New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-29
JULIUS MOERsCH ON THE LID LAW
President Of German American
Central Alliance Tells Of His
Observations in ST. Paul.

II have been making some inquiries
around St. Paul since the Sunday lid
went into effect" says Julius Moersch,
the weIl-known president of the Ger
man-American Central alliance, land
l find that saloonkeepers sell much
more whiskey on Saturdays now than
they used to. Ihave also noticed and
heard that in many places in public
buildings the corridors of a Sunday
evening are now strewn with bottles, |
where before the liz was enforced a |
bottle was never to be seen.
1--WE realize continues MIR.
Moersch, shat it will be necessary to
clean out the disreputable and lawless
saloon. If the saloon were in better
.repute it would not be such an agent
of evil. In Germany the saloon bust
ness is as honorable business as the
restaurant or soda water business is
in this country.
"We believe that the solutionso of the
problem is in teaching men the evils
of intemperance, not in trying to force
them to stop. It is far better to let
them sip their beer legally than to
have them drinking struggled whiskey.
''Perhaps if the high license were
taken away it would help solve the
problem. When the saloonkeeper
pays $1,000 he is forced to push his
sales and induce men to drink beyond
their limit in order to make ends meet.
1t also leads to abuses by the brewer
les. The breweries own most of the
licenses and they have too much con-
troll of politics.
"The German-American alliance
realizes that the many abuses of the
liquor trade must be stopped, but we
believe that going to the other extreme
would be as dangerous.
President Roosevelt has been cred
tied with having expressed the opinion
that Taft would be nominated for the
presidency at the next republican ma
q tional convention on the first ballot.
When inquiry was made as to the
correctness of the report, it was neither
confirmed nor denied. In an informal
way the statement was bolstered up.
and from the expressions Of Mr.. Loeb,
secretary to the president, it would
! appear that the Taft people now claim
to have practical assurance Of ST.
delegates. In making this estimate
practically all the states west of the
Mississippi river are claimed, includ
ing Iowa and Minnesota. Half of TIE
delegations from Kentucky and Tenne
see are claimed, a goodly percentagt
of the delegations from the solo
south, those from North Carolina ant
South Carolina with absolute conf
dence. Most of the delegates iron
New England and all of Ohio are in
cluded in the Taft claims.
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Gated dogs, the burlesque Hebrew an,
the impossible lrishman of vaudevill
to well-sustained Well-acted play
and you have found one who canno
discriminate between the merits O
Raphael's Madonna and the Newl
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Sunday supplement- Otis Skinner.
A branch of the Brown-Redwoo
Young Mems Christian Association
has been started in Leavenworth town
ship with Allen Laid as president
Arthur Meerfeld as secretary an
Andrew Brown as treasurer.
Such are the possibilities of Amer
can citizenship that man may be
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tomorroW.-St. Louis Globe Demo
GRAFT.
A writer in the New York Wort
suggests the following very exceller
platform for the next campaign
Thou shalt not steal.''
A new name for the peerless Nebras
kan Willing Jennings Bryan.