Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-17

slne cause OF Home protection will conquer
And see its glad fruition in glorious victory;
IA victory full OF blessing, otjoy andpeace and
When the hearts OF men are ho,y and tho
homes Of earth more bright. - : 4
Home Protection cometh by the peoples
Let Is lend . hand to bring it. and in its JOY
1t q Christian man or woman give
to home or foreign missions, church
erection, work among the freedmen OF
poor whites OF the South, Sunday
I Schools, city evangelization, the poor,
or any other cause the larger share Of
the time and money which be or she
devotesto philanthropy and religion,
no reasonable person complains. Has
not the time come when those upon
whose hearts and consciences God has
laid the temperance and prohibition
cause should also say ''This one
thing I do?" Such single-mlnded.
ness, so far from bringing criticism
upon US, would, we believe, be ap.
proved by our fellow-workers in the
church. Its first effect would be to
call their attention to the great i'm.
portance of our cause to the welfare
of both church and nation.-Selected
A liquor paper said of the delegates
to the Detroit Christian Endeavor
Convention: ''Taken as a whole, the
visitors were "a scurvy lot as ever
came down the pike" The saloonists
don't seem to like our Christian
young people very much, and they
will love them still less as the years
go by, no doubt.
The easiest way to evade ones man.
ifest duty toward the liquor traffic is
to stroke the beard and in deep tone,
supposed to be characteristic of pro.
found wisdom, to say, ''It's a great
problem. OF course, as long as the
matter is ''problem, nothing car
be done about it, or, at least, one
can, excuse himself, with some ap.
pearance of sincerity, for not doing
anything about it. We believe with
Woolley that ''there is no liquor
problem; it's either a e ght or flight. u
We 10 not doubt that many are un.
certain as what is the best method OF
destroying the saloon, but their un-
certainty is usually due to their in.
difference. When the natural enemies
of the saloon get once aroused for it,
overthrow, they will find the way to
accomplish it.-Backbone.
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The friends of liquor saloons de.
fend the drink traffic because, they
say, "it makes business Yes, il
makes business, and the Christian
Standard tells how it does it, 1t says
"We have no doubt of this, but it
is the kind of business that an irritanE
poison makes of the human body
All the organs are SET to work to cas-,
it out and neutralize it's influence
The saloon makes business for the
policeman, jail officials, asylums and
the poor house. It does not make
business for the "butcher, the baker,
and the candlestick maker.' It is the
testimony Of important investigators
that the whiskey traffic interferes with
legitimate trade. The Kansas City
Star, paper without any proclivities
to prohibition, says that one of the
best salaried travelling men making
Kansas was talking with Wichita
reporter the other day of the prohibi.
ton law of Kansas, and said: 'T'l]
make all the towns in eastern Kansas
and western Missouri, and I want to
say that all this talk of prohibition
hurting business is a farce. 1 sell
more goods in Kansas towns than dc
in Missouri, and my patrons are bet
ter pay. They need not tell me tina,
the people of town have to guzzle
beer in order to have prosperous bust.
ness. When the people of a town
spend their money for beer, they dom,
have so much to spend in my line.
don't mind a glass of beer occasional
~, but do prefer to sell goods to d
man who doesn't use it. I find he is
q great deal more reliable and better
pay. In business dealing this has
been my experience.
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At meeting of the W. c.. T. U.
held at Mrs. Rodlun's it was decided
to engage Mrs. Unruh, a National w .
c., T. U. worker in the Purity Depart
ment, to speak here several dates in
February on different subjects. Fur
ther announcements will be made
later. Here are few of the testimon-
ials:
La Grande Daily Chronicle: "In
reason and pathos the lecture has sell
dom been equalled in the city.
McMinnville (Oregon) Reporter:
''sunday evening in the Baptist
church, Mrs. Unruh delivered one OF
the plainest, most searching lectures
on the subject Of Purity ever deliv-
cred before a mixed audience in Nc
Minnyille.''' ~.z%-s.a =. liz.
Yazoo miss. Daily: Sunday
night Yazoo City audience listened,
perhaps for the first time, to an entire
sermon by woman preacher on the
one subject of social purity. Mrs.