Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-07-15
PERTINENT ITEMS ON
PROHIBITION ISSUE
Cleaned From Bulletins Issued
From !. N. ka|ness, Of the
ProhIb. Party.

ssOsW~s WIZ
Speaker Champ Clark says that
We'll have woman suffrage all over
the nation by 1917. That makes a
saloonless nation by 1920 surer still.
The brewer stands for license un-
der local and county option. The
Sunday school man is against lic-
ense. If these two men vote for the
same candidate, who wins?
The recent primaries demonstrated
two things: that the state of Mime
sofa is ripe for statewide Prohibition
NOW, and that the influence of the
country editor is stronger than ever
Four kings of Europe have joined
the list of tee-totalers- Alfonso of
Spain, Victor Emmanuel of Italy, Fer
dinand Of Belgium, and Gustav of
Sweden. The world is going Prohi-
bition. Pass the grape juice, Bill!
The "drys" of LIE Sueur have ap-
pealed their license election contest
to the state supreme court. If 10
blank ballots are counted as dry"
LIE Sueur's saloons will have to go
out of business.
The result of the primary election
is highly satisfactory to the "drys"
on candidates for the legislature.
Prospects are very bright for the cleo
ton of legislature that will pass
statewide Prohibition bill.
A bulletin recently issued by the
government census bureau shows
taxes in cities in Prohibition states to
be less than taxes in license cities.
The taxpayer should vote for Prohbi-
ton every time. 1t means money in
his pocket.
Iceland was the first country to
adopt national Prohibition. The law
prohibiting importation of liquor went
into effect Jan. /, 1912. The dealers
have till Jan. 1, 1915 to sell their
stock on hand. At that time, abso-
lutte Prohibition becomes effective.
"Mr. Saloonkeeper: Mr.. Prohibition
| list is after you while you are asleep.
You have seen his diabolical work in
the long list of Minnesota and South
Dakota towns which have gone dry
within the last two years or so."-
Both Sides, Minneapolis liquor paper.
With Hugh Halbert, Progressive,
VIM. E. Lee, Republican, and Winfield
Scott Hammond, Democrat, three can
didates for governor standing for
county option, and w. G.. Calderwood,
Prohibition candidate for governor for
statewide Prohibition, the liquor in
terests will have to choose between
two evils. *
California, Oregon, Washington,
Arizona, Colorado and Virginia, six
large states, will vote on constitu-
tional amendment for statewide Pro-
hibition this fall. Women vote in all
of these states, with the exception OF
Virginia. The nine states already un'
der Prohibition are: Maine, Kansas,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Georgia,
North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennes.
see and West Virginia.
Il .
| Thirty business and professional
men of Bemidji have organized an
t1s55 Treaty Enforcement League
with J. J. Opsahl, president, and Har
ry Reynolds, secretary and treasurer
Funds are being raised to carry on a
campaign for the enforcement of the
treaty. Petitions signed by 400 resi-
dents ask that saloons be closed
> These have been forwarded to the
Indian department.
Frank A. Day, erstwhile Democratic
state chairman and the man who
made Governor Johnson, in speaking
of Prohibition in his Fairmont Sentin
ell, says: "That is one of the live is
sues before Congress and it cannot be
sidestepped. There is no doubt but
the second congressional district
would vote dry if it had an opportun
ity, and the opportunity is quite like
~ to come within the next few years
This is time in which the voter has
no time for trimmers and dissem
blers."
l The liquor interests are not Dledg
ing their candidates against county
option in this campaign but against
statewide prohibition. There are &
few exceptions of course in the yer,
, wet strongholds. If the brewers ani
distillers succeed in defeating state
wide Prohibition candidates witt
county option men, they will claim at
ter election that temperance senti
t ment is so weak in Minnesota tha
we ought not pass county option
i. either.
The greatest benefit of removinf
the saloon is to the young man wht
never drank. Some may argue tha
they will send off and get the whisky
in all my years of observance and ex
perience I have never known a younf
man who had never taken a drink t.
;. send off and get jug of whisky ant
drink it. The young man usually
il. learns to drink in saloons, where HI
]. can get a cool glass of beer, a sherry
. cobbler or cocktail-Col. w. H. Os
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