The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-01-19
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PROHIBITION FAIR A FINANCIAL So,

Jess.
When the officials of the Alaska
Yukon Pacific Exposition announc.
ed. nearly two years ago. at Seattle.
that no liquors would be sold on
the Exposition grounds. those who
made business of following worlds
fairs predicted a financial failure.
1t now seems that dividend is to
be declared on the stock, the bonds
having been paid off in full.
1t was to be expected that better
order would prevail, and in fact an
astonishing record has been made
along this line. With total attend.
ance approaching four million peo-
pie, there were only nine arrests
made of sufficient consequence TO
send the prisoner to the police court
for trial.
The closing night there, with its
beautiful music. its impressive cere-
monies, and its great but orderly
crowds, was in such contrast at the
Pan-American, where the crowds de-
vastated the whole grounds and BY
their acts of vandalism destroyed
thousands Of dollars worth Of prop
erty, besides tearing up all the flow
ers and shrubbery. Here not SO much
as a flower was nicked. The Pay
Streak was crowded far into the
night, but aside from the confetti
and the 'ticklers' and the horns, it
was thoroughly circumspect. What
contrast to Buffalo, where they
had to close many of the restaurants
where liquors were sold, and even
call on the fire department to clear
Pabst's, place with the hose and
water! No less emphatic were the
words of the government commits
sioner in general charge Of the Unit
ed States governments building and
exhibits at the fair. An exposition
is an educational Institution. Liquor
in no sense is educational, and has
no place in an exposition" was his
terse way of putting it.
The director general Mr.. L. A.
Nadeau, admitted that he was some
what skeptical as to what the out
come would be, at first. but that he
was thoroughly convinced that a dry
exposition was the proper thing,
In reply to the direct question as tc
how much he estimated the loss tc
the exposition through the exclusion
of the sale Of liquor, he said. what
we lost in concessions 1.-THE liquor
dealers had made an offer of a large
sum of money for the privilege ot
selling) we gained in gate receipts. =
When the treasurer was asked the
same question, namely. as to the fl
nancial loss to the Exposition haC
been, he replied, It was no loss, il
was a gain. The fact that women
were safe with their children at all
hours on the Pay Streak increased
to a great extent the total attend
ance at the fair. We undoubtedly
gained financially by our policy.
Dry Expositions will undoubtly be
the rule in future, WET" ones left
stockholders in debt.
Ex-Governor j. Frank Hanly Of In.
diana made an address before large
audience in an Illinos town not long
since, in the course of which he said.
Liquor traffic is doomed; doomed
as certainly as the sun rises in the
east and setsin the west, but it is fol
lus the citizens of the greatestrepublit
on the face Of the belted globe, Il
hasten the day of doom. We have al.
ready made great gains, but while
| the tide has turned against our oppo
lnents. we have not as yet won the
battle. The liquor traffic il an octo
I pus that dies hard.
Victory often rises from the grave