The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-01-01
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Illinois outlawed two hundred and fifty
saloons in a day in the first election under
the new local option law
Indiana is better organized than ever
before, with township party chairmen in
more than half of the townships of the
state.
The postal department has nailed the
lie that newspapers are compelled to ac-
cept liquor advertising in order TO con-
tinue to be mailed at the pound rates
Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, who recently COM
pleted weeks lecture engagements in
Maine. says law enforcement is steadily
growing better in every section which
he visited.
What is syntaX?" was asked of a
class under examination. "A tax on
whiskey,' was the reply of one of the
pupils The student was marked one
hundred per cent.
1t is said that the Liberal party in the
British Parliament will be compelled to
espouse ant-liquor measures or lose the
support of the temperance element of
which it has long felt sure.
.ne Olmsted county convention will
take place at the City Hall. Rochester
on the oath inst. at P. NJ An evening
rally will occur at the Opera House. See
Calderwood and Organizer Eldridge will
speak.
AS the result of the anti-liquor crusade
now going on in Iowa. the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railroad has issued
orders TO dining-car conductors prohibit
are in Iowa.
Many lodges of Elks, the society found
ed by actors and financed in many places
by liquor dealers, have raised the bars on
the future admission of saloOnkeepers,
and only the Eagles Screech a welcome
to their ranks.
A single brewing firm in ST. Louis, ac-
cording to reliable information given to
the National Prohbitionist has received
two carloads of bar fixtures returned
from Kansas and Oklahoma during the
past few months.
There are SIC licensed saloons in the
City of Washington. D. c., and 1877
wholesale liquor houses. That is what
the Prohibition leaders of the nation will
face in their coming battle for the re-
demption of the nations capital.
There are nine general temperance
papers, 62 Prohibition party papers,
ninety Anti Saloon League and 10 Good
Tempafr The ercna
the millions.
1t now transpires that the teachers who
went from Mobile to the Alabama State
Legislature to oppose State Prohibition.
iticians of that city under the threat that
they might lose their positions if they
did not go.
Matio9 on tn chairman Jones surprised
Tribune by the statement: Any man who
is a slave to drink ought to be a Pro-
hibitionist and lots Of them are. Pro
abstains from liquor.
King Gustave in opening the. Swedish
Parliament stated that the suffrage bill
adopted at the last session of the
present house for final approval but that
there was no intention of giving the
franchise to women at present.
One third of the population and three
Of the Of is under
dry, seventy-one wet. The. wet towns
furnish fully three-fourths of the crimes
outside Of drunkenness, and over nine
tenths Of the rest for that cause.
There is a movement among some of
the graduates of the German universities
to abolish compulsory drinking by mem
bers of the Students Corps. At present
he be an abstainer, and when students
are admitted they are required to drink
almost to the intoxication point.
Milwaukee Socialists have repudiated
the support of all decent voters who may
even be friendly to some Of their prin
ciples, by insuructing their twelve men,
bers of the City Council to fight any
measure limiting the hours of the sa-
looms" Social reform as the snapper to
a brewers whip, will damn, not redeem
any community that tries it.
Oliver w. Stewart addressed the Mime
sofa, Educational Association at st: Paul
eminent. Governor Hanly of Indiana was
unable to fill his date that evening and
Mr.. Stewart was engaged to take his
place. His discussion of THE Greatest
Governmental Problem was enthusiastic-
ally received, including his strongest ut
terances against the drink traffic and
for it's prohibition.
For the first time in the history of
that city, all the saloons of Chattanooga
were closed on Christmas Day and this
too, by the voluntary action of their
owners. 1t would be mean to suggest
that they were influenced to this action
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only four towns of size in Tennessee
which now license the liquor traffic and
that the people are likely to swing it
into the Prohibition column at an early
day.
Iceland, half the size of Minnesota, has
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