Willmar tribune., 1898-11-30
Temperance Continent.

Edited by the Press Superintendent of the
VIC. T. U. Of Willmar.1
''Do You know that the church, d.
rect]y or Indirectly, influences at least
5000, 900 OF votes in the United States?
We christian organizations hold the
balance Of power, and if we would
stand shoulder to shoulder at the bal
lot box as the saloon stands shoulder
we could win any reform and demand
any right.' These are pulpit words
of the Rev. Frank Dewitt Talmage,
Of Chicago. Christian people through
out the land would do we'll to think
more earnestly and more honestly on
these things.
The w. G.. T. u. of Dover, DEL,
has passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we. the members of
Dover's w. c.. r. u, believe it in
consistent and unwise to patronize, in
any way, directly or indirectly, either
the liquor-dealer or those who make
his business possible by signing ap-
plications for license to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors. If all those who claim to
be Temperance" people would resolve
likewise, it would not be long before
the saloon would be thing of the
past.
1T would be like dynamite under
the saloon if, just where he is, the
minister would begin active work
against it; if, just where he is, the
teacher would instruct his pupils; if,
just where he is the voter would dedi-
cate his ballot to this movement; and
so on, through the shining ranks of
the great powers that make for right
eousness, from father and mother to
kindergarten toddlers, if each were
this day doing what he could, just
where he is.'
At meeting of the W. G.. T. u.
held at Mrs. Young's, a petition for
county local option was signed by
those present. 1t is hoped that the
legislature, the coming winter, will
heed the voice of those who desire so
much to see their respective counties
free from the sale of liquor. It is not
just to let the towns alone decide this
question year after year. Note the
condition Of affairs in just four or
five counties out of the many in the
same situation. The following is
taken from the twelfth annual report
of the U. S. commissioner Of labor,
Carroll D. Wright:
Rock county: License money from
saloons in 1896, $6,250, Of which the
county has $500 and the incorporated
towns $3.50. Fines for illegal sales,
SITS, Of which SIG goes to the county.
Thus the county gets 1915 revenue
from the saloon business, while the
town get S5,672. When the crime, the
insanity, the pauperism and like
things flowing from these saloons is
paid tor by the taxpayers, it is the
county and not the towns that foots
up the bills. How do the farmers Of
that county like TO pay out their money
for liquor at the saloons, let the towns
have the license money and leave the
farmers the pleasant job of settling
the ''expenses' caused by the saloons?
And any year will show good sized
'liquor bills" down there in the shape
o. district court expenses and other
things that never would have existed
but for your saloons.
Take Mobiles county, whose license
income is $11,6S1. The county gets
but ST, 900. The fines are only $73,
from liquor men, all Of which goes to
the towns. County expenses made by
the town saloons. Do you see, farm
ers?
Mex take Jackson county, where the
$8,75 license money all goes to the
towns, and of the $40 liquor fines the
county receives only $3.50, which Is
rather small help to the farmers along
the line of "revenue from the saloons"
to help pay the jail and court expenses
flowing from the saloons of that
county.
Pipestone county had 5000 saloon
license money, no fines, as the saloon
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