Willmar tribune., 1905-01-04
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY !, 1905
Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by W. G. CALDERWOop,
Minneapolis.

Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Issued by y: 9: c1,InrRwoop
The Prohibition party felt that the
using of some Of its funds by the Ma.
tioual chairman had been uuwise |
His appropriations, for the circulation |
OF q certain newspaper We're held 70
be abnormally large. As result tn
NATIONAL committee mst In Chicago on
tbs l55h OF December, and Chairman
Stewart, = me st capable and effective
chairman. was asked to resign on ac
count OF it. This is = decided con-
trast with the usual methods OF the
dominant parties, who have had thei,
I7eeds and their Platts, their Crock
ers and their Quays, who have, By
common report, pocketed unlimited
funds from the public treasury in their
corrupt manipu: alton of the parties
without so much as q rebuke, not to
suggest an iLvestig alton, from its
leaders.
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If Indian Territory is admitted a. 4
state, present Indications are that II
will come in with prohibition clause
in its constitution. This is not on &C.
count OF any spasm Of moral septt-
mens in the halls of congress, but be-
cause Of the vigorous ar d insistent de
mands OF the people of that common
wealth, who have enjoyed protection
from the saloon for some years.
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All the churches are rel .iciug In ex-
captional gains. The Episcopalian,
ald the Peesby teriaps made gains
very slightly exceeding the growth OF
population. n number Of othe,
churches made increase which the,
estimate d to be exactly the sane as
tie Increase in population, while tht
Methodist and some other Protestan.
b. dies failed to keep pace with the
population. and are sti joining tn.
Others in congratulations a. they mad.
larger gains this ear than the yea,
before. 1t would seem that tn, con.
q erIng army OF God ought to have
m >re substantial OCCASION for rel ,ic
ing Tha minions Of hell have beer
ao.e to point with pride to gratifying
increase over the increase OF popula.
tim, to these many years. Note par
tisularly the decrease in the consump-
tion of alcoholic hell broth.
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Minnesota is long on constitutional
amendments. Three more were addec
at the last election; cne enabling the
legislature to raise the taxation OF
gross earnings Of public service cor.
poratlons, another providing for thu
loan OF permanent school and univer.
sity funds on certain heretofore pro-
hlbited securities, and the third pc, .
mitting the legislature to abolish the
grand jury. Grand jury may be lit
tie old style, but judging from tn.
eagerress (?) with which some prose
cutting attorneys now follow up Grim
inals OF certain classes, espeeiall,
boodler criminals and grafters, tie per
capita increase OF which during thu
past few years has been startlingly
large, leads one to pause q momen.
before contemplating the abolition o,
= system by which the criminal classee
OF the civilized world have bsen dea /
with tor the past four centuries.
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Representative Frank Haskell. OF
St. Paul, comes out with q juicy stor,
OF the offer OF bribe of $1,000 II b.
would vote against Senator Clspp.
l. is up to cheerful frankie to tell all
he KIN ,ws, or to stand before the pub.
lie as a psdd :er Of Fl h yarns.
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A peculiarly inter esting story of
drunken man comes from . neighbor
ing state. A loving father come.
home full OF legalizsd bug juice, and
found his little son repeating tn.
Lords prayer, and with few tende:
cuss words proceeded to afHectionatel,
shoot the young lad full Of 81 calibr.
ballet holes, the boy and mothe,
meantime screaming for mercy an
help. The father has since soberet
up and feels d ffarently aboutit. For
tunate!y the boy was killed, thus e.
Gaping lie with devil in . hon
tbat was q hell b. the grace of the le
q~lized saloon, and disgrace of tb.
citizens who voted for it.
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VIII the cheerful liar who work,
Sundays and overtime whining abou
the failure OF prohibition, kindly lieh,
his pipe with the following: The off,
cial statistics OF Texas chow that there
are % prohibition counties which hav.
d. no convicts, and 8 that have only On
convict each, and that the average
criminal ratio in prohibition terri.
tory is ono for each 1900 OF the popu.
. lation, and In saloon territory one 10,
each 500 popu !stion-but then, facts
sre thing that ought never to be a.
lowed to interfere with one. theories.
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