The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-07-27
THE PROHIBITION CONVENTION

THE PROHIBITION CONVENTION
1t was our good fortune to spend {
day at the National Prohibition Con
vention that foregathered at St. Pau
last week.
1t was a remarkable gathering Of
remarkable men and women constitut
ing remarkable party.
Since this party was first organized
now nearly fifty years ago, it has new
err carried a single state, secured g
single electoral vote, elected repre-
sentative to congress or United
States senator. AS far as securing Of
fetal position is concerned it is the
most lamentable failure of any party
that was ever organized in America
but nothing daunted, it has kept right
on holding conventions and making
nominations and each convention has
been more largely attended and more
enthusiastic than the preceding one.
The curious feature of this party is,
that while their candidates have in
variably gone down to defeat, the CEN
trail idea of the party-the legal pro-
hibition of the sale and manufacture
of Intoxicating liquors-has made
more progress than any other idea be-
fore American people.
At the time the party was organic
ed only one state, Maine, prohibited
the sale of liquor and the enforcement
of the law in that state was joke.
When the party started it's first ma
tional campaign, more than nine
tenths of the area Of the United
States was license territory and the
the sale of liquors for beverage pur-
poses was practically universal, and
no political candidate would no more
have thought of standing for prohibi-
bition than for wife beating.
Now, in 10 states the sale of liquor
is prohibited either by statuary law
or constitutional provision and if we
add to this the territory under prohi-
bition by county and local option, we
find that today more than five-sixths
Of the area of the Republic is legally
if not actually dry. Mighty few can
didates for public office dare proclaim
they are opposed to prohibition. A
majority of the United States Senate
and House of Representatives voted
to put a constitutional prohibition
amendment into the constitution of
the United States.
The theories of Those "long- haired"
"wild-eyed" Prohibiaomsts have made
startling progress in every part IF the
globe.
The one hundred and seventy mil
lions of Muscovites inkabiting the en-
pire of Russia are now under prohi-
bition. The dominion Of Canada, ex-
cepting one or two eastern provinces,
an area larger than the United States
proper, is dry and every day in the
year some license stronghold is cap
tured by the Prohibitionists who are
seldom able to elect town clerk.
Wonderful to relate these stupen-
dous results have been accomplished
without war, riot, bloodsHed or vIo-
lence, by moral suasion, pure and SIM
pie and in the face of the fact that
untold millions have BEEN spent to
thwart their desires and stay their
progress.
This article is not intended as an
argument either i'm favor of or against
prohibition; 1t is cold statement Of
facts and conditions and blind indeed
must be the Individual who cannot de-
duce from them the ultimate doom of
the liquor traffic. It is written in The
the stars that outfawry, sooner or lat
er, wifi be placed on the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors the
world around.
Those chin whiskered fathers and
shaker-bonneted mothers who gather
ed in st. Paul and their prototypes in
the work have wrought a greater rev.
olution in the affairs of men than al,
the armies of the world combined, anC
if every one of their theoretical, ideal.
istic fantastical planks in their crazy
quilt platform were enacted into law
no one would be injured and who'll,
lot of people would be benefited.
| If woman's strength were equal t.
her emotion what a dandy prize fight
er she would make.
Whether talk is cheap or not de
ponds on whether or not there are an
brains in the talk.
| Why is it you so seldom see
mighty pretty woman with a goo
looking husband.
/ Useless governmental expense
amount to more every year than ne
cessary ones.
Men love women for their weak