Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1892-11-25
WEEKLY MOTTO:

WEEKLY MOTTO:
"What do we live for if it is not to
make life less difficult for each other" :"
George Elliott.
1t was unprecedented on the part of
the scribe, and presumably so, on the
part of the printer, that some of our
humble remarks were given the dis
tinction of being extracts from Miss
Willard's address last week. Such
errors are an injustice, (even though
the object may never know it) which
We shall try to avoid hereafter.
When colored witness was asked
what he was doing in a certain liquor
shop, ut Il certain time, lie replied that
he lust went in there to change his
bretf" His explanation was accepted.
Why shouldn't it be? The ''liquor
shop" of whatever name, is headquar-
ters for making change" which it's
customers frequently do until the only
change they have left is the one they
have on. There are many other changes
which follow IN the wake of this change
of the breath, which are Just as pre-.
ceptible and more terribly lasting.
Who has not seen it change the very
man throughout INTO q being the actual
opposite of himself What of honor
sacrificed? No fact IS better known
than that every device for violating the
law is rcsorted to that this demand of
appetite may be gratifed. How often
is the confidence and respect of friends,
changed to distrust and pity, from this
cause and good repute exchanged for
iisrepute, health for disease, wealth
for poverty, self-respect for self-distrust
and loathlng, prosperity, temporal and
moral, for RUIN physically and moral
ly. Is it strange that there are those
among men who are working for q
radical change in this matter-they are
the best friends of humanity, but they
are willing to be branded as ..'cranks'
If they can but succeed in changing this
liquor.cursed race into one freed from
it's terrible blight. They are not the
enemies of even the worst offenders-lt
is simply the business they are solemn
ly pledged to oppose.
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There seems to be something in. the
prohibition party that has power ts
gain adherents as time goes by. The
result of the late election shows the
vote of the party to have been abeu,
one fourth greater than four years ago
California claims 10000 votes, an in
crease of 100 per cent. In New Yorl
City and Brooklyn, the vote was doub
led-the state will probably exceed
10000 votes. Pennsylvania and Ohio
report an increase of twenty-five pei
cent. In Indiana and Illinois the gar
is about fifty per cent. 1t is gaining
ground in all the southern states
North Carolina gave the party 4,00t
votes. Taking the counupy in general
the prohibition vote reaches an. aggre
gate of something like 1926, O0O-show
ing that three voters out of every hun
dred are now prehibltionists. Consid
ering the fact that such voters arr
usually agitators rs well, with a strong
support back of them in the great w
@. T. U. organization, non-voter.
though its voters may be, they ye
WELD power which Is already felt II
politics. The scorn which IS eften ex
pressed for the numerical weakness q
the party is wholly without reason.
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How Shrewd Business Men Value
the Benefits Of Prohibition.
''You may rely upon it tlIat it has
come to this, that new manufacturing
town in this part of the world to have
the promise of the best prosperity mus
be temperance town. The Creates
manufacturing companies. are begin
ming to insist upon a neighberhood fret
from the liquor traffic for the location
of new plants requiring the expenditur,
Of large capital. Franklin w. Ganse
of Morris, Ganse & Co.
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The president of one Of the larges
manufacturing concerns in the vicinit.
of Chicago stated that the 'sleadinl
motives" in their company selecting th,
location it did was the "temperanc
clause embodied in the deeds; "w
want to 60 to place where our psopl