The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-02-07
no Lie ENSE ,COLU MN
EDITED BY A. MURRMAN
Who alone is responsible for what appears in
this column

AS fOllNws:
'And are we vet alive
And see each others face?
And shall Wa send the licensed "fve,'
Down to their proper place?
The conflicts we have seen,
The troubles that have vexed-
Will all belong to the ''have beens'
When we assemble ext.
TIE suffering Of the poor
the cries Of the oppressed
The Jim JAM and'he "keelev Cure
Az, all must have q rest.
And hv the grace Of Gn3-
Ard with he help ut ntn-
We take once N re the cha-tening rod,
To raise Hi Jinks az ain.'
This week we will have only the
foregoing hymn and the following:
ANNOUNCEMENT
BY the way of introduction. Last
year the saloons o their victory bv
ONLY 10 votes. which makes it clear
that with a more united effort this
year we can accomplish this most
needed of all our local reforms. That
small majority of the voters also in
dicates very clearly that the majority
OF our citizens are opposed to the
saloons, ana that therefore no license
ought to carry at our next election.
! hose who today are suffering the
most from thi, licensed evil-the
wives and mothers whose husbands and
sons are among the drinkers, and who
have no vOtes-these must be counted
against the saloons They are its
innocent victims. it's silent sufferers:
they pay their taxes IL tears, in en-
forced sacrifices and privations. and
during the past year the writer of
these lines has conducted the funeral
service of at least one such who wa
murdered by the saloon, and can
point to others in thi, community
with whom it is only a question of
time. The iron has already entered
their souls, the slow torture is work
ing surely toward the inevitable end:
they hate the saloon and long to see it
done away with. but they have no
keeper and his pal, the salOOn-pOli-
tician, a vote their husbands as they
please. Then there is that large class
of our best womanhood represented 70
the w. G.. T. L. all of whom are most
u IL < obIoslblpb w
this licensed wrong, but who do not
count in the election retnrns-thev
ought to count in sue Ease as this
but they do not as yet. The moral de-
linquent, the p%rOfane tippler, the con
scienceless bum, are all counted in
the small saloon majority, but our
cultured women. Il pious mothers,
and our conscientious wives are not
counted against them on the other
side. Let us not forget that they are
against them. Add to these the many
children who ar constantly being
cheated of their birthrigtt privileges
by the saloons, and it will be clear
that a majority of 10 voters for the
saloons, means a big majority of the
citizens against them.
During the coming weeks we are 90
ing to plead the cause of the majority,
and to insist upOn a square deal for
the largest number Of our citizens.
We shall voice the wish of the drunk
ards wife and children, and of the
many excellent women who have no
votes, but whose views and wishes
ought to be respected as much at least
as the wishes of the brute who comeS
home only to kick his wife and TO
curse his children. aud then to return
to the saloon with the last dollar in
the family purse.
We are going to plead for the most
merciful policy in behalf Of the
man who is too weak to withstand the
of the open saloon, and to
advocate that which will be for the
best interests of the saloon keepers
themselves, their bartenders and their
best customers.
This column will be a weekly pro
test against deverting something like
$40, GOO a ear from legitimate business
to be worse than wasted in our five
saioons-we shall speak for the best
interests of business men. our schools,
our churches and u homes.
A word as to personalities. We do
not delight in them for their own sake
and wish to avoid them as much
as possible. We will not resort to them
unless, as last year, we find it neces-
sary in self defense. If any minister,
editor or politician feels called
upon to make an u~nwarranted public
attack upon us we ask only for the
privilege SO dear to the heart of every
to oct back at him just for the
of the thing and for the added in
which the general public always
ia the truth when its representa-
tives are attacked and refuse to run.
shall religiously refrain frCmmen-
tioning names in an offensive way ex-
when attacked. and ever then we
shall refrain if the attack consists only
of a reasouablecriticism due to viewing
the subject from a different stand
point, but if any man undertakes to
put a chip on our shoulders in order
knock it off, a. was done last year,
will try to make it interesting to
say the least.
A final word as t 0 threats.
Firstly-to those who are fond of
using their subscription to the church
as a club with which to bring the pull
pit to time.
The Congregational church is not
responsible for what appears in this
column. neither does it need, o does
it desire the financial help of
those who make the payment of
their subscriptions conditional upon
the pastors course, we say now to all
such as we said at the beginning of
the present p%astorate, "Your money