The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-05-01

North Carolina, Georgia ana MlSSlS-
sippi are pushing hard for state prohi-
bition
The Great Northern Railway depot in
Norwood, n. D., was raided and a con-
siderable quantity of beer and whiskey
captured.
tCatholic) is very active in holding con-
tests between young people in temperance
and prohibition oratory.
Someone kindly sent The Public Veal
to me last year and as l see the blue
mark, l enclose 25 cents for the paper
for another year. After reading it we
circulate it,, hoping to convince some
other voter. w. j. Bergman, Spring
Valley.
We stop gift subscriptions at the ex-
piration Of the first year unless renewed.
This, alone, is a sufficient reason why
we cannot. offer our Card premium to
subscribers sending gift subscriptions.
There are other reasons also.
If there is a person in the state that
wants our paper and cannot afford to
pay for it, let him or her write us and
we will make an offer that will make 1t
entirely practicable. Or if not, we shall
take pleasure in putting the name Of
such a person upon our list free for a
year.
Congress at the last session made an
additional appropriation of sS97,5Oo for
recreation buildings at army. posts.
This was a total of 1851, 900 in the past
six years for saloon substitution in the
army. These appropriations have been
the result largely of the anti canteen
fight.
Again we say that the liberality of our
remarkable offers will not bring us the
subscriptions we want and need. Our
friends must bring the matter to the at
tention of their friends and offer to for
ward their subscriptions. Are you will
ing to render this service in behalf of
humanity?
During the last year the permanent
committee on temperance Of the Presby-
terrain church has held 9S3 meetings, dis
tributed 100000 pages of literature in
seven languages and has secured the
use use OF a temperance program IN 1000
are employed.
The station of The Great Northern
Railway company at Churches Ferry, N.
D., has been closed by order of the court.
A drayman took orders for beer and was
| allowed by the company to use the rail-
road station as a StOrehouSe. The dray-
man has been fined $3.50 and also given
ninety days in Jail.
What is it likely to be worth to our
cause to secure hearing for it through
! the regular perusal of one of our papers
| by several occupants Of five or ten or
twenty homes? Give that question thor
the saloon and hope for victory, get out
and do the thing that you know needs
| to be done.
Shutting out of consideration, for a
| moment, every Olnor meCnOQ OF putting
your acquaintance into touch with our
great movement, realize that our Souve-
mir Post Card offer alone puts into the
hands of our friends absolutely an oppor-
| tunity to simply flood our state and the
northwest with the truth concerning this
reform.
Before Lyle voted for license, a large
number of farmers petitioned the village
tention to protect themselves by trading
elsewhere if the citizens of Lyle insisted
on retaining the saloon which brings
trouble to the farmers home and puts a
burden of taxation upon his purse. We
learn that business is now dull in Lyle.
Newton ]. Bray, a faithful Prohibi-
ZIONIST is county commissioner of Cook
county. He is of Plymouth stock on both
were Mayflower passengers His father
was a member of the first Minnesota
Legislature and was one of the two mem
bers who refused to take part in a sta
tionery steal.
The Court of Appeals, Baltimore
handed down a decision that the sale o.
liquor by bona fide clubs on Sunday ,tc
law as sales in a saloon. The decision
was rendered in a case against the Mary
land club, the most prominent club il
some prosecutions along this line amons
i. the upper ten clubs of Minnesota's biz
c.. J. Weston, organizer in Faribaul
, county which last fall almost elected 1T
candidate to the legislature, writes
prohibition work is much more encour
; er and we have many new financial sup
porters. Out of s245 raised in thi
, county so far, nearly half is from nev
l pledgors and through increases on tn
: amounts given heretofore by forme
pledgors.'
After reading this issue Of our pape
for your own interest and instruction
please look it over again, keeping il
3 mind the pertinency Of it's various ar
. ticles and news items to the needs o
e your neighbors and friends. If anything
!. strikes you as particularly pat and help
full to their condition Of mind on GU
issue, you may have copies sent them a
one cent each, postpaid. We will, ais
4 mark any article or articles desired. O
course, it will be vastly better if yo