The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-06-04
From Thursdays Daily.
More chickens and less dickens,
More cows and lesa rowa"

From Thursdays Daily.
More chickens and less dickens,
More cows and less rows
Senator o. A. Lende of Candy
stated at the county option rally In
the Armory last night that these
were changes that he would like to
see In the production from the Amer
lean farm.
II was big rally. IL Is estimated
that more than a thousand were there
People were packed i'm the standing
room hack of the chairs. More than
half of those who were present had
no chars. Many I'm front sat on the
floor. AS the ladies arrived gentle
men gave them their seats, and many
OF the latter came forward and sat
on the edge of the speakers platform
DR.. j. w. Andrews, chairman OF the
meeting, expressed regret that
through some oversight the plans that
had been made to furnish an adequate
number of chairs had not been car
ried out. He announced that I'm the
same hall on Saturday and Sunday
evenings. June s and 6. there would
be county option meetings and good
speakers. He said II was expected
that the governor of South Dakota
would be ut one OF these meetings.
Many of those present came from
other towns in this vicinity. From
Lake Crystal alone there were TWEEN
ty-two automobiles. Several MEM
bers of the Gustavus Adolphus band
came from st. Peter, and not only
helped to advertise the meeting early
In the evening, but also furnished mu-
sic from time TO time during the ses-
sion ITSELF The program wass further
varied with appropriate vocal num-
bers by the well known quarter. con-
sisting of ID. NJ. Jones, Frank Blyler,
Sid Davies and Joseph Tallman.
Senator lende First Speaker.
Senator kende spoke at some
length on the enormous waste OF
products OF the farm In their being
made into liquor. He stated that the
total amount OF money spent for liq-
uor i'm the United States in one year
amounted to $4,000, 900. 900. One years
corn crop was worth about $780,
100000. Thus the total amount spent
. for liquor was far In excess than what
was produced I'm corn. The annual
wheat crop was valued ut about $500. :
600, 900, or less than one third of what
the people paid for liquor. A road
could be well macadamized at an ex =
pense of $4,000 for each three miles.
Thus what was spent on liquor In one
year In the United States would build
100000 miles of splendid road, and
bring such roads within six miles OF
every farmers home throughout the
length and breadth OF this country.
/ Senator Lende had with him a
pamphlet that the wet interests, he
said. had been circulating In Lincoln
county. From that pamphlet he read
figures meant to prove that I'm coun
ties that had gone dry there were
more cases OF people going insane, in
proportion to the population, than in
counties that were wet. He gave fig
| ures of his own, telling OF the mum
Der of insane sent to the state asy
lums from the same counties, and
II his own figures were correct, those
that he read from the pamphlet were
false.
Seeking to prove that both criminal
and insanity case were greater unde,
license than under prohibition, Mr.
Lende compared Minnesota and Kan
sas. He said that last year forty
eight of the 105 counties OF Kansas
sent not single man to the peni-
Tertiary. whereas I'm Minnesota, there
were only FIVE counties out OF eighty
seven that sent no criminals to the
state prison. He also said that Kan
sas had eighty-seven counties tina,
did not send a single insane patient
to an asylum, while Minnesota had
every one of her counties thus rep
resented.
| DIR. George b. Stafford OF Mineapo-
lis spoke of the great sweep that pro-
hibition had been making over this
state. He spoke OF the race that Lyon
and Kanabec counties made for the
honor of being the first to vote on the
proposition, after the county option
bill became a law. He told how both
OF these counties voted dry on April
90. less than thirty days after the
county option bin was signed by the
/ governor. He said that within these
thirty days. fifty counties OF the state
had petitions circulating for county
prohibition. He remarked that on the
, date when Blue Earth county would
vote. June Z, twelve other counties
would do the same. =.