The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-07-01
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John c. Woolley will arrive in Honolulu
in July and reside there as the superin-
tendent and legal advisor OF the Anti
Saloon League.
Mayor OLeary puts the lid on at East asst
wonder than that St. Paul is dry on
Sunday.
The lid is hitting Sunday excursions
to outside towns. Many Of them would
be lacking in ''zest' and profit without
the sale of beer.
The Indiana supreme court has re-
versed the decision by Judge Christian
that license laws are unconstitutional and
that a saloon is a nuisance per Sc.
c. H. Blanchard, Justice of the Peace
at Fox Lake, Martin county, Narrowly
on account Of his activity in trying to
put on the lid.
j. F. Heiberg Prohibition candidate
for Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ward. St. TT Paul, over schaefer, Democratic
candidate. receiving 81 votes as against
81 given Schaefer
C. N. Haskell, the leading champion
of prohibition in the Oklahoma constitu-
tional convention, was named for COVER
nor by the Democratic state convention
on the 10Th ult.. The convention. how
ever, failed to declare itself on state
wide prohibition.
Comparing the vote of Geo; w: Higgc
gins candidate for representative in 1906
with his vote in 1904, we find that he
OOuDleu MS FORMER vote Ill Two pTeClIlCtS,
tripled it in one, ..quadrupled it in seven,
quintupled it in five, seXtupled it in one
and septupled it in one.
Judge Samuel R. Altman, of Indiana,
feet that license laws are unconstitution-
AL has started on a lecture trip through
81 states. the entire net proceeds OF
which will go to carrying similar cases
to the U. S. supreme court
The Scandinavian Good Templars of
Minneapolis have bought and on the 22d
ult. dedicated a hall on Second st. near
Cedar Ave. The ceremony followed the
adjournment of the Grand and Scandi-
navian Lodges of Minnesota, I. 0. G. T.,
whose sessions in st. Paul occupied three
days.
Rationale Prosperitate, Beekman ST.,
New York City, a German magazine, is
about to be published with view to
carrying on a systematic campaign of
education among Germans until free and
unrestricted drinking and German ideals
shall be no longer synonymous in Ameri-
ca. Success to the enterprise!
Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, at a rous-
ing convention, nominated Matthew H:
Stevenson for. state treasurer and started
a campaign fund with $4,000. The plat
form includes planks favOring non-par-
tisan tariff commission, suffrage. based
the election of U. S. Senators by direct
vote.
Prof. o. Lokensgaard, Prohibition can
ddate for Lieutenant Governor, received
pr s EHsss 81 Re last
falling only Il votes behind Eberhart,
Republican MI Higgins IRE received 1S1
cinct.
Carry Nation in her Ratchet, published
at Washington, D. c., continues to jab
President Roosevelt under. the ribs with
ties may not be able to close the saloon,
they. can if they desire, close the houses
Of shame within stones throw Of the
violation of law. Keep it up, Carry!
Geo. L. Briggs suggests that those who
have access to typewriters, or who can
get articles typewritten, hand in each &C:
some typewriter recent news items that
Public Veal or other Prohibition papers.
any Of the matter at first but. after
finding that it is real news stuff, will
give space to it more and more.
The postage rate having been raised
will hereafter be compelled to pay Il cent.
per year on each copy Of The Public Veal
which goes there: we are. therefore, un-
ton price to Canada subscribers to IS
cents. Those who are now paid in ad-
vance of this date will receive their paper
regardless of the increase of the postage
rate.
The Iowa Mulct law is sustained in a
decision by District Judge Plat at Water
injunction case attacking the constitu-
tionality Of the Mulct law and the right
of the legislature to license the liquor
traffic. The. court holds that traffic in
intoxicating liquors is not inherently evil
as plaintiff claimed, and was made sc
only by statutory enactment. If the leg
slature enacts a distasteful law, 1t may
be amended or repealed later. Prohibi-
tionists under the. leadership Of J. H
Campbell. editor of the Iowa Common
wealth, who brought the case, will prob
ably carry it to the supreme court.
Kentucky Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated a full ticket, headed by L. L. Pick
EFT, an influential editor. The most sig
nificant feature Of the convention was the
election. as state chairman, of Rev. H