Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-08-15
SENATOR KENYON oF~lovvA
ASKS Pertinent QUESTION

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.Twenty-eisht Queries Which MIGHT
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why do we prohibit the boys in the
army and navy from having booze
and insist that those who remain at
home shall have It? H..
When they, are willing to die for
us, should we not be willing to 60 dry
for them? a
Will sober nation not win the war
quicker than drinking nation?
When the food controller asks
everyone in the country to conserve
the food supply, why must the food
supply going into beer be excepted :?
Is it not as much waste of food
stuff to put it into beer as to put it
into whisky?
II more foodstuff goes into beer
than into whisky, why do we prevent
foodstu6 going. into whisky and per-
nit it to go into beer?
Will rebellions come in the cities,
as we have been told, If the workers
do not have their beer.
Sixty per cent of the nation, terri
torially, is dry. Are the feelings of
people living in that territory entitled
to any consideration?
If the beer drinkers are going to
rebel unless they get their beer,wiu
the temperance people rebel unless
they get temperance? Does the rule
only work one way?
Why do not the temperance people
claim that they will rebel also? No
one has heard any such thing from
them, nor will anybody hear such
thing.
The temperance people win be for
the nation no matter If beer and
whisky be forced on them. Their
patriotism does not depend on having
their own way.
Is patriotism purchased by beer
worth while, anyway?
If some one were taking as much
foodstuff as goes into booze and
the people of the nation say?
If some one should advance the
argument that this was necessary in
order to appease certain people who
believed in dumping foodstuffs into
the sea, and that If they did not do 1t
It would arouse riots, would we &C
cede to their requests?
If some learned Senator, speaking
as if the Almighty had delegated him
to supreme wisdom, and in tone in
dicating that such wisdom would per-
ish from the floor when he retired to
the cloakroom, should so claim, would
we be sufficiently impressed?
Should not hereafter all bulletins
issued requesting the people to con-
serve the food supply urge them also,
for the interest of the public peace, to
have all the foodstuff they could
made into beer?
Is it reasonable to ask the temper
ance people of the country to con-
serve and save every particle of food
and at the same time permit some of
it to 60 into booze?
Is beer more essential to the
American people than bread?
What kind of people are they in
this country who are not willing to
give up their liquor to help the coun-
try?
Is the food conservation to be for
the benefit of the many, or is it to be
limited in order that the few may
have their drinks?
Have we reached a point in this
country where the war cannot be won
unless the people who drink are per
mitted to tickle their stomachs with
wines and beer?
Will beer-patr1ots win the war, any
how?
Are the interests of brewers in this
country more = important than the
winning of the war?
Are we willing to sacrifice every
thing in the country to win the wal
except beer?
II the temperance forces in the
Senate were responsible, for delaying
the food bill, as charged by certain
liquor interest papers, why is it. that
the food bill has been delayed fol
three weeks after the temperance
sections Of the bill were settled?
With the great demand for labor
in this country and the high wages
could there ever be a better time, as
far as the laboring men are concern
ed for the transition from a wet to 9
dry nation?
When there is a shortage of labor
in the important and necessary work
to carry on the war, why waste labor
in making booze?
II booze is essential to win the war
why stop selling it to soldiers?