Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-05-11
V|LLAIN0US ISLANDER
FROM LIQUOR ORGAN
Published Sentiments ofthe Crowd
that Would Control WiIlmar
if They Might.

The following communication pub
lished in the Benson Monitor, will
bear republishing in Willmar. There
is nothing too sacred or pure to be
respected by the liquor interests if it
happens to cross their schemes for
robbing the public. All any self-re-
speeding citizen who votes license
needs to do is to become thoroly &C.
quainted with the nature OF the traffic
which he seeks to make respectable"
with his vote, in order that he change
his mind and vote right.
Editor Monitor:
There is published at Minneapolis
paper "devoted to the interests of the
liquor trade in the Northwest" and the
"offcial paper of the St Paul Pro-
tective League and South Dakota Lilo
uor Dealers Association, and which
circulates only among among saloo
men.
In it's issue of April IA. was printed
an attack upon Prof. II. S. Hi|leboe,
which, in order that the people may
know the kind of men who are cham.
pioning the cause OF the licensed sa-
loon, and their methods of warfare,
have copied as follows:
About four years ago there came to the
| town OF Benson, in the state of Minnesota, one
Of the most bloodless.hearted loose summed.
| nat breasted fanatics the town has ever known
This traitors name is Hilleboe-Professor
Hnleboe-and he left . position as professor
position at Benson, with paltry raise OF about
I'm accepting the position at BENSON he did
agreeing to keep out OF politics and attend
only to the business for which he was paid.
namely. s spIS ct Of the e Schools Sch
ers' who is always butting In where he don't
| belong, and it was principally thru his EFFORTS
that the town IT Willmar " as put on the wa.
ter wagon two years ago as it was last year
II presume the Anti-Ssloon league has hand
ed him some Of their filthy lucre for his serv.
| chief among the idiots Of that burg. who are
ever and anon knocking the liquor traf1c
But he is one o. those crafty, grasping kind
| OF pure wateries' who saw = chance to get a
| In which to ply his underhand methods for try
Ing to Kill the saloon, so he migrated to Ben
But before he was accepted as the great
criterion on Benson education, he agreed
faithfully to cut ut his tanaticism and attend
Did he do so: Echo answers, No.
He worked skntully under cover Of dark
ness on the feeble minds OF the Antt-Saloon
before election. when in violation OF his agree
ment. he openly took himself to Willmar
| where he M united the stump for the no license
| But Benson voted license again this year.
! and It, was thru 70 fault Of this educated gent
| 1t did SO either for thru his efforts the vote
was cut down to less than fifty majority for
| license.
"But his day will come and it is not far OF
at that. tor a man must either be q man or q
| mouse when he ia called upon for q show do yn
and the latter is the better fitting for this anil
| mails case.
"A oieot pure and simple. bubo!ing over with
| deceit and full Of desire to get the coin is the
interior filing OF this m ms 81 in.
~, IT VIII be wen tor The mothers of growing
girls to ,have look before getting too con-
| never yet known 1t to fail but these fellows
| have a record for IL male weakness as the
| court calendars will show In every state In the
! Union
"Hlleboe will have his day and the water
wagon will be thing OF the past or my name
isn't ,Sn'iler.'
There is An old saying to tho effect
that's you give the devil rope enough
he wilt hang himself" and 1t must b.
.p"a, ent that the supporters of the II.
csnse syst m are thu If own worst enc.
mics.
That the IN W. lice n .e' - vote has stead
ly increased in Benson is true, but
be people OF Benson do not need tn
q reminded hat 1t has not been th, u
he az tatiOn Of any one man, nor ii,
fact by agitation at a., for there has
been practically no concerted effort on
behalf of temperance, and no temper
ance meetings and speeches, that this
result has been brought shout, but
simply from the fact that, BY observa-
ion, q large majority of, our citizens,
II not Of our voters, have become con.
WINGED that the saloon IL q school for
vice and crime, particularly.g gambling
and PEI jury, and that II 10 . constant
mensce to society. patrio tism and good
citfzanshtp, and It must be apparent
to sny ,thouRhtful person that such "a