s formation--that the time is now ripe for the revision
and recasting of the convention of July 29, 1899.

Whether an international parliament can prevent war without the assistance
of an international police is another story.

LIQUOR DEALERS COME OUT FOR TEMPERANCE.

Rum-Sellers in Convention at Louisville
Praise the Work of the Societies that
Fight King Alcohol.

The National Liquor Dealers' Association, in annual convention at
Louisville, Kentucky, early in June, issued a startling address to the
public. These men, who are frequently thought to have no stronger desire
than that every person drink more than is good for him, actually commend
the work of the various temperance societies and urge that intoxication
should be considered a crime. They say:

From time to time during the past seventy-five or one
hundred years waves of public sentiment antagonistic to the
manufacture and sale of wine and spirits and other alcoholic
beverages have passed over this country, leaving in their
train State, county, and municipal legislation of a more or
less drastic character--legislation entirely out of sympathy
with the spirit of American institutions; legislation that
was bound to fail in its purpose in practically every
instance, and this because the sentiment that compelled it
was a sentiment engendered by agitation, and totally unripe
for its enforcement.

Prohibitory Laws Evaded.

That prohibitory laws are all evaded is clearly shown by the
fact that notwithstanding the adoption of prohibition by a
number of States, and by innumerable counties, until at the
present time it is unlawful to sell wines or spirits in more
than one-half of the geographical limits of the United
States, the demand for such beverages has increased in
almost the same proportion as our population, from the
legitimate trade, and in an enormously greater proportion
from illicit distillers and retailers.

We shall not be so uncharitable as to contend that the
agitation from which this public sentiment originates owes
its persistent recurrence to mercenary motives on the part
of men who make merchandise of aroused emotions, because it
gives a pleasurable excitement to the women who tire of the
monotony of home; but, on the contrary, we shall be candid
in the admission that there is good and sufficient reason
for an a