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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-27

We tipped over no less than sixteen
times and had the old mare so deeply
in the snow that we were obliged to
shovel her out as many times, but at
last we reached our destination. This
is practically the life the farmer boy
of our section lived away back in
the '6OS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-27

In trying to help the unfortunate,
man is often impressed with the great
number Of people there are in this
world who will trade off a COW for
cabinet organ.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-27

All the world loves a hover, except
the man who happens to have the lover
in his employ.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-27

1t keeps some men so busy being I'M
portant that they haven't any time left
to accomplish things.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18

ample? Mr. Mcneil, in the same num-
Der of The National ProhibitioniSt,
points out that local option represents
low moral status. If that be so, can
we afford to get down to it? Can we
preach the abandonment of low moral
status by others while we ourselves are
part and parcel of it.
Both Mr. Sheen and Mr.. Mcneil
seem to think that the local optionist
is true to the cause of Prohibition at
heart but ignorant as yet of the right
way to destroy the saloon. But the lead
ers of the local option movement have
studied the saloon question for years. 1t
is such men as Governor Hanly and P.
A. Baker who have led the Methodist
Episcopal Church from Prohibition to
the local option standard, and yet we
could not we'll claim that these men are
ignorant on the question of saloon des-
truction. Would it not be we'll for us
to recognize at once that it is preju-
dice against the Prohibition party and
love for the Republican party, and not
ignorance, that dictates the policy of
local option to these men and their fol-
lowers? 1t is not ignorance but the
lack Of fine moral courage that the
Prohibition party has to fight Can we
overcome this condition by Staying
with the procession?
Our national convention will do we'll
if it meets the issue boldly and says in
substance Circulating F. M. Mecart-
ney's fine article for the argument)
while we sympathize with the efforts
of small communities to rid themselves
of the saloon by local Prohibition. we
record it as our judgment that local
option is wrong in theory and dilatory
and often Intellectual in practice"
w. F. Mcdowell.
Olympia, Washington
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
1.-TWO TOPERS"
A Teachers Experience

my friends call me The Postum
Preacher writes a Minnesota school
teacher, because preach the gospel of
Postum everywhere | GO, and have been
the means of liberating many 'cofee-pot
slaves
81 don't care what they call me so
long as | can help others to see what
they lose by sticking to coffee, and can
show them the way to steady nerves,
clear brain and general good health by
using Postum
while school girl I drank coffee
and had fits of trembling and went
through a siege of nervous prostration,
which took me three years to rally
from.
Mother coaxed me to use Postum,
but I thought coffee would give me
strength So things went, and when |
married | found my husband and | were
both coffee topers and l can sympathize
with a drunkard who tries to leave off
his cups
cat last in sheer desperation, bought
package of Postum, followed direc-
tons about boiling it, served it with
good cream, and asked my husband
how he liked the coffee.
'We each drank three cups apiece,
and what a satisfied feeling it left Our
conversion has lasted several years and
will continue as long as we live, for it
has made us new-nerves are steady,
appetites good, sleep sound and refresh
ing"
"There's a Reason" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
"The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18

use of that which corrupts morals and
destroys human life!
Repulsive as coarse oaths are, what
are they, in comparison with the desc
Grafton of womanhood by brewers and
distillers who use the human form di-
vine to popularize liquor, the drink
ing of which leads men to poverty and
disease, overwhelms men in shame and
misery, and prompts men to rob and
to murder
Horrible as is the sin of basphemy,
the soul uplifted in anger against God,
how small this sin in comparison with
the emblazonry of hell which every
where affronts the eye of the Christian
today; every charm of color, figure, and
phrase adroitly used to tempt people
to larger use of liquors, carrying in
this way swifter ruin to the lives of
the sons of God The greater bias
phemy surely lies, not in angry words
that dishonor God, but in the selfish
traffic that corrupts and destroys his
child
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
No Good Samaritan
From the american Issue

Among the thousands of drunken
men we have seen standing up to the
bars in Chicago, we have never seen a
bartender or proprietor refuse drink
to one if he had the money to pay for
it. We have often noticed bystanders-
drinking themselves-lead or persuade
drunken man away from the bar when
they thought che had enough" We
have seen them even pay bartenders for
the drinks the intoxicated man had or
dered, and then manage to prevent his
taking them. But we have never seen
a single white-aproned, white fronted
drink seller-in the finest saloons of Chi
cago or in any other-refrain from SELL
ing to the most drunken man that lolled
and hung about and made himself
disgusting specimen before the bar, if
he offered money for the drink.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
Local Option: An Important Criticism

ED1roR's NoTE:-Mr Huntington's letter
serves to give. us the point of view Of good
many faithful Prohibition workers-extreme
perhaps, but loyal to a rigid Interpretation of
principle which all of us profess to believe.
Editor of THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1-
ZIONIST: Recently you have given an
article by Dan r. Sheen very prom
inent place in your paper He says he
has been feeding the people of his
state on milk and water diet,
as he calls it, lessons in A, B,
c." because Local option stands
for popular sovereignty" This is what
Jeff" Davis said fifty years ago, and
the same devil that fooled him is still
at his old tricks. You might as we'll
leave the question of polygamy to the
sovereignty of the people in wards, dis
tricts, villages, towns, cities, states, etc.
Again he says: 1--WE must crawl be-
fore we walk" Who does he mean by
"we"? If he means himself and the
Anti-Saloon League we'll and good, but
if he means that we Prohibitionists
must crawl with his A. B. C. scholars,
he has reckoned without his host We
will not crawl. We will fly ahead of
the crawling, scringing, fearful crew
and plant our banner on the mountain
top and cry, Excelsior! Come on
Again he says: "But I will stay with
them as long as they are going my
way" 1t seems strange, to my mind,
that when soldier is fighting and finds
himself shot in the back, he will consent
to stand being shot to death by his
"friends"! Why not shoot back?
Local option is a sop from the devil
Throw it down as you would hot coal
and fight manfullv for the truth. Grant
said: 'I will fight it out ON this line
if it takes all summer" and so will l
fight for the abolition of the liquor
traffic and for a President who will
sign the liquor trafic's death warrant
in every state in the Union, forever.
No local option, soppy, seesaw meth
DDS for me-
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
Law CD Enforcement CD

Editor of THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1-
ZIONIST: The socalled laws for the
regulation of the liquor business and the
futile attempts toward their enforce
ment are simply ridiculous. They have
served as blind and deception to keep
good people" busy enforcing the laws
we have" before taking the advance step
of Prohibition. l have been an eye
witness in Denver for sixteen years to
this farce which has employed the ener-
gies of the church, Anti-Saloon League,
and Law Enforcement League" while
at every election these forces sustained
a license ticket, thus getting a wide
open town for the trinity of evils"
The usual saloon restrictions are
sunptuary laws, though enacted by par
ties disclaiming all such legislation and
favoring the greatest amount of per-
sonal liberty" But the chief objection
| urge against them is that they are I'M
constitutional If Our license system
constitutes the saloon a legitimate
business, as is claimed by some, and
which the liquor dealers are laboring to
substantiate, then the usual "regula-
ton" laws can not be upheld by any
court Of justice since they become class
legislation; no other legitimate business
being handicapped by such legislation. If
one would escape the dilemma of class leg
slation by applying these laws to other
lawful callings, as, for instance bakery
or clothing house, he will exemplify
the charge of ridicule. But, you say,
the saloon is criminal business as at
tested by the courts. Agreed we are
on this point, and the outlined regula-
lions and restrictions are the best
proof we have of its criminality.
If the liquor trade is a criminal
business and license, together with reg
ulative laws can be applied to it, why
may they not apply to other criminal
business? Iet the reader apply the
restrictions to horse thieves and gam
blers). Is it not class legislation to
favor one criminal business by placing
it under the protection of the law,
while denying others of the same sort
equal protection? Is not the fact es-
tablished, that crime must not and can
not be regulated by law? All such laws
are unconstitutional. To attempt their
enforcement is to admit their legality.
Wrong can never be made right by any
human act. Government was established
to prohibit wrong and conserve the
right License for crime is destructive
of all government it is anarchy
"ShaH te throne of iniqnity haze fel-
lo10shib 7vith Thee, (Which frameth mis-
chief by la7v?"
J. R. WYLIE.
Denver, Colo.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
THE NATIONAL pRoH1B1r1oN1sr
A Place where Almost Anybody can
say Almost A ything about the
Principle, the Policy. or the Party
The Correspondent

The way to get Prohibition Of the
liquor traffic in America is to take the
headquarters of the United States, and
this can be done as quickly and easily
as to take small ward in a small city.
But how shall the people know with
out a teacher and how shall they hear
without a preacher?
H. L. HUNTINGTON.
Yonkers, N. Y.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
The Greater Blasphemy
DR. Joseph Henry Croker in Unity.]

Bad as ordinary "curse-words" are,
what are they in comparison with the
profanities that the liquor traffic spreads
round our homes, so that from the rising
to the setting of the SUN our families
are never free from these pictorial lies
in praise of some form of malt or
spirituous drinks!
Vulgar as common swearing is, how
small an evil it is, in comparison with
the vulgarizing influence of an environ
ment overspread and polluted with adj
vertisements designed to increase the
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-18
In Re Local Option: Important Con-
cidaratinrc
SiderationS

ZIONIST when Oliver w. Stewart
spoke in this city last Monday evening
he paid an eloquent tribute to that dis
tinguished citizen of Peoria, Dan R.
Sheen, and prophesied that the final
history Of the Prohibition conflict would
devote a page to a chronicle of his
clean life and brave fight in the home
city of the mighty whisky trust All
who know the facts in the case agree
with Mr.. Stewart and delight to honor
Mr. Sheen, but there are some things
in Mr.. Sheen's letter published in your
paper of May 21 that seem to invite
adverse criticism.
1t strikes me as peculiar that man
of Mr.. Sheen's Prohibition principles
should advise us to stay with the pro-
cession as long as they are going Our
way" 1t is my understanding that the
Prohibition party would never have
been born, if Prohibitionists had always
followed that course of least resistance
To do so now would make Our party in
this state of Washington a mere non
entity, for the Republican party has
inserted local option plank in its state
platform and the Prohibition party Of
Washington must either acknowledge
the correctness of the Republican posi-
ton and "stay with the procession" or
make war on that position and show
that the Prohibition party presents the
real method for the solution of the
question at issue. To go with the Re-
publican party this year in this state
"as long as it goes Our way" would
mean that we had read and would fol-
low the advice of the Seattle Times
which declares that all the people must
joip for the speedy enactment of a local
option law or be overtaken by the dire
disaster of Prohibition within ten
years. The Times goes on to say that
local option is a. step in advance but
should be satisfactory to the brewers,
for under local option their breweries
will not be molested and the local op-
ton law can be easily evaded by blind
tigers while Prohibition will mean the
business. Will Brother Sheen still adj
wise the Prohibitionists Of Washington
to give aid and comfort to the local
option movement when we are told by
our enemies and know by experience
that it means the postponement of Pro-
hibition?
Then will some one kindly explain
more fully this Wanted principle of
home rule" as exemplifed in local
option? The local optionist says, for
instance, that every township should
have the right-the democratic right of
elf-government-to say whether it
shall legalize or expel its saloons. Fun
damenta1ly, the local optionist gets off
the track right here, for tits not within
the province of government to say that
its people may do wrong by majority
vote.) Waving the doubtful moral
quality of the idea, the same local op-
ZIONIST will urge county option for the
reason that that is the only way Of
drying up some city that may be sit
rated in some particular county. What
then becomes of the boosted right of
home rule in that city? Will not local
option, if carried to its logical conclu-
sion, bring us to the option of the in
dividual? Mr. Sheen's seeming answer
is that ''We must crawl until we learn
to walk and must stay with the process
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
officers Have a Busy Time
Rounding Up Loafers Who
Infest Low Saloons.
MULLEN HAS UNIQUE CLAIM.
One Alleged Nagrant Orders JaIer 10
Send for His Uncle, the Boss
or the "Amcricans.'

Police Officers Phillips and stains
had busy time of 1t last night round
ing up alleged vagrants' anu thelr
dragnet brought In Ave. The men
were accused of wandering about the
streets at late and unusual hours Of
the night and having no visible means
of earning IA living. 1t was charged
by the police that the gang has been
hanging about saloons watching for
opnort,inities to roll" drunken min
ers who might have few dollars on
them.
The men arrested gave the names
of Toe Allen, Ed Rosberry. John
Evans Jim Hoy and NJ. j. Mullen.
% The last named claimed that he is
In nephew to Tom Kearns, millionaire,
ex-senator and recognized boss of the
"American" party. Last night, ac-
oording to Jailer Wilkinson, Mullen
declared he was Mr.. kearn's nephew
and asked that the ex-senator be sent
for. His request was denied because
no good, patriotic American party
taller would dare to annoy Mr..
Kearns by calling him TO the city Jail.
Each of the accused pleaded guilty
TO the charge of vagrancy and all
were given "foaters" They will have
until O'Clock tomorrow morning to
leave the city and all were apparent
~ glad to embrace the chance to get
away.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
RAILROAD NEW ).

The offices Of tho Erie, Wabash, New
York Central, Santa Fe, Illinois Central
Colorado Midland, Burlington. Rock
Island, and the D. & II. @. are now in
the Judge building 1t is believed that
the c. VI. & st. p. and the Northwestern
roads will not be long In following suit
j. NJ. Bail. commercial agent of the
International & Great Northern with
offices IN Denver, Is In the city renew
ing old acquaintanccs along Railroad
Row and making new ones.
The mining resources of the Centen-
NAL state have been exploited these
many years, but It is only within the
past two or three years that colorado
has achieved amazing results from the
development of her agricultural re-
sources.
An attractive, illustrated pamphlet,
containing n concise description Of the
vast area of agricultural, horticultural
and grazing lands, together with fun
Information as to the present-day OPP
portunities IN fruit growing, market
gardening. stock raising, sugar beets
and general farming. compiled by Clar-
enco A. Lyman. well known farmer
newspaper writer, is now being distrtb-
uted by the Passenger Department OF
the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
ENTHUSED OVER CANADA
Former Salt Inlscr Talks About Pros
porous Conditions Existing
In Alberta.

After an absence of SIX years, during
which time he settled on homestead
near Tabor, Alberta. j. j. Walton has
returned to visit a few weeks with his
aged parents who reside AZ Alpine in
Utah county.
Mr.. Walton Is enthusiastic over the
Canadian region which ne now calls his
homo and saws Americans have been
coming IN during the past few years by
the thousands. He recites. az evidence
of the prosperous conditions existing
there, that when he landed in the town
Of Tabor there were not to exceed 20
persons In the place: whereas now the
population is estimated to be at least
. 900 and thousands of acres Of land, In
Wild state a few years ago. has been
broken up and placed in cultivation.
THE prospects for n bounteous har-
vest are excellent In fact, the outlook
never did look so bright as this year,
declared MI. Walton, 'and that neCes-
sarily means that we are going to have
continuation of the prosperous time
which have existed for sometime past.
"The crops last year We're splendid,
The yield of wheat from the dry farms
averaged about 30 bushels to the acre
and farmers disposed OF their crops at
30 cents per bushel The yield of oats
was about a. bushels to the acre and
sold in field at s1.5O per 100 pounds.
"'The Canadians are very hospitablc
people and are ever ready to extend the
hand Of welcome TO Americans, They
realize that as rule they are good
farmers and good citizens: they usually
bring money with them and labor to-
wards the Improvement and building
up of the country.
The Canadian land laws are very lib
eral too TO obtain title To a home
stead all the persons fling on the land
has to pay the government a fee OF
$40 which is done at the time the filing
is made. Actual residence for six
months each year for three successive
years, with the cultivation of In acres Of
ground each year is required whereup-
on the settler is entitled TO a patent to
the land"
Mr.. Walton was formerly an instruct
or In the Latter-day Saints university
in this city. A son. j. W. Walton. Is in
the employ of the Burlington Route
here.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
WARD
ENTERTAINMENTS

Whitney IIall--The amateurs of the
Eighteenth ward resurreeted the once
famous comedy of Jane" before big
audience last evening. The present
generation of theater-goers has almost
forgotten THIS clever comedy, and the
audience last SIGHT went into conyul-
siOns over It's funny episodes. II was
originally presented at toe salt Lake
Theator by .;ohnstone Bennett, IL or 10
years ago. Tho young performers last
night astonished the audience by the
ease of their acting, and their general
excellence throughout. The cast was
made up OF Elliott Clawson. Thaddeus
Hammond. viii James. George Glade,
Clyde Edmonds. Gwen Knowton. May
Alder. Nora Noall and Margaret Cum
mings, the direction being IN the hands
OF Ivy Cleghorn and Vera Noall. The
piece scored an undoubted success, and
the audience applauded heartily when
1t was announced that II would be
repeated on the evening OF Monday the
18Th, for the benefit OF Mr.. Hammond.
one OF the cast, who leaves shortly on
a mission to Germany.
------- 49,
Cool off in the lake at saltair, July
lLh.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
RECORD PAINTING JOB.

One of the largest Jobs of painting
and renovation of the season has just
been completed in the Deseret News
main building and annex. In all 81
rooms, all corridors, the elevator shafts
and cages were given an entire new
coat, the work covering 5000 yards III
the halls and on the doors alone. The
elevators were touched up in bronze
the Main street shaft and cage costing
$3.50 for the material used, and the
other two elevators in proportion "a
size The entire cost was over sl,SOO
and the work was done by the KNAPP
ton Curtis company.
Cool off in the lake at Saltair, July
Attn
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
DECIDES HOUSE CASE.

Judge Richie has rendered a decl-
sion I'm the "housc moving case which
occupied several days OF his attention
"a few weeks ago. The decision If IN
favor of Annie butcher and against
Polly Matthew and Isaac, George and
Joseph Butcher. who moved a house
belonging 10 the plaintin, Mrs,
Butcher sued for the value OF the
house, and I'm the trial OF the case her
husband appeared against her he hay-
ing ordered his brothera TO move the
house. When the moving was done,
Mrs Butcher admitted she used
language" toward the men dolhB me
work. the Ike of which might not
be printed. The Judgment Is for Sl2b
but POLLY Matthews, found not 20
have been responsible in the matter Is
oXoneratCd.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
UTAHs PROUD RECORD.
Youngest of Western States Shows Up
Well In Rebuilding Fund.

SUIT d. II. Christensen of the salt
Lake city schools has received from
the school reconstruction committee of
San Francisco detailed list of the
amounts contributed by the various
cities and states Of the Union for the
purpose of assisting to rebuild the
schools of the stricken city after the
earthquake. In the list Utah shows up
with more contributed than the state of
California itself the amount sent by
this state footing up 81 l0SAO, while
California gave sl.56i.91. The list shows
that salt Lake city contributed ST.
72l.l5, and in addition the Deseret News
gave $500 The schoolchildren of Rich
field gave SsIs5. Following Is the list
of contributions by states, not all being
given;
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-03
JUMPED AFTER HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Harry Yeager Injured In Alight-
ing from Street Car.

Mrs. Harry Yeager, of 1894 south
Third West street, is at the l.. d. 5.
hospital, suffering from injuries re-
ceived by falling to the pavement after
jumping from moving street car Mrs
YeaSer had been hunting for her hus-
band, whom it Is said had been drink
ing, and was returning home after a
vain search when she spied him sit
ting In the same cur that she had
boarded, He saw her, too, and hur-
redly left the car, without waiting for
IL to stop. The wife tried the same
act, with the result stated Tho Yea
gers have been married but a fey
weeks. The report from the hospita,
is TO the effect that the woman wa,
not seriously hurt.