The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-27
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EDITED BY A. MURRMAN
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Ca derwood of Minneapolis viii ad
dress a nnio1 meeting at the opera
house next Sunday night. Few mel
are as well posted as Mr.. CalderwoOt
and those who want the facts abou,
~l'ceuse and no license can get them
Sunday night. Admission free
Everybody welcome.
Sisseton. 50. Oak. Mar. 90. 1908
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
We. the undersigned citizens OF
Sisseton, So. OAK, certify that oul
business has been as good Or better
without saloons than when we haC
saloons.
Stavig Bros Department store.
0. L. Axeness Co.. lumber and
coal.
O. p, Rask. banking.
J p. Myers. barber.
w. E. Hass. merchant.
} NJ Swanberg, shoe dealer
a. Il. Mathews. hardware.
Julho ANCiICSSs Manager cuilA' oil
lumber Co.
l.. J. Onstad. banking.
J. \. Rickert, real estate and grain.
John Spicker. harness
SCHNEIDER Bros. hardware.
E. J. Turner, law and collections.
J. G. Knapp. a~bstracter.
J W Pryor. livery
w. +. Carlberg, implements
X. Bowe. photographer
Mrs. Siri Loire, restaurant.
Andrew Erickson, flour and feed.
Being taxpayers who are more in.
terested in the truth than in booze
they are not ashamed to sign their
names. Had they been more inter.
ested in booze than in truth they
would have signed themselves merely
'TaXpayer' or "CitiZen.'
Every voter should interest himself
this year in the matter of a fair
election. The No-License League
will doubtless offer some liberal re-
ward, for information that will con
vict illegal voters, but there is need
of watching the men who do the
planning, and who as officers or politi.
cal leaders, are suspected of using dark
and diabOlical tricks t ~dlsfranchiZe
the legal voters whether by import
ing men for the purpose of voting
them. or swearing in votes and vOuch.
ing for them to bluff the c~halIengers.
or by bringing improper influences to
bear on the foreign voter VINO a be
vlctlmiZed by reason OF his lgnor-
nee of American methods.
Our experience last year has con-
WINGED us that some men who pose as
bosses will bear watching closely.
and all such as give further evidence
of seeking to thwart the Will of the
people ''by far means OF foul should
be marked for slaughter at future
elections. The civic conscience OF
Milbank has been aroused as never
before, and the men who tritie with
it should he buried ten Thousand
fathoms deep under the curses of the
UNIVERSE The molly coddle' days
in the temperance reform are past;
the milk>ops are no longer sought out
for counsel: shoe strings are no longer
in vogue for the back.bones; our men
have fire in their eyes us they SPEAK
on this subject these days. and our
women grow eloquent in the earnest
ness with which they declaim against
the saloon. \ zeal for righteousness
is everywhere apparent, which means
to rid this fair town of the accused
saloon at any cost. The politicians
who can read the handwriting
on the wall and who will
heed it. will be wise men with politi-
cal futures: those who assume to
ignore, or to defy 1t. will but dig their
political graves. and in passing will
aid the common veal by making
room for better men. so mote it be-
The business men of Milbank could
not possibly make a better investment
just now than to give literally to the
fund of the No License League of
which Guy McCollum is the treasurer
Wherever ''no-license' has been
tried legitimate business has been
quickened, and this is so undeniably
true that those who say otherwise,
are Invariably obliged to do it
anonymously, knowing a they do
that their statements are utterly
false. Such testimonials as the fol-
lowing are most convincing.
Atwater. Mimi. Feb. II, 1905.
Dear Sir-Haying just returned
from a trip to the coast. | shall in
brief give you some information,
comparing business under the saloon
regime and without saloon. Our
business men agree that their bust.
ness has been at least 10 per cent
better without the saloons. and from
% per cent to 40 per cent better for
collections. During 1907 there was
not one arrest in our town.
Respectfully,
G.. o. Schoberg.
Cambridge. Mimi, Feb. Il, 'Os.
Dear Sir-Replying to your inquiry
as to whether there was any differen-