The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-28
PROHIBI7IOy IN MOBILES COUNTY:

PROHIBITION IN MOBILES COUNTY:
One Of the Worthington ministers
recently preached a prohibition sermon
and there is now. the usual winter
spasm Oh the subject of temperance.
WorthingtOn is known and laughed at
! generally rs n prohibition town, owing
to its charter and the trouble made by
its prohibition element, and N"bles
county is also supposed to be a prohi-
bitten comfy. .-......-....-- r.:
But both are mistaken views. Nei
ther Worthington nor Mobiles county
are in favor OF prohibition. AT tho
recent fall election test vote was tax
ea. Tie Prol,ibition!sts had ticket
in the field and every Pro',ibitionist
had the opportunity to express his
views by his vote. 4 very active cam
paign was made and the vote of tile
prohibitionists was, so far as we can
learn, fully polled. The result was
that Saxson and Orcutt, the legislative
candidates, got Just 73 votes in the
county, as follows: 1ss.5.
In the county, including Worthing-
ton, 73
In wort!.ingten village, saxson, 81 81
" I" " Orcutt, ~
The Worthington poll list showed Il
register of about 250 voters, but the
actual number of votes polled was III,
showing that even in the village, the
prol,ibitionists number orly from one
fifth to one. fourth of the voting popu-
lation.
In the county there are from 1900
to l 500 votes, but the number polled
last fall was only 775, showing that
less than one tenth of the voters CT the
county are in favor Of prohibition.
We therefore repeat our claim that
the village and county are oyerwl'elm-
insly against the prohibition feature
OF Wort!'ington, which has been tried
for ten years and has been 4 failure,
involving both village and county III
al outlay Of thousands of dollars to
enforce prohibition, and no income be-
yond an occasional fine. The taxes
are greatly increased by this very i'm
practical feature OF the town, and still
liquor is continually sold, and there is
no way of regulating the sale or Of
making it pay for the expense which is
sad,lltd upon the taxpayers.
Sensible, practical men will say
that al evil which cannot possibly be
rxtirpated must be regulated. The
taxpayers must take this work out ef
the hands Of seutiu,entalists and fanat-
les and regulate it for themselves.
so far as We have conversed with the
ProhiLitionists. they have exWe ed
themselves as unwilling to trust the peo-
pie, or to leave it to the control Of the
IN ,jority Of fuur.titths to three-foUrths
which is now against prohibition i"
the village. They wan the charter to
remain 50 that 4 small minority Of the
imp aclical ministers, fanatics and
light taxpayers can keep up the fight,
make show Of 'yood works. and pile
up expense against the village and tie
county.
The question is, who shall rule in
WOl th'ngtun, 4 minority of one-tifth
or a majority OF tour-tifths?
iNEWSpA PER CHARITY
Among the many good and sensible
things SAID by A. l.. Hudson, III retir
ing from the Algona Upper Des Moines
is the acknowledgements alike to
the public and the ''craft:''
IL have no patience with those news
paper rne,, who beg the public to sup
port their paper on the ground "f duty,
as ltough Il newspaper could he an Oh
worthy Of patronage which does not
reccgnize It's ability to return valu"
received to its patrons, and that news
paper mai, unworthy of respect who is
willing t. accept gratuities to ''help
thr paper along" Whatever other re-
Iatinns the newspaper may sustain t"
the public. its business relations should
be based en purely business principles.
Well said, Bro. Hudson. The cd
notion that a newspaper must be put
on level with the pulpit aud support
ed by charity and regular system of
begging, is exploded. The ADVANCE
has never asked nor accepted anything
as 4 gratuity Or tie help the paper
al0ng.'' 1t has stood on its own bot
tom, fought Its own battles, made its
own money and is \ success. Let any
printer who knows his business try it
and see if it does not win. Be inde- |
pendent, allow no man and no organi-
zation to dictate to or frighten You, lay
off your coat when times are hard and
do your own work, attend always to
your ''knitting," and you'll win with
or without any mans favor. or the ia.
v0rs of any set of men,
PROHIBITION Il FAILURE. |
Wichita special, 10: Since the elec-
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