Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
PROHIBITION CAPITOL BULLETIN.

PROHIBITION CAPITOL BULLETIN.
Senator Dwinell introduced a bill in
the Senate to return to the rule of the
boss so far as the legislature is con-
cerned. by putting the candidate for
legislative Office back under the party
rule. The complaint is made that the
nOnpartisan plan which is now in
force discrepancies things. 1t does dis.
organize the rule of the boss It loos-
ems the strangle hold of the machine
upon the voter. 1t puts merit above
the party tags and collar. It takes
the terror from the crack of the party
whip.
On the other hand, it pushes the
legislature back into the mire Of party
and the corrupt reign Of boss and
Doodle. The nonpartisan law has CIV
en- us the best legislature that we
have ever had. 1t was first operative
In 1914 and the lower House of the
legislature was elected under it in
1916. The Good Book is very force
full, If not very elegant, when it re-
fers to the proverb of the "dog that
returned to his own vomit, and the
0o" LA@L wac "d0uCu NY "dllOW'
ing in the mire."
The one cry that has made Roadway
In opposition to prohibition is the oft
quoted statement, prohibition doesn't
prohibit" The fact that common car
rlers were compelled under the law to
take intoxicating liquors into dry ter
ritory, gave substance to that claim,
and kept dry states discouraging,y
damp.
At secret conference recently held
by select group of the drys and near
drys, so the papers say, agreed to
eliminate the word Transportation
from the prohibition constitutional
amendment that is about to be SUBJ
mitted to the voters of the state. The
reason for this seems to be that the
recent Supreme Court decision on the
Webb-Kenyon bill gives the state &C.
tual power to make prohibition OF
transportation effective. The Mime
apolis Tribune commented editorially
upon that decision as follows:
"The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, establishing the
constitutionality of the Webb-Kenyor
law, makes state prohibition a much
more practical proposition than evel
before, and is calculated to create sen
timent in favor of it. The principal
argument against it has been that II
did not prohibit and that it could not
because of interference of interstate
commerce laws. The supreme court
however, having in effect nullified that
interference by declaring that liquo,
shipped into a dry state becomes i'm
mediatt ly upon it's entrance into that
state, subject to such laws with re
gard to liquor as the state may see fiji
to make, it has been made possible tc
put into state prohibition the teeth
which it lacked heretofore"
! The omission of transportation" is
an open bid to have the same kind Of
prohibition that has kept liquor stead
lily seeping into Maine, Kansas, and
North Dakota and made the taunt
prohibition don't prohibit" measur
ably true. It is an open bid to law
violators. It prohibits the honest 'av
erage man" from getting his beer, and
leaves the door wide open for the
blindpigger and the bootleggers to ply
their criminal trade; for the club
members to have their cocktails, and
the rich man to have his champagne
in the cellar. Equal right to all
special privileges to none" This is
impossible if Transportation" is elm
! mated from the bill. If we are to
have prohibition let US have brand
that will work.
BREWERS OFFER A BARGAIN.
The brewers Of the state offer to
withdraw their opposition to the con
stitutional amendment, provided the
amendment is so changed as to per.
NIT them to continue to manufacture
beer to ship outside of the state and
to sell it in Minnesota in wholesale
quantities.
bition amendment would not be pro-
hibition.
Representative A. F.. Teigen, of
Montevideo, has introduced bill pro-
hibiting the monopolization of market
in food stuffs. Also another measure
which prohibits gambling in food
! stuffs anti-air-craft shots at the high
cost of living which has been aereo-
planning beyond the range of competi-
ton projectiles.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Of the Navy, Daniels, has
fired an armor piercing projectile at
the Bethlehem Steel. He claims that
Bethlehem Steel could not make ar