Willmar tribune., 1904-11-30
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by w. G. CALpERwooD,

frOnIDIIIOn frcSS DuIIcIIn.
Issued BY ": 9: o4,IDERwooD,
"People car not be made good by
law parrots the Labor World of Du.
luth. No doubt. What is the use,
dear World, of seeking legislation to
remedy the wrongs of labor? Capita'-
lists cannot be made good by law.
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David Iamademocrat Hill's retire
ment from politics pulled into the ter.
minal about TWO months ahead Of the
scht dule.
Deer, e X and moose, prairie chick.
ems, quail, and wild geese are all pro.
tected by the strenuous game warden
during the closed season, but it is q
common sight any time of the year to
see specimens If erstwhile genus homo
''all shot to pieces.
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DR.. Wiley, of Pure Food fame, says
that IS per cent of the whiskey is rank
poison. That's no great discovery.
The dictionary defines alcohol as
poison.
It seems like q peculiar incOns sist-
ency for the supreme court of this state
to maintain that q school teacher has
no right TO visit an institution which
the law recognizes and licenses. Isn't
this free country? Hasn't man
who has reached his ms siority the right
not only to 20 where he pleases, but
to eat and drink and wear what he
pleaees: Queer. The supreme court
decides that q learned school teacher
has no right to visit 3 saloon without
losing his right in his contract as a
school teacher.
There is movement on to protect
young girls in Mini eapolis from the
pitfalls that bes,rew their paths. 1t
wouldn' It be bad idea for some one
to interest themselves in projecting
young boys, and for that matter old
boys, too. Defied masculinity pol
lutes society no less than solled fem
ininity.
The dynamitirg of Mayor Fay's
home in Virginia is nothing but the
revelation OF the anarchy of the sa-
loon. 1t stands ready to murder any
man who will enforce laws that are
obnoxious to it.
The prohibition party while show.
ing little or no gains in the general
ticket in this state is rejoicing over
the re suit OF q new plan of campaign
inaugurated this year. Proceeding
on the hypothesis that the majority of
the people recognize the evil of the sa-
loon, the desiraDillty of it's suppress.
sion and the futility Of licenses and
other measures intended to regulate
the traffic, the ccld-waterites conferred
their efforts upon the legislature
"Our campaign of education and agi-
tation" said one of their state officers,
(which We have conducted vigorously
for thirty years has brought the pub
lie to appreciate the evils growing out
. the beverage liquor tt attic to that
degree that enables US to say that We
have won the sentiment OF the people.
Our next task is to crystalize that
sentiment into law. Law is made by
the legislature, not by the mayor, nor
the county treasurer, nor the auditor
or other clerical and administrative
officers. We want to elect the meo
who make the law. We, therefore, in
this campaign have concentrated our
efforts in few legislative districts
where sentiment against the saloon
was mist active. The results of these
campaigns have been surprisingly
gratifying. In Mcleod county our
nominee for legislature lacked 81 votes
of be ing elected, which means that the
change of sixteen ballots would have
seat our men. In Freeborn county
our nominee was left outside the
breastworks by the narrow margin OF
90 votes, and the change of fifty In a
total uf five thousand votes woulo
have done the buslLe ess. Six other
candidates received over a thousand
votes each, where the previous vote
OF the party had been but from one tu
two hundred. These campaigns we're
conducted on the merits of the plat.
form upon which our men stood. NJ
attempt Was made to seek territory
where the opposition would be either
weak or corrupt. The gains were
straightway and fair. Our Legislative
vote covered but one-eighth of the to.
tai area of the state and aggregated a
larger total Ithan our candidate for
either president or governor polled in
the entire state. We believe that the
signal failure of regulation which was
totally failed to regulate, as ia evi
denced by the gaping door OF tho sa.
loon on Sunday, the drunkenness and
disorderly crimes growing out of i,
contrary to the orders of the law, the
breach Of practically every condition
of the law intended to keep the bust
n~ss in reasonable bounds Is known
to all people. That the saloon is q
nuisance and q menace to society
commerce and civics and, therefore
that it ought to die Is the conviction
not merely the belief, but the con.