The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-03-01

article in this paper and get five legal
Minnesota voters to sign them, and
send them to Secretary Calderwood, as
indicated, WITH YOUR NAME AND
ADDRESS, and you will get button
by return mail. Don't wait. If you
want enrolment cards, send for them,
but DON'T WAIT.
This was originally Young Mems
Prohibition Movement, as is indicated
by the "Y. M M" in the center tar
get of the button. So, young man,
sign up, and get four more first vo-
tiers" to sign, and wear your button.
Young woman, here is your chance
to cast anywhere from five to fifty pro-
hibition ballots, even though you are
unjustly disfranchised Get five voters
to sign, and-heres your button.
At Halstad Master Nygaard, school
boy, wanted button, and in ten min
utes was back with five signed cards
and got his button. And since then
five other school-boys from the same
town have won the badge of merit
At Willmar Carl Amenrud, college
oratorical prize-winner, has started a
college fad and everybody is after
winner" buttons.
School teachers by the score, farm
ers, business and professional men,
lodge members, w. G. T. U. women
Christian Endeavorers, Epworth Lea
guers, Luther Leaguers, B. Y. P. US
are at it in all parts of the common
wealth.
But what shall l do with the voter
who says he does not want to pledge
his vote?" Tell him you do not ask
a pledge. Simply his enrolment as a
voter who now intends to give his sup
port to the Prohibition party or to it's
legislative candidates.
Suppose he says that other candi-
dates are just as good as Prohibition
candidates." Admit it. But the other
candidates do not stand with a party
committed to the Prohibition policy.
But maybe he will say that the can
didates themselves are committed to
that policy" Possibly they are. But
an honest representative will seek to
honestly represent the will of the con-
stituents who elected him. If 1870 of
the voters who elected him were for
the saloon, and 81 per cent against it,
he cannot, if he is honest, be very
strong against the saloon. If he is not
honest then no honest man will want
to support him. No honest man with
divided constituency can be unhamp-
cred in his official functions.
But if he argues that what we need
is nice men, regardless of party?'
Tell him that the last legislature and
every legislature for a generation has
been composed, in the main, of nice
men. Mr. L. H. Johnson, of Hennepin,
speaker of the House, is a clean, hon.
est and honorable man. He was a
member in 1901 and was chosen by
the Anti-Saloon League, (Which is one
of the most earnest and honest and
aggressive of temperance Organiza-
lions, and one which depends upon the
nice man theory of government to in
troduce the county-option bill of that
session Yet as Speaker of the '07
House he appointed temperance COM
mittee which stood IL to against
temperance legislation. He used his
influence to keep the county-option
bill from coming up on the floor OF the
House. He was still good, honest,
dependable representative of the party
that had honored him by electing him
to the legislature and to the speaker
ship. He was not in the legislature to
represent HIMSELF, but his PARTY.
The Prohibitionists do not claim to
have in all their ranks a nicer, finer,
cleaner, more honest or more honor
able man than Lieutenant-GO
Eberhart AS man he is par excel
lence, xxx, Al, and as politician he
is above reproach. For he kept faith
with the political party that had hon
ored him, and appointed a temperance
committee in harmony with the tradi-
tons of that party-S to 1 against any
temperance legislation that was worth
picking up in the road. He was not