Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-12-07
For Wisdom, Culture, Refinement
and a Better Civilization.

tine readers. unuer tnls neau are cOntII-
buted by the Ladies' OF the w. G.. T: u. under
the immediate supervision of Mrs. Frank
Gibson as Edit0r.l
The citizens of Quincy, Mass. have
just held a jubilee meeting to commemo-
rate the record of seventeen years of pro-
hibition which the city has just com
pleted.
The eight principal causes of insanity
bave been tabulated, and the results pre-
sented to a London scientific society.
Drink stands at tie top, and directly
accounts for about n third of all cases.
From Yankton Daily Gazette we clip
the following: "There are said to be one
hundred and twentyone professional gam
blers sapping the business life OF the city
of Yankton. This is a pretty large army
to feed In time of peace"
Efforts are proposed for the expulsion
of this army. We wish the promoters
great success, but while the saloon re-
mains other gamblers will be breed to re-
place those that may be driven out.
Mrs. Mable Conklin, w. C. T. U. organ
izer and lecturer, will be in Webster, on
Sunday Dec. 10, and will give two al
dresses. The evening meeting will be
held in the Opera House and the public
generally is invited to attend. A col
lection will be taken.
Owing to the influence of the anti
salo on league there is to be no street fair
in Kalamazoo, Mich, this year. They
rel ained legal council and threatened to
fight the holding Of the fair on the
ground of its immoral influence, in which
leading manufac NJ ing firms backed
them up.
Wayne B. Wheeler, attorney for the
Ohio state anti-saloon league, states that
during the year nearly sixty towns and
townships have gone "dry" as against
tour or five previously "dry', hat have
voted "wet'' in local option elections.
Nearly one-third the towns and townships
of the state are now without legalized
saloons.
The Young Peoples Temperance Fed
GRAFTON is arranging to establish in Chica-
go a number of coffee saloons. The
saloons will be just wha, the name i'm,
plips-saloons In everything except the
kind of drinks sold. Coffee, tea, lemon,
abe and soft drinks will be sold. The
stranger who drops into a saloon will
find a bar of the orthodox type presided
over by a barkeeper, a warm room in
which h. con loaf, tabl,s at which h. can
sit to read or play games, private drink
ing rooms in the rear, and a free lunch
National Advocate.
Mr.. Edward w. Bak says: zone thing
that led me to make up my mind never
to touch liquor was the ruin which | saw
it bring to some OF tie finest minds with
which | have ever come in contract. |
have seen, even in my few years of pro,
fe-sional life, some of the smartest liter,
airy men dethroned from splendid po.i.
tions, owing u nothing else but their in.
diligence in wine. ! have known men
with salaries of thousands of dollars a
year, come TO beggary from drink"
II is the duty of every manand woman
in this nation-a duty owed to religion,
to society, to good government and to
the home to enter a solemn and EN-.
phatic priest to Congress against permit.
ting Brigham II. Robert, the confessed
polygamist tongressman.elec from
Utah, to occupy u seat among the nations
lawmakers. Congress has the constitution.
al right to exp-l any member whose pres.
encc 10 regarded as offensive TO that
body. The higest living authority on this
ques,ion-ex-Sensto Edmunds of Yer.
mont, the author of the anti. poiygamy
law-has declared that the House with
the concurrence of two-th birds, may ex-
pei ~ member. The Con stitutIon has i'm
posed no Limitation upon this right,
which Is grant,d for the sole purpose of
of pr ptecting the dignity and good name
of Congress from reproach
4 Chriatiau Herald