The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-08
VOTE YES Al COUNTY OPTION
ELECTION MONDAY!

WAN IAC IA WV va 4AVAN
ELECTION MONDAY!
On next Monday the voters of st.
Louis county will have an oppor-
tunity of voting for county option
law, prohibiting the sale of liquor
six months thereafter.
The voters of Duluth have already.
on two occasions, by large maj0rities,
decided that the city shall not enter
into partnership with, and thereby
legalize the saloon, permitting it to
engage in it's nefarious and destruc-
tive traffic.
Duluth has been saloonleas for a
little more than two months. In that
short time veritable rehabilitation
has taken place. Arrests have de-
creased more than SO per cent; the
city is better policed, despite the fact
that there are fewer men on the
police force than at any time in the
last fifteen years; the buildings for
merly occupied by saloons have been
rented by other lines of business;
merchants OF every description report
increases in the volume of trade;
building trades report the busiest
season in many years; drunkenness,
despite the proximity of wet SUI
perior, is virtually unknown, and the
general moral effect has been re-
dected in the exodus Of undesirables
from their former haunts in the
Zenith City.
The people in the upper part of
the county are eager to receive the
benefits accruing from the abolition
of the saloon. What has proven a
success in Duluth and other dry
cities will likewise improve condi-
tions on the ranges.
The liquor interests, under the
alibi of est. Louis County Citizens
League" do not attempt to defend
the saloon; instead, the most artful
and adroit schemes to deceive and
mislead the voters into voting against
county option, are resorted to.
An appeal is made to the voters
that, by virtue of the food control
bill recently passed by congress,
whiskey is no longer factor in the
election, because it's manufacture and
I'm nnrfo tim d. In
full, and within a short period all
the whiskey in this county will be
bought up, leaving no more for SALE"
The truth of this matter is that while
congress has prohibited the use of
1oodstuffs in the manufacture of dis
titled spirits for beverage purposes, at
the present time there are accumu-
lated supplies Of whiskey sufficient
to last at least three years. 1t can
be readily seen that whiskey is a
factor in the election and this is but
one Of the MANY receptions
practiced by the vets.
There is but ONE issue in the
campaign-and that is whether the
sale of liquor shall be sanctioned
through the licensing of the saloon.
Duluth voted dry by local option;
the provisions of the city charter
permit an election on this question
every six months, and it is logical to
expect that another election will be
called by the vets in the near future.
If county option should carry, elec-
tions of this sort will be eliminated
for three years, which would permit
thorough trial of the dry law.
Duluth has voted dry, and wants
to remain dry. What is good for
Duluth is good for the other towns
Of St. Louis county.
Will you be Stacker on election
day, and neglect to cast your ballot
to make this county a better place
in which to live, or will you vote to
boycott the most vicious, merciless
and damnable Misunderstanding traffic
In the world. whose wasted victims
are our fellow men, in whose well
fare every red-blooded American is
vitality Interested?
Show your patriotism by voting to
conserve the manhood and woman
hood OF st. Louis county.
Vote "YES" at the election next
Monday!-H. D.