Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-24
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by W. G, CAIDKRWooD,
MinneAnOliS.


Minneapolis. -.
Major J. B. Merwiu, the personal
fciend and political confident Of Abra-
ham Lincoln. 10 to deliver his lecture
Lincoln, the Reiormer" at various
points throughout the state during
June.
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Speaking OF railroad regulation
has given the presidents ut
terauces 10 much the smack OF genuine
virillty "a the fact that he accepted 10
but ''paid the freight" ON
his recent hunting trip
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The ruling of Governor Hanley that
no man shall be appointed to serve
the public II he drinks Intoxicating IL
quor is meeting vigorous opposition
on the part of the politicians, but the
governor does not seem to be losing
any sleep. He feels that the state OF
Indiana ia under no obligation to en-
ploy<a lot of buns and bloats that
couldn' t get q job in the switchyard
of any we'll regulated railroad CON-
pany. 1.-The world do move' q bit.
Here begins the passing of the red
nosad politician.
The saloon-keepers of St. Louis and
other Missouri cities bloated up big
and clustered about running their rum
shops open in defiance of Governor
Folk on last Sunday, but when Sun
day came they obeyed the. law and
shut up shop. When fortified by the
connivance of official inactivity or
friendliness, the saloon is bold and
de6es the law; when |private enterprise
seeks to enforce the law the saloon Ia
. coward and throws bombs and staba
in the back and shoots in the dark,
but when the arm of the law as repre-.
sented by brave officials declares that
the law shall be obeyed the saloon
hunts cover like the coward it is.
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The German Emperor in reviewing
the Japo- Russian war is reported tc
have said in q recent address to the
officers of his army after q military
review, that the Russian army lost the
battle of Mukden because it had be
come enervat<d by debauchery and
drunkenness. There can be no doubt
but that the temperate habits Of the
Japanese have done much to give
the m that marvellous endurance and
mobility which has astonished the
world, whereas the debauchery and
drur kenness of the Russians has made
them numbering, clumsy in maneuver,
and flsbby under duty. The teaching
of the football training table is . val
liable lesson for soldiers to learn
Hoch der Kaiser!
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The average farmer, we are told BY
the saloon apologists, is such q de-
PRAYED debaucher that he will no
trade In town unless there is a "a
loon to offer him the opportunity O
satiating his uncomfortable appetite
at every corner of the street. Thu
character of the ia, mer is by far more
accurately shown by the resolutions
adopted in mass meeting of farmers
in Kandiyohi county on the 6;h inst
In part the resolutions read: The
city of Willmar has again won a glor
ious victory over the liquor evil. The
voters of Atwater the nearest market
have decided with . larger majority
than before to grant license, there fore
be it resolved that the best we can do,
aud will do, for the temperance cause
and our own and our childreo's pro
lection is to barge our place of bust.
ness and trade ss much as possible to
the TEMPERANCE village"
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The dispensary system of regulating
(?) the liquor traffic as tried in South
Carolina has not proved what it,
friends had Hoped for it. A test of the
effectiver ess of the law for the regu
lation If the liquor traffic is the &c
cre ase in consumption of alcoholic IL
quors and the evils commonly ad.
mitted to grow out Of that consun p
tion-drunkenness, poverty, vice,
crime, indigency, and the like. Com.