Willmar tribune., 1899-12-06
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LAW AND ORDER COLUMN.
Edited by the chairman of the Enforce
ment Committee OF the A. s. League,

"V"0-@31-51S
The mere granting of licenses does not
| change mems natures. Only, the lawless
side Is not so apparent then as when there
! IS no lawful excuse for dealing in drink.
Watch tho fellows who would have permis-
sion. They who now openly ignore all reg
ulatton of law. will make bid for q chance
| to be regulated by law later.
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Judge Kerr of Minneapolis is doing much
to uphold law and order in that municipal
| ity by the determined and stern manner in
which he deals with offenders. HE is doing
much to stamp out 'blindpiggery' in tho
city" says the Times.
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Then "Well regulated saloons do not do
away with the blind-pigs. Isn'tthat strange!
1t is fact. nevertheless. 1t is so in Min
neapolis and It was so in Willmar We had
the blindpigs when we had saloons. The
well regulated" saloons closed at eleven (i)
o'clock ut night, and then the ill-regulated
saloons did a good business until morning.
supplying the gamblers and other night
revelers with "booze." They also did
prosperous business on Sundays. With q
council in sympathy with the traffic, the
regulation by law" has always been and
Will always be farce. II they for policy's
sake restrict the licensed saloons the blind
pigs prosper in an inverse ratio, with little
restriction as the latter are shielded by the
frnits of the licensed places.
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The only PRACTICAL way TO minimize the
evil is to legally abolish it. and as an earn
est OF ones intentions elect men who are
OPPOSED to the evil In Any form. With that
KIND OF officials under those conditions
there Will be no trouble In sxsd4cjpg the
evil. But 1t is absolute folly to elect men
OF the mllk-and-water, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
H. we-know-its-bad-but-w t-what-are-you-Ro
ng-to-do-about-it stripe. 1t is the will
that 's the test. and when you lind q man
with the will. the results will follow,
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Mistakes will be made. of course. and
what was supposed to be principle will in
many cases be found to be only pretence.
But the only way to success is BY expert
ence, and then only If one is capable of pro-
fitting by mistakes made.
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Look at the old crank yo,,der." said
the thistle growing by the roadside. He is
out lighting the weeds in his garden every
oay. he must know that weeds have grown
all the thousands of years since the earth
was created and that they likely will con-
tinue to grow as long as the earth stands.
and still he wastes his time hoeing them up.
lie doesn't know enough to take things as
he finds them. There are those nettles in
the corner. Doesn't he know that he is apt
TO get hurt If he monkeys with them? He
ought to be satisfied II he manages to keen
clean the spot his vegetables grow upon.
and keep weeds from getting too rank in the
path" But the old gardener laughs at tta
common sense" of the thistle. He kno.va
II the ground who're the thistle crows vara
pr!v2 property. it would have been ant ha.
fore this.
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We are informed that Sam stabler has da-
clared boycott upon the TRIBUNE And of.
fers to pay for either OF the 0the. Whine,
papers Tor q year to any person who vii,
agree to stop the TRIBUNE. Now as wa ara
also informed that only one subscriber IN
"iImsr has recently stopped the Te1nrnr
ana that he posesas Z leading TEMPERANCE
WORKER ana therefore could not he inf,non.
ceo oy sam, We must conclude that a.m,a
scheme Is languishing for want of advar.
Using. Now all the return We xou,d aek ~,
oam 1or giving him this gratuitious I'D. ia
1nat ne Will express his preference Of tho
Two other papers, whether he prefers the
ono That advcrtises 1Iamu1's beer or tho on.
tnat recommends Uncle Sans MONOGRAM
to its readers.