Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-15
PROHIBITION PRESS BULLETIN.
BY John A. Shields, Minneapolis.

Brother eco Lightly "Morrill has
just turned mild fit, and incident
ally gotten played up in double col
umn, scare-head style in Both
Sides" for fear that prohibition
will make hypocrites. Let us see;
Toozee Rogers, who is eco Light
ly's" patron saint, and keeper of
bunch of fashionable drunkeries,
is teetotaller and will not drink
any Of the slop he sells to his pa
irons, and refuses to keep any but
total abstaining bartenders. Is the
Reverend Bre'r scared that prohi-
bition will create brand of hypoc-
ricy to compete with the Toozee
brand.
And then Brother Dix, the pres
ident of the retailers association,
recently showed signs of an attack
of the flipfops because there were
four thousand blind pigs in Henne-
pin county, and Bre'r Dix had
hardly lost the "feel of his coin"
for the $500 fine that thoughtless
court had imposed upon him for
running blind pig himself. Is
Reverend Bre'r Morrill, worrying
for fear someone will get into COM
petition with the one and only hyp-
ocrite, Dix
Don't worry for moment about
the people who will lose their jobs
when the saloon and the brewery
and the distillery close. We are
supporting them now, worse than
paupers, because instead of doing
nothing they do damage. We will
give them all better paying jobs
at clean work, doing something
honest for their own welfare and
the welfare of the public. Nation
al Prohibitionist.
Il want to call Mr.. Calderwood' s
attention to the fact that there is
no commandment against drinking
in the decalog, and if theft, mur-
der, want, lust and covetousness and
all other sins are primarily caused
by drink, would not the deity have
warned against Smiler" in
Both Sides.
Go tell that among the heather.
There is no commandment in the
decalog against making oleomarga-
rine for sale or selling tainted meat
or accepting railraod rebates or
about 'scorching' automobiles.
Still such things are wrong. Hov
ever prohibitionists always enjoy
the arguments of the liquor inter-
ests when they seek to base them
upon declarations of the Scripture.
Liquor apologists as a general rule
are not the best of authority when
it comes to interpreting passages
of Scripture which would get half
the Presiding Elders in the state to
pulling the ears of. the other half.
Such attempts as the liquor men
frequently make in presenting
Scriptural arguments at proving the
wickedneSs of making prohibition
laws always reminds a prohibition
! list Of the skeptic who undertook to
prove that the Bible was fallacious
and who offered to prove his point
by the Bible itself. It is generally
true that the more a man knows
about the Bible the less he thinks
about the advlsability Of continuing
the booze business. 1t is good ar.
gument - prohibition argument
for the liquor interests to try tt
barricade themselves behind the
Bible.
Nothing will stir up a Christian
, man quicker than to see such an in
fernal institution as the American
, saloon has proved itself to be try
ing to defend itself with passage
!, from the Holy Writ.
The Chicago Record Herald o
Feb. 10, 1908 says: 1.-The Interna
u Revenue Bureau confirms the esti
mate of the Department of Agri
culture that only an infinitesima
percentage of the corn crop is use
for whisky or beer and even if al
the distilleries and all the brewer
les were closed the farmers woul
never suspect it so far as their mar
ket for corn is concerned"
The American consul at Calcutt
is booming the American beer trad
in India. He reports recently tia
/ 1.-The importation of American beer
I into India amounts practically
/ nothing at all" and that no dout
| IAN active agent devoting his e,
/ elusive time to the introduction {
/ American bottled goods could SUI
/ coed in building up good trade.