The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-02-14

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Our Badge: A knot Ut white ribbon. !
Our Aims: Home protection, prohibition of
the liquor traffic, equal suffrage .one standard
OF morals, and the bringing about Of a better
public sentiment. - -. =,
MRS. E. F. WHEELER, President,
a. MRS. JENNIE WOODCoCK, Secretary,
-. 49, MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer.
There is danger that the war de-
partment since it has prophesied
the evils that will follow the aboli-
ton of the canteen, will not be
Jealous to see that it's prophecies
are not fulfilled. What is needed
now is that the anti canteen meth
DDS be given a fair trial, and this
means at least that an attractive
substitute for the liquor-selling
canteens be found. In this direc-
ton an interesting proposition has
been made to the secretary of war
by Sergeant Francis H. Buzzacott
Of Chicago, which is reported IN
the hearings before the senate COM
mittee on military affairs. During
the Spanish American war Ser
geant Buzzacott presented to his
regiment the Third Illinois In
fantry, a temperance canteen pro-
yided with reading and writing
tables, recreation tables, benches,
music and pictorial and other peri
odicals and served attractive
lunches and a variety of hot and
cold temperance drinks, various
athletic games were provided and
ingenuity used in every way to re-
lieve the monotony Of camp life.
In but few months it's profits
were SIS, 900 which was turned over
to the regiment for the same uses
that are served by the profits of
the liquor canteen, and it was pa
tronized by 10000 soldiers. We
do not doubt that if similar can
teens were fitted out for the use of
the army everywhere, they would
prove far more efficient temper
ance measures than post-exchange
beer selling has been,~ and that
they would as effectively prevent
the patronage Of worse places by
the soldiers. Sergeant Buzzacott
has offered to fit out a similar can
teen at his own expense for use in
the Philippines but his offer has
not yet been accepted. If such
offers are spurned the conclusion
will be inevitable that the pro-beer
people have really been more zeal
Gus for beer than for the welfare
of the soldiers.
PORTLAND, Me-, Jan. 31.-One
month of the prohibitory law os
administered by a Prohibition
party sheriff has wrought great
e change for the better the Daily
Press (Republican) in commenting
on the rumor that Mrs. Nation IS
coming to Maine, says: Gin Port
land since the Pearson administra-
ton came in, about the only relict
of the liquor business is the pocket
peddler whom it would not be
quite legal even under Mrs. Ma
TONS liberal Interpretation of the
law to smash with an ak. Most
of the plate glass mirrors and cut
glass decanters have been called in
and the mahogany and rosewood
counters are now covered with
articles that are not contraband of
war"
In one of the resorts formerly
used as a bar-room there is sign
done in soap on the mirror read
ing SBar closed" underneath is
drawing of a skull and crossbones
to Indicate that the business is
killed. The proprietor says that
he has bought a lot of land and
will hereafter earn a living by
farming using the bar-room for a
place to hatch chickens in incuba-
tors. Business in various lines has
noticeably improved, the sales of
wood and coal, groceries, shoes
and clothing to poor families have
largely increased and a leading
confectioner says his sales have in
creased thirty-three per cent. show
ing pretty plainly that the chill
dren get the coppers which went
to the rumsellers before. -Neae
Voice.
1t is said that~the beer which is.
consumed in the world in single
year would make lake six feet
deep, three and three-fourths miles
long and a mile wide. If to this
were added the vast quantity of
distilled liquors used in the world
each year, the lake would be much
larger-an awful Dead Sea in it's
destructive effects on life. If there
should exist somewhere in the
United States a lake where many
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