The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-04-01
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North Carolina will vote on the Prohi-
bition question May Is.
Judge Artman will issue a work May
lst entitled, The LOCALIZED Outlaw"
The state convention of the w C. r. T.
will take place at Marshall in September
Eight hundred Texas ProhibitiOnists
have contributed nearly $4,000 since Jan.
LIST.
The Western Methodist predicts that
Arkansas will be the next Prohibition
state.
Warden Wolfer says that sixty per
cent of the inmates of the Minnesota
penitentiary are there because of the
liquor traffic.
the now celebrated Artman Decision. is q
magazine writer and poetess OF con-
siderable reputation.
Maine has more savings banks and
S22 900. 600 more money deposited in them
than the great license state of Ohio with
six times as many people.
We beg our readers. pardon for the
lateness OF this issue. It is due to sever
al things, among them the editors rela-
ton TO the ST. Paul campaign.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, thinks
union labor meetings should not be held
in halls connected with saloons
1t is said that the Pullman Car Com
pany has decided to discontinue the sale
of liquor in its buffet, parlor and sleep
ing cars throughout the United States.
In Texas LAG counties are wholly dry,
Is partly dry, and p entirely wet Three
fourths of the territory and two-thirds
Of the population are under Prohibition.
DR.. w. B. Palmore editor of the ST.
Louis Christian Advocate, organ of the
M. E. Church South, is being highly
spoken of for the Prohibition presidential
nomination
The Boys Prohibition Club has great
1892 Van Buren, St. Chicago, is president
and soticits correspondence from boys
everywhere,
Wine. and Spirit Gazette thinks "the
trade should NOT forget" is that "a
big fight is ahead Of us in Minnesota"
good guess.
State chairman Tough would prefer
10000 active Prohibitionists in Indiana to
sl00,Ooe for the state fund. He predicts
the complete surrender of the liquor
forces OF the Hoosier stae in 1909.
Clinton N. Howard having declined to
allow the use of his name as candidate
for the Prohibition nomination for Presi-
dent, New York State Prohibs are now
State conventions for the nomination
OF state Prohibition tickets and the cleo
ton OF delegates to the national conven-
ton win come on rapidly now. And they
vii, be nightly enthusiastic gatherings.
The Peoples party, once the cocksure
hope OF many enemies Of the saloon, has
met in national convention since our last
issue. Its platform utterly ignores the
supreme issue Of the hour. Thus passeth.
ASST Sec Shields, now goes to over 200
papers of the state that are publishing
all or portion or Its contents weekly.
II reaches not less than 100, 900 readers.
Iowa Commonwealth: The temperance
Republican brethren will confer a favor
by explaining how 1t is that when they
want prohibition they pray for it and
when they want high tariff they vote for
louisiana is being organized in the in
terest Of the Prohibition party. Pres
D. Leigh Colvin Of the intercollegiate Pro-
hibition Association has just completed
an encouraging tour OF the colleges of
that state.
Oregon, South Dakota and Iowa have
held their conventions. The dates of 10
others are announced including the Min
nesOta convention at Minneapolis June
So and that OF Wisconsin at Milwaukee
June 11-12.
DR.. w. H. Wiley, CHIEF OF the bureau
OF chemistry OF the United States De-
signed statement to the effect that he
never said men who did not drink whisky
were "mollycoddes.
The Rice county Republican conven-
ton endorsed Mr.. Heatwoles candidacy
for the gubernatorial nomination and his
platform which includes county option.
Fillmore county Republicans turned down
a county option resolution.
1t is said that the recent passage of
a county option bill in Ohio means the
possibility of almost immediate prohibit
ton in all but seven or eight counties
and the probability of it in more than
half Of the lightweight counties.
Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup killed
the twin babies of Mr.. and Mrs c. II.
Ackerknecht St. Paul. This dangerous
decoction has killed thousands and sown
the seeds of intemperance weakness and
decay in other thousands. 1t should
never be used
An enthusiastic Iowa Prohibition con-
ference at Des MOines April 10 suggested
a full ticket to be voted on at the June
primary election. 1t is headed by ). w
Leedy well known to many Minnesota
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