Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-02

Prohibition Press Bulletin.
Iasued 81 w. d. OAIDsKwooD,
There will be s Prohibition Con.
gress hold At the Portland exposition
during September. s
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Among the new movements to make
The general public acquainted with the
facts concerning the legalized liquor
traffic 10 q sociological study class
that ID being instituted in hundreds OF
towns thruout the United States, more
thruous the East. %.. -= II
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# An intercollegiate Prohibition ora
torical contest was held In OCEAN
Grove on the 2sth Of last mo nth. The
states represented we're Michigan,
Ohio, New York, Indiana and Penn
sylyania. a contest OF like nature
will he held At the exposition in Port.
land, Oregon, OF the 2lst Of Septem.
Der, at which Colorado, Texas, south
ern and northern California, Wash.
ington and Oregon colleges will be
represented. Both contests are under
the auspices of the National Intercol-
legiate Prohibition association.
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Z. Fl. Funston, the father of General
Funston of Kansas, was recently fined
for alleged iLfi ammatory speech. It
was In connection with Mr.. Funston q
plain and vigorous denunciation Of
the criminal negligence If officers
sworn to enforce the law, but who, like
the mayor in nearly every large city
on this continent, makes the law
against liquor selling OF whatever ma
ture the laws may be, . by-word, a
taunt aud q ''josh mark" in the minds
and mouths of the people. The suit
| aud fine was at the instigat;on of the
| officers whose dignities had been in
jured.
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The recent teamsters strike in Chi.
cagO Ia at al end. 1t lasted los days
and threw 4, 500 men out of employ.
ment. According 10 estimates made by
interested psrtie. it cost q total of nine
million dollars, resulted In the death
of p men and the Injury OF AIS, some
of whom we're permanently Injured for
life. Just by way Of easy comparison
during the same length OF time the sa'
loon cost the people OF the United
States four million dollars a. againet
the nine million dollars; according t.
Josiah Strong was responsible for the
idleness OF three million OF people in
stead OF four thousand; according to
estimates based upon the tables OF
actu aries of insurance companies was
responsible for the death of not less
than 36, 200 instead of 81, and sundry
other Injuries and indirect causes too
numerous to mention and too vast to
be comprehended.
Possibly strikes are sometimes justi-
fable; the legal:z:d saloon never 10
Possibly good sometimes comes from
q strike despite its cost; good never
flows from saloon. Possibly such
evils as a strike entails can never b.
remedied, but those which find thei,
source In the saloon not only CAP be-
but have been all but ly'mitiga at
by sane legislation administered b!
honest officials. How did you vote.
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The railroad rate problem still con
tinues to absorb much of public
thought. We again emphasize tina
the prohibition party proposed rat
regulation twenty years ago befor
the railroads had assumed such pro
portions and arrogance as to
"Bestride the narrow world
, Like a Colossus, and We petty men
Walk under his huge legs and pee
{ about
To find for ourselves''-a tie pass.
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!, The announcement is made that tn
president has called q special sessio
p of congress to convene the 9Th day @