The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-07-10
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Maxim'of MINES ii sofa Dry Fedora
ton in Campaign for Con (.
StitutionaI Amendment.

accepted maxim of social cooperation.
"Get-together" is the watchword Of
peace and war. #e< ! -:
The Minnesota Dry Federation. is
born of the get-together spirit!
A Hereulean task confrOnts the
| friends of home and flag in their fight
to destroy the liquor traffic in Mime.
sofa. The adoption of the proposed
Dry amendment to the state consti-
| tuition is beset by many difficulties
It is first necessary to cecure for the
| amendment majority of all votes
cast at the election
If citizen votes at the election but
fails to vote on the amen; lent he is
counted as having voted. mo" Then
there is the campaign for the election
Of members Of both houses of the. leg
islature who will ratify the. National
amendment.
To win this dual contest it will re-
quire the best united effort of all or
CARNATIONS and individuals.
| . When Organized.
| A number of strong men and wo-
men who have been engaged in the
fight against the saloon recognized
the necessity of uniting into one; or
ganization for the purpose of success
fully conducting the campaign of
| 1918, every element DESTROYS and will
ing to abolish the liquor traffic. A
mass meeting was held in Minneapo-
lis on December 5, 1917, and the Min
'enesota Dry Federation was effected
which for it's cosmopolitan and rep
resentative character commends it.
self to every interest in the state, cap
ital and labor, city and country, or
ganized and unorganized interests,
Christian and >noe Christian elements.
Former Governor Van SAINT is the
chairman of the Federation and all
parts of the state and all interests
and classes are represented on the ex-
ecutive committee.
Organizations Affiliated,
| Twelve statewide organizations,
united under the name of the Allied
Temperance Committee, and many To-
cal organizations, fraternal lodges,
clubs and other organizations which
are not primarily interested in the
question and heartily cooperating
with the Minnesota Dry Federation
These statewide organizations are:
Women's Christian Temperance I'm.
ion
Minnesota Total Abstinence Asso.
CATION
Prohibition State Committee.
Trade Union Dry League of Mime.
sofa.
Scandinavian Grand Lodge, I. o.
G. T.
Catholic Total Abstinence Society.
Minnesota Grand Lodge I. o. G. r.
Young Peoples Citizenship Com.
mittee.'
Employees Anti-Liquor Alliance.
Finnish Total Abstinence Society.
Women's State Medical Association.
intercollegiate Prohibition Asso
citation.
If You Don't Vote, You Do, and You
Vote mo"
| Few people comprehend that all
voters who vote at the election, but
who fail to vote on an amendment
ale counted as having voted against
it. Thus if there are 100000 votes
cast at the election and 100000 should
vote FOR the amendment and none
vote against it, the amendment is lost
for lack of a majority of all votes
cast. in 1916 the initiative and re-
fcrendum amendment received 1877, I'll
affirmative votes with 51,544 votes
against it In othe" words it received
majority of 136,167 votes or more
than three-to-one vote and yet it Was
defeated by 20,397, because there
were 416,215 votes cast at the election
and, therefore, there must be at least
208,10S affirmative votes to adopt an
amendment
Under the present method no
amendment has ever been adopted
the first time submitted, and none
with less than three-to-one, while
many have failed with four-to-one
VOTE
A Big Job.
While the task Of putting the dry
amendment lover the top" is very diff
fcult, the forces of righteousness, ef-
fciency and conservation who seek
it's adoption have but one fear-the
carelessness, apathy and Indifference
of the dry forces born of false feel
ing of over-confidence. The respon-
sibility confronts YOU.
The Minnesota Dry Federation will
do it's utmost to achieve glorious
victory, and depends upon every in.
dividual and organization to do nd
less. q
n Patriotic Duty.
In these war-torn days, our nation
realizes the danger which threatens
our cherished ideals of liberty and
democracy, and has a clear vision OF
our responsibility to mankind; there.
fore we are fighting to retain those
ideals and to extend them to other
lands and peoples, Prussian militar:
! ism must be overthrown. Our first
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