New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19
Pleads That Reason May
Take the Place Of Hysteria.
Famous Southern Paper Warns the Nation Against the
Perils Of Prohibition.

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are called religious waves are in
themselves futile and immoral; that
they have never attained the ends they
professed to seek; that in New Eng
land, outside of Maine, the idea was
long ago found to be impracticable
and was given over; and that if, by
any kind of collision between the Pu-
ritans of religion and the blacklegs of
politics-such as that which came to
pass in Georgia and was sent to grass
by the voters of Tennessee and Texas
and Arkansas - the proclaimed pur-
pose OF making Kentucky as dry as
Maine could be realized, we should
face a period of incredible confsca-
ton and loss, of shame and scandal,
at last to abandon the attempted as it
has been abandoned elsewhere by the
returning sanity of the people.
"Prohibition in Maine has been
political harlot. Prohibition in Geor-
gia is house Of cards filled with Re-
publicans. Prohibition in the South
is a Trojan horse framed under pre-
text of keeping drink from the blacks
to enslave the whites. In Kentucky
it would Be a scheme of indiscriminate
and ruinous confscation.
''The Courier-J Journal is distinctly
not fighting the battle of the saloons. 1t
is not m aking the cause of the distiller
and the brewer its own. It is simply
pleading for rational and sober reme-
dies toward the regulation OF that
which can not be extinguished, at the
same time asserting the largest liberty
for the individual man and the least
of government consistent with order,
morals and law.
1--WE agree with DR.. Munsterberg
that the whole method of dispensing
drink in the United States needs to be
changed. The saloon, an indefensible
quantity. should become public
house for eating and drinking. Stand
ing about bar should be discou-
ragged. Treating should become obso-
lete. Such things, however, can be
but indirectly reached by statute. They
can only come through an educational
process, working by example. In
half century the Germans have
wrought great reforms through their
gardens, their music, their singing So
cieties and their lighter beverages.
The sale of drink should no more be
contraband of law and morals then
the sale of dry goods and groceries.
In the 'publics' of london the drink
is served by barmaids, well-behaved
and virtuous girls, and drunken disor-
der is practically unknown.
SIN short and in fine, the church
should be for temperance, and there is
but one way to foster and encourage
temperance among the masses of the
people and that is through moral
agencies laid in the better nature of
man--his kindly spirit, his social in
stincts, his bonhomie and genialty-
not by drastic restrictions laid like
lashes on his back at the behest of
bigots who exclaim, If you don't do
as do and think as 1 think I will
burn You at the stake. "
Rev. 2. G. Fritz and family of
Boyd, Mimi, are guests at the home
of Fred J. Backer.
Miss Alvina Scherer will entertain
a large party of lady friends at whist
tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. John Bentzin contracted a
severe cold at a birthday party given
by her Saturday and is now reported
to be quite i'll.
The Turnverein has arranged for
another Summer Nights Festival"
for this evening. The Second Regi-
ment band will furnish music.
According to Chicago dispatch
John Lind of Minneapolis has con-
sented to take an active part in the
Bryan campaign this fall. Many of
his speeches will be made in Illinois.
Asa P. Brooks, former editor of the
Review, is expected in the city next
week. He will stop of here for a
brief visit with old friends while on
his way from Regina to Chicago to
arrange for the manufacture of his
color-printing attachment for cylinder
presses.