The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-17
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Methodist Herald.

Methodist Hcfaiu.
The Minneapolis Tribune announces
the success of prohibition in North Da
kota. A special correspondent of that
paper, after til trough investigation III
the cities and towns ana in many rural
districts, declares that 1T prohibits.
Neither the correspondent nor the pa
FER is partial to prohibition, bat the
intention WAS to get at the facts, what
ever way they pointed. and publish
them. That is good newspaper bust
ness. Newspaper readers want facts.
We observe this correspondent signs
his own name to his statements. The
individual who SO persistently reports
t. the daily press that there is more
w.liskey drank in prohibition states
than elsewhere never signs his name.
The Tribune writer says:
There were no open saloons III any
town, city or village visited by me.
Hence the young men are compara-
lively safe from the perpetual tempta-
ton to take a social glass with friend
and thus lay the foundation upon
which may be built a ruined life. The
Traveller or sojourner can readily dis
cover places where he can get glass
of any sort Of liquor except possibly
good liquor-by lnqulring of the land
lord or the clerk at the hotel where he
abides But what regular Or irregular
drinker has not learned that there is
no enticement to drink; in solitude. 1t
must be especially desolate, irksome
and melancholy for the habitual booz-
er to wander into darkSome corner,
out Of the way of the police, hurrledly
emptying his glass, and then steal off
feeling as guilty as though a crime
had been committed. No pleasant
song, no telling the latest story, no
listening to ihc eloquencc OF the super
stimulated good fellow who loves all
man kind with an alcoholic affection
that is unreStrained. Just the bare,
naked, unattractive drink of elabor-
ately y.llianous liquor, nothing else.
Even tryo can discern that a man
must want to be stimulated awfully bad
who would deliberately guzzle whisley
under these circumstances. The flow
ers of sociabillty, therefore, no longer
decorate the cups in North Dakota;
the pleasant aroma of congenial COM
panionship has disappeared, and the
practice Of cornwall drinking stamped
with the brand of social d;srepute.
In the same issue of the Tribune, on
the editorial page is Il quotation from
some man who saws more whiSkey is
consumed in Maine according to its
size than in any other state. But such
vague assertions of a general nature are
worthless. Over against this state
ment is the evidence of Il correspon-
dent of the st. Louis Globe Democrat,
who says:
Lots Of people say that prohibition
doscn't prohibit The commonest
thing nova days is for people to sheer
at Names prohibitory laws, and re-
porters have gone down there with
tacit instructions to discover that pro
E;bition doesn't prohibit. Neyerthe-
less, l can tell you that prohibition has
prohibited i'll one way. | have lived in
Maine for 30 years and know that the
children grow up Ill the country places
there with almost exactly the same
feeling in regard to the liquor sellers
as a wcll-brcd boy entertains toward a
man who conducts :. gambling hell or
keeps a fence" shop Tor thieves. 1t
is the law that has done that. The
authorities prosecute offenders in such
a way as to leave the impression en- the
Youthful mind that some heinouS often
Sc has been committed. The boy Oh
serves that man to sell or consume
liquor must act like a sneak thief.
Hardly a week passes that uoesn leave
the memory of a liquor case or trial in
which the offenders are pursued in
much the same way as one would sup
pose thief to be pursued. And the
boy knows all this. If he should want
a drink he'd pause and consider for
quite while before he'd take it. 1t
wouldn't be like pushing through
swinging door, behind which are lights
and music. OF course, it isn't expect
ed that prohibition will absolutely pro
hibit III this generation, bu. the effect
is prohioitory on generations to come"
What .Tzr. winter Says About 1t.
Leader Of tie nth,
Seated in his private car with Super