Willmar tribune., 1900-09-12
TEMPERANCE COMMENT.
Edited by the Press Superintendent of the
W. T. q. of Willmar.l

It costs this country more than a
billion dollars year to take care of
the 800, 900 paupers, and the criminals,
and the 10000 idiots, and to bury
the 100, 900 drunkards, which form the
abundant harvest of rum.
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The local w. G. T. u. has been for
tunate in securing the services of Mrs,
Callie H. Howe, National W. G. T. U.
Organizer and Temperance speaker,
for a lecture on the evening of the 25th
of this month. Here are few testi-
monials:
Mrs. Howe is one of the most elo-
quent and instructive speakers that
ever addressed an audience in Fayette-
ville.-Fayetteville [ Ark. News.
Mrs. G. H. Howe is a bright, we'll
informed lady, and is certainly we'll
qualified for the work she is engaged
in.-Iowa Commonwealth -
Mrs. Howe, the w. G. T. U. lecturer,
is undoubtedly the best lecturer that
the local Union has had the pleasure of
rtaining.-Ridgeway mo. Jour-
nal.
Mrs. Howe is a gifted woman,
thorough and convincing in her argu-
ment, taking great care, however, not
to be guilty to overdraw or exagger-
ate an already too sad PICTURE
Monroe La. Daily Star.
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Mrs. Olive M. Young, president of
Willmar Union, was in attendance at
| the w. G. T. U. State Convention Just
held in Mankato. Mrs. Stevens ( Miss
Frances Wizards successor) and
Anna Gordon were present besides our
loved state president, Mrs. Scovell.
A very enthusiastic meeting was re-
ported.
The National Prohibition Platform
adopted at Chicago, July 27. 1900, de-
clares, in part, the following:
We reaffirm the declaration of Will
liam Windom,-when secretary of the
treasury, that ''considered socially,
financially, politically or morally, the
licensed liquor traffic is or ought to be
the overwhelming issue in American
politics, and that the destruction of
this iniquity stands next on the calen-
dar of the worlds progress" The
existence of our party presents this
issue squarely to the American people,
and lays upon them the responsibility
of choice between liquor parties dom
mated by distillers and brewers, and
our one party of patriotic and moral
principle, with policy which defends
it from domination by corrupt bosses,
and which insures it forever against
the blighting control of saloon politics.
We face with sorrow, shame and
fear the awful fact that this liquor
traffic has grip on our government,
municipal, state and natl ional, through
the revenue system and saloon sover-
eighty which no other party dare to
dispute.
1t also says:-We challenge denial
of the fact that our chief executive, as
commander-in-chief of the military
forces of the United States, at any time
prior to or since March 2, 1899. could
have closed every army saloon, called
a canteen, by executive order, as Pres
ident Hayes it effect did before him.
We assert that the act of Congress,
passed March 2, 1899, forbiiding the
sale of liquor, Sin any post, exchange
or canteen," by any "officer or pri-
vate soldier, Or by any other person,
on any premises used for military pur-
poses by the United States" was and is
as explicit an act of prohibition as the
! English language can frame; we de.
; clare our solemn belief that the attor.
ney general of the United States, in
his Interpretation of that law, and the
secretary of war, in his acceptance OF
that Interpretation, and his refusal tc
enforce the law were and are guilty o1
reasonable notification thereof, and
that President Mckinley, through his
assent to and endorsement of such in.
depreciation and refusal on the part o.
officials appointed by and respons
ible to him, shares responsibility
in their guilt; and we record our con
viction that a new serious peril con
fronts our country, in the fact tina
, it's presidents, at the behest of the beel
power, dare abrogate a law of Con
gress. through subordinates remov
able at will by him and whose acts be
) come his, and thus virtually confesse
that laws are to be administered or t,
be nulli6ed, in the interests of law
defying business, by an administrator
| under mortgage to such business TO
support.
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: The next meeting of the W. c.. T. u
will be held at the home of Mrs. " E
, Lawson, on Thursday, Sept. 20, at
, p. m.
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