The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-30

Cloud reformatory, we had over 700
convicts in our state prison and less
than 80 who do not use intoxicants;
152 in the reformatory at st. Cloud
and only % who do not use intoxi-
cants.
AS rule drinking and some other
form of vice go together. In all adj
yertising matter ever saw setting
forth the advantages of a town, city,
county or state to those looking for
homes, never saw a line, sentence
or word advertising the saloons.
General Sherman said, War is
hell" but it is small one compared
to the hell of intemperance. The
liquor traffic is cyclone of terror,
and to all those who worship under
the stars and stripes the American
saloon is the cyclone. Vote it out.
G. W. WHITTET.
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OF IT.
The greatest incentive for people
to vote for license is the revenue
! it will bring and thus lessen his tax.
Is not the resident of the village get
ting value received for his tax?
If one looks over the city records
he will find the excessive expense
above that of the county districts is
largely, for the luxuries he is enjoy
ing above his country neighbor.
Honesty, industry and economy are
the necessary qualities that consti-
tute a good citizen. If he is honest
he will pay his bills if he can. He
usually can if he is Industrious and
economical.
1t is admitted by most people that
the saloon is an evil, that it derives
its support largely from the country
people. Then under the license sys,
TEN the country is being taxed to
sustain the necessities and luxuries
of the village resident.
| Is it not unjust for man to ex-
pect or permit his country neighbor
whose family in many instances. is
scarcely receiving the necessities of
life, to pay for his luxuries?
He usually excuses his act of vot-
ng license by saying that there will
be as much, or more liquor sold I'M
der the no license system and the
! licensed saloon can be controlled and
in the meantime the village will re-
ceiye the revenue.
If there is more liquor sold with
out license than with, why the oppo-
sition to no-license by the manufac-
turers of liquor?
O consistency! Thou art jewel.
A oted divine of this country said
there were only four ways of making
money: By earning it, by inheriting
it, by begging it. That some peo-
i pie do not earn it, they do not in
herit it. they do not beg it, but he
did not like to take the responsible
ity of saying how they got it.
| NJ. w. CORI,EIGH.
| As Of old comes the cry. Come
over and help us''-not as dream
nor a vision, but as call over the
local telephone. Do your duty. Yes.
and we pray that you will do your
duty and full duty as American
citizens.
And as your city election is COM
ing on in the near future, and it
seems to be a fight for or against
the saloon
And as we are informed that you
seem to think you must maintain or
continue the saloon for the benefit
of the dear farmer who comes to
your city;
| am requested to inform you in
behalf of the farmers wives and pa
irons connected along telephone
line No. IL, tributary to Redwood
Falls, that
Our motto is, THE saloon must
go.
would ask, What benefit is the
soloon to the farmers? The saloon
is burden upon all tax payers, and
the farmers help pay the. taxes. And
he must help furnish the victims for
drunkards and drunkards' wives as
long as the saloon is maintained.
AS the old farmer says, For it is a
| fact that not a man or team or a
dollar or a building is now employed