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The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
OUR HEROIC LEADERS.

We read in one of our Prohibition
exchanges of meeting of a state ex-
ecutive committee at which the mat
ter of the amount of the chairman's
salary was discussed and determined.
He had dropped a business worth
$1,000 annually and which was grow
ing rapidly. He had accepted the
craftsmanship Internationally and
would be satisfied with any salary his
comrades thought wise to fix. This
illustrates the kind of leaders which
the Prohibition party places at it's
head. The committee, although be-
lieving itself unable to remunerate it's
chairman properly, fixed his salary at
$1,000, payable monthly, with a gen.
erous vacation. This suggests that the
honored secretary OF the Minnesota
Prohibition Committee can earn con-
siderably more than either $1,000 or
$1,000 whenever he will jump his pres
ent job and that his salary is con-
siderably less than either of these
amounts. He refused the raise"
which the committee desired to make
in 1904 and only accepted a moderate
increase in 1906, after advising against
it, because the committee almost in
sisted upon it's acceptance.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
EDITORIAL

There is a tendency in some quarters
to sheer at prohibition Maine. But Prln-
in no state in the union do newspapers
have so large a circulation in proportion
to the population as in that state.
Both Sides is mad because Prohibition
that they may testify against the sellers
of Malt. The saloOnists seem to think
that their trade is entitled to the mo-
nopoly of the business Of dehumanizing
humans.
The Standard (Ohio) tells Of a young
man who, upon entering his career as q
lawyer, was asked why he had not allied
himself with the Prohibition party. His
reply indicated that in his judgment that
party had nothing to offer an ambitious
young man. He is now keeping peanut
and news stand in an obscure part OF
Columbus.
Samuel is booming the liquor business
in other lands, send to the Department
1856 Daily Consular Reports, in which
the American Consul tells how our brew
ers may sell more booze in China. When
on do SAY be thS is not IS
To beat the dead-beat the Minnesota
Retail Liquor Dealers Association an
nounces that it has devised a scheme by
which saioonReepers will be furnished
neglect to pay their bills We suppose
the reference is to liquor bills. Men
engaged in the sale of legitimate. mer-
chandise have little need of help in as
pertaining the names of the men who
spend their time and money in the sa-
looms and dead-beat their dry goods and
grocery accounts.
We have no sympathy with the idea
recently expressed by one of our leaders
that Prohibitionists should pray that
some, wealthy philanthropist should be
raised up who should give millions to
our cause. Let the great body of saloon
matters begin to give as they give to the
causes, and the Prohibition treasures
would overflow. Great progress is be-
Ing made in this direction but many
Prohibtionsts are still giving the bulk
OF their contributions to everything but
the cause nearest their hearts. That
still reminds them of a penny colec-
tion."
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01

Mrs. Nation thinks the Prohibition
party should nominate poor man for
President in 1908. What have the
editors of Prohibition papers done to
be thus condemned to Obscurity?
The Blatz Brewing company has
shaken the dust of Kansas from it's
feet, paying the clerk of the Supreme
Court $4O49.40 as a token of it's af-
lection for the Sunflower state It's
farewell words were not Prohibition
doesn't prohibit"
1t is often claimed that omni-partisan
effort has been sufficiently powerful
in Ohio to name the Speaker, and to
elect the President of the Senate. And
yet Minnesota liquor laws, which are
VIGOROUSLY bad, are as good as, if not
better than those of Ohio. Why is the
whichness of this howness?
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
THAT COCKTAIL STORY.

The Indianapolis News started the
story that Vice-President Fairbanks
served several kinds of liquor at his
home on the occasion of President
Roosevelts visit to Indiana. The Pa
triot PhalanX, Indiana's Prohibition
paper, has interviewed several who
were present and believes the story
is true and that President Roosevelt
drank. And now Mr. Fairbanks is
reported to have denied the charge in
an interview in Coast paper while
attending the Christian Endeavor con-
vention at Seattle. We await further
evidence. 1t is certain that if the
charge is substantiated Mr.. Fairbanks
will not be delegate to the general
conference of the M. E. church as is
hoped by his friends. How it would
affect his political prospects cannot
now be determined
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
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More than 500 have been added to
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We most heartily welcome these
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men, women, young people, boys and
girls who have so royalty aided us to
accomplish this glorious result.
Now for the second $500! Will we
get them within the year as planned,
that is, by Nov. list?
1t can be done; there is no question
about that. There are several times
that number of families that will sub
scribe if our readers and friends will
bring our paper and premium to their
attention and invite them to sub
scribe.
They ought to be secured; the
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We pledge our utmost endeavOr to
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months. To get the other $500 in
one-third that time will require a
strenuous effort, the equal of which
we and our friends have never put
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The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01

VIM. A. Rice, Organizer of the 9th
congressional district, furnishes us
with the following breezy sketch Of
recent work in Becker county:
WAS at the dedication of a Norwe-
gian Church in Audubon, sang Norwe-
gian in a male quartet and mixed choir,
spoke English of cOurse) to 500 in the
afternoon. Two weeks later sang Swed-
ish and spoke to $50 in Swedish church,
German songs, and this week was up
through with this deal 1 will have the
map of Europe in my countenance and
mix the people up so they won't know
Poor crops for three years make the
people slow along financial lines; still
in country district schoolhouses, with
audiences of from IL to so, they pledged
and paid in part $3.50. in 80 meetings;
an average Of $12 per meeting, though
1t is to be remembered that to practi-
cally all of these people this is a new
move entirely. They never have had any
meetings of this character in the neigh
borhood and we are naturally slower to
turns are not, in most cases, a true in
manifested in nearly every place.
"As Abraham Lincoln said in 1886,
The people are ripe for more effective,
decisive work. To merely reclaim the
aim Of our. efforts Neither will it meet
the demands of our times to stop with a
negative opposition to this great wrong
We must push direct organization for the
right; organization, too, on a political
basis for prohibiting the traffic, for the
tons. God cares, and I care, and with
Gods help I shall not fall
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
Five Prominent Witnesses,

If the Ratchet of Carrie Nation could
reach and be made effectual and final,
l for one. would cry "God-speed the
woman and the day."-Henry Watterson.
We have had Prohibition so long in
North Dakota that in some counties
there are no jails. There is not much
crime in the state.-Gov. Burke in Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
The saloon furnishes the atmosphere
where bribery is easy and secure, and
rallies the venal voters who constitute
the bosses power.-Gov. Dawson, Vir-
ginia in McClures
Men who are not young now will live
to see the day when there will not be a
to Church and children go to school Ex *
u S. Senator Carmack, Tennessee.
The Church Temperance Sunday is a
good thing but the countrys greatest
need is a Church Temperance Tuesday
This is the only church celebration that
has any scare for the saloon in it.-Cln-
ton N. Howard
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
Editors Say-So

Epworth Herald: If prohibition doesn t
prohibit, there is a lot of energy wasted
by the drink business in opposing prohibi-
ton.
Memphis News-Scimitar: The hue
and cry against political parsons come
from the crowds who are doing wrong
things.
Both Sides, state saloon organ: We
venture the assertion that the official
organ of the Prohibitionists is read
religiously by every one each issue in the
state of Minnesota. On the other hama
we doubt if one half the retail liquor
dealers ever pick their official organ
up.
Slayton Gazette: The Prohibitionists
of the state have started out early on
next years campaign. In fact they start
ed the next day after election last fall.
The lid decision by the supreme court
has given big impetus to their cause.
Another thing that has helped them is
the action Of the temperance committees
mittees were so Extremely onesided as to
disgust all fair minded people.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE.

Comparison of the demands of the
new political parties which spring up
from time to time with the planks OF
the state and national platforms of
the Prohibition party discloses the
fact that that party stands for the
common people in their growing con
test for the reclamation and the pro.
lection of their rights. Not that it
favors all that they or any one of
them approves of. It's failure to do
so is quite to its credit since, among
other things, many of their planks
are adopted by bare majority and
there is strong tendency in a new
reform organization to incorporate in
its declaration of principles almost
any intelligently and forcefully word
ed utterance in harmony with the
general aim of the party
The Prohibition party champions
the rights of all the people but if it
should err in either direction, as be-
tween the masses and the classes, it's
Efforts would go, as it's sympathies con-
stantly go, toward the defense of the
rights of those who most need defense,
the common people.
A protested championship of their
cause today which does not include
opposition to their chief foe, the liquor
traffic, is a farce if not also a fraud.
We say their chief foe not because they
drink all the liquor that goes over the
saloon bar but because they are less
able to stand the drain upon their
resources than are those in more COM
Portable circumstances Not only
this. The common people suffer from
1innOr traffic oil fn
tent of their patronage of it, The
saloon deprives great multitudes of
people of time, health, skill and dis
position to work and produce from the
soil and otherwise This decreases the
demand for labor and so depresses
the price of labor. Hence when the
termination of the liquor traffic it
aims deadly blow at labor's foe. If
it seems to emphasize this policy un-
duly as compared with other reforms
in the interest of the masses, it is
because it appreciates the fact that
the saloon is the deadliest foe which
confronts them and that the Inaugural
ton of a reign of prohibition will of
itself greatly tighten the burdens of
the mass of men and start the nation
upon career Of such material pros
perity as it has never known.
And this takes no account of the |
relation of the saloon to the peace and
happiness of the home which are men
aced by it everywhere that it. exists |
The jewellers in cottages love their
homes and families as we'll as those |
who inhabit the palaces. To blot out |
the saloon will be to drive the demon
of sorrow and despair from hundreds
Of thousands of homes of the common
people and to open the door to the good
angels of peace and gladness. And
this should be accounted of some
worth even in this commercial age.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
New Souvenir Post Cards.

The Souvenir Post Card idea grows
on the public and on us. We have
therefore greatly enlarged and also
classified our list of Cards.
Each new subscriber who pays his
own subscription at our regular price,
25 cents, (35 cents to Minneapolis
subscribers) may hereafter choose any
five Cards on our list, whether in the
same class or set or not. We have
selected those which are most repre-
sentative of the classes to which
they belong and the best that money
can buy
Buildings.
II State Capitol.
8. Minneapolis Court House and City
141 Minneapoli P. o. and Guaranty
Minneapolis Public Library.
las Minneapolis Lumber Exchange.
$50 Minneapolis Auditorium.
667 Minneapolis Birds Eye View.
13 st. Paul Post Office.
63 st. Paul Court House.
1S9 University of Minnesota.
81 United Church Seminary
Sc Two Largest Flour Mills in World.
s 1orlns Park, P Misneapol.s.
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s. Lily ei Pond m co @nt',0; St. p Paul H0'
SAG Flowers, Como. St. Paul.
l43 Vladuct, Como, st. Paul.
$50 Boulevard Drive, Duluth.
$50 Harriet Pavilion e
81 Yacht Club, Minnetonka.
634 Big Island Minnetonka.
IS Calhoun Boulevard.
Streets.
500 NcOllet and 7th, Minneapolis.
$40 Nicollet and Syndicate Blk, Minne-
7st Hennepin and 9Th, Minneapolis.
54S Summit Ave-, st. Paul.
81 London Road, Duluth
Miscellaneous.
Minnesota Girl.
156 60 Harvesters at Work.
100 Bunk House in Logging Camp.
SO Ole Bull Monument, Minneapolis.
2O3 Stone Arch Bridge, st. Anthony
Falls and Milling District.
155 Dan Patch.
% Soldiers Home, Minnehaha.
IA Soldiers Home and Confluence Of
Rivers.
$50 Soldiers Barracks, Fl Smelling.
796 Old Round Tower FIT. Smelling.
1879 Birds Eye View, ST. Paul.
We are improving our Norwegian and
Swedish views but cannot now give titles.
They will include the national flags and
royal families and typical landscapes and
streets of leading cities.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
ROUGHING 1T.

Two Of our field workers who sign
their letters as firm, Moe and Lok-
kesmoe, write Headquarters:
1--WE had a rather strange incident
last night. We engaged a shelter for
our horses near the schoolhouse in which
we were to hold meeting. When we
returned after the meeting the lights
were out and the people had evidently
gone to bed. We disliked to disturb
them and therefore returned to the
schoo!house for lodgings. At first I
thought we were pretty much like
tramps. Then I thought of Paul in pri-
son and in order to be somewhat like
him we offered our evening prayer and
sang song (not quite with the same
enough to make us happy and we slept
very well on the hard floor.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
UP IN THE NINTH.

VIM. A. Rice, Organizer of the 9tl
congressional district, furnishes u
with the following breezy sketch o
recent work in Becker county:
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
A CRY OF DESPAIR.

a CRY OF DESPAIR.
We dislike to acknowledge it, but we
really believe the entire business all
over has overstayed its opportunity to
of rohbition.-Beverages saloon paper.
The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-08-01
FIND THE JOKE IN THIS

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
Cannot Attend School Unless
Possessed Of Certificate
ORDER BY HEALTH OFFICER
Fears for Smallpox Epidemic.
Five Cases in Walla
WalIa

Walla Walla is threatened with {
smallpox epidemic
Health Officer A. E. Braden said this
morning that he will at once issue ar
order requiring all school children tt
show a certificate of vaccination be
fore being allowed to attend school.
Children who cannot show such 8
certificate from a practicing physician
must either be vaccinated or stay al
home.
There are now five cases of small
pox in the city," said DR.. Braden, "an6
there is grave danger that it will
spread"
The five cases are scattered abOu
the city and there has been consider
able exposure from them so that the
health officer thinks the situation il
grave enough to require school chill
dren to be isolated or vaccinated.
The five cases of smallpox now il
the city have been quarantined az
thoroughly as possible, and every pre-
caution will be taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
SENDS BULLETS TO SENATE
President Roosevelt Dispatches
Odd Exhibit
PREPARES SPECIAL MESSAGE ON
TROUBLES GIVING FACTS AS
TO SHOOTING.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. II
President Roosevelt this afternoon
transmitted to the senate a special
message containing the report of Ma
ior biockson and Assistant Attorney
General Purdy on the Brownsville al
fair and also shells, clips and bullets
gathered on the scene.
The message gives the names OF wit
nesses who heard voices of negro sol
diers at night and saw them climb
the garrison fence and start shooting.
# gives the names of IA witnesses who
actually saw the negroes shooting and
shows the ammunition used could not
have been fired from any other rifles
excepting ones carried by negro sol
dierS.
The president says it is impossible
that the officers or the rest of the sol
diers did not know what happened.
One witness says at least 20 soldiers
participated.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
Son Of Railroad Magnate B|ames
Coal Dealers
ASSERTS THEY HAVE FORMED TRUST
SAYS NORTHWEST FUEL FAMINE
DUE TO RETAILERS MACH
NATIONS.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 14.-LOuis w. Hill
son of James ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern, who is in the west
investigating the coal famine, today
wired his father as follows:
81 find that combination of the fuel
dealers in the Dakotas and at the
head lakes and not car shortage, is
responsible for the fuel famine. Par
ties trying to get coal delivered early
last fall were refused by firms of re-
tail dealers who have formed COM
blne which controls the coal busi-
ncss in the northwest and who will
boycott any Duluth or Lake Superior
firms selling to outsiders. If the re-
tailers' combine assumes to control
the entire trade, it should have anti
c;l ated the demand and not expect
the railroads to supply towns with one
car at time.
THE responsibility should rest on
the retailers at present controlling
the business, and not upon us"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
NEW COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOOST
SALARIES AND MAKE APPOINTMENTS
Adjust fractional DSageenensR Members Turn Neat
Coup By fecting Democrat as Their Chanman--Count
Officials Take Office and Name Deputies
health officer to serve for one year
Was Wise Move.

health officer to serve for one year.
Was Wise Move.
The board of commissioners met at
s O'Clock this morning and before the
auditor had the opportunity of going
through the formality of calling the
meeting to order and organizing the
board, George Struthers, the demo
cratic hold-Over member, had been
chosen as chairman of the board, by
the republican members, H. H. Hanson
of TOuchet, and j. l.. Harper of Waits
burg With the selection of Struth-
ers as chairman, republicans say the
republican members of the board will
have everything their own way.
Good for evil was returned when
Struthers was elected as chair
man. Two years ago when ].
N. McCaw was the republican
hold-over member of the board and
J. H. Morrow and George Struthers
the new democratic members, McCaw
was practically ignored and Mr.. Nor
row was elected to the craftsmanship.
McCaw recommended the election of
Struthers today.
With the changes which took place
this morning the republicans gain con-
troll of the county auditors office and
the commissioners and lose control OF
the treasurer's and assessors offices.
Boost JaiIor's Salary.
Thanks to the rernhlican commits
sioners, the jailor's salary has been
raised $50 on the month. At the No
vember meeting of the commissioners
Berry's salary was cut down from $50
to $50 per month, and the janitor's
salary raised considerably on account
of having to care for the new Jail.
Dorsey NJ Hill, county clerk, and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
Fuel Plentiful Along Railroad Tracks
and There, Suffering From Cold
Is Unknown.

Living in tents with the thermom-
eter playing hide and seek WIN zero'
what do you think of that?
Two or three families in Walla
Walla have only a cloth cover over
them these days and are not sunerlhs
either. They are able to pick up plen-
tv of fuel along the railroad tracks
en- that the inside of the canvas mouse
is comfortably warm.
They also have wooden floors, ana
the walls partially built of wood which
helms to keep out the cold.
Two of these families are living near
the O. Il. & N. track east OF the fort
and a third in the vicinity OF the gas
tank on Sixth street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14

Grant S. Bond, county school super.
intendent, are the only two officers
who were reelected. No change in
deputies in these officese will be made
James S. Williams will continue in the
clerks office while Mrs. Josephine
Preston will remain in Mr.. Bonds
office
James S. Haviland will exchange
places with Charles Painter in the
sheriff's office as will George w. Win
kle with Lew LOehr in the county sur
veyor's office, the office1s in each
case taking deputyships from their
former deputies.
w. J: Honeycutt leaves the audit
or's office to act as treasurer, sue
ceeding P. B. Hawley. Mr.. Honeycutt
will take with him his former depu-
ties, T. M Mckinney and John w.
McGhee, Jr.
Michael Toner succeeds r. ]. Berry
man as assessor. Perry Lyons and
Bert Painter, who were with Mr..
Bergman, will act as deputies.
J. N McCaw takes the auditors Of
flee and J. Carter Smith and C. Ar
thur Jones will assist him.
George w. MacMartin succeeds ].
w Cookery as coroner Mr.. Cook
erly was appointed to fill the unex-
pired term OF w D. Smith.
Otto B.. Rupp succeeds Lester S.
Wilson as prosecuting attorney.
J. J. Huffman succeeds himself as
Justice of the peace and Nels Peter
son remains the constable for the Wal
la Walla precinct.
Prosecuting Attorney Rupp this af-
ternoon applied for permission to en-
p!Oy a deputy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14

Walla ,,alla has a bucket shop. No
more will the sporty lad with an empty
head aud a congested purse be forced
10 the rural remedy of the slot ma
chine
There is place in the second floor
OF the Jones building where he can
lose twice as much money in half the
Time and Go it in metropolitan style,
too
This place where the man with a
lump OF speculation can reduce the
OuISe IN lis trousers pockets by play
Ing really truly pit bears the pre-
'ehuouS name Of The Walla Walla
"'dln and Stock Exchange"
A telegraph instrument clicks mer-
.IE the result of sales in the New
'ofA and Chicago markets which are
'ualNed up on The big blackboards
"HLch cover one side of the room.
lhe Office furnishings are not elab.
crate as vet
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-14
CANNOT LOCATE FATHER.
Efforts to Notify McDonald's Parents
of Death, FruitIess.

A man named Mcdonald, who was
received at ST. Mary's hospital about
two weeks ago from Franklin county
died at the hospital about O'Clock
yesterday evening from dropsy.
Mcdonald was about 35 years of age
He is supposed to have been volun
teer in the Spanish-American war
having spent some time in the Phil
ippines.
He was sent to the hospital from
franklin county as county charge
and the expenses will be paid by
Franklin county. 1t is reported he
has father living in Mississippi but
al efforts to locate him have been in
vain.
McDonald's body will be inferred III
the Catholic cemetery.