Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-20

the plans and purposes of the party.
Among those who have pledged to
give 5000 are two Augsburg Semi
nary students working their way
thru college, who intend to work
next year to fulfill the terms Of the
subscription. The portion of the
subscriptions to be paid this year
will be devoted to the cause of pro-
hibition in the state at large, but
it is agreed that the payments of
the second year should be expended
in such legislative districts as the
donors may designate. One hun
dred young college men will be en-
ployed for five months next sum-
mer to carry on a personal inter-
view canvass in the intere SITS of the
party. Minneapolis Journal.
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Rev. Dan McGurk, pastor of the
Grand Avenue M. E. church, Kansas
City, Mo-, also lecturer of note,
in a powerful sermon recently de-
clared: "The state has played the
fool in saving $40 by licenses and
fines to spend $500 in criminal costs
and expenses for penal institutions
to rectify the evils that those things
create. Some day we shall get into
our mullet heads that it is fool
hardy thing to license saloons and
fine bawdy houses and then have to
endure the things those institutions
infict upon society. It is traves-
ty upon civilization that the only
boy who can be taught a trade at
the expense of the state is the boy
who is either incorrigible or an ac-
tual criminal.
IF it were not for the saloon in
Minneapolis my court would not
have one half of its present work to
do; half of the great prison at STILL
water would be for rent; the work.
house would be half empty all ;he
time. With the growing sentiment
for prohibition in the South, which
is fast moving northward, it looks
as tho the time will soon come when
in order to walk in the best society
in Minneapolis it will be necessary
to be a voting prohibitionist. -
John Day Smith, Judge of Minnea-
polls District Court.
The following is taken from a
judgment of the Supreme Court of
Kansas: Probably no create r
source of crime and sorrow has ever
existed than social drinking saloons.
Social drinking is the evil Of evils.
1t has probably caused more drunk
enness and has made more drunk
ards than all other causes cor bined
and drunkenness is a pernicious
source of all kinds of crime and
sorrow. 1t is a Pandora's Box,
sending forth innumerable ills and
woes, shame and disgrace, indi-
gence, poverty and want; social
happiness destroyed; domestic broils
and pickering engendered; social
ties sundered; homes made de olate
families scattered; heart rending
paintings; sin, crime and untold sor.
rows; not even hope left. but every
thing lost; and even lasting farewell
to all true happiness and to all the
noble aspiration rightfully belong
ing to every true and virtuous hui
man being.'
'Iet there be an entire abstinence
from intoxicating drinks thru out
the country during the period of a
single generation, and mob would
be as impossible as combustion with,
out oxygen. Horace Mann.
During the six days from October
II to 26 there were II deaths, three
serious injuries and two painful &C.
cidents all brought about by and di.
rectly chargeable to the MINES. t.
liquor traffic. Beginning with the
next day, Oct. 27, and continuing
to Nov 8, inclusive, Is days, there
were five people seriously wounded
two died while drunk, three com
mitted suicide in drunken state
and six were murdered by drunken
men; total, II deaths and 5 seriou:
wounds in Is days in Minnesota
brought about b. the liquor traffic
This makes sum total, since Oct
Fl, 9 days, % dead and 10 injured
and the liquor traffic is still at it.
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It would seem that the press, pc
litically disinterested, in a prohibi
ton state ought to be a criterion
to which those who seek for the re
suits of prohibition should go. Thu
following is from the Holton, Kan
sas, Recorder Tribune, a widely reat
and influential republican paper
whose love for or patience with thu
nrOhih itinn nartv is not nrnninan,