Willmar tribune., 1905-02-01
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
n Issued BY w, q. CAIpERNooD.
! " Minneapolis,


. Prohibitions Press Bulletin.
Issued BY " g. oAIprRwooD, n.
The Insurance Company does not
preach temperance to applicants, but
simply states that as q business prop.
osition even moderate drinking short.
ems the expectancy OF life and that.
that class of business must
expect to pay larger premium than
the total abstainer. The company Ia
Innocent of any twaddle or moraliz'
ing, but has keen eye ont for the
almighty plunk.
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District Attorney Jerome, OF New
York City, is out with big stick az
ter all the gambling places OF that city
and says he will run down every
gambling device in Gotham. The new
mayor OF Minneapolis is doing like
stunt, and slot mAchines and dice
have been placed under the ban to.
gether with faro banks, rolette wheels,
and other like parapherna|ia. HIRES
hoping that the officials Of both of the
towns will DO their duty so we'll that
they will be known to posterity; as
The M an Who Broke. The Bank at
Monte Carlo.
Things mus, be on the mend in Mis-
souri, since Joey Folk took the lid Oft
two or three years ago. They are
talking of iuvestig gating the St. Louis
brewers on bribery charges, when they
are only accused Of paying $2l 900 to
influence Legislators to support the
Republican nominee for the United
States Senate. If any credit can be
given to current report, that amount
would not ordinarily buy more than
one legislator who was in normal
working order. But then few hun
dred cases Of the amber fluid might
have been ''trun in.''
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And now comes the report from q
London newspaper correspondent that
Port Arthur, the impregnable Gibral-
tar of the YELLOW Sea, fell into the
hands OF the Japs because Of the de-
bauchery of the Russian garrison.
When the war broke out there was no
military expert who dared suggest the
possibility of Japan's ultim tie su-
premacy. While the war is not yet
ended, present indications point to the
probability of the sober little Nippon
ese scoring permanent victory over
the big Russians, and the clear heads
and athletic frames which result from
abstinence from poisonous beverages
as opposed to the drink -sodden Rus.
SLAMS may be the thing that tells the
story. If the foot. bail eleven from
one Of the big colleges was to- enter
the field soggy with the results OF q
prolonged spree to oppose tn, we'll
trained and dieted eleven OF a relative
ly insignificant school, the result
would be the same.
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The Wine and Spirit Gazette be.
means local option in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire had been under a pro.
hibitory law with the teeth taken out
so as to make it practically ineffec.
tive. The local option law, with
proper penalties, hiss not only de-
creased the sales, but the comparison
between the wet places and the dry
places has disgusted the citizens of the
wet towns, driving them to the water
wagon.
Major Seaman, of the United States
Army, a vigorous opponent OF the So
called anti canteen law, states tha
''the liquor sellers and the W. G T.
| u. are the strongest advocates Of the
law as il now stands" This has beer
echoed again ana again by certain O
the press, and other friends OF the ar
my saloon. He who makes such ar
assertion makes it either Of ignorance
or malice, for 1.-The American Brew
err, midas Criterion," TIE Liquor
Trades Review,' 1.-THE Washington
Sentinel, The Brewers Journal
"The B ever and Ma|tster," 9Th,
American Brewers Review" >"Bon
forts Wine and Spirit Circular, ,
"Both Sides,'' and number of othe]
leading liquor journals are every on'
of them squarely and tie cely agars
the law, and no representative paper
of the quor trade has yet been quoted
as favorable to the existing statute.
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The little town of Kewan?e, Illinois
pays in wages from its factories $36
900 per week. This snug sum is pu
in circulation every seven days in ,
city Of 5000 people, and is paid tt
about 3 1000 work hards, which mean
an average of SIP per week. "Insid'
OF five years, three-fourths of thos'
men could own fine homes of thei
own," says an exchange, Sin tel
years have a snug bank account, ant
in twenty years q nice little farm o
the high priced soil of Illinois. Blu
the singular and lamentable part of i
Is that if In five years from now tn
manufacturing plants Of Kewane
should close down for three weeks, q