The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-03-04
Village ! II Election. T /, ~

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For Worthinston Jake Place or
nj Tuesday, March IS. i.
AS the nearness 6f the day Of will.
Ss age election approaches, the license
question becomes the more frequent
{ topic of conversation. Touching
this subject the following from the
a Herald, Slayton:
'The coming election will have
just one all absorbing subject over
which there will be a great struggle
and that is the license question.
The personnel of the village coun-
Gil, etc. will not attract so much at
tention though that,in reality,ls I'M
4 portant.. p -v g..
First, should license carry and at
u the same time should straight-lac-
ed temperance council be elected,
they would doubtless make it. i'm.
posi- BILE for a saloon man to operate
. his place in a manner which would
prove sufficiently renumerative' to
. enable him to have an attractive
margin left after paying a high IL
sense, therefore there would be
much unpleasantness on both sides.
s:s s Again, should the town go dry
and at the same time should the
!. new council be favorable to liquor
interests, then the town might as
well have saloons ands. the revenue,
for. there are ways and ways by
which laws may be violated and still
the violator 60 unpun1shed if the
>eficers do not want to enforce the
E laws. -.
The OILY way to make laws OF
value is to elect officials who are in
sympathy with the'laws they are
elected to enforce for they will
their eyes open to see who vic.
lates them and the violator cannot
q carry on his work as boldly as s.it he
knew the officials would turn their
\ backs toward him whenever they
q might hear him whistle: - o. {.
The past year hiss 'been . sore trial
se,u ss5n i1aany butss at tho same time be-
.iievei it has proven much to those
who have made any observations.
There has been some drunkenness
in town and some liquor shipped in
h here but no one who knows any
thing about actual conditions and
II cares a fig for the truth would think
of saying that there had been as
I much as half the usual amount OF
either The mob of loafers always
seen on sreets of saloon towns has
not been in evidence as usual and a
woman could walk the full length
at Broadway with a much greater
} feeling of security than if there
Mere saloons along the way.
.ss Some have said the absence of sa-
looms caused the town to be dead
{. This season but that is not true for
\: other towns which we're loaded
4 down with saloons and got several
thousands of dollars. from the sal
oons to be expended for trials Of
.Rtheir subjects and repairs on local
have felt the stringency Of
money as greatly as has our own
B little municipality.
The matter settles down to just
/ one question viz: whether the rev
enue received will pay for the inev
n liable debauchery Of the towp and
Il the conseq quent unhappines in many
Sss homes. :l = = I .<>... ~5-,.'
The saloon keeEers are not to be
blamed if7+they run their business
houses in conformity to law. If the
people want to have saloons, they
q are the ones responsible for condi
lions and not the saloon keeper, fol
they should know what it means tt
vote license. ......ss,~ -. -. :. ~
s'S Now as to the solution Of the mat
ter, / have one suggestion to offel
as the only one which can prove
xeal success at this time. / have
talked with other prominent men
rho believe it is true and / thinl
h you. will agree with me when | tel
you about-it. = =, =. = .. b. +.
>The only way to do is to cut out
party politics for they have never
u entered local elections anyhow, let
n the license people nominate mer
who will permit them to run place,