The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1906-06-01
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USE THE SUMMER eA1HERlNes.

Joe ~ W WEN VA ] n EHINSS.
Many conventions are being held at this
time of the year. The assemblies will
soon follow. These gatherings afford ex-
cellent opportunities for propagandism.
side for the presentation of our cause.
Better yet, a word to the right person
will in many cases secure a place on the
loon issue. A large amount Of literature
can be placed wisely and any earnest Pro-
hlDltlOnlSt, whether man, woman or child,
can pick up club of subscribers for a
Prohibition paper almost any day
SAN ERANcIsco's MISTAKE.
looms of San Francisco may open their
doors on the morning following the cele-
bration of the Fourth. We wonder how
upon the public mind by the existence of
actual prohibition in city of well towards
a. half million people during all the weeks
since the earthquake. San Francisco is
saloon. Nothing could be more ridiculous
than the argument Of San Francisco dali
lies that, since it has been proven that
most of the crime and disorder is due to
the saloon-their number ought to be de-
creased and the license raised! History
will record this as one of the most grew
some jokes of the early part of the tWen-
tieth century.
THAT "TEMPERANcE" RESOLUTION
The Republican state platform, adopted
at Duluth, contains over a dozen planks
favoring two or three times that number
OF reform measures. The last plank COM
mits the party in this state Witness
coin and Greeley and Sumner, we godsD
to 'all just measures tending to the ad-
vancement of the cause of temperance,
morality and good government! The
meaning of these sweet sounding words
can only be interpreted in the light of the
record of the party. Every one of Min
nesota's 1000 saloons holds license by
n q w MAJ hHy
legislature and signed by a Republican
governor. Even this planks commenda-
ton of all the sweet and pretty things in
of the National Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton and the National Brewers Associa-
ton.
AFRAID OF PoLYGAMIsTs
Inc United States senate committee on
privileges and elections voted only seven
to five that Senator Reed Smoot is not a
proper person to hold a seat in the U. S.
Senate. Every democrat voted either for
his expulsion or exclusion Five republi-
has now been determined to postpone all
action in the matter for this session,
which, being interpreted, means-until af-
ter election. Nearly two years have al
credentials.
With such a condition of things and
with such a prospect, it looks as though
lists, years ago, that the time would come
when even the Republican party would
not dare to array itself against poly
gamy, is not far from realization. Poly
gamy has votes-.and there you are. More
and more does it appear that the nation
needs-badly needs-the Prohibition party.
OMITTED THE BIG ISSUE.
The State Federation of Labor, at it's
this month, decided to go into
politics. In harmony with this action rep
resentatives of union labor in ST. Paul
have organized the Workingmens party
It's primary object is to secure represen-
tation in the legislative. bodies Of city,
county and state. It's platform contains
seventeen planks, large share of which
have constituted a part of Prohibition
platforms for years. We regret to say
and regret to say that it is hardly neces-
sary to say-that opposition to saloons is
not one of the number The saloon is
one Of labor's worst foes, if not it's worst
foe, and this not alone because of the
large amount of money which laboring
men pass over the bar but also because
Of the vast depression of the labor mar
ket caused by the drinking habits Of 9TH
ers. By so much as men spend money
for drink, by so much do they decrease
their power to buy, and by so much as
their power to buy is decreased by so
much is the labor market depressed.