The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-03-10

navians, Firms, Russians and Poles
They come from countries, many oil
whose characteristics are those OF ou.
cut-over lands. They have been in
ured at home to hardship They are
industrious. They are thrifty But
from what Mr.. Mcclure says of them
| judge that coming here for the most
part singlemen and without the re-
strain of family associations, they
are peculiarly susceptible to saloon
influences. At all events he deplores,
and he doesn't hesitate to say so, the
influences which surround them in th'
mining towns and at the numbering
centers, where it is an old story they.
are robbed of their earnings and
many of them ruin their lives. 1t is
ness men to have charge of the bal
on behalf CT these men that Mr.. Nc
Guire arraigns the Northeastern Min
nesota saloon. He wants to get them
on the land. He thinks they would
naturally gravitate to it, if it were
net that the saloons get their money
as soon as it is earned. AS to the
character of these cut-over lands. Mr..
McGuire's testimony is important. He
considers that Northeastern Mime
sofa has in it's agricultural lands,
resources of far greater value than it
has in it's mining and it's timber lands
AS to the timber-5it is about gone;
the iron will be exhausted in fifty
years-the smiling and productive
farms, which will in time be carved
out of the northeastern wilderness,
will be a perpetual possession.
Now are we altogether hogs in ST.
Paul. Perhaps we have an eve to
the main chance Or at least know
what is good for u.s. At all events,
whatever it's motive the Commercial
club of st. Paul furnished to the
county option convention it's hall
the Auditorium-free of charge. The
Gustavus Adolphus College Lyric Male
chorus, which was up from st. Pet
er, furnished music during the fore
noon and afternoon sessions for the
good of the cause-no other payment
and l understand that the Univer-
sity band, which played in the even
ing, was equally generous.
The speaking at the convention was
OF very high order Jacobson was
az his best and free To say what he
thought. He didn't mince matters.
Young came out flat-footed for
county option. DR.. Andrew
GILES of the Hennepin Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal church, united a mag
netic presence and a passionate and
effective delivery with the culture of
the schools. Father Reardon, of st.
Paul, delivered a peculiarly effective
temperance address along broad and
catholic lines. Youngdahl, the super
intendent OF the Anti-Saloon, league,
proved an eloquent and impassioned
speaker, and Rachie made a formid-
able indictment against the influences
which have controlled the inner coun-
ellis of the Republican party. There
were briefer and less formal address
e.. Senator Sageng. Prof Magnu-
son, Lobeck, Mattson, of Roseau, Pro-
fessor Nelson, Frank Stacy and 9TH
ers all talked we'll.
We are to have in the State dur
ing the campaign, the Anti-SalOon
league is about to make a noted SOU
them legislator, Hon. Seaborn Wright
of Georgia, the author of the origi-
nal county option law. He spoke at
the convention. He is an effective
speaker, although more eloquent and
more polished addresses We're made
than his. But then he knows. He
has been tried. He is familiar with
the way it works. 1t is his firm
conviction that if the local restrictive
laws of Georgia were not "nullified"
in part by the liquor licenses granted
by the federal government they would
today be effective in completely ban
ishing instead of only partially SO the
traffic the legislature has outlawed
Apparently Mr.. Wright has small
regard for the system of selling retail
liquor licenses. Under it the people
OF the community are partners in the
business. They profess
to regard the saloonkeeper as sort
of Ishmaelite, but. they make him
share his profits with them. Ac-
crding to Mr.. Wright over half of the
profits of the liquor business are TAX
Ell from the liquor trade and put in
national, State and municipal treasur
les. The people tolerate a business
they otherwise would Danish and
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