Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-01
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by w. G. CALDERWOOD,
Minneapolis,

The gamblers Of Gotham are growl-
ing because they subscribed literally
to McClelan's fund with the under
standing that they were to be protect
ed. Now Mcclellan is waging q fierce
reform ministration. The gay old
gains seem to be gold bricked at their
own game. 1t would be an odd thing
ii Grim mails would be expected to obey
the law the same as other folks.
Oklahoma will come into the Union
as a prohibi on state and for 81 years
at least will remain so. l. is the un-
derstanding of some that this is fed
eral law If 80 this will be the first
instance of statewide prohibition
backed by federal authority. While
the results in states that have pro-
hibited the sale of liquor by state au-
thority have been gratifying. there is
abundant reasoning for believing that
the federal authority viii! more earn
estly seek the enforcement OF the law.
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The legislature contemplates a law
| to prohibit the sale Of alcoholic mix
lures by any save licensed vendors
If this law is enforced, it is easy to
see the finish of considerable list Of
pats Mt medicines.
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November, 1904, enjoys the distinc-
ton Of being the first month for TWEEN
ty years in which there was no lynch
ing in the United States. 1t is en-
couragirg to note that the vigorous
agitation against the inhuman crime
of lynching has had it's effect. Those
papers and magazines, north ard
south, that have denounced the crime
deserve much credit for the fact that
in 1904 there we're only Sc lynchiogs,
which is the smallest number in IS
years. Only 81! Over seven month
OF this Sc, So were negroes and about
Is of the offences occasioning the
mob were criminal assaults. Bishop
Fitzgerald OF the Methodist Epis copa]
Church South once said: ''The lynch
question in the South is red liqlor
The loss by fire in the year 1864
throughout the nation aggregated the
s,upendCus figure of $249, 000, 000
The expense for ''ire water" was six
times that amount
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In the news columns Of many of the
papers appears an item, probably sin
spired" to the effect hat liquor deal
ers will make hundreds of thousand!
OF dollars because Oklahom come!
into the Union as prohibition state
Odd, isn't it? Very odd! that the Ii
uuOr interests G % not start q crus adj
for prohibition! But then tFey are 81
j devoted to 'personal liberty (?)' tina
they are willing to lose hundreds O
thousands of dollars for her dear sake
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: There were 924o suicides :" in tn
QLLCu oGdteS III lSUf. lis dgSI0
gates little over rs day. Tire
out OF every four of these were males
Pro badly from half to two thirds Q
them were, as the Chicago American
puts it, "whiskey, that's ALL"
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'No Meat for Three Months
Father Spent Money on Liquor" sa.
the headlines of news item. Saloon
make business in town they say, bu
If all fathers spend their money 70
liquor, what will become of the butch
er, the baker, the candle-stick maker
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, a young girl ARE sted in a dive ii
Minneapolis gave as her reason TO-
going thither that she could get liquo
there. Whether her appetite had bee
acquired In the social Gusts ms of tn
upper crust, or in the vine rooms Q