Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-27
EDNESDAY. JULY p, 1904.
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by w. G. CALDERwOOD,
MinneanOliS.

Issued by M " C. c1kDnRwooD'
It is safe to assert that between the
state platforms In the republican and
democratic parties there will not be
Que single issue, even of microscopic
magnitude. As to state policy the two
old parties are as nearly alike as the
two proverbial peas.
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The National Prohibition conven-
ton was not only the. largest in point
OF attendance in the history of the
party but the campaign fund raised at
the convention was more than double
the amount subscribed at any previous
gathering. The prohibitionists raise
their campaign funds by popular pub
lie subscription instead OF by assess
ments on the candidates, levies on the
brewers, trusts, and others who ex-
pect Legislative favors.
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Just 8 hint at the horrors in the
liquor traffic may be gathered from
the head. lines OF the Twin City dailies
during the last few days: "Murders
wife, kills himself, Iowa man under
in tluence of liquor commits awful deed
In frenzy "Ofticer shoots himself,
left note: It's no use; l can't stop
drinking" "SeiZes babe from drunk
en- father" Describing street scene
in Minneapolis, in which q drunken
negro figures, the headline reads:
Mob is ioiled in frenzied attempt to
lynch negro" Again, "Exciting
tragedy enacted In the midst of mirth
Edward f. Herr, q vaudeville per-
former, jealous at seeing his wife
drink beer with another man shoots
her and attempts to end his own life "
This Is but = small part of the record
which drips blood and Is stepped In
the gall OF grief and the NORWOOD of
woe, but the man who voted for it
has no kick &C ming.
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The purpose of this government as
set forth in the preamble to the con-
stitution OF the United States and as
promulgated by Washington, the F ath-
er ofhis Country, and as further emph Ia
sized by Lincoln, the preserver of the
nation, is primarily the welfare and
happiness Of the people. No man with
brains as large as q hes's egg doubts
that the licensed liquor traffic is at
least one of the chief agencies for the
destruction OF the welfare and the
happiness OF the people. Itwould not
be strange if political parties should
disagree as to the means of the de-
struction OF the traffic. 1t may be safe
ly stated, however, that no brave, in.
telligent patriotic company OF men
known as political party will meet
in convention and fail to propose
some remedy for this evil.
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W. G. Calderwood, secretary OF
the State Prohibition committee, in q
recent interview stated that not only
1s the number of prohibition legis-
lative nominees this year far in excess
OF the number at any previous time
in the history OF the party but legis-
lative district committees are showing
much more vigorous activity. There
is absolutely no issue" he continued,
"between the old parties on questions
of state government, state laws or
administration. If some Rip Van
should fall asleep on election day and
wake up eighteen months later there
would be absolutely no indication as
to which old party manned the wheel
and set the sails of the Ship of State.
The Prohibition party on the other
hand presents great economic prob
lem, and attacks an institution which
threatens the home, the school, the
church and the ballot box which some
philosopher has named the "Four
Great Corner Stones Of Popular Coy
ernment." If this same slumbering
Rip were to awaken month after the
Prohibitionists had been put in charge
of the state government his nostrils