Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-20
PROHIBITION PRESS BULLETIN.
BY John A. Shields, Minneapolis.

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by John A. Shields. Minneapolis
The State Prohibition Convention
will be held on June s and 9 for the
purpose Of nominating candidates
for the state offices and electing dele
egates to the National Prohibition
Convention to be held at Columbus,
Ohio, July Is and 16.
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During the first four months of
1907 under license there were 6, 1881
arrests in Atlanta, Georgia. Dur
ing the corresponding four months
in 1908 under prohibition there
were 1874 arrests. Comparing the
same months under license there
were 1887 arrests for drunkenness;
and under prohibition ATS arrests
for the same offense. Bear in mind
that there has been no change in
the general policy of the city--not
even in the police department--ex-
cept as to the right Of the liquor
traffic to live and flourish. It has
reduced drunkenness to less than Is
per cent of it's former figures and
has cut general arrests practically
in the middle. 1t may be that Pro-
hibition does not PROHIBlT-but
it does decrease crime. 1t makes
it safer for your unprotected daugh-
ter on the streets, or for your wife
to walk out unattended. 1t makes
a cleaner, better, and brighter
place to live. Figure the rest of it
as you will.
In April, 1907, Knoxville had ITO
Boozeries. In April, 1908, they
were shut. The result was that the
total arrests decreased from 4lS
with license, to PAS under prohibit
ton. The arrests from drunken
ness decreased from 244 under IL
cense to 104 under prohibition.
The Brewers Publicity Depart
ment has been saying much as to
the criminality in Maine and COM
pairing it with crime in other
states, carefully avoiding compari-
son with any states in the North
Atlantic division. Maine has less
crime than any other state in that
Division, which division according
to the special census report on pris-
oners averaged 1916 prisoners for
each 100, 900 population, whereas
Maine has but 70. The instruc-
tive figures which the Booze
Boomers are scattering broadcast
over the nation seem to be picked
up indiscrininateIy from the "pie
boX.'
| Brother Fairbanks seems to be
getting it from all sides on account
Of his 'forty cocktails - The car
toonlsts have taken number Of
! falls out Of him, and now the Meth
odist General Conference sidetraczs
its other business and injects into
its proceedings q resolution that
mo Methodist can consistently
support a man for President who is
not a total abstainer.' Yet the
Methodists are not the only ones
a railroad company will not support
a mau for a herder Of box cars on
less character qualification.
! "Smiler,' the one'-eyed phiIoso-
| pher who has charge Of the back
page Of Both Sides wonders
'just why the Prohibitionists will
place curse upon the entire saloon
business simply because one saloon
out Of one hundred is a disorderly
resort" He further laments that
the proposition is beyond his COM
prehension. The Prohibition Buie-
tin is not responsible for 'S1ni-
lers' lack Of comprehensive abit-
ity. Some men are born that way
The Prohibitionists do not curse the
business simply because one saloon
III hundred is disorderly; but be-
cause about SO per cent Of them are
just as disorderly as the law will
low-and a big majority more SO :;
because they can run without de-
bauching manhood; because the
average saloon, according to the
official organ OF the liquor dealers
Of the West, is Hell Fire club
and "place of shame and debaucI1-
cry, - and 1.-The stranger who enters
is at once invoiced, labeled and
damned;" because the ordinary
tipping house is the breeding place
Of crime, the birthplace Of anarchy,
the cradle of laWlessness, the home
of all kinds OF dastardly diabolism,
and the grave of everything that is
refining and uplifting, and the
murderer OF everything that is viz
tuous and pure.
Liquor dealers are such patriotic
people! And public spirite d !.
They actually buy newspaper space
by the yard and send out circulars
by the ton, in order to prove to the
dear people, that under Prohibi-