Hey, diddle, diddle, the cats and the fiddle! So, temperance sentiment never before has had such a strong grip on the people, and hence they drank 5,200,- ooo barrels of beer more than the year before! That from the Anti-Saloon League! What more does the brewer want ? The Milwaukee Free Press quotes the Rev. Mr. Henry Colman, trustee of the Anti-Saloon League, with a similar statement, in connection with this in- crease of beer consumption that "the temperance senti- ment is increasing all the time." Here the immigrant and the wealthy classes are made to consume the additional beer while "among the middle and laboring classes however the temperance sentiment is constantly growing." Is it necessary to point out the reverend gentleman's fine logic? In the light of the past year's results it becomes in- telligible why the Ohio prohibitionists are so violently denouncing the Anti-Saloon League. Well, if the prohibitionists and the churches cast them off, perhaps the brewers might hire them to keep on agitating, if they will undertake to make it another five million barrels for the new fiscal year. For the benefit of anti-alcoholist editors, I will say here plainly: "This is a joke." Anti-alcoholist writ- ing seems to dull the sense of humor. I have had anti- 62