Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-08
Prohibition Pres, Bulletin,
Issued By W. G. CALDERwoop,
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ApOIOg1St6 Tor the saloon are for.
ever carping on tie silly fallacy that
the saloon draws business. The
farmers in the vicinity OF Atwater,
which ts near W.llmar, where the ga
loon has been outlawed for many
years, have given that theory a black
eye by serving notice on the business
men OF Atwater that ii the saloon Ia
not voted out of town and kept out,
that their trade will be transferred to
some other market.
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The blind pig liz not half 80 blind
as the officers who permit it TO exist.
Oliver w. Stewart who has been
holding prohibition conferences in
the state OF Minnesota has been NOM
mated for mayor Of Chicago by the
prohibitionists.
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The Minneapolis Times recalls the
TACT that some years ago q Chicago
paper took it upon itself to find the
proportion of adulterated whiskey en-
the market. 1t IL discovered that 80
per CO Mt of badly offended" (this is
the polite word for adulterated) that
per cent was only fair and that one
single sample was evenly apprcxi-
mately pure, but as this same paper
remarked sometime since "The wor'
thing In whisky is whisky" While
some OF the connections which 20 by
the name of whiskey may contain
drugs that would burn a hole in a
In wrought steel gastronomic ap.
para1us, the only difference between
that and the pure article is the element
of time. That q drunk ards life is
dragged out a dreary and dismal de-
cade longer is no especial rec mmend
alton for the "real stuff"
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There are certain people and per-
s0ns which never tire of telling OF the
amount of illicit selling there is in
prohibition states. The cure Mt re-
port of the United States Commits
sic ner of Internal revenue throws some
light on this subject, The govern
ment revenue agents who are charged
with hunting down men who sell IL
quor without paying The government
tax cost the government $3.50, 250 OF
his amount, only S26l7, or 1t per
cent, were spent to apprehend violat-
ors of the law in prohibition territory.
There were 99l arrests made during
the year. Only five of these, or ] OF
per cent, we're in prohibition states.
"a, 4O3 gallons of liquor were 'reported
for seizure" as illicit. Only 40 gal.
Ions, or lilo of l per cent, were in
prohibition states. The taxes and
penalties reported for assessment
amounted to Sl,69l, 1893, and of that
amount only 1913, al were from prohi.
bition states.
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The temperance question and the
prohibition problem probably bear a
certain undefnable relation to each
other, but there is deal of confus ion
in the minds Of many that makes il
impossible to get clear vision on
either OF the subjects, The temper
pance question has to do with the per.
sonal habit of the individual. The
prohibition problem has to do with
the attitude of the government TOWARD
hurtful business.
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The most rigid total abstainer ma!
be the most rabid -prohibitionist
and the most hopeless inebriate ma!
be an uncompromising prohibitionist
It may be argued that these position
, are inconsistent, but they are not on
ly possible, but in the first instance a
least, are frequently met with. Th
position of the prohibitionist is tina
it is the function of the government t.
protect life, liberty and the pursuit Q
happiness, and wherein the govern
ment fails in this particular the gov
2 ernment itself ia q failure. Proceed
ing upon the we'll established fact thu
l. the liquor traffic causes death, the PIC
. hibitionist maintains that it ia th
}. government business to outlaw tn
u death producing traffic. Taking as
basis the we'll established fact that tn
liquor habit binds men who strugg]
for liberty from 1t, the prohibitions
holds that the traffic that produces
moral slavery, which is infinite
worse than q physical slavery, ougt
to be outlawed. The liquor trait
transforms the heaven Of earth to hel
the sweetness of life into gall, the hal
piness OF life into horrors unspeak
able. The prohibitionist claims ths
the government is failure and
farce which being established to foste
the inalienable rights of man, give
sanction to the greatest enemy of thos
rights. Fundamentally the questio
Ia not one of the personal liberty {:
Of a man to get so full of bug juic
that he becomes q jlbberin
idiot, . driveling fool or ravip
maniac. It Is a question of the fibr
of the governments question OF III
government assuring to the peop]
their God.giyen rights as set forth
the Magma Charta Of our nation.
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