The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-02-28
Men 5 Sunday Club
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49, III ..E8l !
Did Bishop Grafton Of Fond du
Lac, Wis, ever study logic? This
question is raised by his statement IN
I last weeks Advance. Prohibition"
said his reverence, Gin the north, to
my mind. lis not practical. No law
can be enforced against the wishes OF
large minority of the people"
If proh,bitory laws cannot be en-
forced because of "the wishes of a
large minority of the people, how
can laws which license the sale Of in
toxicating beverages be foisted upon
a still greater mass of people who are
opposed to license in any form? The
number of people in the North who
are staunchly opposed to the licensing
of the liquor traffic is greater than
the number favoring it. When the
''minority" has become majority
who shall bring these to the tolera-
ton of laws which are repugnant to
their moral sense? Let reason ans
wer! Let Logic answer! Yea, let the
Bishop answer!
"Atlanta is surprised by the fact
that after month of prohibition the
local Jail has not a single prisoner in
it. The decrease in the number OF
arrests has been remarkable. min
neapolis Journal.
Was it not 80, too, in San Francisco
during the prohibition period follow
ing the great quake?s Until the re-
opening of the saloons the police
courts of that disordered city were
almost wholly out of business.
Even though buns do go to neigh
boring towns for wet goods and in:
cidental]y For a few dry goods, too,
and the boys of Worthingten by open
saloons for year past. Protection
of boys is infinitely better than pro-
lection of commerce. "Righteousness
exaIteth nation. The Bible.
Is it right to license anything that
is wrong? IF it is right, then why
not license everything that is wrong?
If brewers sell more liquor in dry
towns than in wet ones why is it that
they oppose local option?
How are you going seperate these?
The man who makes liquors, the man
who sells it, the man who drinks it,
and the man who votes for it.? Are
not the three first parties named all
dependent on the last party named?
If they are not, why do they seek his
ballot?
"After reconstruction the next great
question for solution is the liquor
traffic. -Abraham Lincoln.
The liquor traffic takes our citizens
and makes them by the thousands
into criminals and paupers and in
competents. In the face of this fact
alone not word should be listened
to about revenue. If it were not for
the public expenses caused by sa-
looms, heaven only knows how the
taxpayers could escape the dangers
of getting rich. ~. j.
"The money-changers were not
chided, exhorted, vltuperated or Pc
titioned; they were driven from the
i temple The Churchman. :
In speaking of predatory wealth
President Roosevelt says it's manipu-
lators are ION the same moral level
with the creature who fattens on the
blood money Of the gambling house
and the saloon" What think ye Of
: your President now ye High License
=. Republicans? He says the saloon
keeper fattens on blood money. s:s
The saloon must co. said a wo,
man speaker. "Where TOT" shouted
a man ia the crowd. Women don't
use such words" was the immediate
reply, shut we wish it would start for
there at once" .'#,% .E3 rs 2ss.4G$
Work in Coinage Of $1,000, ooo, 900.
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