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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2220, 25 October 1907, Page 3

O MORE LIQUOR FOR RAILWAY MEN. Tlie cumulative effects of economic principles, physiological lesc-arch, medical science, Christian altruism, and other forces that have been hurled against tho ramparts of the Liquor Traffic, are now beginning to tell. Without the slightest attempt at collusion, but from tho motive of self-protect ion, all the loading countries of the world are attacking the awful business that has so long been gnawing at their very vitals. In no country is the attack against the drink traffic so aggressive and manysided as it is in America, and no section of its public life _ is more pronounced and thorough in its antiliquor sentiment than the great- railway companies that intersect its vast and th-i ckly-po pul ated territory. It is suggestive of future developments that- to-day there are 1,200,000 railway men, along 275,000 miles of track, under nractical total abstinence. ' A brief reference to a few of theso railway companies, and the rules they enforce in regard to liquor indulgence, will bo of interest. The Southern Railway Pacific Co. has a rule which runs thus: “Total abstinence on the part of employees when on duty, and if found frequenting saloons when off duty are not retained.in the service.” The rule of tho Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Co. prohibits its men visiting bar rooms and drinking, and if found dissipating ire generally dismissed. The Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Co. has a rule that “Employees are not allowed to frequent saloons a.t- any time.” Rule 207 of tho New York and Ottawa Railway Co. reads: “T.lio use of intoxie vting drank by employees will bo considered good cause for dismissal from the service.” The manager of the South and Western Railway Co. says: “Wo require total abstinence at all times.” The rule of the Central Vermont Railway Co. is to the -same effect, as is that of the Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo Railway Go., the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Co., and tho Grand Trunk Railway eys : tern. Applicants for positions on the International and Great Northern Railway Co. are required to sign the following abstinence pledge: “If this application is accepted I agree to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, to not visit saloons, places of low resort, or where liquors are sold,” etc. Those seeking positions on the Vandalia Lino have to sign a similar pledge of total abstinence. The International Railway of Canada, owned by the Dominion Government, has sent out a circular to the following effect: “Persons who are not of sober habits, or who frequent taverns or similar jilaces, or who give evidence of the use of intoxicating liquors, w,ill/hot he employed or retained in/xhe service.” Other illustrations could be given of the fact that keen business men, not from mere temperance sentiment, hut for the protection of life and property, are prohibiting their employees from frequenting liquor shops, and even from tho private use of the poison they sell. One practical result of this antiliquor movement is seen in tho fact that “Clieyne, Wyoming, has been put on practically Prohibition basis by the closing of twenty-five saloons during tho month. This action was due to the enforcement of an order issued hv the Union Pacific Railway Co. forbidding employees to frequent drinking-places on or off duty.” Is it any wonder that such drastic -measures should bo taken in view of the following fact? “The Interstate Railway Commissioners showed that in one year 74 per cent, of all railroad . accidents in the United States were duo to tho faults of men using Intoxicants.” C.P.

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