Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-22

issue OF the Gazette.
The members of the Higher AL
zebra class were given their final
examination Monday.
The Solid Geometry class COM
menced yesterday with a good at
tendance.
Charles Adams returned to school
Monday after a brief absence. :.
The Fourth Year class in English
is considering the advisability of
engaging a stenographer to enable
them to get half their daily work
done. Their lesson of one day last
week included only an outline of
''The Deserted Village, the life of
Coleridge, a lengthy poem by Burns
and about ten pages of note book
work.
If there is anything that is dis
gushing to an honest and conscien-
tious student it is the free use
which is being made of ''ponies or
translations by many Latin stu
dents. A student who uses a "po-
N.Y. is not only unjust to the stu
dent who gets his lessons honestly
and by his own exertions, but he is
wronging himself. The only value
of Latin in the High school is the
discipline it gives and for that rea-
son the student who uses a pony"
might as we'll drop school altogether
as far as getting any value out of
it is concerned. In other schools a
person who is found using a''pony"
is expelled and il is high time some
measures were taken to suppress it
here.
The Freshmen organized last
Monday evening. The following
officers were elected: president
Austin Hanscom; vice president
Bernice Severinson; secretary Win
ME Rogers.
commenting upon the matter, says:
1T reduced taxation, but the voters
here felt that it's influence was not
for the city's best interests.
The Minneapolis journal in an
editorial on Christmas, points out
"the fact that there is great deal
more peace on earth in Kansas City,
Kansas, since the; joints winked
OUT 1t quoted the heads of the
various charitable institu t i ons,
chief of police and others, showing
that the cases of restitution have
decreased, real estate values have
increased, and the city is enjoying
domestic tranquility and financial
prosperity impossible during the
reign of the saloons.
In practically every session of
Congress for the past twenty years
someone has introduced a bill to
correct the monstrous practice of
the United States government TAX
ing bride money from bootlegging
criminals in prohibition territory
under the guise of internal revenue.
The bill signed by Abraham Lincoln
as war measure, under promise
that it should be repealed along
with the internal revenue on match
es and commercial paper, specitical-
ly provided that no federal license
should be issued to- any man who
did not have proof of having COM
piled with the local laws governing
the liquor traffic. But Lincoln be-
ing dead, the law was so modified
that the government has since is
sued federal licenses or tax receipts
to men known to be criminals
against the state and local laws.
Usually speaking. the press has
given no attention to the bills that
have been introduced on this ques-
tion in the past, but the wave of
civic reform sweeping over the
country has compelled public atten-
ton to the bill recently introduced
by Senator Tillman, and to another
on the same subject introduced by
Senator Knox. The probability is
that the bills will not become laws.
1t has been recently asserted that
Daddy Cannon has so far lost all
sense of patriotism that he has open
ly declared that he has stacked the
committees in such way that no
important subject will be allowed
to pass this session, on account of
the proximity of the presidential
election. But that the subject is
enjoying public consideration is a
matter of congratulation.
Talk about reforming the saloon
Why, it is as foolish as to talk
about taking the smell out Of an
onion by peeling off it's successive
layers. So long as there is any
thing left of it, it will retain it's
odor; and so with the saloon, how
ever much it may be reformed"
as long as anything left of it, it's
devilish character will remain. -
Arthur E. Haynes, Chair of the
Mathematics. U. Of M.