St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
LOCAL OPTION IN DAKOTA.
Beer Turned Into Ginger Ale and Sold
as Temperance Drink.
ST. PAUL DETECTIVES WORK
Lisbon Prominent Men Reported as Wit
nesses to Judge Nc
C0nnell.
ST. PAUL DETECTIVES WORK
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
LISBON, Oak, May 1.-THE old saying
of where there's will there's way"
is being fully eXemplified in the opera
ton of the local option or prohibitory
law of Dakota, which went into effect
last January in the great majority of
counties. There is will on the part of
some people in every town to violate
the law, which is born of a desire to
profit by catering to the desire of those
who want the law violated for their par
ticular qualification. Your correspond
emf has had occasion to visit many Da-
kota towns lately, and has noticed that
''red liquor" can be had in any or
all of them. Not only this, but beer
genuine lager--iS sold as temperance
beverage, and often in restaurants, in or
from bottles labeled "ginger ale." In
Lisbon alone, one man receives ten
kegs of lager beer each week to supply
his customers, and yet to the uniniti-
ated this, like most other places. would
appear on the surface to be stringently
observing the prohibitory law. But, as
the poet has sung, Things are not
what they SEEM" Conscious of what
is going on in this regard, the Woman's
Christian union, of Lisbon, recently
took action to have matters righted to
their liking. They employed
DETECTIVE FROM ST. PAUL,
who came here and engrafted
himself into the good graces of
our fast-inclined young men, and
with many of the business men-those
who like an "eye opener occasionally,
that they may see clearly into the intri-
cacieS of this transaitory life. He spent
good deal of time in the buildings
lately occupied as saloons, but now run
as temperance institutions, and among
his new as OciateS was known as E.D
Hegg. He was struck with the city and
its people he claimed, and was figuring
to buy Coles hardware store, and many
regarded him as a future merchant of
the place. In the refreshment concerns
he repeatedly treats, and treats his
friends in turn. He suddenly disap-
peared, and your readers can imagine,
family at least, the general surprise
when Judge Mcconnell
ISSUED INJUNCTIONs
against every man who kept saloon
up to last January, except the proprie-
tor of the Headquarters hotel, to re-
strain them from selling liquor, and the
complaining witness in the matter was
no less parsonage than this same E.
ID. Hegg. AS witnesses to prove his
allegations he names many of the first
men of the place." The injunctions
are returnable at Fargo on the 25th.
The general feeling is that if we
are to have prohibition, we must have it
in fact as we'll as in name, but this does
not appease the appetite, nor entirely
check the action of others, and so there
are, and possibly will be, combatants on
both sides; for it takes at least two to
make fight. 1t was Gen. Grant who
said that 1.-The best and speediest way to
repeal an obnoxious law is to infOrce it,
but local option does not promise to be-
come generally obnoxious, as the great
majority of the pale-faced people of Da-
kota are still on its side and want it in
forced.