Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL LIBERTY.
M eeting of the Liquor Dealers Last Night.
A Slim Attendance and General
Pitching in.

A Slim Attendance and q General
Pitching in.
The attendance upon the meeting OF the
Observation-Disclosures last evening was very
limited indeed, and this fact formed the
principal topic Of conversation, and
also a general ground of complaint.
So few were present that the meeting was
not called to order till $50 O'Clock, and
when the president, Mr.. Benz, did call the
few who were there to order be invited
them to come to the front part of the hall,
near the stage, which they did. After read
ing the minutes of the last meeting and
their approval, the president called for vol
unteer remarks. In response to this invi-
tation Mr. Arthur Koenig, the ST. Paul
agent of the Ph. Best Brewing company,of
! Milwaukee, took occasion to give the ex-
ecutive committee and all others in au--
thority @ mild and rather good natured
| scoring because they had not taken the
| necessary steps to have out large crowd
of people. They had men and money
enough to have out large gathering. If
necessary, they could have hired band of
music and in that way could
have filed the hall. He could
fancy how a temperance man, looking in
on that meeting, would smile at the efforts
OF the prOhibitiOnists. He had no doubt
the temperance people, by simply calling
a temperance meeting, without the aid Of
q band, or any other outside agency, conld
have filed every seat in that hall. The
reason Is, taey are interested in the matter
| Of temperance, and will come out to the
meetings As he looked around upon the
few who had gathered there, he wanted to
/ Uh al fho q
Where were the brewers? Where were all
the parties who claimed to be opposed to
prohibition? That was what he wanted TO
know. In bis opinion, if they are interest
ed IS much es they pretended to be, there
ought to be enough Of them to fill every
seat in the hall. He advised the ex-
ecutive committee to go to work in
earnest and get out a crowd to the next
meeting.
The president MIR. Bauz, explained tina,
the NOTICE OF the next meeting was very
imperfect one and the announcement was
. not made as general as it should have
= BEEN Besides this there were number oil
attractions in the city calculated to cal
those who would be likely to attend thu
meeting, to some other place. A larg,
t number OF people interested in the ant
HAciAAcAoAoA- u1OfSuutuG Q2Q gone over &c
D Saltwater to attend the meeting of tn,
/ German singing societies in that city. Il
his opinion, had anything like a suitable
: notification been given, there would hay
been a hall full.
Mr.. Corey, the secretary of the organi
zation, made similar explanation.
. Mr.. johnson, of Minneapolis, who hap
J. pened to be present, being called upor
a said that he intended to max
e some extended remarks, but a
K so few were present he would defer VIVA
t he had to say till some future meetin
n when more people were in attendanc,
d He argued briefly that there was DANCE
that the people of this state would, b
their neglect and Indifference to their ow
d interests lose Che rights they had, or,
least, some portion of them. The encroacf
ments on She nights Of people seem alway
mace Id gradual and quiet way. an
N before they knew it they were strippc
OF their rights. To countera.