Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-13
Prohibition Press eulietln.

VtOUSOsSUOU TtO8S 00uUOSo0.
The Anti Saloon League will hold
It's State Convention in the city of
St. Paul, on the 25th and 26th of Feb
ruary. Among the speakers will be
Charles A. Pollock, of Fargo, N. D.,
DR.. l. N. McCash, Des Moines, H.,
and others. Delegates will be expect
cd from all temperance organizations,
Epworth Leagues, Christian Endeav.
ors, Sunday Soho OILS, and kindred
bodies
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The liquor dealers of Kansas City
passed q resolution OF rejoicing that
the National Prohibition Convention
1s to gather in that city. They OK.
press themselves as not at all afraid
"because their business is regulated
by law" They seem to lose sight of
the fact that it is the purpose OF the
Prohibition party to regulate the heal
off the business by law.
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There is vigorous temperance
campaign being prosecuted in Japan,
a new movement for the orientals.
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The saloon or canteen at the New
York State Soldiers Home may be
compelled to cease selling LIQUOR by
the operation of the Rains law.
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A horror almost unprecedented in
history was enacted at the Iroquois
Theatre in Chicago, where upwards
to six hundred people lost their lives.
BE would be worse than bestial in his
brutishness who failed to sympathize
with those who suffered ia the catas.
trophe or on account of it; and the
grim facts beggar the most vivid de.
scription to which the language will
lend itself. But were such calamities
to occur every week, We would soon
give little heed. The saloons of the
nation, at moderate estimate, dupli.
cate the number of deaths of this dis.
aster every week. Iodeed, many con-
servative estimates would make it
more than twice every week: and the
manner OF the deaths and the con.
sequent woe attending them ut horror
the horror OF the lroquois as the
river exceeds the ril'. In the state of
Minnesota alone, from the 23rd Of
October, 1903, to the 23rd uf November
the same year, or for an even month,
there we're twenty two deaths chroni-
cled in g single paper as resulting
from the use of liquor within this state.
Yet instead of insisting that the
saloons, the cause Of these deaths,
should be clCs ID, We have become 80
accustomed to the work of these legal
lied institutions that it is not uncom.
mon for men of Intelligence and SEEM
ing refinement to laugh and Jest when
deaths Or disasters are chronicled
as the result of this business.
When the city council proposed to
raise the license fee for gamblers in
Bemidji, the licensed saloonkeepers
protested, showing the brotherly rela-
ton between the gambling and saloon
keeping criminals. Gambling is pro.
hibited by the law of the state. The
city that licenses 1t Is an anarchist
corporation just as the mayor who
allows the saloon to violate the
restrictive features of the law is
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President Roosevelt has written
three leng,hily ard characteristically
strenuous messages to congress with
In the last ninety days. He has COW
cred the field Of governmental interests
from pork to Panama, from buttons
to Doodle, and has microscopically and
telescop cally examined topics great,
small, far and near, but not syllable
pro or con, hot or cold, weak or
strong has escaped him touching the
part that the saloon has played in the
civic corruption in our cities, nor the
financial drain upon the community,
nor the appalling loss of life, liberty
and happiness traceable to that insti-
tuition. Teddy the terrible tremDles
when called upon to brook the beer