Searchlight on Murder

DR. ROCK SLEYSER, famous scientist and criminologist, says: "From the state prison here, a new light, bright with the clarity of science, has been suddenly cast on the subject of murder, and on the subject of child labor. The two are linked more closely together than the world ever dreamed before. Over ninety per cent of the 269 murderers I have investigated were child slaves. They were forced to enter the soul-stirring invironment of the shop or factory when they were fifteen years old."

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