Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-16
PROHIBITION BULLETION.

PROHIBITION BULLETION.
The Methodists have turned down
cocktail" Fairbanks as lay dele
gate to the M. E. General Confer
ence. Liquor was served at a re-
cent banquet given at the home of
the Vice President, which is not
in strict accordance with the Meth
odist platform" and for which
Mr.. Fairbanks has been mercilessly
criticized by both pulpit and press
Cocktails have caused the downfall
of thousands before him.
On the first Tuesday Of each
month number of the prominent
temperance people of Minneapolis
get together at a dutch treat
luncheon under the auspices of the
Minnesota State Prohibition Com
mittee. Notwithstanding a steady
rain, about sixty Of them met Octo-
Der /. Rev. Dick of the Wesley
Methodist church lead the after din-
ner speaking, dwelling upon the
progress of the temperance reform
during the past century. He was
followed by Mr.. Alonzo. E. Wilson
of Chicago, chairman Of the Illinois
prohibition committee and secre-
tary of the M. E. Temperance So
ciety, who discussed the national
phase of the question. He shows
the futility Of expecting the old
parties to settle the liquor problem.
"Should the democrats declare for
prohibition said he, 1.-THE solid
south would support the issue but
the northern democrats would re-
ject it and the temperance wing of
the republican party could not be
induced to vote for it. On the
other hand, should the republicans
declare tor prohibition it would
split that party and enough demo-
Gratis could not be induced to vote
the republican ticket for the sake
Of the temperance measure to save
it. The only hope for national pro-
hibition is to unite the temperance
democrats and the temperance re-
publicans outside their respective
parties on prohibition platform. -
Rev. Father Cleary closed the dis
cussion.
1T Pays to ADVERTISE was the
title of short squib in last week S
Austin MINI. Register. This was
on the front page in conspicuous
position. The editor unwittingly
demonstrated his proposition on
the following pages of his paper.
The paper contained a beer display
ad, and alongside it in the column
adjoining wa, department headed
"Police Court News One hun
dred twenty words were devoted to
the virtues of the beer, and $40
words were required to explain the
results of the goods advertised
The police court news dealt ecxlu-
sively with "drunks' with the ex-
ception of one little five line para
graph on a vagrancy case, which
might properly be included as a
legitimate result Of the advertise
ing. Let US add 20. E. D." tri-
umphantly to the demonstration.
Perhaps 1T Pays to Do the Adver-
tising' also.
The Birmingham News is the
latest daily to join the prohibition
movement. In a leading editorial
recently it says: 1T is clear
that the ground of the liquor
question, if there is any, has
been destroyed so far as Birming-
ham is concerned. The evil must
be cut out by the roots. There is
no defense to make of the liquor
traffic. The strongest argument
that the advocates of the saloon ad-
vance is the commercial side of the
proposition. but is it fact that
prohibition hurts a community
commercially. The Birmingham
News would answer this question
with an emphatic NO. If Greater
Birmingham has reached the state
of it's existence where it's future
growth and prosperity are depend
ent upon the fostering of the liquor
industry, then indeed it rests upon
a frail foundation.
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From Sunday to Wednesday of
last week of September the Kansas
City Star devoted ten yards, or over
fifteen columns Of space to prohibit
tion. Not long ago it was almost
impossible to find in the daily press
a single item referring to the traf-
fic. The Star is on the right side
of the question, and none of. the
above ten yards was taken from the
advertising columns. We would
mention how much space is weekly
Idnvnfnd n Tho lin11nr traffic ~ fhn