Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-09-19
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1906
THE BREWING INTERESTS.

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character of the saloon in both the
cities and the rural places. The sa-
loonkeeper no longer is on owner, but
an agent. The brewery selects site,
opens the saloon and employs a
dummy to hold the license and operate
the place. He has no personal inter-
est in the place, no pride in it's char
acter, no conscience about it's conduct.
He is willing to sell to drunkards,
minors, women-anybody. he will
sell day or night, Sunday or Satur-
day, the year round, if thereby he can
make showing of sales such as will
please the brewery auditor, who from
time to time checks him up. This is,
of course, not the invariable expert
ence, but it is the general tendency
and a demoralizing one.
The magistrate has more trouble
with the brewery saloon than with any
other, for the reasons noted. In this
city, for example, the mayor, with
much less exertion, could close the
saloons on Sunday if the saloons were
their own masters. AS matter OF
fact, the few saloonkeepers [27 out OF
400, it is said-ED. who own their
places are for Jones because they
have discovered that Sunday closing
has its compensations. But the CON-
bined political and financial weight of
the breweries is against him on the
one ground of loss of sales. If the
breweries should go out of the saloon
business and out of politics the char
acter of the saloon would improve
Immediately. minneapolis Journal.
The brewery agencies of Will
mar and their allied high toned
pig" are the financial and polit-
ical influences that threaten to
bring back a saloon regime at
Willmar. Tallman saloon pol
icy as was outlined by his recent
vote in favor of only two saloons
to be located on the front street
was a move to recompense these
influences by giving them
monopoly of the licensed saloons.
Perhaps the recent Third ward
election broke up this arrange
ments. We do not know.
This favorite argument of the
saloon men that license will per-
NIT the business to be regulated
and do away with hlind-pigs is
the pretext of the thinnest kind.
It may fool a few of the unwary,
but no one that has the least
power Of observation will be
taken in by it. The local brew
ing agencies have never respect
ed the will Of the majority when
it was expressed against the sale
Of liquor. Each one has paid it's
retail dealers license to the
government each year for it's
Willmar agency.
If they had intended to do
strictly wholesale business
here they would not have paid
the additional money to the gov
eminent for retail stamps. The
club that furnishes the political
organization for the saloon inter-
ests has run a pig for over a
year. Yet these are the inter-
ests that now propose to give
Willmar ''wen regulated sa.
loons.' What assurance is
there that men who had and
have no regard for law in one
instance where it touches their
business will have it in other
instances? The, minute license
is granted the restraint that is
now possible against blindpigs
will be removed, and they will
flourish like green-bay trees in
the shadow of the saloons. The
more strictly that the saloons
are controlled" the more GER
tain they are to furnish the
necessary liquor and encourage.
ment to feeders. We know of nc
way to Judge the future except
by the past. To grant saloons
| now is to surrender to the brew
| ing interests, foot, horse and
dragon.
If you wish to reduce the
liquor evil to the minimum, dc
not grant license. In the words
of the republican county plat
form, ''the solution of the saloon
question is no saloon"
Ever since the Duluth conven
! fino tho st. DAHL n;c~o%oh hoe