The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-14

strength at the polls which no politi- elan can afford to ignore.
 The union has waged relentless warfare against the liquor signs put up in street cars, and in Boston have met with the following encouragement:
 Advertisements of intoxlcants in street cars, including both the surface and elevated, will soon be a thing of the past, and the members of the WO- mans Christian Temperance union and others to whom these placards have been more or less of an eyesOre, will have the satisfaction of knowing that their work has not been in vain"
 'The statement quoted above, from recent issue of the Boston Transcript, is chronicle of the results of a deter mined crusade against these offensive advertisements in street cars, under taken by the Boston Woman's Christian Temperance union. MT Robert NJ. Burnett, of the Eastern Advertising company, says:
 I have given orders from this time on that no solicitation be made and no advertising taken for liquors, beer or any other article coming in the line of intoxicants. We have one contract running now in tHe surface cars and a small one in the elevated that we shall be obliged to carry until the contract terminates or suffer heavy damages, but after these. expire you may be as- sured that there will be no more ad- vertising of this kind in our cars
 Indian territory and Oklahoma are grounds at present. The traffic Is determined to pre-empt this territory while the law-abiding and respectable citizens are equally as determined that the curse shall not be fastened upon them. The following clipping tells it's own story:
 A recent letter from MT. w. F. John- son, special agent of the department of the interior, whose splendid work in the territory was related in the Union Signal of February ', gives the follow ing graphic account of his present ac- tivities:
 q have won out on my big fight, but now have to sit on the lid, and find almost as much trouble in keeping it down as I did in getting it down.
 Occasionally get a pathetic letter from some stricken woman whose father or brother or husband has got caught in the net. This sort of thing always nerves me to do what I would not feel the strength to do otherwise. Tn response to such a letter, received recently, I went on horseback into the writer's neighborhood and rounded up four men, sent two handcuffed to jail, and sent deputies chasing after the other two, who got into the brush
 Besides this performance, during the week I made twelve seizures. broke up more than two thousand bottles, read the riot act to two delinquent sta tion agents, got one man fired from his job, extorted sixteen indictments from one grand jury and presented a case to another from which I have not heard. One of my seizures was taking forty bottles of whiskey away from a half dozen armed toughs who had planned to fix me.
 T have about whipped the traffic off the railways and have broken up prac- tically all of the four hundred joints. I am now planning a campaign against the territory overland by night in wag ons.''
 The Muskogee Phoenix of February 21 says:
 William A. Johnson, special booze officer, may write book on How It Feels to Be Sued for S151, 1000, or Inei- dents of a Booze Busters Business. 4"
 The dramatis personae of this little drama were MT. Johnson and one Har- ry c. Cohn, general agent of the Dallas brewery. MT. Johnson made three raids upon Mir Cohn's establishment, smashing several thousand bottles of beer each time. Each time, too, MT. Cohn was arrested for the illegal sale of liquor, gave bonds and filed suit for damages against the officer, the several amounts asked for aggregating $151, 900, When the cases were called Mir Cohn i cancelled his appealis for damages, and the suits were quashed, while the cases against MT, Cohn were continued, that gentleman entering upon a con- tract to stay out of the business.