Willmar tribune., 1899-07-26
TEMPERANCE e CONN mEnT,

w. @. 7. U of Willmar.7
AT regular meeting of the w. c..
T. U. held on July 10th, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Mrs. Olive M.
Young; vice president, Mrs. Johnston;
recording and corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Stansberry; treasurer, Mrs.
Rodlun.
The following departments of work
were voted to be taken up the coming
year, with a superintendent of each:
Evangelistic and Sunday school
under one supt. J; mothers meetings;
prison and Jail work; flower mission;
distribution of literature: work among
railroad men; unfermented wine; con-
test work; subscriptions to union sig
nal and white ribboners; and press
work.
It is hoped that the plan of work
for each of these departments can be
carried out more fully and with better
results than ever before.
The next meeting will be held on
Aug. 10 at p. m.
The general secretary of the Congre-
gational Club of Chicago, at a recent
meeting in that city, gave some start
ling facts in regard to Chicago sa-
looms. He said:
"Thirty-one thousand inhabitants
of Chicago-saloon proprietors, sa-
loon porters, and bartenders-are
making it their special business to
ruin young men. The figures do not
include gamblers nor any others who
might be put in the same class. The
daily receipts of the saloons alone
were 1915, 900. In one saloon on Mad
ison street, connected with a theater,
at p. m. one Sunday, there were
counted 485 young men, and between
7 p. m. and 9 p. m. 524 more young
men were seen to enter. Some of these
were standing in a row six deep about
gambling table,,
Does Mayor Harrison think this a
good way to train young men to go
into politics?
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Fergus Falls Sentinel: The exist
ence of the liquor traffic and other
forms of human greed, only demon
strates that there is a great deal of
churchianity, and but little Christi
anity. "By their fruits ye shall know
them.''
National Temperance Advocate:
Scolding about the liquor power, and
then scolding rather harder at any
thing that really antagonizes it, does
not impress us as either consistent or
heroic.
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Uncle Sam has always devoutly de-
sired prohibition for his red-skinned
wards. For sixty years the United
States has endeavored to suppress
liquor selling in Indian Territory. 1t
is penal offense to carry any kind
of Intoxicating liquor into an Indian
reservation, and the same penalty is
imposed upon it's sale to Indians
everywhere. To enforce this law
courts have been increased, and
deputy marshals, running into the
hundreds, have been added in the terri
tory and along the border.
While the Indians we're compara-
lively alone upon their reservation,
it was difficult to control their thirst
for tire-water, but with 100000 white
men added to the population, the evil
is multiplied tenfold. A sober Indian
may be made into good citizen, but
drunk, his savage instincts and pas.
sions convert him into demon.
Ninety-five per cent of the crime of al
kinds committed in Indian Territory
can be traced to drink.
Ex-Representative Springer, of ILL.
nois, one of the judges of the terri.
torial courts, has decided that any
liquid containing more than two pei
cent of alcohol is Intoxicating. Hard
cider, shop tea,' jamaica ginger
vanilla extract, many kinds of "gro.
Gerry goods" and various decoctions
sold under the name of patent medi.
cines, have been shown, by chemical
analysis, to contain more alcohol than
the law allows, and have been ruled
out, although it has been proved thai
man might have to drink gallons
before he would be Intoxicated.
Why cannot Uncle Sam show the
same interest and consideration fo1
those of his own immediate house.
hold as for his wards? Charity, in
this case, should begin at home.-
Union Signal.
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William E. Curtis, the well-known
correspondent of the Chicago Record
after making tour of Kansas, thus
testities to the good results of prohibi'
tiOn in that state:
"Prohibition is not a dead letter
nor a failure by any means, and I an
told by almost everybody I ask that
any proposition to repeal the law
would be defeated by an overwhelming
vote. Wherever there is dry town