Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-15
PROHIBITION PRESS BULLETIN
BY John A. Shields, Minneapolis.

BY John A. Shields, Minneapolis
''All newspapers. which fail to
suppress prohibition news hereafter
will not only lose our patronage,
but also that of almost every brew
cry in the United States. From
The Fred Miller Brewing Co. to
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Times Democrat replies:
''The. suggestion is mo strous.
Discussion of a great public ques-
tion cannot be suppressed. We
respectfully suggest that it is only
a matter of a short time at most
when the patronage of the brewer
les will be lost anyhow.
#
''The Lieutenant Governor, it will
be remembered. appointed Tenn
perance Committee in the last Sen
ate. ''-North6eld News.
A WHAT committee? Do tell!
#
The liquor business in Minnesota
has already turned over its new leaf
and has about ten yards start al
ready. During the first six days of
January it has furnished suicides,
2 killed, 4 seriously injured.
II
Said Uncle Cy, as he pulled the
icicles out of his whiskers: II see
they are boomin' Eberhard for the
guvnorship. Now, that's more like
it; get man with record behind
him. With this prohibition wave
sweeping the state, the Grand Old
Party ought to get in on the ground
floor with man like Eberhard.
Why, sir, he did not give the at
torney of the Hamm Brewing Com
pany his regular job as chairman of
the Temperance Committee; and he
appointed Temperance Commit
tee OF nine men, and one fellow on
it voted for Temperance; yes, sir,
actually voted for temperance. All
the credit is due to Mr.. Eberhard,
only Ia hate to risk the appoint
ment of the next Senate Committee
to anyone else, for such committees
are seldom seen.
Both Sides (someone has sug-
gested that the name does not COM
ply with the Pure Food Laws re-
quirements) devoted a full front
page column to the Prohibition
Banquet. We are much plesed;
indeed, f1attered! Ex-Governor
Van SAINT was allowed II lines for
his remarkable toast, and Rev. An
drew GILES was appropriately COM
plimented with 25 lines. Of course
it is immaterial; but the fact is
that neither Of these gentlemen
were present and no addresses by
them were delivered.
#
The brewers complain that the
prohibitionists will not help them
regulate the saloon. Where did
they get the idea that the prohibs
ever had any faith in regulating
evil?
Judge J. l.. Fort, who is favorbly
talked of as candidate for the gov
ernorship of Missouri, says in The
editorial columns of the Kansas City
Star: I'm Stoddard county, when
we had $4,000 a year from the
saloons, our criminal courts cost
us from $4,000 to $22, 200 a year.
Now, under prohibition, the cost is
about 81, 700 year,
#
Brewer Busch of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Company says the
Oklahoma prohibition law cost him
a million dollars. Query: Who
gets the million that Busch loses?
The Kansas City Star for Deem
Der Is printed ten editorials. The
leader was entitled "A Blow to
Carpetbag Liquor Traffic. Of the
ten, three were on the prohibition
Of the business and more that one
third of the editorial space on that
day was devoted to the booze bust
ness; there was not a word favor
able to the traffic in the paper, and
no booze ads to confront the reader.
Deacon Donham of "Donham's
Doings,' who jumped on the water
wagon a month ago, is still riding.
He says all the uncomplimentary
illusions to his confession do not
make him feel half so sorry as
would an overdose of squirrel whis-
key. And the way he hands it out
to the Beer Temperance editors
is worth copying: 1T would be a
good plan for the anti-saloonists in
every town and county to force
their local editors to show their
colors-either stand for or against
saloons. = The fapdoodles have
played double long enough. If edi-
tors are afraid to declare openly