The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-03-06
Mems Sunday Club
Column.


Conservative voters are willing to
try another year of no-license and
marked business prosperity.
Who said the grass would grow in
the streets of Warrington, and the
farmers would go elsewhere to trade?
Business men aglee that the year has
been prosperous, and the farmers
have sented the insinuations against
them. And still the knockers knock.
More than likely they can't help it,
for it's in their makeup, but bit of
optimism is good for the most of men.
If one looks on the bright side he can
.often SEQ the more clearly.
zone who knows" Whew! An
other joke!
Every day brings little nearer the
battle of the ballots, and makes the
outlook brighter.
Strange some fellows can't..read fig
'ures, much less write them correctly.
Watch for corrections next week
AT least the figures so far presented
will stand considerable correcting.
Misrepresentation reacts on men and
parties who indulge therein.
The crowds in attendance at the
Union Temperance meetings may be
taken as an indication OF the interest
of the people in the great cause of
Temperance, and no wonder, since it
is most truly "the peoples cause"
The open saloon is curse to any
community, and the blind pig is an
unquestionable nuisance. Worthing-
ton takes great deal of pride in the
fact that she has had neither during
the past year. seAnd therein lies
unanswerabIe argument for no-license
Vote once, vote early and vote
right.
The meetings of the Mems Sunday
Club are full of interest these days.
You would not find more earnest
bunch of fellows in trip of thous-
and miles. Call them fanatics" and
they smile at you. They have even
Learned to look lies in the face and at
the same time keep their tempers.
Men who are banded together in the
cause of right, under the direction Of
the great Leader of men, are hard
host to put to rout.
Right is right, but right-wroDg is
nobody.
The brewers agent likes you coin,
but what does he care for your COM
munity The open saloon blights the
BOYS, vitiates the manhood and i'm
poverishes the homes Of the commu
nifty. Bid the brewers agent do his
business elsewhere, if at all.
ave need the money" that was the
forger's plea. But that didn't excuse
the offense nor save the penalty, and
honest men will not easily satisfy
themselves that needing the money
will right a proposed wrong. Licen-
ing the saloon is wrong, whether the
price is five hundred or five thousand
dollars.
''The best way to regulate il" Well
now, what is the matter with the way
1t has been handled in Worthington
the past year?
"Don't get the saloons into politics"
Now you are joshing again! Fact is,
we found the saloon in politics and
we are doing our level best to put it
out. Maybe you have noticed that
we are making some progress too.
Reasons for saloons in Worthing-
ton? Why, the answer is supposed
to be found in a middle of figures
that have to be corrected every week.
But at the best, these things are mere
ly questions of administration aud
have nothing to do with the great
moral question as to whether the sa-
loon has any right in the community.
There is one especially good reason
why they don't answer, and every
thoughtful man knows what it is.
st. Peter Free Press: With over
600 aa.n4ru oditora in the state and