Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-11
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY II, 1905

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IL, 1905 |
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by ". q. CALpERwoop,
Minneapolis. |
In recent editorial the Pioneer |
Press quotes the words of Abraham |
Lincoln uttered on that Hateful Friday,
April II, 1865: CATER reconstruction
the next treat question will be the
overthrow Of the liquor traffic." No
ore who knew Mr.. Lincoln intimately
AID appreciated the great influence
which his conspicuous services to hi
country had given him doubted that,
had be lived, his we'll known hostility
tn the liquor traffic would nave made
itself felt in the history OF that reform
In this connection the peroration OF
IA address delivered by him In
Springfield, Illinois, on Wsshlngton's
birthday, 1872, is worthy to be re-read,
it being remembered the viii that
these words were spoken twenty years
before, by the hand OF the speaker,
the slaves were made free: "And
when the victory shall be complete
when there shall be neither slave nor
drunkard on the esrth-how proud
the title of that land which may truly
claim TO be the birthplace and the
cradle of both those revolutions that
shall have ended in that victory.
How nobly distinguished that people
who shall have planted and nurtured
to maturity the political AID moral
freedom OF their species.
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The Minneapolis Journal stated edi-
tcrially that The notion that the sa-
locn traffic helps the town in bust
ness way is an exploded idea" 10.
ioubtedly the Journal ia safe and
sane, but tha ounds great deal like
the statement of q crank or . fanatic
OF long haired man, or . short
haired woman, or q cold-fa<td re.
former. II the saloon il not good for
the business of a town, what 10 it,
function? Does it elevate the morals
or the society or improve the intel.
ltclual oudition of community?
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There is consider able agitation for
me re stringent laws against bribery
in our legislatures. Aw! now, whaz
zeruse? You can't make briber or
q bribee honest by law. Regulate
them! Fix it so that q briber must
get 3 certificate of good moral char.
sc,er before he can open up for bust.
ness, and that he must pay in advance
thousand or so year for The priv
Iege. That would cut out the IRE
sponsible two-for- hvers and make the
business respectable. Down with
sumptuary legislation!
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There is not little discussion over
the proposed tax of .alcohol, be.
cause it is so frequently made one OF
the ingredients OF various intoxicat-
irg concoctions. Wood-slcohol
makes funeral quicker than fruit al.
coho], but, on the other hand, it does
not inject as many tears and woes and
rows and crimes into life, and anyway,
if man wants to 60 by the wood.a].
cohol route instead OF by the grain
route. shouldn't he have his personal
liberty?
Minneapolis in 1904 arrested 920
people for drunkenness. The total ar-
rests for oil other causes, such a.
theft, assault, and murder, that we're
traceable to the influence OF the -.
loon, is not shown.
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Public ownership in Leicester, Egg
land, gives the consumer gas 1t 49,,
per Thousand feet, and electr ictty for
g. per unit, which Is, in each case,
less than half the price usually paio
for private ownership services.
Moreo yer the city made $4,000 On
gas and S12, 500 On electricity.
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Tom Watson was going to publish
mage zine. A wise old gentleman
by the pane of job Is credited With
having said "Would that my enemy
~ would write book" What q picnic
Ii it w.u.d have been if he hsd written .
new one every month.