Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-06
VICTOR 3, LAWSON, Editor and Manage
WEDNESDAY, March 6.t1907
lSSUESlN THE CITY ELECTION

in the approaching city election
the saloon question, the tele-
phone question and the city hall
bonding proposition. :
The saloon question we will al
ways have with US as long as
their. remains manhood enough
in this city to openly resist the
debauchery of it's citizens and
neighbors by this legalized means
or until the Legislature will per-
NIT all the people affected the
right to vote on the question. If
degraded homes and debauched
men and boys do not count for
anything with some of our ,citi-
zens, the wasted wages and lost
time of the victims of the traffic
may appeal to their pocket books.
THE LOCALIZED SALOON, is
DOOMED AT WILLMAR. It
may by hook and crook maintain
an uncertain existence for a time,
but it will be short and THE
KEEPERS KNOW 1T. In no
other way can the reckless drink
ing and disregard for decency be
than that the sponsors
feel that their time is short. The
suspension of the blacklist, the
immunity from arrest, the at
tempted colonization of outside
voters are little contemplate
tricks that will count for nothing
when the better and nobler i'm
pulses of our citizenship are
aroused. It was one thing to
vote for something apparently
quite harmless and inofensive as
it was held out to our citizens by
leading and respectable men, but
it will be quite different to DELHI.
erately vote your 0. K. of the
present brewery saloon regime,
such as it has proven to be in
practice. There is no straddling
of this question. Either a man
is in favor of saloons or he is
against them, and experience has
proven that the man who dares
not come out openly against the
saloon is with it and will do it's
work when it is required. "A
man convinced against his will, is
of the same opinion still," and
the license man who becomes
converted to the no-license policy
by the force of an uncertain ma
jority vote, is just as much a Ii
cense man as be ever was at
heart and is unfit to administer a
no-license policy, the success of
which depends largely upon the
personal convictions of the Off
Gals. Let there be no more sick
ening~ hating between two opin-
ions. Compel every candidate to
have pronounced views on pub,
lie q uestions," and let this extend
to his attitude on the license
question. III, ..s: 7. i
~. r:s@ H.. >.sy.%, y IN
\ The telephone question is upon
US for the reason that the ten
year franchise under which the
local exchange is operating will
expire on May 11.next, and twill
be the duty Of the next city coun:
cntos SO guard the city s interests
that this Valuab BILE concession viii
not be lost to the munic ipality.
The stock Of the local telephone
exchange is now held BY the
Mort estern Tel phone PIX.
change Com pany excl sively and
it will mot be with its local citizens
the city will have TO deal, but
with the formid able auxiiliary q
the Bell Te lephone trust The
city should he prepared IS COP,
denim and take over the property
if this il necessary insure The
integrity and Independence q
injecting lines and give our oiity
and country com munity the best
possible service al the lowest
cost. az has been " Whispered
very aud IDLY that the company
will not ask for an 81 chise,
but that viii ntinueSt ofo{Iper:
ate derone IS the old line per'
smits his ma "a IS d TIE more
necessary Tia there III 40 an::
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