The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-16
brought applause from the crowd re.

brought applause from the crowd re-
peatedly The speaker told of talk
he gave during the afternoon at May
er Bros. foundry, and he said he told
the men there the lesson that al
laborers must learn, that booze, is the
greatest enemy of their homes ano
their happiness. He praised the prod
uct Mayer Bros. plant produced. and
said he only wished he could hit John
Barleyccrn with one of the 5000 pound
trip hammers the plant puts cut.
Mr.. Van SAINT said that the saloons
of Minnesota and of Mankato were
nothing of which the state or the city
could be proud. He said that he had
never seen an illustrated circular OF
Mankato in which the fine business
sites of the saloon were praised and
shown to attract tourists to the city
AS war measure the speaker stat
ed it was the duty of the people to
vote out and do away with the sa-
loon. He paid high tribute to the
American boys and to the American
mothers at home and urged every
patriotic citizen to get into the fight
whole heartedly, to vote out booze
and insure the boys better conditions
when they returned home.
GAS an old soldier I know what the
hardships will mean if you fail those
boys" said Mr. Van SAINT. 81 came
home with the boys in blue and
know the struggle it meant to keep
away from the open door of the sa-
LOOM"
!. Reminded of Civil War.
"This struggle reminds me very
much Of the Civil war;" said the ex-
governor. "In those days we said the
union could not exist half slave and
half free. We fought to save the ma
tion Now the world cannot exist
half autocratic and half democratic
SO we are fighting to make the world
safe for democracy, to save the world
for the many who are yet to come"
Senator Richard Jones of Duluth
was introduced as the last speaker
of the leading dry fighters in Mime
sofa and has his Headquarters in
Mankato where he will take charge
of the county option campaign. In
opening his remarks Senator Jones
took a crack at the Trade Union
League of Minnesota, an organization
which is organizing labor to fight pro-
hibition. He continued his attack on
the organization and scored their
claim that they stood opposed to
which took away their per-
,sonal liberty.
when labor joined a union it
stands pleaged to work but eight hours
its personal liberty is gone for it
cannot work longer if it wants to.
When labor joins the union it stands
behind the Workmen's Compensation
act. 1t accepts settlement for in
juries according to certain schedule
and cannot take the matter into court
if it wished. 1t is the same in many
other instances" said the senator,
"and still this organization claims to
be fighting prohibition because it in
,fringes on the personal liberty of the
individual"
Asked League Men to Come Forward.
Mr.. Jones stated he knew there
were Trade Union league men in the
audience and offered to have them
step into the car and present their
SIDE OF the case.
81 hope my friend Mr. Spielman,
secretary of the league is here" stat
ed Senator Jones. 81 mad debate
with him once and would like to go
over the question again"
Taking up The question of prohibi-
ton causing unemployment the speak
er stated that there were but sew
enty seven workers in the liquor in
tterest for every million dollars in
vested in the traffic. In the steel in
dustry he said 2S4 men were en-
ployed per million capitx invested
and 571 in the lumber industry.
Senator Jones told of the dry fight
in Duluth and the beneficial effects
to that city. He urged Blue Earth
county to vote dry and give the plan
a trial. 80
81 am not here because make
anything" he stated, laughingly,
'''I'm here for the fight and l know
We'll win by at least 1000 majority
when the votes are counted after Aus
gust 49,"
Army Man Against Liquor.
Brigadier General S. M Foote of
the National army, in command at
Camp Dodge, Ia, in letter to a
prominent local option worker, has
expressed himself in decided terms in
regard to prohibition.
Among the best articles in the
enactments eff congress providing for
selective service and for training
camps throughout the country, have
been those giving federal authority
over a zone surrounding the encamp-
ments, so far as relates to the sale
of intoxicating liquors.
CAS- an army officer of many years,
service, 1 have been particularly i'm
pressed by the conditions in these en-
campments compared to what they
would have been if there had been
no prohibition against intoxicants. I
shudder to contemplate the physical
and moral damage that would have
been wrought under the old regime,
to say nothing of the serious inter-
ference with an intensive training
schedule. The benefits of the new
army rigid prohibition are incalcu-
able from mental, moral and physical
l believe the men will
carry home. after the war realizing
sense of the benefits of prohibition,
and lend their influence to it's en-
forcement throughout the country"
Mayor of Fort Dodge.
Among the letters received by Man.
kato dry workers from mayors of
temperance cities, is one from, Mayor
j. F. Ford of Fort Dodge. Ia, in which
he states: