The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-12-01

wisely Iuduy SuUJcCto VI ihiPoi ee'AAS ~
His utterance on the paramount Is
sue of the hour-paramount whether
Judged from moral or an economical
standpoint, will be found near the
bottom of the upper right-hand corner
Of the left-hand margin OF our 5th
page.
THE PRINTERS INK PROPAGANDA.
The American Brewers Review, Of
fetal organ of the U. S. Brewers AS
ISOLATION, emits a big howl because
of the character and extent OF the
propaganda which the PrOhibitionlSts
are putting up through the daily and
weekly press. 1t must be admitted
that it proves it's alarm to be not
without foundation. 1t quotes, among
others, John A. Shields, in charge OF
the Weekly Press Bulletin of the Min
nesota Prohibition Committee, to the
effect that the papers are using more
and more matter every week. The
Review might add truthfully that it
would be difficult if not impossible
to find better news stuff" than that
sent out by Mr.. Shields to a growing
number of papers. He Yields the
pen of an easy and fOrceful para
grapher and some liquor organs and
saloon politicians hereabouts are feel
ing the point of his spear between
their ribs. Our readers will do well,
by the way, to be certain that their
local newspapers are getting Mr..
the asking.
SCARES THE POLITICIANS.
1t was Theodore Roosevelt who said
regarding the saloon: 1T tends to
produce criminality in the population
at large and law-breaking among the
saloon-keepers themselves That
was some years since and when, If
we remember rightly, the now Presi-
dent was fighting the law-violating
saloonists of New York City in his
capacity as President of the Police
Commission. Surely 1.-The profession
have done nothing since to secure his
higher esteem nor has he run up
against a duty better worthy of his
splendid talents and courage. Either
Mr. Roosevelt is not so great man
as many of his admirers, of whom
this writer is one, think him to be-,
or else the saloon issue is a bigger
one than the ballots of millions of
voters have heretofore recognized it
to be. To our mind the fact that
practical" politicians will declare
themselves on nearly every other
issue but that this one must be
smothered at the primaries, during
the campaign and at the polls proves
it to be the supreme issue of the
hour and that at any hour it is likely
to force a re-alignment of the political
forces of the land.
FLoPPED.
THAT is what l said. I have a
right to flop. I have been 'flip-flop.
ping long enough. So this is square
turnover Thus opens the leading
editorial in the latest issue of Don
hams Doings, "a monthly Magazine
for all who hate Hypocrisy" published
at LIE Sueur.
The editor-in- chief, who according
to his plain and humble confession
has been a slave to drink, now pro
poses to fight this old enemy with al
the power of his being. He says thai
this determination is due to scene
which recently occurred at his miser
able home when his wife, as true {
woman as ever lived, sitting in {
rockingham and, with weeping eye.
= buried in her hands, was pleading, be
tween sobs, with dissipated, peaked
. faced husband who looked more like
: half-starved wolf than a man. II
t spite of many broken promises al
t she asked was another promise tt
!, edo better" and it was given. Thi
: story, which we give only briefly, al
! unhesitating confession of shame an
; neglect, gives proof of nature car
D able of infinitely better things.
l. The editor of DOMAINS Doings seem
Y at last to have awakened also to tn
e devilish character of the saloon whic
h has been so largely responsible 70
hic undOinp Ha moro than hints th al