Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-07
PROHIBITION PRESS BULLETIN.

For some Time past CNe police
department has been endeavoring
to restrain the Malt business in
Minneapolis. All attempts up to
this time have failed to prove that
Malt is Intoxicating, since the mere
fact that it contains a certain per
centage of alcohol is insufficient
evidence. Recently the prohibit
ton party took up the matter with
the object in view of proving that
it would make a man drunk. Mr..
Charles H. Bates and Mr.. E. w.
Mccall each drank a quantity of
certain brand of malt which is be-
ing sold extensively in malt-joints
in various parts Of the city without
license. The experiment was car
ried on under the direction Of Drs.
c. +. Digit and George D. Hag-
gard at the home Of the latter in
Minneapolis. The case was tried
before Judge Waite Friday and Sat-
urday, and was continued till Mon
day. The testimony so far received
from Bates and Mccall clearly indi-
Gates that they were intoxicated.
If the prohibitionists win the case,
which will doubtless be the decision
before this reaches our readers,
Malt will be under the same regu-
lations as beer and other intoXicat-
ing liquors.
The suit was brought against
John Revak, the reason the matter
was taken to the courts being that
the malt business has gained quite
foothold in certain districts of
the city, especially in those Sec
tions where license to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors is not obtainable under
the law.
Prohibition has carried in Geor-
gia. The upper house Of the Geor-
gia legislature recently passed a
straight prohibition bill by a vote
of 33 to 7, and on July 80 the lower
house passed it, after thirteen
hours and ffty-three minutes fill
clustering by fortyfour members
to prevent it's consideration, by a
vote of ia to "A. 1t is pretty gen.
orally understood that Gov. Hoke
Smith will sign the bill. The Min
neapolis Tribune Aug. 81 editorial
ly says:
Georgia contains a number Of
prosperous breweries which will
have to leave the state if the law is
upheld. 1t is said that three
fourths Of the white people Of Geor-
gia are rejoicing over the passage
of the prohibition law and are de-
termined to uphold it. One Of the
prohibit leaders in the legislature
declared tn It it was equivalent to
the in m 'diate introduction in
Georgia OF 100000 desirable labor
ers. The prohibition idea seems
to be taking on new vitality every
where
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Judge Samuel R. Artman Of Leb-
banon, Indiana, formerly speaker
>of the Indiana house of representa-
tives, who has gained a nationwide
fame on account of his famous de-
cision that saloon license is un-
constitutional, delivered a strong
address before a large and repre-
sentative audience in the auditori-
UNI of the courthouse in Minneapo-
lis July 81. He ably and convinc-
ingly discussed the proposition that
the granting of a saloon license is
not constitutional or common law
right.
The news concerning the forty
cocktails which the vice president
Of the United State served at the
dinner at his home in indianapolis
recently goes marching on; still
the old party politicians piously
court the support Of soft-brained
pietists on the ground that ''Mr.
Fairbanks is in favor Of the de-
struction of the saloon.''
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The liquor men of Indian Terri
tory are showing the usual attitude
of that class toward the law. Not
content with merely breaking the
law as it relates to their own ne
farious business, they are from
time to time making personal as
saults upon those whose duty it is
to enforce the law. In a personal
letter from special agent of the
United States, VIM. E. Johnson,
Ell Reno, l. T., to the Associated
Prohibition Press the following