Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL LIBEETT.
Meeting of the Liquor Dealers Last Night
Il Slim Attendance and 4 General
In,

n Siiua attendance and General
Pitching in.
The attendance upon the meeting of the
prohibitionists 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 he 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 Phi. Best Brewing company, of
| Milwaukee, took occasion to give the ex-
ecutlve committee and all others in an
| thoritJ 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 a band of
| music and IN that way couId
have flled the hall He could
fancy how temperance man, looking in
On that meeting, would smile at the efforts
| OF. the prohibltiOnist5. He had no doubt
the temperance people, by simply calling
a temperance meeting, without the aid of
band, or any other outside agency, conld
have hled every seat In that hall. The
reason IS, they 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
know Wh9re all the saloon keepers wsrs9
where were the brewers? Where were all
the parties who claimed to be opposed to
prohlbltlon: That was what he wanted tc
know. In his opinion, if they are interest
ed as much as they pretended to be, there
ought to be enough OF them to fill every
seat IN the hall. He advised the ex
ecutlve committee to go to work il
earnest and get out q crowd to the uexi
meeting.
The president Mr.. Bauz, explained tha-
the notice of the next meeting was very
imperfect one and the announcement wa,
not made as general as it should hav.
been. Besides this there were number O.
! attractions in the city calculated to cal
those who would be likely to attend th
meeting, to some other place. A larg
number of people interested in the ant
: 1
, Saltwater to attend the meeting of tn
| German singing societies in that city. Il
his opinion, had anything like a suitabl
=. notification been given, there would hay
been hall full
Mr. Corey, the secretary of the organi
zation, made similar explanation.
MT: johnson, of Minneapolis, who har
!. pened to be present, being called upo1
l said that he intended to max
e some extended remarks, but a
: SO .ew were present he would defer wha
{ ne had to say till some future meetin
n when more people we're 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 the rights they had, or,
least, some portion of them. The encroact
ments on the'zights of people seem alway
made IN a gradual and quiet way. an
4 before they knew it they were strippc
iof their rights. To counterat