"Pussyfoot' Johnson, Crusader—Refurmer—A Man Among'Men. By F, A.
McKenzie, Author of "Korea's Fight for Freedom," &¢. Introd by Dr, Wilfred T, Preenfell, Llustrated, Fleming H. Revell Company New York 1920. Pp, 193.
This little volume, by an author who knows what is worth writing about, is a compendious account of the career of a man who within the past two years has come into public notice in two continents.
William Eugene Johnson had his early training in several different states in America, from New York to Nebraska, where he attended the State University, but did not graduate. From an academic point of view his career was not a great success. He became manager of the Nebraska Press Bureau. That state was the first to adopt High Licence, There was suspicion of wholesale corruption on the part of the "wets." Johnson had but recently signed the temperance pledge, and by his detective skill succeeded in obtaining indisputable written evidence that the charges were true, By putting private enumerators at work he discovered that the census returns of the city of Omaha had been "padded" and that instead of 139,000 people there were not over 115,000. This brought him into the limelight. Attempts to strangle his little temperance paper he resisted by force, and willingly paid a police fine for so doing. In New York city he was able after thorough investigation to prove that the "Raines Law" licensing saloons with "hotel" attachments and selling a single sandwich to satisfy food requirements, were brothels in disguise. He investigated the South Carolina "Dis-pen sary System" on the spot, and proved that it was a failure. He visited the dispensaries, examined more than 2,500 "blind tigers," making maps of their locations, and issued his report. He always got together his facts as carefully and as accurately as the most precise prosecuting attorney, who dealt in facts and not in emotions. Then he went to Sweden to study the Gothenberg system. He later became associated with John Wooley, a temperance orator and Prohibition candidate for the presi-
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