Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-12

loons.'' "You are proceeding
along the wrong lines" ''The
mayor hasn't the power. "The
police department is busy trying
to get line on the break.
ers.' 81 think it will be best to
let the whole matter rest for a
while" J. D. Engle. one Of the
committee, remarked: "We arc
here to notify you, Mr.. Mayor, that
we are going to clean these wine
rooms out if we have to convict
fifty men one by one. -
A wine room is a particularly OBJ.
noxious form of ''annex" to sa-
loon. Into these places, which are
enclosures in the back part of or
upstairs over saloons, fitted with
chairs, tables and other furniture
dozens Of women 90 daily, some
times alone, sometimes escorted by
men. The law strictly prohibits
such places and the mayor has the
power to revoke the license of
every saloonkeeper who maintains
such a resort. Meanwhile Mayor
Haines is anxiously inquiring
''What is wineroom?" and the
policemen are all busy keeping the
children from throwing peanut hul's
on the grass. Hon. John G. Lennon,
representing the 41st Legislative dis
trict in the Minnesota house of re-
representatives., construed certain re.
marks credited to the editor OF
1.-The Bulletin" as an attempt tc
smoke him out, and he has chal,
lenged the Prohibition State Com
mittee to send a representative to
meet him, each debater to consume
one hour, and the Prohibitionist tc
lead, without reply. The challenge
was accepted, with the suggestion
that the challenging party pay the
expense, and calling attention tc
the rules of debate as to closing re.
marks. Mr.. Lennon generously re
plies that he will not pay one cent
of the expense, and that the original
arrangement as to time will hold.
Something like inviting man tc
dinner and if he refuses to pay the
bill, telling him that he is afraid
to eat with you. The debate is be-
ing arranged for on Lemons
! terms.
Much confusion exists in the
mind of the ordinary citizen as tc
the relation of the Prohibition
party to the Anti-Saloon League.
So indistinct is the differentiation
between the two organizations il
the minds of many that the two arc
supposed to be one and the same
Others believe that the party anc
the League are working at cross
purposes and opposing each other.
Both suggestions are incorrect
The Anti-Saloon League is ar
omni-partisan (of all parties) organ
ization which has to do with candi
dates as individuals, irrespective oil
party affiliations. Theoretically
the League ignores party lines anc
selects for endorsement such can
didates as are acceptable from any
and all parties. Between equally
satisfactory candidates the League
is NEUTRAL The Prohibition party
is a political organization, as much
so as the Republican party or the
Democratic party. This is gov.
eminent by political parties; the
party, therefore, contends that laws
requiring strict attention for pro
per enforcement should be in the
hands of political friends rather
than political enemies or indiffer
ents. The Prohibition party is the
only political friend Of prohibition
in Minnesota.
The Anti-Saloon' League in Mime
sofa advocates county option as the
present object Of it's endeavor, ant
it endorses candidates who favo,
that measure without regard tt
their stand upon state and nationa
prohibition. The prohibition part,
appreciates and supports count,
prohibition, but regards it as in
adequate to the fuller purposes o:
the reform and therefore advocate,
state and national prohibition a!
it's object.
| The Anti-Saloon League "pre
serves an attitude of neutrality up
on all questions not directly con
nected with the traffic" The pro
hibition party holds that the traffi,
should be outlawed, but it also re
cognizes that there are many othe]
needed reforms which both domi
nant parties have been inadequat,
or unwilling to undertake, because
Of the dominance of greed AM
graft within their ranks.
The League measures the attitud,
it desires the government to tax,
upon this question by public senti
ment- "the ideal is its ultimate
the possible it's immediate object
sometimes, in some states, ever
refusing to advocate such advance
LEGISLATION as county nnti0n whe,