The Gavelyte, March 1908

~hird. Du~a does not contain nearly j ~nd the increasing difficulty ?f ~al~– s? many famous men as the other two I mg a day's wages support a family m did, and the worst trouble is that ordinary decency, to say nothing of Russia has class suffragP-, and not comfort or affluence. manhood suffrage. That is tt1e var- / The temperance wave shov.s no ious classes in Rus,-ia elect squads of, sign of abating. The old stock argu– various sizP, the upper classes having i ments are being disproved by the more rt1presentatives in proportion to I prosperity which is exhibited in the their 0wn number than the lower clas3- JSouthern States which have adopted es do. Until the Rmisians adopt repre- ; prohibition wholesale. The great sentation on the basis of the equality · mass of the people have known the of all citiz,:,ns, democracy will make I fallacy of liquor prosperity for quite slow progress, and the era of bomb- I a while, but they have just now be– throwing will continue, with constant gun to act on their knowledge. dissati.:\faction among the more peace- For many years the temperance ad– ably inclined. Persia iE having the vocates have been pointing out the same kind of trouble, with less prom- analogy of the liquor question and ising material to work upon. 1 1 the slavery question, which was just The Far East manages to kerp in as strennously denied by the liquor the lime-light. For a few days it I element. One feature of the analogy looked as if there would be war be- has, however, shown itself in a cur– tween Japan and China, but probably ious way. "Whom the gods would nothing will come of it. Some trav- 1destroy they first make mad." The elers a~sert that thP Chinr~e are the I persistent violation of the closing snperior race, and that in the next laws has driven many otherwise neut– war between the two peoples there rats to the temperance side. to show will be a different story to tell from the liquor element that they are not what there was fourteen years ago. privilege<l characters. A glance at In America, the coming- president- American history for the years im– ial campaign is absorbing most of the mediately preceJing the Civil war will attention. Taft and Bryan will al- I enable the readar to make the ap– most inevitably be the standard-bear- I plication. ers. The 8ocialist vote will.no doubt be largely increased, chie fly . because of thl-l diss1ti sfaction of the laboring claR~f>S with thP <·apit,alist "Bill" Ritter is anxiously awaiting the fishing season. Here's luck to onr star angln.