The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-17
BEWARE OF

are beng made through itTS
which have been purchased by them.
and AS we have one Whlskey sheet in
Milbank. it VIII be will for all lovers
of truth and decencv to take all of its
statements this week with several
grains of salt. The TEMPERANCE PEG
pie who still Help to support the
"ReVleW cannOt claim to have been
deceived by 1t. for it does not
even pretend to respect their con-
victions or to regard in the least their
wishes. 1t is first. last, and all the
time for its master. the saloon. No
wonder it deplOres all mention of a
boycott. for it knows full well that it
would suffer in such a case along with
all other agents of the liquor trade
When the right finally prevails in
Miibank the saloons will be excluded
from the town, and the ''Review'
will be excluded from every christian
home, as it ought to be.
A FUTILE ATTEMPT
The effort to make 1t appear that
the intelligent and law abiding ele-
ment of Milbank will their
pr nciples and vote for license simply
to rebuke A few strenuous leaders of
no license. will, of 1course, utterly
fall to impress those of our people
who do their w thinking. Those
who plophesy failure on this account
do SO because 1.-The wish is father
to the %lhouyh'.' You will o find
their names on the membership roll of
the 'No-License League nor will
you find their names on the subscrip
ton lists for even one dollar for the
u for which they pretend to be
sOlicltOus. They are not giving any
thing this year. and they W have
given a red cent for the success of
''no.license' at any other time.
Before making such rash prophecies
this year, they should consider the
fate of n of their number last year
who declared in print 'Mr. Thurman
Is max ing votes for license with every
issue of the paper" and who several
times declared that license would win
by a larger majority than eve before
er'' was doing-but what happened!
Why. the saloon majority was reduc-
ed from 76 to 10! The ''preach er"
did not claim the credit for last
years success. nor will he accept the
credit for this years victory. 1t will
be ong to the clean, intelligent. pro.
gressive, christian citizenship of Mil
bank who are gong to do right with
out regard to what either editors or
preachers say or do. No one man, no
set of men can rightly claim the cred.
it for next Tuesday victory and none
who are worthy will seek to do SO
This is a tight for principle and all
personalities should be eliminated at
the polls.
WORTHY OF SPECIAL EMPHASIS
There is no election in which the
interests of the home are SO much
involved AS in n on the question OF
license or no license; hence it follows
that at no time is it more incumbent
on the voters to consider the welfare
and the wishes of the intelligent
women. who have no vote because
they are women. but who must suffer
more by reason of the saloon's bane
tut influence than do even the poor
h"s"lltd slaves of the bottle. We
could mention at least one dozen good
a'M tn'tnful wives and mothers of
Milhank to whom the success of
n~o-lIcense would seem like awaking
from an awful nightmare to a day of
sunshineand of peace. Will not some
of our drinking men have chivalry
enough about them to stand by the
side of these good ONE and say by
their ballet that the devilish ghouls
nf fhn cn1nnn fro1n u,hn fat+n, %hop,
selves on the miseries of these helpless
women and Of their neglected chill.
dren, shall keep hands off in the
future! Are we so low, SO base, so
despicable' that we can stand by
forever and see these emissaries of
hell grinning at the ruin of our homes.
while we 60 about prating about how
good this s~aloonkeeper is '.to his own
family or how"respectable" another
one is in his way! If they are good to
their own it is because they are cruel
to all others; if "respectable' it is
without the slightest respect even to
the wives and children of their best
customers. Not many nights ago they
carried to his home, dead drunk, a
spendthrift husband, and to avoid
detection they left him lying in the
backyard to sleep off his drunken
stupor or to await the time when his
young wife might chance to find him
in The darkness and to rescue him
from the inclemency of a cold March
night. A fine business that to license
isn't it! A bal OF agains: license will
injure nothing that is good and will
help everything that is worth while.
1t will kill a snake and will give
even a yellow dog a better chance to
live its life decently.
he sure to vote.
2.-Be sure to vote early.
3.-Re sure to vote right.
Abe a worker.
5.-Beware Of canards.