Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-19
WHAT 1T MEANS.


and will do anything can for you and
your party" .
WHAT 1T MEANS.
The TRANSCRIPT has always favored
temperance. We think liquor. drinking a
great curse. We want to see the people
educated up to that point when there will
be but few drinkers. Then there will be
no saloons. T The public sentiment will be
against them, and they will not be allow
ed to exist. AS it is now, it seems as
though the sentiment was the other way
in favor of the saloon. So long as it is,
nothing can be done toward successful
prohibition. And it does no good-in
fact, we do not believe in-indiscriminate
abuse Of the saloon-keeper. We believe
there is too much sympathy wasted upon
the drinker. Transfer some of your abuse
from the saloon-keeper to the saloon
drinker. If it is wicked to sell whiskey,
it is wicked to drink it, and the man is
just as responsible for his wrong act in
one case as the other. But we started out
to say that we are in favor of absolute
prohibition of liquor selling on Sunday.
We hear there is a great deal of sly whis-
key-selling on Sunday in Austin. 1t
ought to be stopped. These whiskey-
suckers need to give their Threats a rest
on Sunday, and every saloon-keeper ought
to keep away from his SALOON on that day,
80 there would be no back door tempta
tions on Sunday.
Democrats are often accused of being
the saloon-party. But we know of one
newspaper-a secular, Dem ocratic daily
paper-that is doing good work to the
cause. 1t IS the Quincy Qll.) Journal
Its editor has been fighting for the clos
ing of saloons on Sunday in that city, and
it's labors have been crowned with success.
Hear what the editor says about the
change. Friends, read, digest, and apply
to Austin:
*'Time was when every Monday morn
ing brought us long and ugly police
docket. It is not unusual now to have
no docket. There was none yesterday.
Isn't this much better than to have u long
and ugly docket? For what does such a
docket mean? Where one man lands in
the police station, five hundred have been
under the influence of liquor. A long
and ugly police docket Monday morning,
means day of carousal and drunkenness.
That's what it means-and we all know
it. 1t means dollars and dollars spent for
drink that ought to be spent for food and
clothing for needy families. A long and
ugly police docket Monday morning
means that large number of men have
spent Sunday in way to unfit them for
work Monday morning, that's what il
means-and we all know it.
mo docket at all on Monday morning
means that men have spent Sunday quiet
~, soberly; that they have saved their
money from unnecessary drink to spend
it for family neccessaries; that they have
spent restful Sunday and are ready for
Mondays labor. This is what no docket
means-and we all know it, No docket
means peace, quietness, sobriety, money
saved, health saved, manhood saved, the
respect and love of loved ones saved; it
| means a betterment of men, and bet
terment Of their families; it means more
happiness for those depending upon them.
This is what no docket Monday morning
means-and we all know it well.
"What human being, not actuated by
the utmost self1shness, can object to a
policy, the tendency of which is to pro
duce the benefits we have briefly named;
the unmistakable tendency of which is
| to increase human comfort and human
happiness? Suppose that some of US do
have to go without our glass of beer!
Should we not be willing to make this
little sacrifice for the good of others?
Should we not he willing to make this
little sacrifice when its beneicent results
are told in the cold and impartial record
of the police court? We appeal to you
men who talk about personal liberty
and we love it as we'll as the hes, of you
is not this change from long police
docket to no docket better for Quincy as
whole? Is a large and ugly police
docket valuable advertisement to city?
IS it? Can a city be helped by large
criminal class or long criminal calendar?
Can it? If not then why oppose policy
that lessons crime in our city? Why OPP
pose policy that does undeniably give
policemen less to do, and gives police
magistrate no docket? Why?
1--WE defy the face of clay to show in
what way the closing of the saloons on
Sunday has hurt either the morals of the
town or its material prosperity. We
defy the face of clay to successfully
answer the mighty argument furnished
by the police court yesterday morning in
favor of quiet, sober Sabbath in these
words: mo police court this morning"
"For those who have liquor to sell must
remember that if money is not spent for
liquor, it is not lost. It is spent for the
necessaries and comforts of life, for fuel,
food and clothing.
! 1--WE can not see how wise and humane
men and women can oppose policy, the
undeniable tendency of which is to keep
men more sober, and thus make better
men of them-better citizens, better hus-
bands and fathers, and better sons and
better brothers"
"FIRE HIM Our" This is common
remark when ropghs apd rowdys insul,
public decency by their unseemly ways
Dyspepsia is q hoTid bore. Fire it oul
with Burdock Blood Bstters. You car
do it. Sold by Dorr q Void.
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