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HOBSON ON LIQUOR i AND THE LIQUOR TRUST J _______ C Alcohol is produced by the process i t)f fermentation, in which process fer- < ment germs devour glucose in solu- j tion derived from grain, grapes, and 1 -other substances, and in their life ; processes they throw off waste pro-^lucf-s |like other organisms. One of the waste products is the gas that causes bubbling. The other waste product is the liquid alcohol. Alcohol is then the toxin, the loathsome excretion of a living organism. It comes under the general law governing toxins, namely, the toxin of one form of life is a poison to the form of life that produced it and a poison to every other form of life of a higher order. The ferment germs are sirfc'.e / cell germs?the lowest form of nt'e known?consequently their toxin, alcohol, is a poison to all forms of life, ?v?~ "'""ts onimalc or men a WI1CL11CI piau w, poison to the elemental protoplasm out of which all forms of life are constructed. We must therefore surrender all our preconceived ideas about the supposed food value and benefits of alcohol, even in the simplest quantities. As an illustration, one mug of mild beer?supposed to be beneficial and helpful?will in thir,ty minutes lower the efficiency of the average soldier 36 per cent in aiming his rifle. It is estimated that there are 5,000,000 heavy drinkers and drunkards in America, and these men might as well have a ball and chain on i;heir ankles, for they are more abject slaves than , those black men who were driven by slave-drivers. Very little of the money paid for licruor remains in circulation Wallv .because liquor employs so few men j for the capital invested and pays them such poor wages. It should be a source of humiliation to well-informed Americans that our Government shows no indications t>f change of attitude toward liquor. Our need for revenue is much, less than that of the nations at war, and yet in sections I and 2 of the revenue bill recently passed we turned to liquor for nearly one-half the total amount, strengthening the hold of liquor upon the finances of the Government. Liquor has'the same stranglehold upon the throat of our Government today that slavery had before 1860. Many battles have been fought in history for which there is no authentic report of the casuality, but of those of which there are records, from the Macedonian War, 300 B. C., down to and including the Russo-Japanese War, the sum total foots up *2,800,000 killed and wounded, which, being apportioned, would make a little more than 2,100,000 and a little less than 700,000 killed. Bearing in mind the qualifying circumstances, it can be generally said, therefore, that alcohol brings to a premature i grave more Americans in one year than all the wars of the world, as recorded, have killed on thefield of battle in 2,300 years. When the g^eat war in Europe is -over it will be found that the sum total killed, on the field of battle for all nations will average less than 1,500 a day. Alcohol averages 2,000 Americans a day. Europe is really in the eyes of nature better off today in the midst of her great tragedy than she has been for centuries, because Europe is almost dry. One-half of 1 per cent of alcohol in solution, such as a future mother night easily have in her circulation in attending a banquet or fashionable dinner, drinking only v^ne or beer, will, oft repeated, kill the little life and endanger tlje life of the mother. Some vast agent in our midst is systematically teaching the boys to drink and debauching the you'll. Whp is it that carries on this sinful business? Certainly it is not the drinkers. A man may drink, but unless he is a hopeless degenerate he wou!d not teacn ooys to drink. I have known many drinkers, but I have never yet known one who made a hibit of teaching boys to drink 'j his sinister agent is the Liquor Trust of America. Tens of thousands of. pa <: uuents all over the land are carrying out this -devilish work. The most deadly work thus far has been ip the cities, where it is hard for parents to keep tra:k <of their boys, but it extend* to towns and is now being systematically j;x'tended to country settlements The usual method in cities Is to opoiate -where boys cotne together, sometimes having the boys rendezvou:- in saloons, but more frequently in pool rooms and other places of amusement sometimes on vacant lots. Ti:u bootlegger or licensed agent of the Liquor * Trust arranges to have the boys drink before breaking up to be scvir.l or as a sign of manliness. They spend millions every year in -co- * " meir enorts to control the liquor policies of the press ana ke?p the ' truth about alcohol from the people. 1 They try to destroy an? nan wfco 1 .dares to undertake this woik. After ] ny first investigations as to the tiuth ibout alcohol, I introduced the results of my labors and put tham in ihe "Congressional Record" in a speech called the Great Destroyer, and proceeded to send this speech sys As tematically to the youth of America. I estimate that I have sent out about 2,500,000 copies and have sent out more than a million and a half indi- { vidual letters to the youth on this ket subject. It is this work that has is ' brought down the arm of the great flci liquor interests in their efforts to destroy me politically. FEEDING CALVES Jioi (Mrs. R. D. Hoyt, in Southern ma Ruralist.) 1 the I am writing to inquire about the nal feeding of a Jersey calf. We lost a wo beautiful heifer calf last year when wc ten months old, and I want to know "p< Inc what to do to succeed with this calf, ad which is now a month old. The calf gF( at present runs in the yard and was gp taken from the mother immediately, Bli not b%ing allowed to suck at all. She ( nno nnnrt nf milk from wao gntu ? yOJ the cow each milking. Recently th Wa man attending to thecattle has in- dir creased the amount to nearly three me pints to the feed and is also teaching tal her to eat shorts. Ho\*fe long must the whole milk be continued, and ^ should the quantity be increased be- gr^ yond three pints before any skimmed- C01 milk is used? Is shorts best^to use tei for ground feed? If not, what is, we and what amounts should be used? ou The calf we lost was in fine flesh and an some say she was over fed. Bowel lnf trouble caused her death, and I want to have the proper ration. R. D. H. f _ , Ri .Reply. of You seem to .have the general m) principles of calf -feeding well in Sj mind already. It sounds like you are th feeding about the right quantity, as a good deal depends uppn the capa city of the calf. At one month of age most calves can utilize about one gallon of milk per day. If you desire to economize on the sweet milk the substitution of skim milk as a part of this ration can be begun at ; two or three weeks of age. We would suggest at one month old that the calf could utilize half a gallon of whole milk and a half a gallon of sweet skim mftk. As to the grain to , be used, we usually prefer bran and oats to shorts, because this mixture _ _t i -i iri_ _i is a mue cneaper ana is less useiy to pack in the stomach of the calf. ' A little shelled corn would also be relished by the calf from a month old on. We would advise teaching it to eat hay or roughage of some kind and let it graze on pasture as early as possible. At the age of two months . this calf ought to do well on a gallon of sweet skim milk per day without any of the whole milk, and two or three pounds of grain mixture per r day with such hay and pasture as it can use. The skim milk should be ~~ continued until the calf is six or eight GE months old, but after that it is rather doubtful whether it is profitable to continue feeding milk, as the calf ought to be able to do well without this. 1 wi: We are inclined to think the loss tio of your ten months old heifer may de: have been unavoidable and not di- de: rectly due to mistakes of feeding, be< unless you allowed it to get overload- wa ed on some material that it was not cic accustomed to. C. L. W. COTTON STATES DELEGATION |Jj| TO SEEK MARKET FOR STAPLE ' yg Washington, Sept. 2?A convention of cotton producers, representatives of various agricultural associations, Southern legislators and dele- re1 gates officially representing the cot- st2 ton growing States, will assemble here within the next three weeks. foi This was learned on high authority to 'today. Formal announcement is ex- it, pected shortly from those in charge to of the arrangements. The objects of nit the convention, to which several hun- coi dred delegates will be invited, are declared to be: th< To acquaint the small producers of ths cotton with the steps the Federal an Government is willing to take to th? finance the crop, thus preventing the tio grower from becoming panic-stricken 1 and sacrificing his product. m To impress Great Britain with the Ar determination of the cotton growers ha, to find a market for their crop and pai to force retailatory legislative meas- be ures, such as an embargo on shipments of war supplies and other pro ducts, unless present blockade conditions be modified. -nj] Senator Fletcher of Florida, presi- ^ dent of the Southern Commercial en( Congress, and Senator Hoke Smith of ^ei fienrcia will leaHinir fimiroi- " =>? " " "*,c (]u( convention. The Governors of all the Southern States are expected to ^jp send representatives to the conven- ^ tion which probably will be held not September 20. Regardless of efforts the Government may make to "take rj ever" the cotton producer, the con- j vention is expected to devote most ^ jf its attention to a discussion of jn ( finding a foreign market for the sta- W?U pie. _ BETTER MARKET! sociation Formed By Growi Section' 'o-operatlng with the Office of Mars at Washington, Clemaon College working out some practical and efent marketing schemes. Some of i farming enterprises of Sooth Carla have been operating at a loss and is up to all concerned to consider 1 determine upon some plan of aca that will solve the problems of rketing the state's products. Aliugh the marketing situation has by any means, been definitely rked out, some very significant ?rk has nevertheless been decided >n and begun. One of the market; schemes now under way is that opted recently Dy tne asparagus >wers in the vicinity of Ridge ring, Trenton, Williston, Elko and ackville. Dn July 19 about twenty of the as ragus growers met in an Informal y at Columbia with W. W. Long, ector of extension at Clem9on. The seting was in the nature of a round )le discussion, and the growers tooli as an opportunity to exchange theii sas and experiences. It developed it, with a very few exceptions, the awers were operating at a loss. The isensus was that the growers' sys n of marketing was wrong. Thej ;re unanimous in the belief that thej ght to get together upon some unitec d concerted scheme of sorting, grad I, packing and selling their product The growers next invited the mar t agent at Clemson College and C Basset of the Office bf Markets ant iral Organization, U. S. departmen agriculture, to attend an Informa ?eting of asparagus men at Ridg< ?' ? ? * of Tr^nMn A JHl'j UUU auuujn ??. > >?? ? e Ridge Spring meeting it soon de '?ped that the growers had not sort ;rmany yields to uncle: sam (Continued from Page One) iih to discuss the Lusitania quesn till the Arabic incident has beer finitely and satisfactorily settled, ] sire to inform you of the above cause this policy of my govemmenl is decided on before the Arabic inlent occurred. "I have no objection to your inak; any use you may please of the ove information. "I remain, my dear Mr. Lansing, ry sincerely yours, "J. Bernstorff." In connection with the latter Sectary Lansing made the following itement: "In view of the clearness of the regoing statement it seems needless make any comment in regard tc other than to say that it appears be a recognition of the fundaintal principle for which we have ntended." On ovorv VinnrJ in nffirial nuarters sre was evidence of gratification it the submarine crisis had passed d that Germany had acknowledged ? justice of the American contenns. The German government's statesnt that before the sinking of the abic her submarine commanders d been ordered to sink no more ssenger ships without warning may taken as a disavowal of that act. ft generally was acknowledged that making concessions to the United ites Germany expects President lson to renew his representations Great Briton against interferes with neutral trade. The Presi it has steadfastly declined to conit one negotiation in a relation to other taking the position that the lomatic negotiations of the UnitStates with one belligerent could be conditioned on its relations h another. ^he new American note to Engd making representations against restrictions imposed by the order :ouncil is almost ready to go for d. _ _ i i FOR ASPARAGUS ;rs of Five Towns Will Handle s Output ed, graded and packed unifoa:n.Iy. Much emphasis was laid on the necessity of adapting standard grades and a standard pack and upon rigid sorting, grading; packing and inspections Mr. Baisset pointed out the value of forming an asparagus Growers' Association, adopting rules and methods satisfactory to all concerned, and putting t&e management of the association in the hands of the besfi available manager. This manager was to haver competent inspectors to> 3ee that I all asparagus coming into and going out of the association quarters was up to the standard. The inspectors were to see that all cars were carefully load: ed and routed in accordance with the . manager's instructions. The manager was to keep in touch with all markets and prices, and to sell to the best mar kets. With these suggestions; in mind, th? growers formed a temporary organiza tion. A meeting tfor further organiza: tion was then held at Trenton and rep> ' resentatives . from Ridge Spring, 1 Trenton, Wlllistoo, Elko and Black> vllle were present. J. N. Knight wac > chosen as chairms.n and B. R. Tillman, Jr., aa secretary and by-laws were r adopted. Eight :nepresentatlve direcr tors were selected who will meet Id t January to perfect the organization draft articles of Incorporation and definitely decide upon a manager, In . spectors and officers for the associ aitlon. J The success of this association wil! t depend not only on procuring a capa 1 ble manager but also upon the con i certed support of- every member, t FRED W. HOPMANN, h. ' Market Agent, : Clemson Agricultural College. 7 Lye in the Slop disease is caused by germs j r into worms. Stop it at the i je by>feeding Red Devil Lye.' ?nta disease and vour hogs feed jr. See directions on the can. r cans?try it ? that's the test. Sar ' Hogs and Feed BggfflG:CANS^| CAN NOW PREPARE [ U. S. FOR WAR PLANS Washington, Sept. 1?With danger of serious trouble with Germany . apparently removed, President Wili son, it was said authoritatively to[ night, believes\ he can proceed with > more freedom in development of his ; national defense plans because there . can be no suspicion that they are directed against any particular nation. The President's idea, it was said, is , 10 prepare a program iui acvciai years in advance, and in doing so to secure the expert opinion of army and navy officers who have been watching military developments in Europe. Expenditures for the army and " navy are to be kept as low as the Pres ' j ident thinks consistent with the plans I to be presented to him by Secretaries * Garrison and Daniels. 5 Chairman Tillman of the senate ' naval affairs committee discussed the * defense question today with the ' Fresident. Later the senator said he favored a reasonable increase in tne navy and would support the Presis dent's recommendations to congre* i this fall. ' ^Senator Tillman said he had not ' decided exactlj' what increases were * needed and was willing to trust the President to decide. It was stated authoritatively by ad( ministration officials that there is no i basis, for reports that the President ! had decided to recommend army and ' navy appropriations, totaling $500,000,000. One cabinet member said ; he did not believe the amount to be asked for would be that large. The Next Best Thing To The Pine Forest For Colds Is? Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey which goes to the very root of cold troubles. It clears the throat and gives relief from that clogged and stuffed feeling. The pines have ever been the friend j of man ind riving away colds. More-1 over, the pine-honey qualities are J , peculiarly effective in fighting child-1 ren's colds. Remember that a cold broken at the start greatly removes : the possibility of complications. 25c 1 I ENGLAND BLAMES GERMANY FOR WAR SATS THAT TEUTONS REFUSED) TO TALK OF CONFERENCE BUT MOBOLIZED London, Sept 1.?In reply to Descent German statements relating- to the origin of the war, the British foreign office has issued the foll?win^: "First: The Germans maintain that the reason which led to therejection of the proposal for a conference was the mobilization of Russia. In paper 4? of our White Book Sir E. Goschen (British ambassador at Berlin) reported a conversation with the German secretary Of state, refusing a conference. * "The secretary of state said' that the suggested conference would practically amount to a court of arbitra! tion and could not in his opinion, be called together except at the request of Austria and Russia. He maintained that such a conference was not practicable. He further said that if s Russia mobilized against Germany . fl-io laffpT- would hftve to follow- soit. ' As when he refused a conference he referred to the possibility of Russian ' mobilization it cannot now be main[ tained that the reason for the re. fusal was the fact that Russia was . mobilizing. "As a matter of fact the proposal I for a conference was made July 26 - 1914, and was refused by Germany " July 27, 1914, while it was not until July-31 that orders were given for a generad mobilization in Russia. On that day Germany pressed an ultimatum to Russia requiring an understanding that within 12 hours the Russian forces should be demobjlibed. "Second: Doubt is thrown in Germany on the assurance we gave Belgium in 1913 that we should not land troops in that country except in the case of violation of its territory Kt? nnftfliAv nAWAi* A ccnrar\n& WflQ KtJ aiXVVll?l VTV* not only given to the Belgian minister but Sir F. Villiers gave Sir E. Grey's record of it to the Belgian government at. the time. This assurance appeared in the collected diplomatic documents. Why is it doubted? It is because the Germans have not allowed the reproduction of the document .which is so damaging to their case. ''Third: The final interview between Sir E. Grey and Prince Lichnowsky (German ambassador at London.) This interview, purely private, was held at a private house and no record was made of it. But Sir E. Grey is certain that he never made the statement quoted by the North German Gazette with regard to the decisive fact or in Great Britain's participation in the war; nor did he speak of mediation in favor of Germany. If need be a fullet statement will be made in parliament on the subject. ? "Prtnrfh* The immediate cause of ' this war was the dispute between Austria and Serbia which then turned into a dispute between Austria and Russia. Yet it is worthy of note that it was Germany who declared war against Russia and France. The Austrian ambassador remained in Fetrograd after the German ambassador left. Germany declared war on Russia on Aug. 1 and Austria on Aug. 6, 1914." ONE YANKEE SOLDIER WORTH TWO GERMANS New York, Sept 3?^Sir Robert T. Borden, Premier of Canada,- and Mainr Samuel Hughes. Cana chan Minister of Militia, who have arrived here on the White Star liner Adriatic from Liverpool, expressed the opinion that the war in Europe would not come to an end for many months. . Both the officials, who were in England in connection with munitions, take little stock in the stories from London and elsewhere that peace proposals may be made soon. Major General Hughes paid a high tribute to the Americans who are fighting in the British army. "My hat is off to the Yankees who are fighting in our ranks," he said, removing his Panama. "Talk of soldiers, sir! By Gad, they're soldiers. One of 'em's worth two Germans any day. The soldiers from this continent are the greatest in the world. We are proud of our Yankees. They are real fighters." Premier Borden spent some time in France looking after the Canadian troops who are fighting1 for the mother country. He said he visited 143 hospitals. N?Si?Silty-Six I Thii it a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doaea will break any caae, and if taken then a* tonic the Fever will not return. It acta en the liver better than Calomel and doe# not gripe or sicken^25c SENATOR TILLMAN" ON" THE , VICTORY .WTFFT GERlMAffT Washington, Sept 2?Among thosewho rejoiced here over the grand victory of President WHson in the con troversy with Germany over the illegal activities of the-submarine wercr * Senator Tilman, of South Carolina, and Representative* Page: Senator Tillman was at the White1 House about the tfine the news of,..-h the German concessions waa carried to the president. This afternoon before leaving for home he said':- . "I am not surprised at the result of the controversy over the sinking' of the Lusitania and the Arabic, which carried American passengers-, I expected that tfte president would' ' win, for he is right. He has ':'% on his side, and is-acting for humanity. ity "Any man with common sense and . ordinary ability to digest information '* realized the iustice of" President- WiV son'k contentions iir protesting- to- ->iJ Germany for sinking passenger ships* . carrying non-combatants, without giving legal warning. "I never thought for 4 moment but that the German government would " ^ finally yield to President Wilson1, for / ^ it could not have afforded to have done otherwise. This country does not want to . go to war with Germany * or Great Britain and her allies, but : the people of ttye United States would have stood behind the presi- ; dent if he had broken off diplomatic- ?-1 relations had Germany nai agreed to -J" discontinue the illegal acts of its submarine commandears. "If the president had gone off half- ffi cocked, without being patient and ' ;Sgiving Germany time to considering ; ously the view of the United States^ we might have been plunged in war* "Colonel Roosevelt said .we were not moving fast enough, that _we-,-v' should fieht. I asree with Mav Tr- . - ~ , ' ? '. -7 u " win, in her letter to the president, v that the fool-killer ought to be . sent to the United States." Representative Page said: V ^ "The president, has won a ^ victory. Our people do not beHeve* that this country should go to war unless her honor and dignity are at -v stake, and the offending nation, will not make proper funends. By showing Germany that he was determined, to have full satisfaction for the sinking of the Arabic, he no douat forced ' \ the promise made through Ambassador von Bernstorff. V "I think that the president was absolutelv right Leading men in all parties will appreciate tye great service Mr. Wilson has done his country in being patient, but aggressive. and determined with Germany." :?, 1 ? : GREAT BRITAIN MUST Isicosinan soon alter it sank the Ara M bic and shelled the Leyland liner. fl| The sailors of the Nicosian had 9 taken to their boats when another B steamer appeared. This stranger began shelling the submarine. One H shot smashed the submarine's peri- H scope. Another struck the U boat H amidship and the submarine sank, H carrying down with her all the mem- 9 _ xi cers 01 tne ^ l ^ HAVE MUNITIONS OF WAR V r' l',; ? New York, Sept 2?Sir Herbert Jj Holt, president of, the Royal Bank ofy ? Canada, an arrival on the Adi&tjic, said the members of the British iinan- , cial commission coming to New.YoHt 'i! to effect a readjustment of the foreign exchange situation, were have sailed on the Arabic, but changed their plans at the last min-f- ute. He added that he believed they would reach New York in the near future. From another source it was learned that the commission planned to sail for New York by way of Canada. "I see no occasion for alarm in the United States over the sudden drop in foreign exchange, especially the English pound sterling/' said Sir Her bert. "I might say that regardless of how low exchange falls Great Britain must have the munitions of war she is securing in this country. Also I feel confident that the exchange matter will soon adjust itself." Maj. Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian minister of militia and defense, was another arrival. He has been visiting the battle front in France and Flanders and training camps in Eng- H land. fl "We have every reason to be proud I of the Canadians and the Yankees ^B who are fighting with them in the ^B trenches," he said. "I would not at- B tempt to predict when the war will be B over, but I can say that from our B standpoint everything is now very B satisfactory." B Sir Robert Borden, premier of Can B ada, was also a passenger. B SAILORS TELL OF DISTRUCTION B OF WRECKER OF THE ARABIC B Liverpool, September 1?Addition- fl al details of the destruction of the B submarine which sank the White Star B liner Arabic were secured today from H members of the crew of the Leyland B ! liner Niccsian. According to their B stories, the submarine overtook the H