Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-05


assumed in some parts of the country,
especially in many states Of the south
and southwest For that matter the
temperance tidal wave has been felt
! in other countries besides our own.
| The wave. as President Samuel ]. Bar
rows of the international prison com
mission said recently, is making itself
| felt lin England, France, Sweden, Fin
land, Russia and Switzerland as we'll
as in Illinois, Oklahoma and the black
belt"
The American Prohibitionists in their
| national convention at Columbus, O.,
adopted a platform which contained a
| plank calling for 1.-The immediate pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic for bev-
erage purposes in the District of Co
| lumbia. in the territories and all places
| over which the national government
has jurisdiction. the. repeal of the in
| ternal revenue tax on alcoholic liquors
| and the prohibition of the interstate
| traffic there" The question of MAX
ing the District of Columbia "dry" ex.
| cited a good deal of attention in con.
/ gress last winter and spring and be.
came a very live issue. In the states
themselves the nation could act on this
| question only through the submission
| by congress to the several common
wealths of an amendment to the fed
eral constitution prohibiting the man
| ufacture and sale Of spirituous liquors
for beverage purposes throughout the
/ Union, and this the Prohibitionists
pledge themselves to do in case of
their attaining success in a national
| election.
Their platform favors popular cleo
ton OF senator's. income and inherit
ance taxes postal savings banks and
| guarantee OF bank deposits, regulation
Of corporations, tariff commission.
enforcement of the laws against the
social evil and against child labor,
woman suffrage and preservation Of
the country's natural resources. Mrs.
Carrie Nation made a speech, declar-
ing that the candidates must be men
who did not use tobacco, but the plat
! form makers did not embody any dec
laration against the fragrant weed in
the resolutions which were adopted at
| Columbus.
The Prohibitionist nominee for presi-
dent, Eugene w. Chain of Chicago. is
q we'll known temperance advocate
| and a lawyer. He was born in Wal
worth county. Wis. in 1852, attended
the public schools and as a youth
worked on the farm by the month to
defray his expenses while at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin from which he
was graduated ia 1875. For twenty
FIVE years he practiced law in Wau-
| kesha. Wis He was candidate on
the Prohibition ticket for attorney gen
eral of Wisconsin and in 1898 was a
| candidate on that ticket for governor
| In 1891 he removed to Chicago and
for several years was superintendent
of the Washingtonian home. He was
a Prohibitionist candidate for congress
in 1902 and for attorney general of II
linois in 1904. Mr.. Chain was grand
| chief templar of the Wisconsin Good
Templars in 1SS6-9O and of the Illinois
Good Templars in 1904 and 1905. He
is the author of elves of the Presi-
DENTS" "a Voters Handbook "Presi-
Dental Cabinet History Cards" and
Lincoln. the Man of Sorrows
The Prohibitionist nominee for vice
president is Aaron S. Watkins, an edu-
Gator of Ada, o..
Farm Board In the City.
City folks don't have to go to the
| country for farm board, for they get
that right at home. One months sup
ply of butter for consumption in New
York city is over $4,000 tubs. Dur
ing the same time approximately 62O,-
600 barrels of potatoes and 100000
dozen eggs are shipped in there for
local consumption. New York contains
about 100000 inhabitants, and the
monthly ration of butter seems to be
about five pounds for every man, wo-
man and child or three ounces each
day. The egg supply would give two
each day for all hands, and the po-
tatoes would go around if everybody
| grabbed a pound a day.
Now, the above are all farm prod
ucts, some of which are grown with
in a few hours by rail Of the mar
kets where they are doled out to the
hungry They come in by every boat
and train and can be had fresh If con-
| sumers take the trouble to demand
quality as we'll as quantity. This
means that country board minus coun-
Try air is the city's reliance. The farm
seeks the city for a customer, but the
city needs the farm to keep It from
| starving