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The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
BIG BREWERS BUSY
Take Means To C0unteraCt the
Growing Prohibition Senti-
ment

According to press dispatches the
brewers of the country are alarmed
at the rapidly growing temperance
and prohibition sentiment. They
held a session in the national capi-
tai city this week and discussed at
length the question of so conducting
their business as to retain their trade,
which all admitted had been falling
off RAPIDLY of late. Among the pro-
positions laid before the gathering
was one to raise a campaign fund
of 100000 to use in defeating
temperance legislation in the coming
sessions of state legislatures the next
year. The status of the brewery
business, if what the press dispatches
say is true, is such as to cause alarm
among the manufacturers of the amber
LIQUID. Following is the substance OF
special to the Minneapolis Journal
which appeared in that paper on
Tuesday:
Ways and means to combat the
prohibition wave that is sweeping
the country were discussed here yes
terday at meeting of brewers rep
resenting all sections of the United
States. No secret is made by the
brewery interests that unless some
thing is done to check the local op-
ton sentiment it means the loss OF
business in territory heretofore CON
sidered by liquor men to the invulner-
able.
The representatives to the confer
ence discussed at length the policy tC
he pursued, and the view was eX-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
FARMER TALKS BACK
Uiyes His Reasons For PatrOniz-
ing the Mail Order House,
Gives Some Good Advice

The following letter, written by
prominent farmer in an adjoining
county and printed in one of The
Herald's exchanges states some plain
facts relative to mail order house
business:
IF the mail order houses get ST.
900 out of this county each month
that belongs to the home merchants,
as you say they do, the fault is with
the merchants themselves. The mail
order house advertises, and gives lis
prices on everything they offer for
sale. They tell us what they have
and what they want for it. OF
course we get soaked once in a while.
and if we do we can try some other
house Most of the home merchants
who, advertise at all don't quote
prices. They neglect to tell us what
We want to know, the price and the
goods they have. Of course we can
go to the store and ask the price of
this article and that, but you know
how it is, one doesn't know so well
exactly what he wants to buy when
he gets in a store as when he is at
| home. And here is where the mail
order houses make the hit. They
send us their advertising matter into
our homes, and we read it when We
haven't anything else to do, and
every member of the l-,------4-y who reads
their stuff usually finds something
that he or some other member of the
family wants, and many orders are
made up and sent out at just such
times.
Right here is where the home
merchant falls down. If he talked
up his business to us in our homes
the same as the mail order houses do,
the people would be in to see him the
| next time they came to town, and in
many cases extra trips would be
made to get the things at once that
we didn't know we wanted, until they
were brought to our attention.
THE home merchant can save the
| expense of getting out a catalogue
! We people read the home papers more
| careful than we do the catalogue
| and read them every week, and If the
merchant wants to talk in the pa
pers he must put his ad in so we
know he means business. The home
merchant likely, nine times out OF
! ten, sells his goods as cheap as tht
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
$3.50

Bows Hercules suits, strictly
all wool in fine blue serge. black
Thibets and fancy mixtures.
The best $500 suits for boys in
the city.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
ADDITIONAL LOCALS


Improvements at the several wafer
! ing places at near by lakes will begin
soon, and all who wish accomnloda-
tion of that nature during the coming
summer can be cared for. 1t is hoped
that those engaged in the improve
ments mapped out on Sauk Lake will
perfect all their plans. 1t would do
much to promote the welfare of the
city and bring to notice one of the
finest lakes in this part OF the state.
All aboard for the masquerade.
Advertised letters in the Sauk
Centre postofice: Mrs. Otto Anderson,
Mrs. w. r. Butler, DR.. A. Campbell,
Mrs. Jack Dudley, Mrs. Toby Ell
right, Miss Verna Jenks, Carl Lerl-
man, Mrs. Fred Meyer, Geo. E. Moore,
Mrs. Chas. Reider, Mrs. Sanden, Mrs
John Wilby, Olof Void, G. A.
Wolfgrom.
The masquerade's the thing. Better
go.
The Social Thirty will be entertained
at Mrs. Arthur Lyman's Tuesday
afternoon, Dec. II. Mrs. Elmer Comp
ton will assist. All are urged to be
present. Mrs. A. Sutton, Sec.
Take your sweetheart to the masque-
rade
The Great Northern has just com
pleted laying new hard maple floors
in its passenger station at Sauk Centre,
including the ticket agents and
operators private office. This work
has been ia progress for some weeks
past. The public is commenting
freely on the matter and wondering if
that means that this city is to get
along with the old passenger station
for another year or ;perhaps longer.
The presant structure has stood here a
good many years and has outgrown
the needs of the road for accomoda-
tions at this point. "A Lew station
would be as welcome here as one was
at Alexandria few months ago.
Have you got your mask for the ball?
The Herald is in receipt of copy Of
the fourteenth annual report of Geo.
B. Alton, inspector OF Minnesota state
high schools. 1t is pamphlet of IS
pages attractively gotten up and con-
tanning valuable informations concern
ing the high schools. Eight new
schools are recommended for place
on the list. In Stearns County three
| are now on the list, at Sauk Centre,
St. Cloud and Paynesville. The
number of students enrolled during
the past year shows an increase of 7.16
per cent over the preceding year.
There are 201 schools on the list. In
19O6-O7 there were $3.50 graduates,
Of which number Is were from Sauk
Centre. The members of the state
high school board are Supt. r E
Denfeld, Duluth, president; State
Supt. J. w. Olsen, secretary; Pres.
Cyrus Northrop of the state university,
examiner; Ell Torrance, minneapolis,
president (of the state normal board;
w. H. Salmon, Northfield, president
Carlton college.
Don't forget to 60 to the band dance
on Friday evening Dec. 20.
Quick climate changes try stron2 Z
constitutions and cause, among other
evils, nasal catarrh, troublesome
and offensive disease. Sneezing and
snuffiing, coughing and difficult
breathing, and the drip, drip of the
foul discharge into the throat-all are
ended by Ely's Cream Balm. This
honest remedy contains no cocaine,
mercury, nor other harmfulingreGient.
The worst cases yield to treatment in
a short time. All druggists, 50c., or
mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warren Street,
New York.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
D0nnelly-Grdy

At the residence of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Ms. William Gray
Sr., OF South Ashley, occurred the
marriage of their youngest daughter,
Jennie, to Mr.. John w. Donnelly OF
Kenmare, N. D. The wedding took
place Oh Wednesday, Dec. +, Rev. f. IL.
Oehler officiating. After the ceremony
bounteous wedding supper was
served. Mr.. and Mrs. Donnelly are
visiting friends IN Minneapolis and
will go soon to Kenmare where they
will make their home. Their many
friends unite in extending congratula-
tiOns.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12

pressed generally that the low saloons
should be wiped out. 1t is their
theory that these are resposible for
much of the animus against the liquor
traffic, and as the low groggeries are
notorious violators of the law it is
decreed that they be destroyed.
The leading brewers said in many
big cities where the local-option senti-
ment is growing that the people had
cause for complaint in the grogshops,
which made no pretense of obeying
the Sunday closing law or any other
statutes enacted for the purpose Of
controlling the traffic.
One brewer suggested an organized
campaign on the part of the breweries
to prosecute all dives as an essential
part of the fight to make the liquor
business harmonious with their idea
of saloon ethics.
The conference discussed at length
the question of raising big defense
fund-some favored $6,0O0,000. Some
of the brewers advocated even larger
fund.
There was a long debate on whether
the price of beer should be increased
) or 10 cents keg. An increase of .
cents a keg would produce fund of
s., 900, 900. The majority seemed to ia
var an increase of 10 cents keg, SO
as to get a fund of $6,OO0,0O0. An in
crease in the price of beer already
has been made in Wisconsin and ac-
tion is likely to be taken soon in 9TH
er states. The sentiment seemed to
be strongly in favor of the breWerles
joining hands with the so-called con-
servative temperance element in Or
der to secure what was termed the
orderly and law-abiding saloon.
Many of the liberal-minded brewers
said this was the only way to avert
continued growth of the prohibition
wave and the overwhelming of the
saloon business in territory hereto
fore considered immune against local
option sentiment. During the discus
sion of the best way to fOrtify the
brewery interests it was pointed out
that prohibition laws had been enact
ed and are in froce in the following
states: Maine, Kansas, North Da-
kota, Georgia, Oklahoma and Alabama.
An exhaustive investigation made by
| the brewers shows that the prOhibi-
ton sentiment is spreading in other
states
Adolphus Busch, head of the Anheu-
er-Busch brewery in st. Louis, epito-
mizes the thought of the conference
when he said today:
From now on l am stripped fol
action in new fight. Heretofore il
has been a matter of business, of dol
lars and cents, of fierce competition
From now on 1 will strive to the ut
most of my resources to eliminate the
evils that have grown like weeds
around the business"
| Il cannot view with indifference
the opinions of my countrymen con-
| cerning an institution which is the
pride of my life. Hereafter if the
eagle, which is the sign and mark OF
our house, shall be found in a resort
which is not orderly and law-abiding
it must come down, and will join IL
any process for the elimination of sucl
! a resort"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
A Girl Wiseacre.

The daughter of a Minneapolis busi-
ness man was making her first visit
to the country, and was very desirous
of showing some knowledge of rural
affairs. The first night at supper a
dish of honey was placed on the table.
The young lady looked at it with inter-
est.
"Ah!" she remarked in tones of as
surance, Il perceive that you keep a
haa" "
Resolution Rescinded.
The burgomaster Of Hagen. who is
a medical man. recently proposed to
name two new streets after Koch and
Bering. The proposition was carried,
but it was pointed out that the thor
oughfares ended at the local cemetery,
and the resolution was rescinded.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
Hand-Pdinted China

Miss Katherine McNeice will hold
special sale of hand-painted china at
her home on Pine street Saturday
afternoon, Dec. A.
Remember the Band dance Friday
evening, Dec. 20.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12

have given you mine. If it is worth
anything to you, you can take it."
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
Precaution.

Precautior.
"Dingbat has gone into trade"
well have to cut him"
"Quite So"
"But. hold! Is he making money!
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
Sleep Produeers.

Mrs. Meeker (at the playl-I do
wish you'd pay more attention to this
play, George; It's as good as sermon.
Mr.. Meeker (dozing)-It certainly
is, my dear, but the darn orchestra
vaksr me up between acts.-Puck.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-12-12
CAUGHT on the Rebound

The Man-Do you consider the opal
unlucky?
The Maid-Well, II it's all the same
10 you. would prefer q diamond.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
cHR1srMAs I'M TIE SCHOOLS.

New York city now has the largest
Hebrew population of any city in the
world, and it is constantly growing,
The New York Board of Education has
favorably considered a proposition to
eliminate Christmas exercises In the
| schools and abolish all Christian fes-
rivals. Naturally this has provoked a
strong protest and started a contro-
yersy. Religion has no part in our
scheme of public education and should
be rigidly excluded from the common
schools.
Our diverse population is composed OF
all races, creeds and ~nationalities and,
while we can recognize only n nation
atty, the American, which itself rep
resents different creeds, any recogni-
ton of any particular creed is opposed
to the spirit of our institutions. Christ
mas, however. is really older than ex-
listing creeds in this country. 1t is a
IeSLIVdl lHdL SpTdHB HUH hdtuAC oiN
belongs originally to the seasons. There
was holiday making and the giving of
gifts and good cheer in the long ages
that preceded the Christian era. Be-
cause the Christian church adopted this
ancient festival to make it coincide with
the advent of Christ upon earth and
be commemorative of that event is no
reason why the non-Christian should
refuse to observe the festival or object
to the celebration.
The great majority of Christmas
jewellers in the United States do not re-
gard the religious significance of the
day. 1t is to them what it was to the
ancient pagan, a day of merry-making,
of neighborly kindness and courtesy, a
day for mutual goodwill and for feast
ing and enjoyment. Christmas is not
doctrinal, its influence appeals to all
that is best in human nature, and there
is no logical reason why the festival
should not always be a part of the
observance of the public schools.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER q. 1907.
THANKSGIVING.

Thanksgiving Day will give pause TO
the busy activities of life and be a
brief season of relief from its cares and
responsibilities. The religiously inclined
will turn their thoughts to higher
things, with a deyout gratitude for
blessings vouchsafed and Ills averted,
and the undevout, too, will have a
cause of thankfulness that the year has
been to them a period of more or less
prosperity and happiness.
Like a bolt from a clear sky there
came the financial trouble, that happily
is now passing away. The phenomenon
is as yet unexplained. The country was
at the height of prosperity, every in
dustrial wheel was revolving, the rail-
roads were gorged with traffic, manu-
faeturers could not keep up with their
orders, labor everywhere was in de-
mand at high wages, the banks were
highly prosperous and business was
booming. In a few days an undefinable
loglilS OF QlSlIuSl Nd6 dcFoiNpSN -
New York, and boarding began. The
feeling spread to other cities, with re-
suItant boarding of currency, and then
the great emergency arose that necessl-
tatod radical measures by the govern
ment itself.
Blu the country is recovering from
that severe spasm, the confidence of the
timia is returning. and it won't be long
before we will have to deal with the
problem of an actual imitation of the
currency. The effects of the panic will
pass away, Industrial enterprise, halted
by 1t. will resume full operations, and
with The New Year it will have become
a "Reminiscences. There is reason for the
most profound thankfulness that the
recent conditions did not develop into a
real panic TO bring disaster and ruin
upon thousands, and for thai alone we
can all render grateful thanks tomor-
row.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
chr AMAz1Ne MANUFACTURES

Some idea of the magnitude of the IN
dustrial activities of this big country oil
busy people is given in the figures of
the Bureau Of Manufactures, which
show tina the value of the output for
the year amounted to the amazing sum
of fifteen billions of dollars. finished
products and products in various stages
included, classified as manufactures
ready for consumption" "foodstuffs
partly or wholly manufactured" and
manufactures for further use in man
ufacturing." OF this vast sum nearly
two billions, or. to be exact, $1,S54,OOO,-
600, went to swell our exports, showing
tho very respectable increase of $780,
0 10000 over the preceding year. There
will be no lack of foreign gold due us
to more than offset the recent importa-
tons.
This enormous output of manufac-
lures has meant a year of UNI
bounded prosperity. 1t has meant busy
mills and factories, plenty of work and
good wages. AS long as we car do such
an annual business and raise billions
more in crops to feed ourselves and the
world we should not worry about re-
covering from a Wall Street handmade
panic and its consequences.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
4 CLOSE srArE ELECTION.

If any Doubling Thomas among the
Democrats who hazarded his money on
Katzenbach has had any lingering
doubts as to the result of the election,
with reluctance to give up his bet, his
doubts are now dispelled by the Off
cial vote, which shows that Judge Fort
carried the State by Sob. Considering
that 1914, 2S4 votes We're polled in the
State election, it is wonderful that the
plurality should be so close and that
the two political parties should be so
nearly equally divided.
1t is observed as a natural phenomenon
that about the same number of girls
as of boys are born in this world, and
evidently some mysterious natural law
regulates the production of Repub-
licans and Democrats. Majorities and
pluralities vary according to circum-
stances, local causes and influences in
a State operate to increase or decrease
"a party vote, but in the last analysis the
two great political parties of the coun-
try are as evenly divided as the sexes
normally are.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
no REcrA1M SWAMI LANDS.

1t is to be hoped that some practical
good will come out of the congress of
National Drainage Association now in
session in Baltimore, for its object is
an important one, both from an eco
nomic and a sanitary standpoint. The
fact that there are so, o00,O 900 acres of
swamp land distributed over thirty
seven States, now not only unproduc-
tive, but either a source of sickness or
q menace to health, ought to arouse
sufficient interest to enlist the aid of the
public in the purpose of the association
now before Congress in the form Of a
bill to secure the cooperation of the
In a comprehensive plan of
reclamation Of these lands. Drainage
experts have estimated that this recla-
nation would add about 50, 900, 900 an
nually to the wealth of the country.
New Jersey has some extensive tracts
of meadow lands, notably along the
Hackensack and Passaic and New York
Bay, parts Of which have already been
reclaimed by drainage, and the State is
represented in the congress. The State
is much interested in the drainage
project and should take an active part
in advancing it.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
aIn God We trust.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Would you please publish a short history
OF the motto I'm God We Trust" that has
been so widely discussed. and the Presi-
dents reason for having 1t removed?
DEBATER.
ITO a farmer of the State of Maryland
is due the motto. In 1861, when Salmon p.
Chase was Secretary of the Treasury, this
farmer wrote TO him that as we claimed
to be a Christian people, we should make
some suitable recognition of that fact on
our coinage. The letter was referred to
James Pollock, director of the mint, who
discussed the matter in his report for 1862.
Congress was apathetie, and Chase mem
toned it to the lawmakers again in 1863.
AS a result a 2-cent bronze piece was au-
thorized by Congress to be coined the fol-
lowing year. April %, 1864, and upon this
was first stamped the motto, TN God
we trust BY al act of March 3, 1866,
it was extended to other coins The Presi-
dents objections to the motto were that
it was not reverently regarded; that it
was frequently, especially in cartoons,
made a subject for ridicule; that it was no
more suitable on a coin than it would be
on a postage stamp; that it had never
been authorized by law.-Ed.]
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
MUST THE PENNY PAPER COZ

Unless Congress shall accede to the
request of publishers to remove the
tariff duty on wood pulp there will
soon be very few one-cent newspapers.
The publishers will be forced to raise
the price on account of the exorbitant
cost of white paper. The trust, which
now controls nearly every big print
paper mill in the country and will soon
ontro all, has been steadily advancing
prices until they have reached a point
where the cost of the white paper is so
high that the publishers cannot afford
to turn out a paper of the average size
for sale at one cent.
These mills. which have been macer-
ating away our forests, would be
forced to come down to a reasonable
figure for their product if the duty on
pulp were removed, for II would break
their monopoly. A large number Of
newspaper publishers have already been
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27

TRENTON, Nov. 27.-A1though Gov
ernor-elect Fort has made no public
u~tteranee on the subject, there is a
feeling among State employees that
with his advent nto office there will
be somewhat of a shake-up, not only
in the State House, but in all the in
stitutions. A Senator who dined with
Judge Fort at Lakewood last Friday
is responsible for the tip that strict
business methods are to be introduced
in the management of all the States
affairs and that the new Governor will
live up to all the promises he made
during the campaign.
One of them was that he would keep
in touch with the State institutions by
frequently visiting them and inquiring
into the manner of their conduct.
Among the umo which followed
the Senator's declaration was one that
rules similar to those in vogue in the
departments at Washington would be
established at the State House. They
include one that all employees must
record the time of their entering and
leaving and that work must he COM
pleted during regular office hours ex-
cept in cases Of great emergency.