Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-10
prohibition Press
Bulletin


The date of the state Prohibition
Convention has been set for March
7, 1906. The basis of representation
is still to be determined upon.
There is statement going the
rounds of the public press to the effect
that many of the army officers are
actively seeking to influence congress
to re-establish the canteen in the army
posts. The reason assigned is that
there is ''good graft" in it for minor
officers. In any event it seems that
an explanation might be in order that
such officers as General Miles, Schaf.
ter, ''Fighting" Joe Wheeler, and
others of high rank, are against the
canteen, while so many of the ''tin''
soldiers stand for it.
We raise as much wheat, churn as
much butter, do as much business and
seem to be just as happy from the baby
to grand-dad under democratic John
son as we were under republican Van
SAINT. The present indications are
that the time will come, and that with
out much delay, when a political party
within state will have to stand for
some state polity, or vanish from the
map. There are certainly enough
matters of vital interest to this state,
entirely apart from national interests
to form the basis of political action
and political party. The plain
everyday, hard listed, weather beaten
voter has already advanced to the
point where he refuses to vote for a
yellow dog simply because he wears a
familiar political tag.
The newspapers are flooded with 8
wall OF woe from Kansas City, Mo.
on account of the closing of saloons
in that city by the order of Governo,
Folk But that the wall is inspired
by the saloon element is very evident
froto the fact that arrests for drunk
enness and disorder have decreased
Armour, head of the Armour Packing
Co., says: "With the saloon closed
on Sunday workmen who sometimes
laid off on Monday or came to work
feeling badly, come now as bright or
Monday as any other day.
The "stay-at-home'' on election da,
is menace to government of the PEG
pie, for the people and by the people
George F. Lotus shows that the PEG
pie of Minnesota paid at the rate O
"A million dollars more for given rail
road service than did the people O
Iowa who have some legislation pro
tecting them from exorbitant rates
That means about $1,000 per year fol-
each person, or $4,000 per year fol-
each family of five. How much more
the oil trust, the beef trust, the Goa
trust and all the rest of the litter tha
trust the people to feed them fat is
hard to tell.
But that the saloon eats up more
than all the dividends paid by all tht
trusts every year is mathematical
certainty-and after the trusts have
robbed man they leave him unfair
nished in his manhood, while the small
Ter part of the saloons plumber is tn,
billions of money it filches.
The Minneapolis Commercial Clul
showed good spirit toward the may
or's Sunday closing order when the,
voluntarily closed their GROCERY OF
Sunday.
Gov. La Toilette seems to have de
termined to go to the U. S. senate t<
which he was elected some month:
since. This means that he mus
resign the governorship of Wis
consin. But, even if he does, tn,
boys in the legislature can depend up
on his ''bobbing up'' if they start t.
play hockey with the interests of tn,
people on railroad rates.
The campaign of Oliver W. Stewar
of Chicago and w. G.. Calderwood
secretary of the state prohibition com
mittee in the interest of electing pro