Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-10-19
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THE LAND OF PROHIBITION.

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TIE LAND OF PROHIBITION.
MRS. HARRISON LEE.
No broken windows or hanging doors,
Nogreasy walls or dirty floors,
But pretty homes and gardens gray.
Scent of sweet flowers miles away
In the Land of Prohibition.
NO "raggit weans," no weary wives,
NO women in fear for their wretched lives.
But merry maids and bonny boys,
And streets alive with gladstone noise
In the Land Of Prohibition.
No aching hearts and dragging feet,
No unemployed in any street.
But bounding step and CHEEKY song.
Work for the willing. brave and strong,
In the Land of Prohibition.
No frowning jails or prisons drear.
NO criminals in training here.
But far and wide our banner waves
Ger men who never shall be slaves
In the Land of Prohibition.
No public debt to make men frown,
NO breaking banks to crush them down,
No empty Golfers in the state,
For debts are small and incomes great,
In the Land of Prohibition.
Dear. far-off country of my birth.
Inc grandest spot upon the earth.
On. may live to see the day
When all thy woe shall pass away,
ana glorious, beautiful and free
Thou shalt arise victoriously-
The Land of Prohibition.
'What are you going to do about
II: About what? Why, about that
row OF twelve CHASTITY corpses which
the liquor demon in the United State
claims as his Victims every hour, dav
and night, seven days in the week.
About what: About the starvation.
naKedness and crime resulting from
the annual waste for liquor of an
amount exceeding the total net earn
lngs OF all the railroads, the total liza
billy OF all the failures of the disas-
trous year 1895, the total expense of
the legislative, executive and judicial
departments of our national govern
ment. About what? About degrada-
tlon, squalor, tears, woes, sorrows
and earthly bells that space million
times more than that our command
would be insufficient to contain. -
Are you still going to allow this state
OF affairs to exist by licensing the aw-
full traffic by your vote?
The last meeting of the w. C. T. U.
was held at the home of Mrs. Solomon
Porter, Oct Il. The next regular meet
ing will be held, Oct. 18th, at the home
OF Mrs. DeLaHunt, at p. m. All
White Ribboners and others interested
in the work are requested to be pres
ent.
The Worlds w. G. r. u. biennial
convention will meet at Toronto Oct.
1876. The mass-meetings of the con-
vention will be held in Massey Music
Hall, which was built and presented as
free gift to the city in 1898 by the
late Mr.. H. A. Massey, a prominent
Christian worker and prohibitionist.
1t is free for temperance gatherings at
the nominal cost of lighting and heat
ing. The city devoted $500 toward
making arrangements for the conven-
ton. The mayor of the city is pro-
hibitionist, and it is doubtful if any
city in the world with 100000 inhab-
ltants has so high a temperance and
prohibition sentiment Following the
close of the Worlds convention, the
9th annual convention of the national
W. G.. T. U. will meet in Buffalo
Oct. 20 to Nov. 3. The annual sermon
on Oct. 81, will be preached by Lady
Henry Somerset.
Wanted, hundred thousand boys
to make the saloon business in the U.
S. prosperous the coming year.
Abundant wages, sure pay. Guaran-
teed checks on poverty, blasphemy,
RIGHTEOUSNESS. drunkenness, disease
and a drunkard's grave.
II ~
The:history of the temperance ques-
tion, when complete, will be dissuade,
persuade, educate, prohibit.
II ~
At the convention the Minnesota Re-
tail Liquor Dealers Association pre-
sented St. Josephs orphan asylum, at
ST. Paul, 800 in cash. Did any one
ever hear of a. prohib convention ex-
pending a penny for any worthy char
ity?-Both Sides,
Don't brag SO much about that 800.
It doesn't amount to quarter of a
punched nickel for each of the chill
dren made orphans by the saloon
keepers of Minnesota. Wouldn't you
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